The Charlottetown Festival is a seasonal Canadianmusicaltheatre festival which runs from late May to mid-October every year since 1965. Musical theater (or theatre) is a form of theatre combining music, songs, dance, and spoken dialogue. ... It has been suggested that Drama (art form) be merged into this article or section. ... 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ...
Hosted in the Confederation Centre of the Arts, every year the Charlottetown Festival features some of Canada's finest performers, designers, playwrights, composers, and directors in a professional showcase of musical theatre and comedy. The Confederation Centre of the Arts opened in 1964 as a national monument to Canadas Fathers of Confederation. ...
Charlottetown is situated on its namesake harbour which is formed by the confluence of three rivers in the central part of the island along its south shore.
The Charlottetown airfield in the nearby rural community of Sherwood was upgraded as part of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan and operated for the duration of World War II as RCAF Station Charlottetown, in conjunction with RCAF Station Mount Pleasant and RCAF Station Summerside.
The Charlottetown census agglomeration area (CA) is comprised of Charlottetown and the neighbouring towns of Stratford and Cornwall, as well as adjoining rural areas of central-eastern Queens County, namely Lots 31, 34, 35, 36, 48, 49 and 65.