 It was incorporated as a town in 1973 and was amalgamated into Charlottetown on April 1, 1995.Presently a neighbourhood, Parkdale has a mix of housing, commercial and light industrial districts across an area of several dozen hectares, bounded by the former railway line (now the Confederation Trail) to the south and west, Belvedere Avenue/Falconwood Drive to the north, and the Hillsborough River to the east.Parkdale had an active volunteer fire department, which was closed after municipal amalgamation.