Cheap Flights to Charlottetown  

Charlottetown is both the largest city on and the provincial capital of Prince Edward Island. Named after Queen Charlotte, the wife of English King George III, Charlottetown was first incorporated as a town in 1855 and designated as a city in 1885. It was most famously the site of the Charlottetown Conference in 1864, the first gathering of Canadian statesmen to debate the proposed Canadian Confederation. From this, the city adopted as its motto "Cunabula Foederis" -- "Birthplace of Confederation". The population of the Charlottetown in the 2006 census was 58,625, slightly less than half of the province's population (135,851). Charlottetown is a popular destination in eastern Canada for visitors from other Maritime provinces, central Canada and the northeastern United States, as the city has a central location in the province as well as various services. Prince Edward Island is especially popular with the Japanese, who love the books of Anne of Green Gables, written by PEI writer Lucy Laud Montgomery. The city's streetscape with a centrally planned downtown core containing many Victorian-era houses and buildings is an attraction, as well as the waterfront redevelopment project in recent decades which has seen walking trails and parks developed on former industrial lands.