List of townships in Prince Edward Island
This is a list of
History
After being ceded the island in the
Three counties of roughly 500,000 acres (2,000 km2):
St. John's Island was renamed to Prince Edward Island on November 29, 1798. After a contentious century of conflict between property owners/landlords (many of whom were absentee) and the largely poor peasant leaseholders, the last of the property owners was bought out in the 19th century after financing was made available to the Government of Prince Edward Island expressly for buying out the landlords under Prince Edward Island's Terms of Union for entry into Confederation on July 1, 1873.
For further information, see A Brief Summary of the History of Prince Edward Island - taken from Hutchinson's Prince Edward Island Directory, 1864.
Today, the townships/lots continue to exist on paper and in maps as Prince Edward Island's
Prince County | |
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North Parish | |
Egmont Parish | |
Halifax Parish | |
Richmond Parish | |
St. David's Parish |
Queens County | |
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Grenville Parish | |
Hillsboro Parish | |
Charlotte Parish | |
Bedford Parish | |
St. John's Parish |
Kings County | |
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St. Patrick's Parish
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East Parish | |
St. George's Parish | |
St. Andrew's Parish |