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Pownal, an unincorporated area, is located in Queens County in the central portion of Prince Edward Island, NE. of Charlottetown. Its precise location is 46'12"N, 62'59"W.

This page is a comprehensive index of all of the information on our website related to Pownal. You can also search for information on other communities.

Our Business Directory, a comprehensive database of Prince Edward Island businesses and organizations, lists 9 businesses in Pownal.

InfoPEI is a useful compendium of facts, addresses, pointers to businesses, governments and organizations and other reference information. To see InfoPEI information on Pownal, select a category and click GO.

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You can use our interactive maps to display maps of Pownal and area. Click on any of the links below:

The following residential and commercial real estate and vacant land is currently listed in the Prince Edward Island MLS system, operated independently by the PEI Real Estate Association. Select any property and click More Information to see the listing from the MLS website, provided by the realtor. For more real estate information, see our interactive real estate map for Pownal.

Please note that while the Government of Prince Edward Island and the PEI Real Estate Association have used their best efforts to ensure the accuracy and reliability of this information, it is provided as a general reference only. The Government of Prince Edward Island and the PEI Real Estate Association assume no responsibility for the accuracy or reliability of the information generated.

Pownal falls inside the Statistics Canada census subdivision of Lot 49. We have detailed statistical information available for the Lot 49 census subdivision for the following categories: Education, Ethnicity, Family, Income, Labour Force, Population, and Shelter.

Information courtesy Statistics Canada.

The official history of the geographic name Pownal (which can be somewhat technical, we admit):

Pownal (Sett., P.O.) was adopted in Place Names of PEI, 1925.Changed to Pownal (Village, P.O.) 23 April 1940 of OBF 0142 and 1316(4). Status changed to Settlemente 25 April 1946 on 11L/2.Confirmed 6 May 1947 on c. 4405.Status changed to Locality 23 October 1989 on 203-8. After John Pownall, secretary to the Board of Trade and Plantations, 1758 - 1761.Later secretary of state.Thomas Pownall (1722-1805), governor of Massachusetts, was a younger brother.Misspelled Pownal and Pownell. - PN of PEI, 1925.

Information courtesy Geomatics Canada.