| Official Name: | Riverside-Albert |
| Pushpin Map: | New Brunswick |
| Pushpin Label Position: | left |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Riverside-Albert, New Brunswick |
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 250 |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Canada |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | New Brunswick |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Albert County |
| Subdivision Type3: | Parish |
| Subdivision Name3: | Hopewell Parish |
| Subdivision Type4: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Name4: | Fundy Albert |
| Government Type: | Village council |
| Established Title: | Incorporated |
| Established Date: | 1966 |
| Extinct Title: | Amalgamated |
| Extinct Date: | 2023 |
| Demographics Type1: | Electoral districts |
| Demographics1 Title1: | Federal |
| Demographics1 Info1: | Fundy Royal |
| Demographics1 Title2: | Provincial |
| Demographics1 Info2: | Albert |
| Area Land Km2: | 3.39 |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population Total: | 348 |
| Population Density Km2: | 102.8 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Change (2016–21) |
| Population Blank1: | 0.6% |
| Blank Name: | Dwellings |
| Timezone: | Atlantic (AST) |
| Utc Offset: | -4 |
| Timezone Dst: | Atlantic (ADT) |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -3 |
| Coordinates: | 45.7514°N -64.7177°W |
| Website: | http://www.riverside-albert.ca |
| Postal Code Type: | Canadian Postal code |
| Postal Code: | E4H |
| Area Code: | 506, 428 |
| Blank2 Name: | Telephone Exchange |
| Blank2 Info: | 882 |
| Blank3 Name: | Highway |
| Blank3 Info: | |
Riverside-Albert is a disincorporated village in Fundy Albert, New Brunswick, Canada.[2] [3] It resides in the geographic parish of Hopewell in Albert County.
Riverside-Albert is located on the north of Shepody River on upland above the marsh. The community of Harvey Parish is located across the river. It is approximately halfway between two major tourist destinations: Fundy National Park and the Hopewell Rocks.
Post office called Albert from 1875; Riverside from 1875 to 1932; Riverside from 1932.
The Trans Canada Trail passes through Riverside-Albert.[4]
See also: History of New Brunswick and List of historic places in Albert County, New Brunswick. Following the French period, Acadian settlers remained under English rule and continued developing the community of Shepody, which included the Riverside-Albert area. In the aftermath of the Acadian Expulsion in 1755, Nova Scotia Governor Lawrence invited applications for township grants. This begat Hopewell Township of Cumberland County on the location of Shepody. Hopewell's slow beginning grew pace during the rapid growth of the lumbering and ship building industries along the Bay, and Hopewell's communities benefited from the easy access to it at Hopewell's riversides.
Riverside and Albert both appear as communities on the cadastral land grant map of the area.[5]
Albert was originally called Hopewell Corner but the inhabitants resolved to rename it Albert in 1881 due to there being four communities named Hopewell within 12 miles of each other. In 1898 Albert was the terminus of the Salisbury and Harvey Railway, with a population of 500.[6]
Riverside, originally River Side, was a station on the Salisbury and Hillsborough Railway, with a population of 300 in 1871. The post office was renamed Riverside in 1932.[7]
The local improvement district of Riverside-Albert was incorporated on 29 December 1947.[8] The local improvement district became a village in 1966 under the new Municipalities Act.[9] [10]
On 1 January 2023, the village of Riverside-Albert amalgamated with the villages of Alma and Hillsborough and parts of eight local service districts to form the new village of Fundy Albert.[11] [12] The community's name remains in official use.[13]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Riverside-Albert had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 3.39km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[14]
See main article: List of people from Albert County, New Brunswick.
Notable residents have included Abner Reid McClelan and Roscoe Fillmore.
