Alberton, Prince Edward Island
| Alberton, Prince Edward Island | |
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| Town | |
| Motto: "The Heart of West Prince" | |
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| Coordinates: 46°48′50″N 64°04′01″W / 46.81382°N 64.06682°W | |
| Country | Canada |
| Province | Prince Edward Island |
| County | Prince County |
| Parish | North Parish |
| Township | Lot 5 |
| Founded | 1534 |
| Village | 1878 |
| Town | 1913 |
| Government | |
| • Type | Town council |
| • Mayor | Michael Murphy |
| • Deputy Mayor | David Cahill |
| • Councillors | Connie Bernard Alan Curtis Blair Duggan Rosetta Tremblay Kelly Williams |
| • Town Administrator | Susan Wallace-Flynn |
| Area | |
| • Total | 4.50 km2 (1.74 sq mi) |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 1,135 |
| • Density | 240.1/km2 (622/sq mi) |
| Time zone | AST (UTC-4) |
| • Summer (DST) | ADT (UTC-3) |
| Canadian postal code | C0B 1B0 |
| Area code(s) | 902 |
| Telephone Exchange | 853 |
| NTS Map | 021I16 |
| GNBC Code | BADOW |
| Website | Town of Alberton |
Alberton (2011 Town Population 1,135; UA population 1,135) is a Canadian town located in the western part of Prince County, Prince Edward Island. It is situated in the township of Lot 5.
Alberton is a service centre for local fishing and farming communities, and is adjacent to the community and harbour of Northport.
The area was long settled by the Mi'kmaq Nation. Europeans first ventured to the area in 1534 when French explorer Jacques Cartier recorded making landfall at nearby Cape Kildare during his journey of discovery in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and St. Lawrence River. Acadians settled on the island in small numbers through the 17th and 18th centuries but only moved in greater numbers to the western part of Ile-Saint-Jean and specifically north of present-day Alberton to the Tignish area following their expulsion by British military forces in the late 1750s.
Following British victory over France, the island's sovereignty passed to Britain in 1763. In 1765, Captain Samuel Holland surveyed the island and the British government instituted a feudal system of land ownership. The township of Lot 5, which contains present-day Alberton, was granted to Edward Lewis, a British Member of Parliament in the 1767 land lottery.
Northport, located near present-day Alberton began to be settled in the 1780s after Lewis made plans for a small trading town called "Lewis Town". Located at Bury Head in Northport, it was established in June 1788 and was first populated by local Acadians who had escaped expulsion three decades before British settlements. Scottish and Devonshire settlers were brought in by Lewis to settle his township.
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