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Alberton, Prince Edward Island

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The coastal town of Alberton is located on the north coast of Prince Edward Island (the Gulf of Saint Lawrence).

Alberton is near sea level<1>.

Time Zone: Alberton lies in the Atlantic Time Zone (AST/ADT) and observes daylight saving time.

Communities that are also named Alberton can be found in:

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 Maryland (historic<2>) 
 Montana 
 Ontario 

At the time of the 2006 StatCan Census, Alberton had a population of 1,081 people<3>. This is a decrease of 3.05% since the previous Census (with 1,115 people in 2001).

With 1,081 people, Alberton represented 0.8% of the total population of Prince Edward Island, making it the province's 7th most populous community.

The following is a sample of nearby communities:

 Community DirectionDistance<4>2006
Population
Change
Since 2001
 Alma   NW5 mi [8.05 km]---
 Cornwall   SW9 mi [14.48 km]4,6776.01% increase
 Fortune Cove   SW4 mi [6.44 km]---
 Greenmount - Montrose   N4 mi [6.44 km]---
 Miminegash   NW7 mi [11.27 km]1766.38% decrease
 Montrose   N4 mi [6.44 km]---

To learn more about neighboring communities, please visit the Neighborhood Page for Alberton.

Website for Alberton

If you know of a local history or genealogy society for Alberton, would you please send us the URL for their website? We would like to add their link to our Gazetteer. To contact us, please visit our Feedback Page.




Search for Local Businesses

People are finding Google's 'Search-by-Location' to be a useful tool when planning visits to this area. We have prepared the following searches to help you find businesses, travel and vacation activities that are in (or close to) Alberton. It's likely that the search results won't include all of the businesses that are in this area, but the results should give you a good foundation for further searches.

For what it's worth: In addition to helping you submit your own search, clicking 'Other...' will frequently (but not always) show you some popular searches for this area.

Official Website:   www.townofalberton.ca/
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Fishing/Hunting     Hospitals      
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Other...     Veterinarians      

If you find an error or your business wasn't included in the results, please contact Google to help them resolve the issue (we simply link to 'Search-by-Location' and have no control over their results).



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The following websites contain collections of photos taken around Alberton:

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Looking for more websites and/or information centered on Alberton? Please visit the Map Page for Alberton.


Footnotes

<1>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Alberton - it wil be higher in some places and lower in others.

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<2>We use the term 'historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable and we would like to be accurate. If you can provide us with more specific information about Alberton, please let us know so that we can make corrections.

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<3>Unless noted otherwise, the population counts we use are estimates. Our population values come different sources and should not be considered official.

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<4>Our distances are calculated as a straight-line (or point-to-point) distance between Alberton and the indicated community. The distance should be treated as an estimate and not as the driving distance.

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