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Ville de Sherbrooke | | Downtown Sherbrooke at night. | | | | Nickname(s): Queen of the Eastern Townships | | Motto: Ne quid nimis | | Location in Quebec, Canada | | Coordinates: 45°24′N 71°53′W / 45.4°N 71.883°W / 45.4; -71.883 | | Country | Canada  | | Province | Quebec  | | Region | Estrie | | Settled | 1793 | Electoral Districts
Federal |
Sherbrooke | | Provincial | Sherbrooke | | Government | | - Mayor | Bernard Sévigny | | - Governing body | Sherbrooke City Council | | - Federal MP(s) | Serge Cardin (BQ) | | - Quebec MNA(s) | Jean Charest (PLQ) | | Area | | - City | 353.46 km2 (136.5 sq mi) | | - Metro | 1,231.86 km2 (475.6 sq mi) | | Highest elevation | 378 m (1,240 ft) | | Lowest elevation | 128 m (420 ft) | | Population (2006)[1][2] | | - City | 147,427 | | - Density | 417.1/km2 (1,080.3/sq mi) | | - Metro | 186,952 | | - Metro Density | 151.8/km2 (393.2/sq mi) | | - Change (2001-06) | ▲6.2% | | - Dwellings | 70,444 | | Time zone | EST (UTC-5) | | - Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) | | Postal code(s) | J1E, J1G, J1H, J1J, J1K,
J1L, J1M, J1N, J1R | | Area code(s) | 819 | Access Routes[3]
 A-10
 A-55
 A-410
 A-610 |
 Route 112
 Route 108
 Route 143
 Route 216
 Route 220
 Route 222 | | Telephone Exchanges | -212 239 340 345-9 432 434 437 446 542 560 -6 569 570 - 4 575 577 | | GNBC Code | EIDHN | | NTS Map | 021E05 | | Website | City of Sherbrooke | Sherbrooke (2006 population: 147,427)[1] is a Canadian city in southern Quebec. Sherbrooke is situated at the confluence of the Saint-François (St. Francis) and Magog rivers in the heart of the Estrie administrative region. 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. Its geographical code is 43. [edit] History Part of a region historically known as the Eastern Townships, Sherbrooke was first settled in 1793 by American Loyalists, including Gilbert Hyatt, a farmer from Schenectady, New York, who built a flour mill in 1802. The village was named "Hyatt's Mills" until 1818 when the village was renamed after Governor General Sir John Sherbrooke at the time of his retirement and return to England. The city grew considerably on January 1, 2002, by the mergers of the cities of Sherbrooke, Ascot, Bromptonville, Deauville, Fleurimont, Lennoxville, Rock Forest, and Saint-Élie-d'Orford. [edit] Economy In 2007 Canadian Business Magazine Magazine ranked Sherbrooke as the top place to do business in Canada.[4] The report cites large increases in commercial building permits, strong exports, a highly educated workforce, and low unemployment rate. Sherbrooke is also the centre of an important agricultural region with many dairy farms. An important business is the manufacturing of ice hockey sticks: more of these are made in Sherbrooke than anywhere else in the world.[citation needed] The city has a concrete truss bridge, the first of its kind in the world.[citation needed] [edit] Education The city is the location of one French language university, the Université de Sherbrooke, and since Lennoxville and Sherbrooke merged in 2002 (see municipal reorganization in Quebec), of an English language University, Bishop's University. U de S is a comprehensive university with schools of medicine and law and extensive graduate programs, while Bishop's is smaller and predominantly undergraduate. There are three CEGEPs in Sherbrooke, two of them French-language, the Cégep de Sherbrooke and the Séminaire de Sherbrooke, and one English-language, Champlain College Lennoxville. [edit] Government The merged city is composed of six boroughs: Brompton, Fleurimont, Lennoxville, Mont-Bellevue, Rock Forest-Saint-Élie-Deauville and Jacques-Cartier. | Borough | Population | City Councillors | | Brompton | 5,956 | 3 | | Fleurimont | 41,276 | 5 | | Jacques-Cartier | 30,229 | 4 | | Lennoxville | 5,195 | 3 | | Mont-Bellevue | 33,377 | 4 | | Rock-Forest–Saint-Élie–Deauville | 29,191 | 4 | [edit] Infrastructure [edit] Transportation Sherbrooke Airport, in Cookshire-Eaton is just east of the city. There are currently no scheduled flights operating out of the airport. Transdev Limocar provides bus service to Montreal via Granby and Magog. Autobus Jordez links Sherbrooke to Drummondville and Trois-Rivières, and also to Victoriaville and Quebec City. Société de transport de Sherbrooke (STS) provides bus service. It operate 17 bus routes, 11 minibus routes, and 5 taxibus routes. The city is located at the eastern terminus of A-10, and directly on the Autoroute Trans-Québécoise (A-55). A-10 provides a direct freeway connection to Montreal and points west, while A-55 connects directly to Trois-Rivières, Shawinigan, and points north, as well as to Interstate 91 to the south (Vermont). A-410 and A-610 are the southern and northern bypass roads, respectively. [edit] Public health and safety  Historical buildings located on Dufferin Street. The suburban Sherbrooke University Hospital ("CHUS" or "Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbooke) has over 5,200 employees, including 550 doctors. It includes a clinical research facility, the Etienne-Lebel Research Center. CHUS operates the Hospital General Hotel-Dieu, located downtown Sherbrooke.[citation needed] [edit] Climate | Weather data for Sherbrooke | | Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year | | Record high °C (°F) | 12.8
(55) | 17.1
(63) | 23
(73) | 30
(86) | 31.6
(89) | 32.6
(91) | 33.7
(93) | 32.8
(91) | 31.1
(88) | 27.8
(82) | 22.2
(72) | 17.8
(64) | | Average high °C (°F) | -5.7
(22) | -3.9
(25) | 2.1
(36) | 9.9
(50) | 18.1
(65) | 22.1
(72) | 24.7
(76) | 23.3
(74) | 18.3
(65) | 11.9
(53) | 4.4
(40) | -2.7
(27) | 10.2
(50) | | Average low °C (°F) | -18
(-0) | -16.7
(2) | -9.9
(14) | -1.7
(29) | 4
(39) | 8.8
(48) | 11.4
(53) | 10.4
(51) | 5.6
(42) | 0.3
(33) | -4.7
(24) | -13.5
(8) | -2
(28) | | Record low °C (°F) | -38.3
(-37) | -40
(-40) | -33.4
(-28) | -21.1
(-6) | -6.7
(20) | -2.2
(28) | 0.5
(33) | -1.7
(29) | -7.4
(19) | -13.3
(8) | -25.5
(-14) | -37.8
(-36) | | Precipitation mm (inches) | 78.8
(3.1) | 61.7
(2.43) | 78.8
(3.1) | 79.8
(3.14) | 96.8
(3.81) | 110.8
(4.36) | 117.8
(4.64) | 130
(5.12) | 104.7
(4.12) | 92.8
(3.65) | 98.5
(3.88) | 93.8
(3.69) | 1,144.1
(45.04) | | Source: Environment Canada[5] 2009-07-24 | [edit] Demographics [edit] City of Sherbrooke [edit] Language from Canada 2006 Census | Language | Population | Percentage (%) | | French only | 129,970 | 89.89% | | English only | 5,735 | 3.97% | | Both English and French | 640 | 0.44% | | Other languages | 8,245 | 5.7% | [edit] Ethnic origin The information regarding ethnicities above is from the 2001 Canadian Census. The percentages add to more than 100% because of dual responses (e.g. "French Canadian" generates an entry in both the category "French" and the category "Canadian".) Groups with greater than 1,500 responses are included. [edit] Age structure - 0–14 years: 17.8%
- 15–64 years: 69.0%
- 65 years and over: 13.2%
[edit] Census Metropolitan Area The Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) includes the cities of Sherbrooke, Magog and Waterville, the Parish of Saint-Denis-de-Brompton; the municipalities of Compton, Stoke, and Ascot Corner, Hatley county and the village of North Hatley.
The population in 2006 was 186,952. Indigenous peoples comprised just over 0.6% of the population.[6]  Plymouth-Trinity United Church French was mother tongue to 90.6% of residents (counting both single and multiple responses). The next most common mother tongues were English at 5.6%, Spanish at 1.3%, Arabic and Serbo-Croatian languages at 0.6% each, Persian at 0.4%, Niger-Congo languages at 0.3%, and Chinese and German at 0.2% each. (Percentages may total more than 100% owing to rounding and multiple responses).[7][8] About 87% of the population identified as Roman Catholic in 2001 while 6% said they had no religious affiliation. Among smaller denominations Statistics Canada counted 1.2% Anglicans, 0.8% Muslims, 0.8% United Church, 0.7% Baptists, 0.5% Eastern Orthodox and 0.3% Jehovah’s Witnesses. Pentecostals and Methodists accounted for 0.2% each, while Buddhists, Presbyterians, Seventh-day Adventists, Mormons and Plymouth Brethren accounted for 0.1% each.[9] The area is home to about four thousand recent immigrants (arriving between 2001 and 2006) who now comprise about 2% of the total population. Approximately 13% have emigrated from Colombia, 12% from France, 7% from Afghanistan, 6% from each of Morocco and Argentina, 5% from each of Algeria and Congo, 4% from China, and 3% from each of Burundi, Tunisia, and Tanzania. About 2% of these recent immigrants were born in the United States while about 2% were born in Bosnia and Herzegovina.[10]  Sherbrooke University Hospital Centre (properly, the Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Sherbrooke, or CHUS) in the Fleurimont borough  Mount Bellevue and the Sherbrooke skyline [edit] Notable Sherbrooke residents - Pierre-Marc Bouchard, Éric Bélanger and David Perron, hockey players for the Minnesota Wild and the St. Louis Blues (hockey)
- Serge Cardin, Bloc Québécois MP for Sherbrooke
- Jean Charest, federal cabinet minister, Deputy Prime Minister and Progressive Conservative Party leader; Quebec Liberal Party leader and Premier of Quebec
- Jim Corcoran, singer-songwriter
- Christian Dubé, ice hockey player
- Northrop Frye, literary critic
- Garou, singer
- Yousuf Karsh, photographer
- Harry Saltzman, film producer
- Yanic Perreault, former NHL ice hockey player
- Mathieu Dandenault, NHL ice hockey player was born here
Joseph-Armand Bombardier hailed from the Sherbrooke area. John Bassett and Conrad Black started their careers as media barons as owner and co-owner, respectively, of the Sherbrooke Record. [edit] Bordering counties [edit] See also [edit] References - ^ a b "Sherbrooke Quebec (Ville)". Statistics Canada. http://www12.statcan.ca/census-recensement/2006/dp-pd/prof/92-591/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=CSD&Code1=2443027&Geo2=PR&Code2=24&Data=Count&SearchText=sherbrooke&SearchType=Begins&SearchPR=01&B1=All&Custom=. Retrieved April 8, 2009.
- ^ "Sherbrooke Quebec (Census metropolitan area)". Statistics Canada. http://www12.statcan.ca/census-recensement/2006/dp-pd/prof/92-591/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=CMA&Code1=433__&Geo2=PR&Code2=24&Data=Count&SearchText=sherbrooke&SearchType=Begins&SearchPR=01&B1=All&Custom=. Retrieved April 8, 2009.
- ^ Official Transport Quebec Road Map
- ^ "Best places to do business in Canada". Canadian Business. September 10, 2007. http://www.canadianbusiness.com/rankings/bestcitiesforbusiness/list.jsp?pageID=list&year=2007. Retrieved February 13, 2008.
- ^ Environment Canada Climate Normals 1971–2000, accessed 24 July 2009
- ^ "Sherbrooke". Aboriginal Identity (8), Sex (3) and Age Groups (12) for the Population of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2006 Census - 20% Sample Data. Statistics Canada. 2008-01-15. http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/data/topics/RetrieveProductTable.cfm?ALEVEL=3&APATH=3&CATNO=&DETAIL=0&DIM=&DS=99&FL=0&FREE=0&GAL=0&GC=99&GK=NA&GRP=1&IPS=&METH=0&ORDER=1&PID=89122&PTYPE=88971&RL=0&S=1&ShowAll=No&StartRow=1&SUB=0&Temporal=2006&Theme=73&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF=&GID=837965. Retrieved 2008-02-06.
- ^ "Sherbrooke". Detailed Mother Tongue (148), Single and Multiple Language Responses (3) and Sex (3) for the Population of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2006 Census - 20% Sample Data. Statistics Canada. 2007-11-20. http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/data/topics/RetrieveProductTable.cfm?ALEVEL=3&APATH=3&CATNO=&DETAIL=0&DIM=&DS=99&FL=0&FREE=0&GAL=0&GC=99&GK=NA&GRP=1&IPS=&METH=0&ORDER=1&PID=89186&PTYPE=88971&RL=0&S=1&ShowAll=No&StartRow=1&SUB=701&Temporal=2006&Theme=70&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF=&GID=837965. Retrieved 2008-02-06.
- ^ "Sherbrooke". Detailed Mother Tongue (186), Knowledge of Official Languages (5), Age Groups (17A) and Sex (3) for the Population of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2001 and 2006 Censuses - 20% Sample Data. Statistics Canada. 2007-11-20. http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/data/topics/RetrieveProductTable.cfm?ALEVEL=3&APATH=3&CATNO=&DETAIL=0&DIM=&DS=99&FL=0&FREE=0&GAL=0&GC=99&GK=NA&GRP=1&IPS=&METH=0&ORDER=1&PID=89201&PTYPE=88971&RL=0&S=1&ShowAll=No&StartRow=1&SUB=701&Temporal=2006&Theme=70&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF=&GID=837965. Retrieved 2008-02-06.
- ^ "Sherbrooke". Religion (95A), Age Groups (7A) and Sex (3) for Population, for Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 1991 and 2001 Censuses - 20% Sample Data. Statistics Canada. 2007-03-01. http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census01/products/standard/themes/RetrieveProductTable.cfm?Temporal=2001&PID=55822&APATH=3&METH=1&PTYPE=55440&THEME=56&FOCUS=0&AID=0&PLACENAME=0&PROVINCE=0&SEARCH=0&GC=99&GK=NA&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF=&FL=0&RL=0&FREE=0&GID=431552. Retrieved 2008-02-06.
- ^ "Sherbrooke". Immigrant Status and Period of Immigration (8) and Place of Birth (261) for the Immigrants and Non-permanent Residents of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2006 Census - 20% Sample Data. Statistics Canada. 2007-12-04. http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census06/data/topics/RetrieveProductTable.cfm?ALEVEL=3&APATH=3&CATNO=&DETAIL=0&DIM=&DS=99&FL=0&FREE=0&GAL=0&GC=99&GK=NA&GRP=1&IPS=&METH=0&ORDER=1&PID=89424&PTYPE=88971&RL=0&S=1&ShowAll=No&StartRow=1&SUB=0&Temporal=2006&Theme=72&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF=&GID=837965. Retrieved 2008-02-06.
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