Brome-Missisquoi is a
regional county municipality
The term regional county municipality or RCM (''french: municipalité régionale de comté, MRC'') is used in Quebec, Canada to refer to one of 87 county-like political entities. In some older English translations they were called county r ...
in the
Estrie
Estrie () is an administrative region of Quebec that comprises the Eastern Townships. ''Estrie'', a French neologism, was coined as a derivative of ''est'', "east". Originally settled by anglophones, today it is about 90 per cent francophone. Angl ...
region of
Quebec
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, Canada. It lies in the
Eastern Townships
The Eastern Townships (french: Cantons de l'Est) is an historical administrative region in southeastern Quebec, Canada. It lies between the St. Lawrence Lowlands and the American border, and extends from Granby in the southwest, to Drummondv ...
area. The seat is
Cowansville.
In 2021, it was transferred to the Estrie region from Montérégie.
In Parliament it is covered by the
Brome—Missisquoi federal electoral district.
History
In the 1980s, the RCM was formed from municipalities of historic
Brome and
Missisquoi counties. On January 1, 2010, the city of
Bromont moved from
La Haute-Yamaska Regional County Municipality to Brome-Missisquoi.
Subdivisions
There are 21 subdivisions within the RCM:
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Bedford
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Bromont
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Cowansville
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Dunham
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Farnham
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Lac-Brome
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Sutton
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Bolton-Ouest
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Brigham
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East Farnham
East Farnham is a municipality located in the province of Quebec, Canada. It is part of Brome-Missisquoi Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Estrie. The population as of the 2021 Canadian Census was 612.
Demographics
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Frelighsburg
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Notre-Dame-de-Stanbridge
Notre-Dame-de-Stanbridge is a municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec, located within the Brome-Missisquoi Regional County Municipality. The population as of the Canada 2011 Census was 660.
Demographics
Population
Population trend:Stati ...
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Pike River
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Saint-Armand
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Saint-Ignace-de-Stanbridge
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Sainte-Sabine
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Stanbridge East
Stanbridge East is a municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec, located within the Brome-Missisquoi Regional County Municipality. The population as of the Canada 2011 Census was 873.
History
The Township of Stanbridge was first surveyed by ...
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Stanbridge Station
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Bedford
Bedford is a market town in Bedfordshire, England. At the 2011 Census, the population of the Bedford built-up area (including Biddenham and Kempston) was 106,940, making it the second-largest settlement in Bedfordshire, behind Luton, whilst ...
;Villages (2)
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Abercorn
Abercorn ( Gaelic: ''Obar Chùirnidh'', Old English: ''Æbbercurnig'') is a village and civil parish in West Lothian, Scotland. Close to the south coast of the Firth of Forth, the village is around west of South Queensferry. The parish had a ...
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Brome
Demographics
Population
Language
Highways
Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border:
Official Transport Quebec Road Map
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References
External links
Official site
Official MRC site
Tourism website of Brome-Missisquoi
Cultural website of Brome-Missisquoi
The Wine Route of Brome-Missisquoi
Statistics Canada
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Census divisions of Quebec