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The Parish of Alma was created surrounding the community in 1856, commemorating the then-recent Battle of Alma during the Crimean War. [2] The Village municipality incorporated in 1966 following sweeping changes that disbanded county councils. 18 years earlier, the federal government had expropriated land in the village and parish west of the ...
Alma is a geographic parish on the Bay of Fundy in the southwestern corner of Albert County, New Brunswick, Canada. [4]For governance purposes, Alma is divided between the village of Fundy Albert [5] and the Southeast rural district, [6] both of which are members of the Southeast Regional Service Commission. [7]
Fundy Albert was established on January 1, 2023 by New Brunswick regulation 2022-50, the Local Governments Establishment Regulation of the Local Governance act, through the amalgamation of the village municipalities of Alma, Riverside-Albert and Hillsborough while at the same time annexing certain mostly adjacent unincorporated areas.
Located in Alma, New Brunswick, Fundy National Park is under the management of Parks Canada, an agency of Environment Canada that is overseen by the Canadian government. [32] In the fiscal year of 2013-2014, Parks Canada allocated a budget of $693.7 million to maintain its portfolio of 44 national parks, 964 places of national historic ...
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] [3] The community's name remains in official use. [12]
Location of New Brunswick in Canada Distribution of New Brunswick's 107 municipalities and rural communities by municipal status type, before 2023 reforms. New Brunswick is the eighth-most populous province in Canada, with 775,610 residents as of the 2021 census, and the third-smallest province by land area, at 71,248.50 km 2 (27,509.20 sq mi). [1]
The Canadian province of New Brunswick is divided by the Territorial Division Act [1] into 152 geographic parishes, [a] units which had political significance as subdivisions of counties until the Municipalities Act of 1966. [b] Parishes still exist in law and include any municipality, rural community, or regional municipality within their ...
This is a list of communities in New Brunswick, a province in Canada. For the purposes of this list, a community is defined as either an incorporated municipality, an Indian reserve , or an unincorporated community inside or outside a municipality.