Linkletter | |
Nickname: | Eddie Island |
Settlement Type: | Rural municipality |
Pushpin Map: | PEI |
Pushpin Label Position: | none |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Linkletter in Prince Edward Island |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 220 |
Coordinates: | 46.405°N -63.849°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Prince Edward Island |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Prince County |
Subdivision Type3: | Parish |
Subdivision Type4: | Lot |
Leader Title: | Chairperson |
Leader Title1: | Councillors |
Leader Title2: | CAO |
Timezone: | AST |
Timezone Dst: | ADT |
Postal Code Type: | Canadian postal code |
Blank Name: | Telephone Exchange |
Blank1 Name: | NTS Map |
Blank2 Name: | GNBC Code |
Linkletter is a rural municipality in Prince Edward Island, Canada.[1] It is located in Prince County.
The community is named after settler George Linkletter, who arrived from Greenwich, Connecticut in 1783 after receiving a royal land grant.[2] His son George Linkletter II would have his estate as the namesake of the community of Summerside. When George Linkletter settled on Prince Edward Island, he and his family also began Linkletter farms which still operates as a potato farm today. Although George Linkletter began the farm in 1783 after settling, it was not till the 1940s before they specialized in potato farming.[3]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Linkletter had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 7.88km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[4]