Research Home
Tools
Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Full Record Display
Vernacular Display
|
English Display
Click the
icon to view the hierarchy.
Semantic View
(
JSON
,
JSONLD
,
RDF
,
N3/Turtle
,
N-Triples
)
ID: 7013024
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013024
Record Type:
administrative
Charlottetown (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 46 14 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 46.2333
decimal degrees
Long: 063 09 00 W
degrees minutes
Long: -63.1500
decimal degrees
Note:
Located on Hillsborough Bay; today is center for fishing, dairying, meat packing & potato products; initial plans for Canadian unification occurred at Charlottetown Conference 1864.
Names:
Charlottetown
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
O
)
............
renamed in honor of Queen Charlotte after island was ceded to Great Britain 1763
Port la Joie
(
H
,
V
)
............
original French settlement 1720s
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
North and Central America
(continent) (
P
)
........
Canada
(nation) (
P
)
............
Province of Prince Edward Island
(province) (
P
)
................
Charlottetown
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
since 1720's
city (
C
)
............
incorporated 1855
provincial capital (
C
)
commercial center (
C
)
educational center (
C
)
tourist center (
C
)
regional capital (
C
)
Sources and Contributors:
Charlottetown..........
[
BHA
,
FDA
,
VP Preferred
]
..........................
Canadian Encyclopedia (1985)
..........................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
3:129
..........................
National Archives of Canada database (1987-)
..........................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-562447
..........................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
43
..........................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Port la Joie..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
III, 129
Subject:
.....
[
BHA
,
FDA
,
VP
]
..................
Canadian Encyclopedia (1985)
..................
Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988)
III, 129; 3:129
..................
National Archives of Canada database (1987-)
..................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
-562447
..................
Times Atlas of the World (1992)
43
..................
Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
The J. Paul Getty Trust
© 2004 J. Paul Getty Trust
Terms of Use
/
Privacy Policy
/
Contact Us