- From UELAC Website:
- Albert Hill was born at Sydney, Cape Breton, NS, educated at home, worked from the age of twelve as a coal miner, a schooner builder, and a sailor delivering the coal from Cape Breton to Boston. At the age of thirty he gave up sailing to return to school to graduate from Acadia University as a civil engineer.
- His career turned from sailing to railway building and, map making as a geologist recording areas for coal deposits in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Land transportation was the path for the future, thus, his plans to unite the two provinces with railways began at the Miramichi to Halifax and Cape Breton. In 1880 the Dominion Government asked him to help to build the Canadian Pacific Railway in British Columbia.
- We remember this gentleman as a nation builder who grew up in the east as a miner, a sailor, a map maker to rail builder in Canada’s west.
- One of the signers of Petitioners to form a Canadian UEL Association.
- Those who signed the petition to unite the Loyalists across Canada under one organization hailed from seven of Canada’s provinces (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Alberta and British Columbia).
- As third generation descendants; ancestors of the Loyalists who retired to Canada before, during and after the American War of Independence 1775, for their belief or desires, to uphold the pride of the country and the heritage bestowed to them – Unity of Empire – to defend the new nation’s principles. Parliamentary government under the Crown. Ottawa – May 27, 1914, Act of Parliament (Cha. 146, 4-5) the incorporation of the Loyalist Societies into one body “The United Empire Loyalists’ Association of Canada”
- Great Grandson of United Empire Loyalist listed in Loyalist Directory: https://uelac.ca/loyalist-directory/detail/?wpda_search_column_id=12723
- Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/271918360/albert-james-hill
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