Hunter River 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. 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
Queens County southwest of
North Rustico
North Rustico is a Canadian town located in Queens County, Prince Edward Island.
Situated on the north shore, North Rustico an incorporated municipality in 1954. North Rustico changed its status to a town on November 16, 2013. The town is known ...
. It is situated on the
Hunter River.
It has been suggested that Hunter River is represented in the works of
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Lucy Maud Montgomery (November 30, 1874 – April 24, 1942), published as L. M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a collection of novels, essays, short stories, and poetry beginning in 1908 with ''Anne of Green Gables''. She ...
as Bright River in the fictional region of
Avonlea.
Notes on the Geography and Chronology of the Anne of Green Gables Books
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James Charles McGuigan, who became Archbishop of Toronto and a Cardinal, was born in Hunter River.
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population
The 2021 Canadian census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population with a reference date of May 11, 2021. It follows the 2016 Canadian census, which recorded a population of 35,151,728. The overall response rate was 98%, which is sli ...
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 cultu ...
, Hunter River 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
External links
Official Community of Hunter River website
Communities in Queens County, Prince Edward Island
Rural municipalities in Prince Edward Island
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