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Orford is a township municipality of about 5,000 people in Memphrémagog Regional County Municipality in the Estrie region of Quebec, Canada. Orford's main attraction is its ski resort on Mount Orford, attracting thousands of people every winter. Orford is well known for the Mont-Orford National Park. The park has thousands of acres of forest ...
The ski resort consists of three summits: Mont Giroux, Mont Orford, and Mont Alfred Desrochers. It is the home mountain of Olympic medalist Nicolas Fontaine, for whom there is a track named in his honour. [citation needed] Other infrastructure on the mountain currently include [citation needed]: Base lodge with bar, cafeteria, and rooftop terraces
Edward Russell, 1st Earl of Orford (1653–1727), English naval officer and First Lord of the Admiralty Robert Walpole , 1st Earl of Orford (1676–1745), first Prime Minister of Great Britain Horace Walpole , 4th Earl of Orford (1717–1797), British politician and writer
Orford is a provincial electoral district in the Estrie region of Quebec, Canada that elects members to the National Assembly of Quebec. It notably includes the municipalities of Magog, Orford, Stanstead and Sainte-Catherine-de-Hatley. It was created for the 1973 election from parts of the Shefford, Sherbrooke and Stanstead electoral districts.
This list encompasses all Quebec provincial electoral districts, which are pivotal in determining the representation within the National Assembly of Quebec, the province's legislative body. Each of the 125 electoral districts , also known as ridings or constituencies, plays a crucial role in Quebec's democratic process, allowing citizens across ...
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2018 Quebec general election: Orford; Party Candidate Votes % ±% Coalition Avenir Québec: Gilles Bélanger: 12,117: 40.05 +19.02 Liberal: Guy Madore: 7,548: 24.95-19.14
The Orford Express was a tourist train between Magog and Sherbrooke, Quebec, operating seasonally on the former Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway line through Quebec's Eastern Townships. [1] A dinner train which operated from early May to end-December, [ 2 ] it was owned and operated separately from the underlying tracks.