Charlottetown
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Charlottetown is the capital and largest city of Prince Edward Island, a Canadian province, and also serves as the county seat of Queens County. The city, which was named after Queen Charlotte and incorporated in 1855, is an important administrative center for the region.
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Place details
- Locality
- Charlottetown
- Region
- Prince Edward Island
- Country
- Canada
- Population
- 38,809
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Charlottetown is the capital and largest city of the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island, and the county seat of Queens County. Named after Queen Charlotte, Charlottetown was an unincorporated town until it was incorporated as a city in 1855.
It was the site of the famous Charlottetown Conference in 1864, the first gathering of Canadian and Maritime statesmen to discuss the proposed Maritime Union. This conference led, instead, to the union of British North American colonies in 1867, which was the beginning of the Canadian Confederation. Prince Edward Island, however, did not join Confederation until 1873. From this, the city adopted as its motto Cunabula Foederis, "Birthplace of Confederation".