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Prince County, Prince Edward Island

County in Prince Edward Island, Canada

Summary

County in Prince Edward Island, Canada

FieldValue
namePrince County
Comté de Prince (French)
settlement_typeCounty
image_mapPrince Edward Island Prince County.svg
map_captionLocation of Prince County in Prince Edward Island
subdivision_typeIncorporated Towns & Municipalities
subdivision_nameSummerside (city) Alberton (town)
Borden-Carleton (town) Kensington (town) O'Leary (town)
Tignish (town)
subdivision_type1Parishes
subdivision_name1North Parish
Egmont Parish
Halifax Parish
Richmond Parish
St. David's Parish
parts_typeTownships and royalties
parts_stylecoll
parts
p1Prince Royalty, Lot 1, Lot 2, Lot 3, Lot 4, Lot 5, Lot 6, Lot 7, Lot 8, Lot 9, Lot 10, Lot 11, Lot 12, Lot 13, Lot 14, Lot 15, Lot 16, Lot 17, Lot 18, Lot 19, Lot 25, Lot 26, Lot 27, Lot 28
area_total_km21979.21
area_footnotes
population_footnotes
population_total46,234
population_as_of2021
population_density_km2auto
blank_name_sec1Median income/capita
blank_info_sec1$30,609

Prince Edward Island county

Comté de Prince (French) Borden-Carleton (town) Kensington (town) O'Leary (town) Tignish (town) Egmont Parish Halifax Parish Richmond Parish St. David's Parish Prince County is located in western Prince Edward Island, Canada. The county's defining geographic feature is Malpeque Bay, a sub-basin of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, which creates the narrowest portion of Prince Edward Island's landmass, an isthmus upon which the city of Summerside is located.

The geographic division created by Malpeque Bay is informally augmented by a socio-economic division between the more urban East Prince and rural West Prince, although the line of division generally varies. Much of Prince Edward Island's industrial base is concentrated in the eastern part of the county, with three large frozen French fry manufacturing plants, a potato chip manufacturing plant, and an aerospace industry located at a former air force base. Industrial farming for root crops such as potatoes accounts for the majority of rural economic activity, followed by fishing for shellfish such as lobster and crab.

The county was named by Capt. Samuel Holland in 1765 for George, Prince of Wales, who would later become King George IV (1762–1830). As such, Prince County's shire town was designated as Princetown, but the inferior harbour for Prince Royalty saw the settlement pattern change to give this honour to Summerside.

History

The area today known as Prince County was first inhabited by the Mi’kmaq of Epikwik. The French would later colonise the area and between 1728 and 1758 many settled in the area between Malpeque Bay and Bedeque Bay. In 1758 the British captured Prince Edward Island and began to expel most of the Acadians; however British control over Prince County was tenuous and many of the Acadians were able to escape.

When the British were formally given control of Prince Edward Island in 1763 they began to establish feudal land divisions. Prince County was established in 1764 in honour of George, Prince of Wales, by Surveyor-General of North America Samuel Holland who would later in the 1767 Land Lottery be awarded Lot 28 in Prince County. According to the survey the Shire Town of Prince County was Originally intended to be ‘Princetown’ however due the poor status of its harbour the status was instead awarded to Summerside.

During the Second World War Prince County became a hub of military activity, several military bases were established during this time, Canadian Armed Forces Base Summerside, an airport and bombing-gunnery school at Mount Pleasant, an emergency landing strip and hangar at Wellington and a RADAR base in Tignish. Other locations like search and rescue stations at Alberton South and Tignish Run, and target areas at Higgins Wharf and on Hog Island.

Demographics

|1871|28302 |1881|34347 |1891|36470 |1901|35400 |1911|32779 |1921|31520 |1931|31500 |1941|34490 |1991|43241 |1996|44566 |2001|44495 |2006|44499 |2011|44348 |2016|43730

As a census division in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Prince County had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 2006.27 km2, it had a population density of in 2021.

Transportation

Major highways

Airports

Summerside-Slemon Park Airport

Places

;Cities

  • Summerside

;Towns

  • Alberton
  • Borden-Carleton
  • Kensington
  • O'Leary
  • Tignish

;Municipalities

  • Abrams Village
  • Bedeque and Area
  • Central Prince
  • Elmsdale
  • Greenmount-Montrose
  • Kinkora
  • Linkletter
  • Lot 11 and Area
  • Malpeque Bay
  • Miminegash
  • Miscouche
  • Sherbrooke
  • St. Felix
  • St. Louis
  • Tignish Shore
  • Tyne Valley
  • Wellington

;Unincorporated communities

  • Albany
  • Augustine Cove
  • Belmont
  • Port Hill
  • Days Corner
  • Richmond
  • Union Corner

;Indian reserves

  • Lennox Island 1

References

(Westmoreland County, New Brunswick NB / Cumberland County & Colchester County, Nova Scotia Nova Scotia)

References

  1. (8 February 2017). "Census Profile, 2016 Census: Prince, County [Census division], Prince Edward Island". Statistics Canada.
  2. "ROUSSEAU DE VILLEJOUIN (Villejoin, Villejoint), GABRIEL".
  3. "Samuel Holland, Canada's first Surveyor-General".
  4. "Prince Countys forgotten military past {{!}} Island Archives".
  5. (2011). "Census Profile - Prince, CTY, Prince Edward Island (Census division)". [[Canada 2011 Census]]. [[Statistics Canada]].
  6. (2006). "Census Profile - Prince County, Prince Edward Island (Census Division)". [[Canada 2006 Census]]. [[Statistics Canada]].
  7. (2001). "Community profile - Prince County, Prince Edward Island (County)". [[Canada 2001 Census]]. [[Statistics Canada]].
  8. (1996). "Electronic Area Profiles - Prince County Prince Edward Island". [[Canada 1996 Census]]. [[Statistics Canada]].
  9. Dominion Bureau of Statistics. (1944). "Eighth Census of Canada 1941". Edmond Cloutier, Printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty.
  10. (February 9, 2022). "Population and dwelling counts: Canada and census divisions". [[Statistics Canada]].
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