Hotels in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island

A little about Charlottetown...

Charlottetown (2001 population: 32,245) is a Canadian city and the provincial capital of Prince Edward Island. Charlottetown was first incorporated as a town in 1855 and designated as a city in 1885. It is also the county seat of Queens County.

The population of the Charlottetown census agglomeration in the 2001 census was 58,358, slightly less than half of the province's population (135,294).

Charlottetown is a popular destination in eastern Canada for visitors from other Maritime provinces, central Canada and the northeastern United States, as the city has a central location in the province as well as various services. The city's streetscapes with a centrally-planned downtown core containing many Victorian-era houses and buildings is an attraction, as well as a waterfront redevelopment project in recent decades which has seen walking trails and parks developed on former industrial lands. A new cruise ship terminal is planned by the local port authority which proponents hope will make the city a more attractive destination for the growing number of vessels operating in Atlantic Canadian waters.

Annual Events:
Canada Day (Dominion Day)
Ceilidh at the Irish Hall
Celidh in the Carriage House
Charlottetown Winter Carnival
Christmas Open House
Collectors' Day
Come to the Ceilidh
Festival of Lights
Festival of the Fathers
Gold Cup and Saucer Race
Gold Cup Parade
Island Skating School
Old Home Week Provincial

Exhibition:
PEI Shellfish Festival
Queen Victoria's Birthday
Summer Social
Summertime Jazz & Blues Festival

Popular attractions within the city include the provincial legislature at Province House, which hosted the Charlottetown Conference, as well as Founders Hall, a recently redeveloped railway maintenance building which now houses an interactive trip through history tracing the development of Canada as a nation. The Confederation Centre of the Arts provides live theatre, including the Charlottetown Festival during the summer months, as well as a nationally-ranked art gallery. The Charlottetown Festival itself is headlined by Canada's most popular and longest-running musical, Anne of Green Gables - The Musical, which is an adaptation of Island author Lucy Maud Montgomery's novel.

The late 1990s and 2000s witnessed a change in the retail landscape with the opening of big box stores on the site of former traditional shopping centres and in new developments in the northern suburbs, particularly the neighbourhood of West Royalty which is a key road junction.