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3922 RTE 114 |
New Brunswick Tourism Region : Southeastern New Brunswick
Description From Owner:
- On a 1749 map the place is shown as Cap de Damoiselles and on a 1776 map as Merry Dancers, both names referring to the shape of rock formations which reminded those who named the places of shapely young women.
- The area was established as a township in 1765 and was settled by German immigrants from Pennsylvania.
- The place was sometimes called German Town, but the name Hopewell came into common usage with the establishment in 1785 of Hopewell Parish, named by settlers after Hopewell, Pennsylvania.
- The Germans were followed by another wave of settlers from across the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia. Among them was a second-generation New England planter, Benjamin Bennett.
- His grandson, Richard Bedford Bennett (1870-1947) was born at nearby Hopewell Hill and later moved to Calgary where he established a law practice and entered politics.
- Bennett was Canada's 11th prime minister from 1930 to 1935 and the only prime minister from New Brunswick.
- In 1866 Hopewell Cape was a port of entry, a seaport and farming and shipping village. By 1871 it had a population of about 500.
- The Hopewell Rocks are considered New Brunswick's most famous geological feature and are accessed at The Ocean Tidal Exploration Site, 131 Discovery Road.
- There is access to the ocean floor and Bay of Fundy, and an interpretive centre with all visitor facilities. The Albert County Museum is housed in the original county gaol at 12 Hopewell Cross Road, open mid-June to mid-Sept.
- With permission from 'New Brunswick Place Names' David E. Scott 2009
Address of this page: http://nb.ruralroutes.com/HopewellCape