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Eastern Townships, Quebec, collection [textual record]

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Date:

1809-1868.

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R6810-0-1-E, MG24-I100

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Item ID number:

100742

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Eastern Townships, Quebec, collection
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Date(s):

1809-1868.

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Extent:

4 cm of textual records.

Language of material:

English

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Collection consists of miscellaneous notes and accounts pertaining to land transactions in the Eastern Townships.

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Eastern Townships (Quebec). Land transactions records

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Eastern Townships (Quebec). Land transactions records : The Eastern Townships region is located in the Appalachian hills of south-central Québec, between Montréal and Québec City. The townships extend from Granby to Lac Mégantic and from Drummondville to the US border. The first inhabitants were the Abenaki, who traveled the region for hunting and fishing. The only settlement during the French regime was a trading post at Grandes-Fourches [Sherbrooke]. Shortly after the American Revolution a large number of English Loyalists left the US for Canada and settled in the area of Baie Missisquoi on the northeastern extension of Lac Champlain. In 1791 the British government granted them land in the form of townships. The first of the 95 townships conceded was Dunham (1796). In 1792, the region (then an electoral county) was called Buckinghamshire. Later it became known as the "Eastern Townships of Lower Canada" and "Eastern Townships" by 1806. The name was translated to "Townships de l'Est" towards 1833 and "Cantons de l'Est" in 1858. Early settlers were American, English and Irish. After 1840 a wave of French colonization swept into the region, and between 1871 and 1881 Francophones became the majority. Anglophones now account for less than 10% of the region's population. Canadian Encylopedia.

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Received in 1927.

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Land sales - Eastern Townships (Quebec), 1809-1868

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MG24-I100
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