Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada (Port La-Joie, Isle-St-Jean, Acadia)
1873

CHARLOTTETOWN, the capital of Prince Edward Island, and of Queens co., is well situated on the Hillsborough River, near the southern coast. Lat. 46° 15' N., lon. 63° W. It is well built on a gently rising ground. The principal edifices are the government buildings, post office, court house, market, public hall, athenaeum, exchange, drill shed, Prince of Wales, St. Dunstan's and Methodist colleges, Normal school, convent, lunatic asylum, gaol, and 9 churches-Church of England (2), Roman Catholic Cathedral, Church of Scotland, Presbyterian (2,) Wesleyan Methodist, Baptist and Bible Christian. 1 semi-monthly, 1 semiweekly and 7 weekly newspapers are published in Charlottetown. The town contains, besides what is above enumerated, 3 banks, a savings bank, a woolen factory, iron foundry, ship building yards, &c. The streets, which are lighted with gas, are wide and well laid out. A railway is in course of construction which will connect the capital with the principal towns and villages on the Island. Pop. 7,500.

Lovell's gazetteer of British North America; J. Lovell; Montreal, 1873

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