Brome-Missisquoi () is a

regional county municipality The term regional county municipality or RCM (, , 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 regional municipality. Regional county municipalit ...

in the

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region of

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, Canada. It lies in the

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area. The seat is

Cowansville Cowansville is a town in south-central Quebec, Canada, located on Lac Davignon north of the U.S. border. It is the seat of Brome-Missisquoi, a regional county municipality. The population as of the Canada 2021 Census was 15,234. In recent year ...

. 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 La Haute-Yamaska (, ) is a regional county municipality in the Estrie region of Quebec, Canada. Its seat is Granby. It is named for its position at the height of the Yamaska River, which cuts through its southern part. It rises at Brome Lake lo ...

to Brome-Missisquoi.

Subdivisions

There are 21 subdivisions within the RCM: ;Cities & towns (7) *

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* Bromont *

* Dunham *

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* Lac-Brome *

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;Villages (2) *

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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
/ref> * Autoroutes ** ** (planned) * Principal highways ** ** ** * Secondary highways ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** * External routes ** ** **

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

{{Authority control Census divisions of Quebec