Queens Royalty is the royalty for
Queens County,
Prince Edward Island
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,
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.
The township was established as part of the colonial survey of 1764 undertaken by Capt.
Samuel J. Holland. It was intended to host the colonial capital of Prince Edward Island and
shire town
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of Queens County, what would become known as
Charlottetown
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. The township is located on a peninsula bounded by the North (Yorke) River on the west and the East (Hillsborough) River on the east.
Originally, Charlottetown was unincorporated, therefore the "royalty" and the community were largely synonymous, with many using the term "Charlottetown Royalty". Charlottetown itself was not officially incorporated as a town until 1855 (and then only hosted 6,000 residents) and only became a city in 1885. The municipality's early boundaries (surveyed as 500 residential/commercial land parcels) only occupied a small portion of the township, with the remainder being divided into 12
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properties, some of which were purchased as farms from the Crown, the remainder being estates or unused lands.
The township was subdivided into an East Royalty, Central Royalty, and West Royalty, with the Central Royalty having common grazing land for all residents.
Today, the royalty is almost entirely within the boundaries of the current city of Charlottetown, which has merged various outlying municipalities and rural areas through municipal amalgamation.
Queens Royalty is part of
Charlotte Parish.
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Townships of Prince Edward Island
Geography of Queens County, Prince Edward Island
Populated places established in 1764
1764 establishments in the British Empire