ALBERT
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| NAME: ALBERT COUNTY: ONTARIO ROADS: 2WD GRID: CLIMATE: Snow in winter BEST TIME TO VISIT: Spring summer or fall |
COMMENTS:
REMAINS: What remains is the cheese factory, now a house, a second dwelling, and the overgrown cemetery. |
| First know as “Jones Settlement”
after the town’s first postmaster, Richard Jones, it was later renamed
after Queen Victoria’s consort, Prince Albert. The community never
grew beyond a church, blacksmith, post office, and the Albert Cheese Company.
The population was about 100 in 1886 and 50 in 1908. |
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