Abram-Village is a
rural municipality
A rural municipality is a classification of municipality, a type of local government, found in several countries.
These include:
* Rural municipalities in Canada, a type of municipal status in the Canadian provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, ...
in
Prince County,
Prince Edward Island
Prince Edward Island (PEI; ) is one of the thirteen 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 several nicknames: "Garden of the Gulf", ...
, Canada.
It is located in the township of
Lot 15, approximately 27 kilometers west of the city of
Summerside.
Located in the "Evangeline Region", a collection of Francophone
Acadian communities in the central part of Prince County, Abram-Village is famous for its Acadian Festival during late August and early September.
The
Commission scolaire de langue française, which administers the province's six French public schools, is headquartered in Abram-Village.
The community is home to the
Western Red Wings
The Western Red Wings (officially the Arsenault's Fish Mart Western Red Wings due to sponsorship reasons) are a Canadian Junior B ice hockey team located in Abrams Village, Prince Edward Island. They play in the Island Junior Hockey League. Nat ...
of the
Island Junior Hockey League
The Island Junior Hockey League is a Junior "B" ice hockey league in Prince Edward Island, Canada, sanctioned by Hockey Canada.
History
Since being founded in 1996, the IJHL has been strictly a Junior "B" League—one tier below the Maritime Ju ...
.
History
The community is named after Abraham Arsenault, the first settler who came to the township in the 1820s.
Originally named "Abram's Village" it was officially renamed to "Abram-Village" on April 3, 201
Demographics
In the
2021 Canadian census, 2021 Census of Population conducted by
Statistics Canada, Abram-Village 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.
References
Communities in Prince County, Prince Edward Island
Rural municipalities in Prince Edward Island
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