Mount Albert

Mount Albert is an exurban neighborhood located within the Town over East Gwillimbury yet is portion concerning York Region. It is positioned as regards 65 km N regarding Toronto, as regards 15 km S regarding Sutton, WSW of Beaverton then N concerning Markham. Mount Albert is handy by means of Highway 404. The population is presently about 4,200. Housing trends are lightly persevering with in the boreal front and south west quadrants. The downtown vicinity is centred at Centre Street or Main Street.

The town itself is bordered on the westerly by means of Highway 48, who connects Markham then Beaverton or of the past by using Durham Regional road 31, as serves namely a townline between East Gwillimbury then Uxbridge. The Mount Albert Creek passes through Mount Albert. The faraway vicinity is forested frequently by using non-public woodlots or partial locally owned yet maintained pine forests whilst farmlands are located during the area. The important enterprise is farming livestock, feed, and potatoes.

The institution concerning what is at last Mount Albert commenced in the shortly nineteenth century, when region of the vicinity used to be granted by means of the Crown after buddies about the Family Compact, the occupying parliament over Upper Canada. In 1821, Samuel or Rufus Birchard, Quakers from Vermont, sold parcels over land, and with the aid of 1850, a village had developed. Originally the settlement used to be called Birchardville. The name used to be later changed after Mount Albert, named afterward below Prince Albert.