St. Louis is a municipality that holds
community status in
Prince Edward Island
Prince Edward Island (PEI; ) is one of the thirteen Provinces and territories of Canada, provinces and territories of Canada. It is the smallest province in terms of land area and population, but the most densely populated. The island has seve ...
, Canada.
It is located in western
Prince County, west of the junction of Route 155 and Route 152, from
Charlottetown
Charlottetown is the capital and largest city of the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island, and the county seat of Queens County. Named after Queen Charlotte, Charlottetown was an unincorporated town until it was incorporated as a city in ...
, the provincial capital.
The community lies in the
Egmont Egmont may refer to:
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* Egmond family (often spelled "Egmont"), an influential Dutch family, lords of the town of Egmond
** Lamoral, Count of Egmont (1522–1568), the bes ...
federal electoral district, and in the
Tignish-Palmer Road
Tignish-Palmer Road is a provinces and territories of Canada, provincial electoral district (Canada), electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island, Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island, Canada. It was formerly Ti ...
and
Alberton-Roseville
Alberton-Roseville was a provinces and territories of Canada, provincial electoral district (Canada), electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island, Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island, Canada. It was formerly kn ...
provincial electoral districts.
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population conducted by
Statistics Canada
Statistics Canada (StatCan; french: Statistique Canada), formed in 1971, is the agency of the Government of Canada commissioned with producing statistics to help better understand Canada, its population, resources, economy, society, and cultur ...
, St. Louis had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
Education
''
St. Louis Elementary'' is the only school in the community. It is administered by the
English Language School Board of Prince Edward Island.
It offers English or French Immersion classes for students from St. Louis and other communities such as St.Edward,
Miminegash
Miminegash is a rural municipality in Prince Edward Island, Canada. It is located northwest of Alberton and southwest of Tignish. It is part of a small area in Lot 3 known as either the ''St. Louis'', '' Palmer Road'', or ''Miminegash'' area. ...
, Pleasant View, Waterford, Palmer Road and DeBlois. It was the first school to offer French Immersion in the province.
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See also
*List of communities in Prince Edward Island
Prince Edward Island is the least populous province in Canada with 154,331 residents as of the 2021 census and is the smallest in land area at . Prince Edward Island's 63 municipalities cover of the province's land mass and were home to of ...
References
{{Subdivisions of Prince Edward Island
Communities in Prince County, Prince Edward Island
Rural municipalities in Prince Edward Island