Charlottetown is the capital city of the island Province of Prince Edward Island, with a population of about 32,000. It is the largest of the two main cities on the island, the other being Summerside, which has a population of about 14,000.
The population of PEI itself is about 138,000.
A recent study found that residents of Charlottetown were the third happiest in the country, behind Saint John, NB (1st) and Quebec City, QC (2nd). This study, sponsored by the Canadian Inst. for Advanced Research and released through the Univ. of British Columbia, was based on almost 100,000 responses to StatsCan's Ethnic Diversity Survey of 2002 and the General Social Survey of 2003. |