Montague, PEI, incorporated as a town in 1917, population 1895 (2011c), 1802 (2006c).The Town of Montague, located 46 km northeast of Charlottetown, is a picturesque community divided by the Montague River. Until incorporation, the town was known as Montague Bridge. The river was named by Samuel Holland in 1774-75 after either an English nobleman or the governor of what was then Nova Scotia. While the original settlement date is unknown, in 1840 the townsite was occupied by 4 partly cleared farms. Situated on a navigable river that flows into the Northumberland Strait, Montague began developing around the mid-19th century as a commercial and shipbuilding centre. Economic ties with the surrounding fertile agricultural region sustained Montague when the shipbuilding industry died later in that century.

Source: The Canadian Encyclopedia