North Shore, Prince Edward Island

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.

Government

The Rural Municipality of North Shore was first governed by an interim council comprising an interim mayor and fifteen interim councillors. The first election for a mayor and six councillors was on November 5, 2018. resulting in the election of a Mayor and six councillors.