Charlottetown
Ethnic Origin Population Percent
Scottish 12,890 37.1
Canadian 11,950 34.4
English 9,830 28.3
Irish 9,785 28.1
French 5,900 17.0
Chinese 1,845 5.3
German 1,740 5.0
Dutch 920 2.6
First Nations 920 2.6
Charlottetown (/ˈʃɑːrləttaʊn/; French pronunciation: ​[ʃaʁlɔt.tawn]; Scottish Gaelic: Baile Sheàrlot) is the capital and largest city of the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island, and the county seat of Queens County. Named after Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, queen consort of King George III of the United Kingdom, Charlottetown was originally an unincorporated town that incorporated as a city in 1855. It was famously the site of the Charlottetown Conference in 1864, the first gathering of Canadian and Maritime statesmen to debate the proposed Maritime Union and the more persuasive British North American Union, now known as Canadian Confederation. From this, the city adopted as its motto Cunabula Foederis - Birthplace of Confederation. The population of Charlottetown in the 2016 census was 36,094; this forms the centre of a census agglomeration of 76,728, which is slightly less than half of the province's population (155,241).