Cookshire-Eaton, Quebec
Encyclopedia
Cookshire-Eaton is a ville
in the Estrie
region in Quebec
. It was formed in 2002 by the amalgamation of the villages of Cookshire and Sawyerville, and the township of Eaton. It is the seat of Le Haut-Saint-François Regional County Municipality
.
The community had a population of 5,004 in the Canada 2006 Census
.
Ville
Ville is the modern French word of Latin origin now meaning city or town, but the first meaning in the middle-ages was farm and then village...
in the Estrie
Estrie
The Estrie is an administrative region of Quebec that overlaps mostly the Eastern Townships. Estrie, a French neologism, was coined as a derivative of est, "east."...
region in Quebec
Quebec
Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....
. It was formed in 2002 by the amalgamation of the villages of Cookshire and Sawyerville, and the township of Eaton. It is the seat of Le Haut-Saint-François Regional County Municipality
Le Haut-Saint-François Regional County Municipality, Quebec
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The community had a population of 5,004 in the Canada 2006 Census
Canada 2006 Census
The Canada 2006 Census was a detailed enumeration of the Canadian population. Census day was May 16, 2006. The next census following will be the 2011 Census. Canada's total population enumerated by the 2006 census was 31,612,897...
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