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Where did the name ‘Charlottetown Royalty’ come from?


In 1987, when the Rotary Club of Charlottetown Royalty was formed, club members had to come up with a name that would distinguish it from the other Rotary clubs in the city. At the time there were two other clubs, the Rotary Club of Charlottetown and the Rotary Club of Charlottetown Hillsborough.
 
The name that was decided upon at the time was an historic name - Charlottetown Royalty.
 
The first survey of Prince Edward Island was done by Capt. Samuel Holland, between 1764-66. Captain Holland divided the island into lots and royalties. A Royalty is the term used for an area that was to become the administrative capital.
 
Taken from Wikipedia......
The township was intended to host the colonial capital of Prince Edward Island and shire town of Queens County, what would become known as Charlottetown. The township is located on a peninsula bounded by the North (Yorke) River on the west and the East (Hillsborough) River on the east.
 
Originally, Charlottetown was unincorporated, therefore the "royalty" and the community were largely synonymous, with many using the term "Charlottetown Royalty". Charlottetown itself was not officially incorporated as a town until 1855 (and then only hosted 6,000 residents) and only became a city in 1885. The municipality's early boundaries (surveyed as 500 residential/commercial land parcels) only occupied a small portion of the township, with the remainder being divided into 12 acre properties, some of which were purchased as farms from the Crown, the remainder being estates or unused lands.
 
The township was subdivided into an East Royalty, Central Royalty, and West Royalty, with the Central Royalty having common grazing land for all residents.
 
Today, the royalty is almost entirely within the boundaries of the current city of Charlottetown, which has merged various outlying municipalities and rural areas through municipal amalgamation.
 
Queens Royalty is part of Charlotte Parish.