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HILLSBOROUGH
the history of HILLSBOROUGH PARISH
Hillsborough, a Nova Scotia
township of 100,000 acres in 1765,
became part of New Brunswick as Hillsborough Parish (Westmorland
County) in 1786, being named after
the Earl of Hillsborough. British
land grant owners arranged to bring homesteaders to resettle the land
left vacant in the Hillsborough
Township after the Acadian
expulsion. In 1766, German
(Deutsche) families arrived from Pennsylvania. Some of the families
settled at the Bend (Moncton), but
Heinrich and Rachel Stief, with their
seven sons, settled in the area of the
former Acadian settlement of
Village des Blanchard, which
became the village of Hillsborough.
The Stiefs were soon joined by other German families from the Bend, as
well as immigrant settlers from the
British Isles. New settlements
extended rapidly along the
Petitcodiac River and inland. The
Steeves colony flourished with fields
of grain, orchards, vegetable gardens
and barns full of livestock. They
raised cattle and had a good market
of selling beef to Halifax. The
Steeves family built their first ship, 6. named “The Brothers”, at Gray’s 7. Island in 1800. Today, the Steeves 8. family descendants number over
200,000 throughout the world.
Parish Place names 9.
The Albert Manufacturing Company
Trivia
1.Who was the Father of Confederation born in Hillsborough in 1814?
2.What important event happened in Hillsborough in 1936?
3. What mineral, found only in Albert County, transformed the world and ushered in the petroleum age?
4.What white mineral was mined extensively in Hillsborough?
5.What year was the Stoney Creek Oil and Gas Field found?
6.According to the 1871 Census, Hillsborough Parish had a population of how many?
Albert Mines, Baltimore, Baltimore Station, Beach Hill, Berryton, Caledonia Mountain, Caledonia Road, Caledonia Settlement, Calkins Creek, Cap-de-Moiselle Creek, Centreville, Dawson Settlement, Demoiselle Creek, Dutch Village, Edgetts Landing, Hillsborough, Hiram, Irving Settlement, Isaiah Corner, Lower Hillsborough, Maritime Education Company Settlement, Mckay’s Hill, Osborne Corner, Plaster Quarries, Rosevale, Round Hill, Salem, Salem Station, Shenstone, Steeves Mills, Steevescote, Stoney Creek Station, Surrey, Upper Turtle Creek, Weldon, Wellington, Wilson, Woodworth.
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Top Ten Things to Do
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White Rock Recreational Area NB Train Museum Steeves Museum Greybrook Marsh &
Wetland Trail Santa Claus Parade Whiterock Caves Marshland Trail Hillsborough Market
Battle Petitcodiac Monument Weldon Park
Albert and Salisbury Railway - 1896
Did you know?
The most complete Mastodon skeleton ever found on the Eastern Seaboard was found here in 1936. Its remains can be seen at the New Brunswick Museum.
Hillsborough Mastodon
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Answers
1.Hon. William Henry Steeves. 2. The Hillsborough Mastodon was found by Con Osmond. 3.Alberttite 4. Gypsum 5. The Stoney Creek Feilds were found in 1909. 6. 900.