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Sherbrooke ( / ˈʃɜːrbrʊk / SHUR-bruuk, Quebec French: [ʃɛʁˈbʁʊk]) 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 county municipality (TE) and census division (CD ...
Société de transport de Sherbrooke (STS) provides public transit services to Sherbrooke, the only major city in the Eastern Townships region of Quebec, Canada.After the amalgamation of what are now neighbouring boroughs into a regional municipality in 2002, service was expanded to cover the entire city with 41 routes and a fleet of more than 80 buses.
Quebec City is known for its Winter Carnival, its summer music festival and its Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day celebrations. The Jardin zoologique du Québec, now closed, reopened in 2002 after extensive repairs before ultimately shutting permanently in 2006. It featured 750 specimens of 300 different species of animals.
Fleurimont is an arrondissement, or borough, of the city of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada on the Saint-François River. The borough comprises the former city of Fleurimont and the eastern portion of pre-amalgamation Sherbrooke. As a separate city, Fleurimont had a population of 16,521 in the Canada 2001 Census. As a borough of Sherbrooke, it has a ...
Mont-Bellevue is an arrondissement, or borough, of the city of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. It comprises the former town of Ascot and the southern portion of pre-amalgamation Sherbrooke. The eponymous mountain forms Mont-Bellevue Park in the city centre. The borough is represented by four councillors on the Sherbrooke City Council.
Quebec has a number of regions that go by historical and traditional names. Often, they have similar but distinct French and English names. Abitibi; Lower Saint Lawrence (Bas-Saint-Laurent) Beauce (within Chaudière-Appalaches) Bois-Francs (within Centre-du-Québec) Charlevoix (eastern part of the Capitale-Nationale administrative region ...
La Région-Sherbrookoise was a former regional county municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec. Prior to September 12, 1998 it was known as Sherbrooke Regional County Municipality. [3] It ceased to exist when most of it amalgamated into the expanded city of Sherbrooke on January 1, 2002.
Area codes 514, 438, and 263. Area codes 514, 438, and 263 are telephone area codes of the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for Montreal and most of its on-island suburbs, specifically the Island of Montreal and Île Perrot in the Canadian province of Quebec . Area code 514 was one of the original North American area codes assigned by AT&T ...