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North Shore
Rural municipality
Municipality of North Shore
Covehead Harbour Lighthouse
North Shore in Prince Edward Island
Coordinates: 46°22′34″N 63°00′29″W / 46.376°N 63.008°W / 46.376; -63.008
Country	Canada
Province	Prince Edward Island
County	Queens County
Lot	Lot 34
Incorporated	1974
Amalgamated	September 28, 2018
Time zone	AST
• Summer (DST)	ADT
Area code	902
Website	Official website

North Shore is a rural municipality within Queens County in Prince Edward Island that was incorporated on September 28, 2018, through an amalgamation of three municipalities. The municipalities that amalgamated were the rural municipalities of Grand Tracadie, North Shore, and Pleasant Grove.

History

The original Rural Municipality of North Shore was incorporated in 1974.

Communities

• Covehead
• Covehead Road
• Grand Tracadie
• Pleasant Grove
• Stanhope
• West Covehead

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, North Shore had a population of 2,500 living in 981 of its 1,358 total private dwellings, a change of 16.2% from its 2016 population of 2,152. With a land area of 71.13 km (27.46 sq mi), it had a population density of 35.1/km (91.0/sq mi) in 2021.

Government

The Rural Municipality of North Shore was first governed by an interim council comprising an interim mayor (Gordon Ellis) and fifteen interim councillors. The first election for a mayor and six councillors (one for each of six wards) was on November 5, 2018. resulting in the election of a Mayor (Gerard Watts) and six councillors.

References

1. ^ "Municipality of North Shore". Department of Finance, Energy and Municipal Affairs. Retrieved February 7, 2015.
2. ^ "EC2018–584: Municipal Government Act Rural Municipality of Grand Tracadie and Rural Municipality of North Shore and Rural Municipality of Pleasant Grove Restructuring" (PDF). Government of Prince Edward Island Executive Council. September 25, 2018. pp. 318–320. Retrieved October 27, 2018.
3. ^ "Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), Prince Edward Island". Statistics Canada. February 9, 2022. Retrieved March 3, 2022.
4. "Existing Municipalities and New Municipalities – Municipal Government Act". Government of Prince Edward Island. January 6, 2017. Archived from the original on December 1, 2017. Retrieved December 26, 2017.
5. ^ "Prince Edward Island Municipal Boundaries" (PDF). Prince Edward Island Communities, Land and Environment. December 23, 2017. Retrieved December 29, 2017.
6. "Municipal Affairs and Provincial Planning". Department of Finance, Energy and Municipal Affairs. Archived from the original on December 8, 2015. Retrieved February 7, 2015.
7. ^ "Population and dwelling counts, for Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), 2016 and 2011 censuses – 100% data (Prince Edward Island)". Statistics Canada. February 8, 2017. Retrieved February 11, 2017.
8. ^ "Prince Edward Island Municipal Boundaries" (PDF). Prince Edward Island Communities, Land and Environment. January 2016. Retrieved December 29, 2016.
9. "Rural Municipality of North Shore Council". Rural Municipality of North Shore, PEI. Retrieved April 4, 2019.

External links

• Official website

• Rural municipalities in Prince Edward Island
• Populated places established in 2018
• 2018 establishments in Prince Edward Island