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Sherbrooke Sherbrooke ![]() Sherbrooke (/ˈʃɜːrbrʊk/; Quebec ![]() Quebec French pronunciation [ʃɛʁbʁʊk]) is a city in southern Quebec, Canada. Sherbrooke ![]() Sherbrooke is situated at the confluence of the Saint-François (St. Francis) and Magog rivers in the heart of the Estrie ![]() Estrie administrative region. Sherbrooke ![]() Sherbrooke is also the name of a territory equivalent to a regional county municipality (TE) and census division (CD) of Quebec, coextensive with the city of Sherbrooke. With 161,323 residents at the 2016 census,[3] Sherbrooke ![]() Sherbrooke was the sixth largest city in the province of Quebec ![]() Quebec and the thirtieth largest in Canada [...More...] | "Sherbrooke" on: Wikipedia Yahoo Parouse |
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Telephone Exchange A telephone exchange is a telecommunications system used in the public switched telephone network or in large enterprises. An exchange consists of electronic components and in older systems also human operators that interconnect (switch) telephone subscriber lines or virtual circuits of digital systems to establish telephone calls between subscribers. In historical perspective, telecommunication terms have been used with different semantics over time. The term telephone exchange is often used synonymously with central office (CO), a Bell System ![]() Bell System term. Often, a central office is defined as a building used to house the inside plant equipment of potentially several telephone exchanges, each serving a certain geographical area. Such an area has also been referred to as the exchange [...More...] | "Telephone Exchange" on: Wikipedia Yahoo Parouse |
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City (Quebec) A city is a large human settlement.[4][5] Cities generally have extensive systems for housing, transportation, sanitation, utilities, land use, and communication. Their density facilitates interaction between people, government organizations and businesses, sometimes benefiting different parties in the process. Historically, city-dwellers have been a small proportion of humanity overall, but following two centuries of unprecedented and rapid urbanization, roughly half of the world population now lives in cities, which has had profound consequences for global sustainability.[6] Present-day cities usually form the core of larger metropolitan areas and urban areas—creating numerous commuters traveling towards city centers for employment, entertainment, and edification [...More...] | "City (Quebec)" on: Wikipedia Yahoo Parouse |
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Quebec Autoroute 55 Autoroute may refer to the following:Controlled-access highway, particularly in French-speaking countries Routing (electronic design automation), when routes to wires in a design are automatically assigned Microsoft AutoRoute, European name for Microsoft Streets & Trips, which helps plan trips by automobile Autoroute Info, radio station providing news, music, weather and traffic updates for central-eastern France in 107.7 FM, broadcast since 1991See also[edit]Autoroutes of France Autoroutes of Quebec Autoroutes of MoroccoThis disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Autoroute. If an internal link [...More...] | "Quebec Autoroute 55" on: Wikipedia Yahoo Parouse |
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Telephone Numbering Plan A telephone numbering plan is a type of numbering scheme used in telecommunication to assign telephone numbers to subscriber telephones or other telephony endpoints.[1] Telephone numbers are the addresses of participants in a telephone network, reachable by a system of destination code routing. Telephone numbering plans are defined in each of administrative regions of the public switched telephone network (PSTN) and they are also present in private telephone networks. For public number systems, geographic location plays a role in the sequence of numbers assigned to each telephone subscriber. Numbering plans may follow a variety of design strategies which have often arisen from the historical evolution of individual telephone networks and local requirements. A broad division is commonly recognized, distinguishing open numbering plans and closed numbering plans[discuss] [...More...] | "Telephone Numbering Plan" on: Wikipedia Yahoo Parouse |
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Canadian Postal Code A Canadian postal code is a six-character string that forms part of a postal address in Canada.[1] Like British, Irish and Dutch postcodes, Canada's postal codes are alphanumeric. They are in the format A1A 1A1, where A is a letter and 1 is a digit, with a space separating the third and fourth characters. As of September 2014, there were 855,815 postal codes[2] using Forward Sortation Areas from A0A in Newfoundland to Y1A in Yukon. Canada ![]() Canada Post provides a free postal code look-up tool on its website,[3] via its mobile application,[4] and sells hard-copy directories and CD-ROMs [...More...] | "Canadian Postal Code" on: Wikipedia Yahoo Parouse |
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UTC−4 UTC−04:00 is a time offset that subtracts 4 hours from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). It is observed in the Eastern Time Zone Eastern Time Zone (e.g., Canada ![]() Canada and the United States) during the warm months of daylight saving time, as Eastern Daylight Time. The Atlantic Time Zone Atlantic Time Zone observes it during standard time (cold months) [...More...] | "UTC−4" on: Wikipedia Yahoo Parouse |
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Eastern Daylight Time The Eastern Time Zone Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing 17 U.S. states in the eastern part of the contiguous United States, parts of eastern Canada, the state of Quintana Roo ![]() Quintana Roo in Mexico, Panama ![]() Panama in Central America, and the Caribbean Islands. Places that use Eastern Standard Time (EST) when observing standard time (autumn/winter) are 5 hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC−05:00). Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), when observing daylight saving time DST (spring/summer) is 4 hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC−04:00). In the northern parts of the time zone, on the second Sunday in March, at 2:00 a.m. EST, clocks are advanced to 3:00 a.m. EDT leaving a one-hour "gap". On the first Sunday in November, at 2:00 a.m. EDT, clocks are moved back to 1:00 a.m. EST, thus "duplicating" one hour [...More...] | "Eastern Daylight Time" on: Wikipedia Yahoo Parouse |
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Daylight Saving Time Daylight saving time ![]() Daylight saving time (abbreviated DST), sometimes referred to as daylight savings time in US, Canadian and Australian speech,[1][2] and known as British Summer Time ![]() British Summer Time (BST) in the UK and just summer time in some countries, is the practice of advancing clocks during summer months so that evening daylight lasts longer, while sacrificing normal sunrise times. Typically, regions that use daylight saving time adjust clocks forward one hour close to the start of spring and adjust them backward in the autumn to standard time.[3] George Hudson proposed the idea of daylight saving in 1895.[4] The German Empire ![]() German Empire and Austria-Hungary ![]() Austria-Hungary organized the first nationwide implementation, starting on April 30, 1916 [...More...] | "Daylight Saving Time" on: Wikipedia Yahoo Parouse |
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UTC−5 UTC−05:00 is a time offset that subtracts five hours from Coordinated Universal Time ![]() Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). In North America, it is observed in the Eastern Time Zone Eastern Time Zone during standard time, and in the Central Time Zone during the other eight months (see Daylight saving time) [...More...] | "UTC−5" on: Wikipedia Yahoo Parouse |
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Eastern Time Zone The Eastern Time Zone Eastern Time Zone (ET) is a time zone encompassing 17 U.S. states in the eastern part of the contiguous United States, parts of eastern Canada, the state of Quintana Roo ![]() Quintana Roo in Mexico, Panama ![]() Panama in Central America, and the Caribbean Islands. Places that use Eastern Standard Time (EST) when observing standard time (autumn/winter) are 5 hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC−05:00). Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), when observing daylight saving time DST (spring/summer) is 4 hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC−04:00). In the northern parts of the time zone, on the second Sunday in March, at 2:00 a.m. EST, clocks are advanced to 3:00 a.m. EDT leaving a one-hour "gap". On the first Sunday in November, at 2:00 a.m. EDT, clocks are moved back to 1:00 a.m. EST, thus "duplicating" one hour [...More...] | "Eastern Time Zone" on: Wikipedia Yahoo Parouse |
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Time Zone A time zone is a region of the globe that observes a uniform standard time for legal, commercial, and social purposes. Time ![]() Time zones tend to follow the boundaries of countries and their subdivisions because it is convenient for areas in close commercial or other communication to keep the same time. Most of the time zones on land are offset from Coordinated Universal Time ![]() Time (UTC) by a whole number of hours ( UTC−12 ![]() UTC−12 to UTC+14), but a few zones are offset by 30 or 45 minutes (e.g. Newfoundland Standard Time is UTC−03:30, Nepal ![]() Nepal Standard Time ![]() Time is UTC+05:45, and Indian Standard Time ![]() Time is UTC+05:30). Some higher latitude and temperate zone countries use daylight saving time for part of the year, typically by adjusting local clock time by an hour [...More...] | "Time Zone" on: Wikipedia Yahoo Parouse |
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Metropolitan Area A metropolitan area, sometimes referred to as a metro area or commuter belt, is a region consisting of a densely populated urban core and its less-populated surrounding territories, sharing industry, infrastructure, and housing.[1] A metro area usually comprises multiple jurisdictions and municipalities: neighborhoods, townships, boroughs, cities, towns, exurbs, suburbs, counties, districts, states, and even nations like the eurodistricts [...More...] | "Metropolitan Area" on: Wikipedia Yahoo Parouse |
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Urban Area An urban area is a human settlement with high population density and infrastructure of built environment. Urban areas are created through urbanization and are categorized by urban morphology as cities, towns, conurbations or suburbs. In urbanism, the term contrasts to rural areas such as villages and hamlets and in urban sociology or urban anthropology it contrasts with natural environment [...More...] | "Urban Area" on: Wikipedia Yahoo Parouse |
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Canada 2016 Census The Canada ![]() Canada 2016 Census is the most recent detailed enumeration of the Canadian residents, which counted a population of 35,151,728, a 7000500000000000000♠5% change from its 2011 population of 33,476,688. The census, conducted by Statistics Canada, was Canada's seventh quinquennial census.[N 1] The official census day was May 10, 2016 [...More...] | "Canada 2016 Census" on: Wikipedia Yahoo Parouse |
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1 E+8 M² M2 or m2 may refer to: Square metre ![]() Square metre (m2), an SI measure of area M squared (M2), a measure of laser beam quality m2 (artist), a project of German electronic musician and DJ Mathis Mootz M2 (album), by Marcus MillerSee also[edit]M2 (other)This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title formed as a letter-number combination. If an internal [...More...] | "1 E+8 M²" on: Wikipedia Yahoo Parouse |