Queens Royalty is the royalty for Queens County

Queens County, Prince Edward Island

Queens County is located in central Prince Edward Island, Canada. The county is geographically divided by the Hillsborough River's estuary, a tidal inlet which almost splits the county and Prince Edward Island...

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Prince Edward Island

Prince Edward Island is a Canadian province consisting of an island of the same name, as well as other islands. The maritime province is the smallest in the nation in both land area and population...

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Canada

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The township was established as part of the colonial survey of 1764 undertaken by Capt. Samuel J. Holland

Samuel Holland

Samuel Johannes Holland was a Royal Engineer and first Surveyor General of British North America.-Life in the Netherlands:...

. It was intended to host the colonial capital of Prince Edward Island and [county seat] of Queens County, Charlottetown. The township is located on a peninsula bounded by the North (Yorke) River on the west and the East (Hillsborough) River on the east.

Originally, Charlottetown was unincorporated, therefore the "royalty" and the community were largely synonymous, with many using the term "Charlottetown Royalty". Charlottetown itself was not officially incorporated as a town until 1855 (and then only hosted 6,000 residents) and only became a city in 1885. The municipality's early boundaries (surveyed as 500 residential/commercial land parcels) only occupied a small portion of the township, with the remainder being divided into 12 acre

Acre

The acre is a unit of area in a number of different systems, including the imperial and U.S. customary systems. The most commonly used acres today are the international acre and, in the United States, the survey acre. The most common use of the acre is to measure tracts of land.The acre is related...

 properties, some of which were purchased as farms from the Crown, the remainder being estates or unused lands.

The township was subdivided into an East Royalty, Central Royalty, and West Royalty, with the Central Royalty having common grazing land for all residents.

Today, the royalty is almost entirely within the boundaries of the current city of Charlottetown, which has merged various outlying municipalities and rural areas through municipal amalgamation.

Queens Royalty is part of Charlotte Parish

Charlotte Parish, Prince Edward Island

Charlotte Parish is a parish in Queens County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.It contains the following townships:* Lot 24* Lot 32* Lot 33* Lot 34It also contains Queens Royalty.----...

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