|
Brome (electoral District)
Brome may refer to: People *Brome (surname) Places *Brome, Suffolk, England **Brome and Oakley, a civil parish in Suffolk *Brome (Samtgemeinde), an administrative district in Gifhorn, Lower Saxony, Germany **Brome, Germany, a municipality, seat of the Samtgemeinde Canada *Brome, Quebec, a village *Brome County, Quebec, a historical county, abolished in the early 1980s *Brome (federal electoral district), a federal electoral district in Quebec from 1867 to 1925 *Brome (provincial electoral district), a district in the Estrie region of Quebec from 1867 to 1972 *Mont Brome, part of the Monteregian Hills in southern Quebec *Brome Lake, a lake in the county of Quebec *Brome Lake, Quebec, a town with the lake within it Other uses *Several species of grass, see ''Bromus'' *Brome, a List of Redwall characters#Brome, character from the ''Redwall'' series by Brian Jacques See also *''The Brome play of Abraham and Isaac'', a 15th-century Middle English play * Broom (other) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brome (surname)
Brome is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Alexander Brome (1620–1666), English poet *Bartholomew Brome (fl. 1589), English politician *Richard Brome (1590–1653), English dramatist *Vincent Brome (1910–2004), English writer See also *Adam de Brome (died 1332), English almoner and college founder *Lotta Bromé (born 1964), Swedish radio and television host *Mathias Bromé (born 1994), Swedish hockey player {{surname, Brome ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brome, Suffolk
Brome is a village and former civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district, in the north of the English county of Suffolk. It lies on the A140 Norwich to Ipswich road around northwest of Eye and southeast of Diss near the border with Norfolk. In 1961 the parish had a population of 230. The village is now in the parish of Brome and Oakley and has been combined with the village of Oakley for centuriesSt Nicholas, Oakley Suffolk Churches website. Retrieved 2014-03-15. but the civil parish was only combined on 1 April 1982. The village church, dedicated to St Mary, is one of 38 existing es in Suffolk. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brome And Oakley
Brome and Oakley is a civil parish in the Mid Suffolk district of the English county of Suffolk. The parish is in the north of the county, immediately south of the River Waveney which marks the border with Norfolk. It lies north of Eye and south-east of Diss. The parish was formed in 1982 from the parishes of Brome and Oakley. The A140 Norwich to Ipswich road runs through the west of the parish and marks the parish boundary. Part of Eye airfield is also within the parish boundary.''Explorer Sheet 230 - Diss & Harleston, East Harling & Stanton'', Ordnance Survey The Ordnance Survey (OS) is the national mapping agency for Great Britain. The agency's name indicates its original military purpose (see Artillery, ordnance and surveying), which was to map Scotland in the wake of the Jacobite rising of ... 1:25 000 map sheet, 2011-09-14. References External links Civil parishes in Suffolk Mid Suffolk District {{Suffolk-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brome (Samtgemeinde)
Samtgemeinde Brome is a Samtgemeinde in the district of Gifhorn, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately 20 km north-east of Gifhorn and 10 km north of Wolfsburg Wolfsburg (; Eastphalian language, Eastphalian: ''Wulfsborg'') is the fifth-largest city in the Germany, German state of Lower Saxony, on the river Aller (Germany), Aller east of Hanover and west of Berlin. Wolfsburg is famous as the locat .... 16,660 citizens are living in the Samtgemeinde Brome (2020). Structure of the Samtgemeinde Brome References Samtgemeinden in Lower Saxony Gifhorn (district) {{Gifhorn-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brome, Germany
Brome () is a municipality in the district of Gifhorn, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the river Ohre, approx. 25 km northeast of Wolfsburg. The municipality consists of the following villages: * Altendorf * Benitz * Brome * Wiswedel * Zicherie Brome is also the seat of the '' Samtgemeinde Brome'' ("collective municipality"). Brome Burg 2014.JPG, Castle Brome Rathaus.JPG, Town hall Brome Liebfrauenkirche.JPG, Lutheran church Brome Ohresee.JPG, Lake ''Ohresee'' Altendorf Brome.JPG, Lutheran church in Altendorf During the Cold War, Brome was by the Inner German border separating West Germany and Communist East Germany (German Democratic Republic East Germany, officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was a country in Central Europe from Foundation of East Germany, its formation on 7 October 1949 until German reunification, its reunification with West Germany (FRG) on ...). The Brome Castle Museum has local artifacts from the Cold War and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brome, Quebec
Brome is a village municipality located in the Brome-Missisquoi Regional County Municipality of the Estrie region of Quebec, Canada, north of Sutton, surrounded by the Town of Brome Lake and recognized as the host of one of the most important agricultural exhibitions in Quebec, the Municipality of Brome Village benefits from an exceptional view of the Sutton Mountains, wide open spaces, tranquility as well as a spirit of cooperation and solidarity.. The population as of the Canada 2021 Census was 341. Demographics In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Brome had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. Population trend: Mother tongue language (2021) Brome Fair Brome Fair ("Exposition de Brome" in French) is an agricultural fair that takes place annually on Labour Day weekend. It is the largest rural fair in Quebec, dating ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brome County, Quebec
Brome County, is a historical county of Quebec. It takes its name from the name of a manor in the parish of Barham in Kent, England that was named after the broom plant. It was named by English surveyors. The earliest settlers to this region were brought from New Hampshire by the Quaker leader, Nicholas Austin in the 1790s. The county was formed in 1855 from parts of Stanstead, Shefford and Missisquoi counties. The county is located in the Eastern Townships, one of the 12 regions of Quebec. The county lies in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. Its eastern half is rolling countryside while its western half is part of the Richelieu River plains. The county is roughly an upside-down "L" shape, bound on the south by the Canada–US border (along 45° for 17.5 km from 72° 15′ W in Lake Memphremagog to 72° 41.5′ W), in the east by in part Lake Memphremagog and Stanstead County, in the north by Shefford County (45° 20′ N for 48 km from 72° 15′ W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brome (federal Electoral District)
Brome was a federal electoral district (Canada), electoral district in the provinces and territories of Canada, province of Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 1925. It was created by the British North America Act, 1867, ''British North America Act'', 1867, and was amalgamated into the Brome—Missisquoi (federal electoral district), Brome—Missisquoi electoral district in 1924. The County of Brome consisted of the Townships of Bolton, Potton, Sutton, Brome and the eastern part of the Township of Farnham. Members of Parliament This riding elected the following Member of Parliament, members of Parliament: Election results By-election: On Mr. Dunkin being called to the Privy Council and appointed Minister of Agriculture, 16 November 1869 By-election: On Mr. Dunkin being appointed Puisne Judge, Superior Court of Quebec, 25 October 1871 By-election: On Mr. Chandler's death, 21 August 1880 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brome (provincial Electoral District)
Brome was a provincial electoral district in the Estrie region of Quebec, Canada. It was created for the 1867 election (and an electoral district of that name existed earlier in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada). Its last election was in 1970. It disappeared in the 1973 and its successor electoral district was Brome-Missisquoi. Members of the Legislative Assembly / National Assembly * Christopher Dunkin, Conservative Party (1867–1871) * William Warren Lynch, Conservative Party (1871–1889) * Rufus Nelson England, Conservative Party (1889–1897) * Henry Thomas Duffy, Liberal (1897–1903) * John Charles James Sarsfield McCorkill John Charles James Sarsfield McCorkill (31 August 1854 – 10 March 1920) was a Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician. Born in Farnham, Quebec, the son of Robert McCorkill and Margaret Meighen, McCorkill was educated in Farnham and Saint-J ..., Liberal (1903–1906) * William Frederick Vilas, Liberal (1906–1917) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Mont Brome might be the deep extension of a vastly eroded ancient volcanic complex, which was probably active about 125 million years ago. The mountain was created when the North American Plate moved westward over the New England hotspot, along with other mountains of the Monteregian Hills that form part of the vast Great Meteor hotspot track. See also * Volcanism of Canada * Monteregian Hills The Monteregian Hills () is a linear chain of isolated mountains in Montreal and Montérégie, between the Laurentian Mountains and the Appalachians. Etymology The first definition of the Monteregian Hills came about in 1903 when Montreal geolo ... References Landforms of Montérégie Mountains of Quebec under 1000 metres Stocks (geolo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brome Lake
Brome Lake () is a freshwater lake in the town of Brome Lake, in the Brome-Missisquoi regional county municipality of the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada. It is the source of the Yamaska River. The name Brome Lake comes from Brome Township which itself was first recorded on the map of Gale and Duberger in 1795. The name of the township was shortly afterward transferred to the lake. The lake was first referred to under that name in 1815 by Joseph Bouchette, after which the name was kept. As for the name Brome, it probably is borrowed from the name of a village in Suffolk or Brome Hall, the castle of the aristocratic Cornwallis family, of which one of its members, Charles Cornwallis Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis (31 December 1738 – 5 October 1805) was a British Army officer, Whig politician and colonial administrator. In the United States and United Kingdom, he is best known as one of the leading Britis ... was titled Viscount Brome between 1753 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brome Lake, Quebec
The Town of Brome Lake (officially Ville de Lac-Brome) is a town in southern Quebec, Canada. The population as of the Canada 2011 Census was 5,609. Tourism is a major industry in the village of Knowlton because of skiing in the winter, lake activities in summer, and autumn leaf colour. History The village was founded in 1802 by United Empire Loyalists from the New England states and New York. Originally known as Coldbrook for the stream that runs through the centre of the village, in 1855 the village had become the county seat of Brome County, Quebec. In 1971, seven villages on Brome Lake (Bondville, East Hill, Foster, Fulford, Knowlton, Iron Hill, and West Brome) were amalgamated to create the current town, which is now in the Brome-Missisquoi Regional County Municipality of the Estrie administrative region. Geography Metamorphic rock of Cambrian age—mostly schist and phyllite—underlies the area. Quaternary glaciation left deposits of stony loam till plus outwash sands an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
