Abercorn is a
village
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in the
Brome-Missisquoi Regional County Municipality
Brome-Missisquoi is a regional county municipality in the Estrie region of Quebec, Canada. It lies in the Eastern Townships area. The seat is Cowansville.
In 2021, it was transferred to the Estrie region from Montérégie.
In Parliament it is cov ...
in the
Estrie
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region of
Québec
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, Canada. The population as of the
Canada 2016 Census
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was 334.
It is bordered by the larger township of
Sutton
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to the north and east, by
Frelighsburg
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Administratively, it is within the Brome-Missisquoi Regional Coun ...
to the west, and the town of
Richford, Vermont
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Richford is the birthplace of R. G. LeTourneau, an industrialist who founded LeTourneau ...
in the
United States
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to the south.
Toponymy
The place was first known as Sheppard's Mills in honor of Thomas Sheppard, one of the first inhabitants in 1879. However, the origin of the name Abercorn remains uncertain. This name is probably related to the title held by
James Hamilton (1811-1885),
Duke of Abercorn
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. This title is itself linked to a
Scottish village located east of
Edinburgh
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.
History
Thomas Spencer built the first log cabin near Abercorn in 1792. The village was originally called Sheppard's Mills in honour of Thomas Shepard, a
New Hampshire
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loyalist
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who built the area's first grain and saw mill. Originally part of Sutton, Abercorn was established as a township in 1929.
Geography
The village is located on the northern edge of the
Green Mountains
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in the Sutton Valley, flanked to the west by the Pinnacle and to the east by the Sutton Mountain range. The Sutton river runs through the valley, as does
Route 139 and the
Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway
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Its Canadian subsid ...
.
Located about 105 km from Montréal via
Autoroute 10 and near the ski hills of Mount Sutton,
Bromont
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,
Jay Peak, Vermont, and
Mont Owl's Head
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A ski area, with the same name, was developed on it by Fred Korman and opened in 1965 with 3 lifts (2 chairlifts and 1 t ...
, Abercorn is a popular day trip and vacation spot for
Montreal
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ers.
Demographics
In the
2021 Census of Population conducted by
Statistics Canada
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, Abercorn 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:
[Statistics Canada: ]1996
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census
Mother tongue (2016)
[2016 Statistics Canada Community Profile: Abercorn, Quebec](_blank)
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See also
* List of village municipalities in Quebec
References
External links
Eastern Townships: Towns and Villages: Abercorn
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Villages in Quebec
Incorporated places in Brome-Missisquoi Regional County Municipality