Estrie

The Estrie , or the Cantons of the East , is an administrative area of the Quebec flanked against the American border in the east of the Montérégie and the south of Center-of-Quebec. The number of the administrative area Estrie is the 05, the principal cities are Sherbrooke, Magog, Coaticook and Windsor. It is made up of six regional municipalities of county (MRC) and 88 municipalities.

A precision is essential however about this definition: it can indeed be useful to note that the administrative area named " Estrie" (05) and the tourist area which bears the name of " Canton-in-the Est" do not have not the same borders, the MRC of High-Yamaska the and of Brominates-Missisquoi being excluded from the first (they indeed form part of the administrative area of the Montérégie), but belonging to the second. Many sources, probably because those are generally with savor tourist than administrative, seem to tend to include the Highone and Brominates-Missisquoi in Canton-of-the Is. It is in particular the case, inter alia, of the blue panels posed by the Ministry for Transport along the roads and welcoming with the visitors in the " Canton-in-the Est" at the entry of High-Yamaska by north or the west and Brominates-Missisquoi by the west or the south. A traveller trusting those to determine in which area it is will thus conclude from it that Canton-in-the East count eight MRC and not six. From where the importance to nowadays make the distinction between Canton-of-the Is (a tourist area) and Estrie (an administrative area).

Presentation

Estrie was called initially in English “Eastern Townships”, name that the first anglophone colonists (end) used to indicate the area, the writer Antoine Gérin-Lajoie will translate it into French by Canton-of-the Is in 1858, a reference to the Swiss cantons.

Its name comes from the creation of the British system of tenure, the canton, in 1791, allowing the concession of grounds to the colonists loyal supporters come to be established in this area after the independence of the United States of America. At the time, French-speaking rural Quebec used French tenure, the system of the seigniories. As the majority of the loyal supporters had been established in the part of the colony which forms today part of the Ontario (and consequently in the west of the French-speaking people), the denomination “Eastern Township” made it possible to distinguish this establishment.

In 1946, Monseigneur Maurice O' Bready will propose to change this semi-official designation by the term Estrie, easier to integrate into the French language by the adjective estrien.

Located at 1:45 minutes in the south-east of Montreal and at a few hours only of Quebec, Canton-in-the East are at the northern border of three states of the United States: the Maine, the New Hampshire and the Vermont. Its close tourist areas are Montérégie in the west, the Center-of-Quebec in north and the Boiler-Appalachian Mountains in the east.

Certain villages estriens (like Beebe Lime pit, close to Rock'n'roll Island, and Stanstead) are straightforwardly divided into two by the américano-Canadian Frontière.

Tourism

Today the name Estrie is used to indicate the administrative area and Cantons of the East for the tourist area.

The area contains three national parks offering of many activities of sport:

the National park of the Mount-Mégantic,
the National park of the Mount-Orford,
part of the National park of Frontenac.

The National park of Yamaska is found in the tourist area of the Cantons of the East, but in its part which belongs to the Montérégie.

The varied relief, architecture typically loyal supporter of certain villages (some belong to the Association of the most beautiful villages of Quebec) and the presence of several lakes belong to the tourist attractions of the area.

Demography

Population: 300.917 (2005)
Surface: 10.195 km ²
Density: 29,2 hab. /km ²
Birth rate: 10,3 ‰ (2006)
Death rate: 7,6 ‰ (2006)

Source: Statistical institute of Quebec

Regional municipalities of county

Sherbrooke, which corresponds to the territory of the city of the same name.
Coaticook, whose chief town is the town of Coaticook.
the Granite, whose chief town is the town of Lake-Mégantic.
High-Saint-François, whose chief town is the town of Cookshire-Eaton.
the Sources, whose chief town is the town of Asbestos.
Valley-Saint-François, whose chief town is the town of Richmond.
Memphrémagog, whose chief town is the town of Magog.

The tourist area of the Canton-of-the Is adds to the list two additional MRC above:

Brominates-Missisquoi, whose chief town is the town of Cowansville.
High-Yamaska the, whose chief town is the town of Granby.

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