Memphrémagog 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
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.
History
After the signing of the
Treaty of Paris Treaty of Paris may refer to one of many treaties signed in Paris, France:
Treaties
1200s and 1300s
* Treaty of Paris (1229), which ended the Albigensian Crusade
* Treaty of Paris (1259), between Henry III of England and Louis IX of France
* Trea ...
on September 3, 1783, the American Revolutionary War ended. the state of
Vermont
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was established in 1791. The border of
Lower Canada
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was then defined at approximately
45 degrees north latitude. The territory immediately adjacent to it became part of
Quebec
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in 1848.
Subdivisions
There are 17 subdivisions within the RCM:
;Cities & Towns (2)
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Magog
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Stanstead
;Municipalities (8)
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Austin
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Bolton-Est
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Eastman
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Hatley
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Ogden
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Saint-Benoît-du-Lac
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Saint-Étienne-de-Bolton
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Sainte-Catherine-de-Hatley
Sainte-Catherine-de-Hatley is a municipality in the Memphrémagog Regional County Municipality in the Eastern Townships region of Quebec, Canada.
Located along Quebec Route 108 on Little Lake Magog, it is the home of the "Marais" birdwatching s ...
;Townships (4)
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Hatley
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Orford
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Potton
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Stanstead
;Villages (3)
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Ayer's Cliff
Ayer's Cliff ( 2021 population 1,180) is a village municipality in the Memphrémagog Regional County Municipality in the Estrie region of Quebec. It is located just north of the Canada–United States border, on Lake Massawippi, near the mout ...
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North Hatley
North Hatley is a village of 675 people (2021 Census), located at the north end of Lake Massawippi. It is part of the Memphrémagog Regional County Municipality in the Eastern Townships region of Quebec, Canada, also known as Estrie or Cantons de ...
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Stukely-Sud
Demographics
Population
Language
Transportation
Access Routes
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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See also
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* Lake Memphremagog
Lake Memphremagog (; french: Lac Memphrémagog) is a fresh water glacial lake located between Newport, Vermont, United States and Magog, Quebec, Canada. The lake spans both Quebec and Vermont, but is mostly in Quebec. Most of the watershed that ...
References
External links
Official tourist site for Memphrémagog
* Dix, John Ross
A hand book for Lake Memphremagog, with route list
(tourist handbook from 1859). Boston : Printed by Evans & Co., 1859. Accessed July 18, 2012, in PDF format.
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Magog, Quebec