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The Eastern Townships (in French les Cantons de l'est) is a region in south central Quebec, lying between the Saint Lawrence River and the US border. The principal city is Sherbrooke. The region comprises the counties that are divided into townships after the traditional New England method of land grants, as opposed to other Quebec counties which are divided into municipalities based on the former seigneuries. The region boasts numerous summer colonies popular with vacationing Montrealers and several ski resorts. The first European explorer of what is now Quebec was Jacques Cartier, who planted a cross either in the Gaspé in 1534 or at Old Fort Bay on the Lower North Shore and sailed into the St. ...
The Saint Lawrence River (French: fleuve Saint-Laurent) is a large west-to-east flowing river in the middle latitudes of North America, connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean. ...
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Downtown Sherbrooke with the Saint-François River in the foreground Sherbrooke (2001 population 75,916, post-merger population 141,200) is a city in south-eastern Quebec, Canada. ...
The term township generally means the district or area associated with a town. ...
This article is about the region in the United States of America. ...
A land grant is a gift of land made by the government for projects such as roads, railroads, or especially academic institutions. ...
A municipality or general-purpose district (compare with: special-purpose district) is an administrative local area generally composed of a clearly defined territory and commonly referring to a city, town, or village government. ...
This article is about the seigneurial system in New France. ...
The term summer colony is often used, particularly in the United States and Canada, to describe well-known resorts and upper-class enclaves, typically located near the ocean or mountains of New England or the Great Lakes. ...
City motto: Concordia Salus (Latin: Well-being through harmony) Province Quebec Mayor Gérald Tremblay Area - % water 500. ...
Skiing is the activity of gliding over snow using skis (originally wooden planks, now usually made from fiberglass or related composites) strapped to the feet with ski bindings. ...
Counties The Eastern Townships consist of the following counties: In the early 1990s Quebec was reorganized into 17 official regions divided into regional county municipalities. The bulk of the Eastern Townships became the Estrie region (which is often called les Cantons de l'est in French), but Arthabaska, Drummond, and part of Wolfe and Megantic counties became part of the Centre-du-Québec region, the remainder of Megantic County became part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region, and part of Shefford and Missisquoi counties became part of the Montérégie region. Arthabaska County is an historical county in central Quebec, Canada. ...
Brome County, is an historical county of Quebec. ...
Compton County is an historical county in southeastern Quebec, Canada on the western flanks of the Appalachian Mountains on the US-Canadian border. ...
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The 1990s refers to the years 1990 to 1999; the last decade of the 20th Century, but in an economical sense The Nineties is often considered to span from the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 to the September 11 attacks in 2001. ...
This is a list of Quebec regions. ...
Following is a list of the regional county municipalites, territories, and newly amalgamated cities (villes) in the province of Quebec. ...
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Map of Quebec showing Centre-du-Québec in red Centre-du-Québec (french for Central Quebec) is a region of Quebec. ...
Map of Quebec showing Chaudière-Appalaches in red Chaudière-Appalaches is an administrative region in Quebec, Canada. ...
Map (2001) of the Regional County Municipalities making up Montérégie Montérégie is an administrative region in the southwestern corner of Quebec. ...
History The first inhabitants of the region were the Abenaki Indians. This can be observed by the different names of towns, lakes and rivers which many are of Abenaki origin. They allied themselves with the French during the French and Indian War to fight the British. The French and Indian War is the American name for the decisive nine-year conflict (1754-1763) in North America between the Kingdom of Great Britain and France, which was one of the theatres of the Seven Years War. ...
The region was part of New France until the 1763 Treaty of Paris which granted the region to the British. Shortly after the American Revolution, United Empire Loyalists, who fled the revolution in order to stay loyal to the British, settled in the Eastern Townships. The land there was controlled by three English seigneurs; Colonel Henry Caldwell had purchased what had been the Foucault Seigneurie, which ran along the Richelieu River and a little over the present day frontier; Colonel Gabriel Christie was seigneur of Noyan; and Thomas Dunn was seigneur of St-Armand. New France (French: la Nouvelle-France) describes the area colonized by France in North America during a period extending from the exploration of the Saint Lawrence River by Jacques Cartier in 1534 to the cession of New France to the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1763. ...
(Redirected from 1763 Treaty of Paris) The Treaty of Paris, February 10, 1763, was signed by the Kingdom of Great Britain, France and Spain with Portugal in agreement. ...
The American Revolution is the series of events, ideas, and changes that resulted in the political separation of thirteen colonies in North America from the British Empire and the creation of the United States of America. ...
United Empire Loyalists is the name given to the portion of British Loyalists who resettled in British North America and other British Colonies as an act of fealty to King George III after the British defeat in the American Revolutionary War. ...
Seigneur means, in French, lord. The term is often used in the Medieval system of Feudalism and Manorialism where it means the possessor of a seigneurie or fief. ...
The Richelieu River in Quebec, Canada flows about 130 km north to drain Lake Champlain into the St. ...
Gabriel Christie (16 September 1722 – 26 January 1799) was a British Army General from Montreal, Canada. ...
The land was good and the Loyalists settled in, prospering by selling their crops at relatively high prices, thanks to the wartime market, on which the demand for food and other necessities of life was high. When the Revolutionary War ended Sir Frederick Haldimand, the governor of Quebec, expected them to move westwards with the rest of the Loyalists, and so cut off their rations which the government had been providing. However, they resisted efforts to be moved by force, and were finally permitted to stay by Lieutenant Governor Henry Hamilton after Haldimand's return to England. Sir Frederick Haldimand, KCB (August 11, 1718 – June 5, 1791) was a British army officer and governor. ...
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The status of the East Townships Loyalists was resolved when the seigneurs agreed to permit them to stay on their land for a nominal fee. The exact number cannot be ascertained, but a petition they sent to the governor included 378 names. Allowing for a family of five, this could suggest a population of about 1600 or so. The land they settled on, the present-day area of Noyan, Clarenceville and St. Armand, was not part of the Eastern Townships (which were not opened to settlement until 1791), but have since been regarded as part of the Townships.
Under the terms of the Constitutional Act of 1791, the Eastern Townships were open to settlement and a land rush followed. Most of the 3,000 or so settlers came from the United States. A few were Loyalist, at least in spirit, but most simply wanted land and had no strong feeling about nationality. The Constitutional Act of 1791 was a British law which changed the government of the province of Quebec to accommodate the many English-speaking settlers, known as the United Empire Loyalists, who had arrived from the United States following the American Revolution. ...
Even though the region is now predominantly French speaking, the influence of the Loyalist can still be observed by the architecture of older buildings and the names of various towns. Loyalists (often capitalized L) were British North American colonists who remained loyal subjects of the British crown during the American Revolutionary War. ...
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