St. Louis, Prince Edward Island
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St. Louis is an unincorporated community in the Canadian
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 province of Prince Edward Island
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...

.

It is located in western Prince County
Prince County, Prince Edward Island
Prince County, is located in western Prince Edward Island, Canada. The county's defining geographic feature is Malpeque Bay, a sub-basin of the Gulf of St...

, west of the junction of Route 155 and Route 152, 150 kilometres (93.2 mi) from Charlottetown
Charlottetown
Charlottetown is a Canadian city. It is both the largest city on and the provincial capital of Prince Edward Island, and the county seat of Queens County. Named after Queen Charlotte, the wife of George III, Charlottetown was first incorporated as a town in 1855 and designated as a city in 1885...

, the provincial capital.

St. Louis includes the smaller communities of Kildare Station, Smith Road and Union Road.

The village lies in the Egmont
Egmont (electoral district)
Egmont is a federal electoral district in Prince Edward Island, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1968. Its population in 2001 was 35,208.-Demographics:Ethnic groups: 98.0% White, 1.4% Native Canadian...

 federal electoral district, and in the Tignish-Palmer Road
Tignish-Palmer Road
Tignish-Palmer Road is provincial electoral district #27, for the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island, Canada. It was formerly Tignish-DeBlois from 1996 to 2007.-Members:The riding has elected the following Members of the Legislative Assembly:...

 and Alberton-Roseville
Alberton-Roseville
Alberton-Roseville is provincial electoral district #26, for the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island, Canada. It was formerly known as Alberton-Miminegash from 1996 to 2007.It includes, among others, the following communities:*Alberton...

 provincial electoral districts.

Demographics

In 2006, St. Louis had a population of 80 living in 38 dwellings
House
A house is a building or structure that has the ability to be occupied for dwelling by human beings or other creatures. The term house includes many kinds of different dwellings ranging from rudimentary huts of nomadic tribes to free standing individual structures...

, a 18.4% decrease from 2001. The community has a land area of 0.62 km² (0.239383338327372 sq mi) and a population density
Population density
Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. It is frequently applied to living organisms, and particularly to humans...

 of 129.7 /km2.

Education

St. Louis Elementary is the only school in the community. It is administered by the Western School Board of Prince Edward Island
Western School Board
The Western School Board is a Canadian school district in Prince Edward Island.It is an Anglophone district operating 21 public schools in Prince County. It maintains offices in Summerside and Elmsdale....

. It offers English or French Immersion classes for students from St. Louis and other communities such as St.Edward, Miminegash
Miminegash, Prince Edward Island
Miminegash is a small fishing settlement located NW of Alberton and SW of Tignish, in the Canadian province of Prince Edward Island. It is part of a small area known as either the St. Louis, Palmer Road, or Miminegash area...

, Pleasant View, Waterford, Palmer Road and DeBlois. It was the first school to offer French Immersion in the province.
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