North Shore is a rural municipality within Queens County in Prince Edward Island 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.
Communities Covehead Covehead Road Grand Tracadie Pleasant Grove Stanhope West Covehead
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, 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.
Name Formermunicipalstatus Originalincorporationyear 2016 Census of Population Population(2016) Population(2011) Change Land area(km2) Populationdensity Grand Tracadie Rural municipality North Shore Rural municipality Pleasant Grove Rural municipality Total former municipalities – –
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.
+North Shore federal election results Year Liberal Conservative New Democratic Green 2021 48% 771 30% 494 8% 131 12% 187 2019 46% 691 24% 366 7% 104 23% 354
+North Shore provincial election results Year PC Liberal Green 2019 35% 470 41% 551 23% 306 2015 25% 304 59% 717 8% 94
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