Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada

Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
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Sherbrooke is a city at the confluence of the Saint-François River and Magog River in southern Quebec. It spreads over 353.49 sq km (136.48 sq mi) and has a population of 155,000 people (2012 estimate). It is the 6th most populous city in Quebec and the 13th most populous in Canada.

The Sherbrooke area was inhabited by various tribes of First Nations people until the arrival of European settlers in the 18th century. The American Revolutionary War created an influx of Loyalist immigrants who opted to continue living under British administration. They arrived in the Sherbrooke area in 1793, and created a settlement named Hyatt's Mill, after one Gilbert Hyatt from Schenectady, New York.

Hyatt's Mill was renamed Sherbrooke in 1818, in honor of Sir John Sherbrooke, the then Governor General of Canada. Despite its distinctly Anglophone beginnings, Sherbrooke is a predominantly French-speaking city today, having received successive waves of French Canadians relocating to it from the 19th to the 20th centuries.

Cathédrale Saint-Michel, Sherbrooke, Quebec
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Today Sherbrooke is an important university town. It has eight institutions of higher learning and a student populationn of 40,000, the largest concentration of students in Quebec. Until the mid 20th century, Sherbrooke had a thriving manufacturing industry that has since gone into decline, replaced by a knowledge-based economy.

Visiting Sherbrooke

Sherbrooke is located to the east of Montreal. You can get there taking Autoroute 10 heading east, and continuing northeast on the Autoroute 55 as you approach the city.

Places of Interest in Sherbrooke

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