North Shore 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, ...
within
Queens County in
Prince Edward Island
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that was incorporated on September 28, 2018, through an amalgamation of three municipalities. The municipalities that amalgamated were the rural municipalities of
Grand Tracadie, North Shore, and
Pleasant Grove.
History
The original Rural Municipality of North Shore was incorporated in 1974.
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Communities
* Covehead
* Covehead Road
* Grand Tracadie
* Pleasant Grove
* Stanhope
* West Covehead
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
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, North Shore 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.
Government
The Rural Municipality of North Shore was first governed by an interim council comprising an interim mayor (Gordon Ellis) and fifteen interim councillors.[ The first election for a mayor and six councillors (one for each of six wards) was on November 5, 2018.][ resulting in the election of a Mayor (Gerard Watts) and six councillors.]
References
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{{Subdivisions of Prince Edward Island
Rural municipalities in Prince Edward Island
Populated places established in 2018
2018 establishments in Prince Edward Island