Albertite mining site, Albert Mines, New Brunswick

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Black and white photograph of community with mine, church and employee houses

photograph: Albertite mining site, Albert Mines, New Brunswick, 1860. Provincial Archives of New Brunswick (P1-21). The bitumen called albertite created the mining community of Albert Mines. In the 1870s it was a busy community with mine shafts, a church, and houses for employees. Today all that remains are crumbling foundations.

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Albertite mining site, Albert Mines, New Brunswick