Talk:Charlottetown

message: Can someone please place references to a Statistics Canada page which supports the population figures given for the city/municipal population, as well as the "metropolitan" population...  FYI, Charlottetown does not qualify for a metropolitan population - it has a Census Agglomeration population, which is roughly similar in theory (but not a metropolis).
My reason for asking this is that the census in Canada is only taken every 5 years, with a detailed census taking place every year ending with "1" - the last being in 2001, and a less detailed census taking place 5 years later on years ending with a "6"... so the next official census will take place this May (2006).  There is no 2005 census, although for some fast-growing communities and CA's there have been estimated/projected population data provided...  Perhaps this is where the information is derived from?
FYI, the City of Charlottetown's official website states that "The City of Charlottetown is a flourishing community of over 32,000 people located on the south shore of Prince Edward Island."  NOTE:  this directly contradicts the figure of 39,000 given by a previous editor to the Wikipedia article.  The municipality's figure is also supported by Stats Canada, which has actually shown a DECREASE in the city's population and only a very modest increase in the CA population.  I feel that editors of the population information are overly-optimistic in their figures and as I've stated previously, I'd be interested to see what supporting evidence there is for their information.
Plasma east 02:43, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed. Plasma east 15:53, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Demographics

message: why is sports listed as #3?  Surely, having demographics, tourism, et al.  above the sports section would make sense. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 12.176.249.232 (talk) 12:30, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed. Plasma east 15:53, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Sports

message: As things currently stand, the undisambiguated Charlottetown is a redirect to this one. There is no current disambiguation page (although there probably should be one somewhere, as this isn't the only Charlottetown in existence.) This is unquestionably the most significant Charlottetown in Canada, although I'm not prepared to categorically state that it's the most notable one on earth. Per the Canadian naming conventions, this may be a legitimate candidate for a move to the undisambiguated title, though we should confirm whether there are other significant Charlottetowns elsewhere in the world before we actually strawpoll it. Any discussion? Bearcat 23:15, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Awhile ago I thought about initiating an RM for this article, and at the time I did a few searches and did not come up with any other Charlottetowns of note.  Doesn't mean they don't exist, just that I didn't find them. Skeezix1000 19:39, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Amazing that after a full month, nobody else has commented... Bearcat 07:00, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Knew there was something I'd forgotten to do. I've no problem with the proposed move, as it makes sense. (A disambiguation page might be useful, given there are quite a few other related articles, but the city should take the "prime spot".) Thoughts? --Ckatzchatspy 07:34, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Naming

message: On this web page it says name is pronounced with double t, i.e. /ˈʃɑrlətˌtaʊn/. --Irić Igor -- Ирић Игор  -- K♥S 17:24, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  IPA 

message: So, if "On April 17, 1855, Charlottetown was incorporated as a city, ..." then how could "In 1885 the municipality saw its status upgraded to become a city"? Refer to the last sentences in both the second and third subsections under the "History" section. Hwy43 (talk) 07:30, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm just offering my thought here, as I don't have a definitive answer. Is it possible that 1855 is the year of it being incorporated as a city within the British dominion of Canada, seeing as The Confederation didn't exist yet, and 1885 being the year of it being incorporated as a city within the modern Confederate state of Canada? I don't know if that makes any sense, the city was obviously there in between, but I thought maybe as far as official recognition goes that could be the answer.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.224.179.97 (talk) 00:59, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Potentially. I'm researching this again. Turns out the "Charlottetown Mechanics Institute" was incorporated on April 17, 1855. Coincidence, or a moronic misinterpretation of this legislation used on this article?! Hwy43 (talk) 01:38, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

text: City of Charlottetown's city history states April 1855. Pretty convincing. Hwy43 (talk) 01:49, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

text: Further evidence. Hwy43 (talk) 01:53, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

text: However last paragraph here states "town" in 1855 and "city" in 1875, which is none of the above. Hwy43 (talk) 01:59, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

text: Okay, I am now confident from the actual act that Charlottetown was an unincorporated town that incorporated as the "City of Charlottetown" on April 17, 1855. Now, it is time to figure out if incorporation as a city again in 1885 can be verified. It could very well be that the original contributor of that sentence may have meant to type "1855" but typed "1885" instead. Hwy43 (talk) 02:12, 6 May 2015 (UTC)

text: All I can find on the web are hits that involve "An Act in further amendment of An Act to Incorporate the City of Charlottetown". I've deleted the unsourced content stating that a city status upgrade occurred in 1885. Without a reliable source confirming this redundant event thing occurred, there is no point to continue with this unnecessary confusion. At the end of the day, we must ask ourselves, "how can a community that already has city status upgrade its status to the same status it already has?" Cheers, Hwy43 (talk) 02:40, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  City status... 1855 or 1885? 

message: Is this a list of notable people from PEI or notable people from Charlottetown? Several people on the list (Connaughton, McQuaid, Richards, MacAdam, Moyse to name a few) aren't from Charlottetown. Yellowjournalism (talk) 06:56, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable people