Lake Brompton (french: Lac Brompton) is a
lake
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located in the watershed of the St-François River, 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
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. It's watershed covers an area of approximately 140 km
2. The lake has a length of just over 12 km, varies in width from about ½ to 2 km. Its deepest place is 42 meters, but the average depth is 11 meters.
It is located partially in the Regional County Municipalities of
Le Val-Saint-François and
Memphrémagog.
When the
Iroquois
The Iroquois ( or ), officially the Haudenosaunee ( meaning "people of the longhouse"), are an Iroquoian-speaking confederacy of First Nations peoples in northeast North America/ Turtle Island. They were known during the colonial years to ...
forced them from the Lake Ontario region, the
Wendat migrated to Quebec. While many ended up in the Quebec City region, some settled at the source of the current Salmon River, near Lake Brompton then known as Antoke Outunwitti.
Lake Brompton is said to be home to the Lake Brompton Monster, sometimes nicknamed
Champ's younger brother. The
lake monster
A lake monster is a lake-dwelling entity in folklore. The most famous example is the Loch Ness Monster. Depictions of lake monsters are often similar to those of sea monsters.
In the ''Motif-Index of Folk-Literature'', entities classified as "lak ...
is said to be long, something resembling a mustache and an "evil-looking" head.
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Lakes of Estrie
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