Estrie () is an

administrative region Administrative division, administrative unit,Article 3(1). country subdivision, administrative region, subnational entity, constituent state, as well as many similar terms, are generic names for geographical areas into which a particular, ind ...

Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirte ...

that comprises the Eastern Townships. ''Estrie'', a French

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, was coined as a derivative of ''est'', "east". Originally settled by anglophones, today it is about 90 per cent francophone. Anglophones are concentrated in

Lennoxville Lennoxville is an ''arrondissement'', or borough, of the city of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. Lennoxville is located at the confluence of the St. Francis and Massawippi Rivers approximately five kilometres south of downtown Sherbrooke. Lenno ...

, home of the region's only English-speaking university,

Bishop's University Bishop's University (french: Université Bishop's) is a small English-language liberal arts university in Lennoxville, a borough of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. The founder of the institution was the Anglican Bishop of Quebec, George Mountain ...

. The

Eastern Townships School Board The Eastern Townships School Board, also known as the Commission Scolaire Eastern Townships, is an anglophone school board covering the Eastern Townships in the Canadian province of Quebec. As of 2010, it oversees twenty elementary schools, three ...

runs 20 elementary schools, three high schools, and a learning centre. The region originally consisted of 6 RCM's. In 2021, La Haute-Yamaska & Brome-Missisquoi joined Estrie, transferring from

Montérégie Montérégie () is an administrative region in the southwest part of Quebec. It includes the cities of Boucherville, Brossard, Châteauguay, Longueuil, Saint-Hyacinthe, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Salaberry-de-Valleyfield and Vaudreuil-Dorion. Th ...

Economy

While the economy of the area is mainly based on agriculture, forestry, and mining, tourist attractions include four Sépaq parks:

Yamaska Yamaska is a municipality in the Pierre-De Saurel Regional County Municipality, in the Montérégie region of Quebec. The population as of the Canada 2011 Census was 1,644. Demographics Population Population trend:Statistics Canada: 1996, 2001, ...

, Mont-Orford, Frontenac, and Mont-Mégantic, ski resorts at

Mont Brome Mont Brome (aka ''Bromont'', ''Bromount'', ''Mount Brome'') is part of the Monteregian Hills in southern Quebec. Its summit stands above sea level. It is near the town of Bromont, Quebec. The ski resort Ski Bromont lies on its slopes. Geology M ...

and Mont Orford, and

agritourism Agritourism or agrotourism involves any agriculturally based operation or activity that brings visitors to a farm or ranch. Types A 2018 article published in the ''Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development'' classified a ...

Administrative divisions

Regional county municipalities

Equivalent territory

Demographics

School Districts

Francophone: * Commission scolaire des Hauts-Cantons (

Coaticook Coaticook () is a town on the Coaticook River in southeastern Quebec, Canada. It is the seat of the Coaticook Regional County Municipality, and its southern border is also the Canada–United States border. In addition to the primary community ...

, East Angus and Lac-Mégantic). * Commission scolaire de la Région-de-Sherbrooke * Commission scolaire des Sommets Anglophone: *

Major communities

Bromont Bromont is a city in southern Quebec, Canada, at the base of Mont Brome; it is in the Brome-Missisquoi Regional County Municipality. The Bromont area and its resort, Ski Bromont, is well known as a tourist destination for its downhill skiing, mou ...

* Cookshire-Eaton *

Cowansville Cowansville is a town in south-central Quebec, Canada, located on Lac Davignon north of the U.S. border. It is the seat of Brome-Missisquoi, a regional county municipality. The population as of the Canada 2021 Census was 15,234. In recent years ...

* Farnham * Granby * Lac-Brome

* Lac-Mégantic * Magog * Orford * Shefford *

Sherbrooke Sherbrooke ( ; ) is a city in southern Quebec, Canada. It is at the confluence of the Saint-François and Magog rivers in the heart of the Estrie administrative region. Sherbrooke is also the name of a territory equivalent to a regional cou ...

* Val-des-Sources * Windsor

References

External links

Estrie
Government of Quebec
Tourism Eastern Townships

Estrieplus.com
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