Stratford, Prince Edward Island

Stratford is a town located in Queens County, Prince Edward Island.

Situated immediately southeast of the city of Charlottetown, Stratford recorded a population of 9,706 in the 2016 census. The town is the third-largest municipality in the province and has experienced population growth in recent decades since improvements were made to the Hillsborough River Bridge connecting the town with Charlottetown.

Amalgamation
Southport was incorporated in 1972, with a main road named "Stratford Road," after the secondary name that had competed with Southport as the village name more than a century earlier.

Notable Players

 * Sarah Steele (1995–present), played women's ice hockey with Canada's entry at the 2013 IIHF World Women's U18 Championship, winning a gold medal. She would also compete at the NCAA level with the Boston University Terriers women's ice hockey program, graduating in 2017. She would also play professionally in Europe, skating in the European Women's Hockey League with clubs such as Vienna, Austria's EHV Sabres, the Swiss League's Neuchâtel Hockey Academy Dames, plus Hungary's KMH Budapest squad, winning the Supercup, OB1 Hungarian League and EWHL championships during the 2019–20 season.