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4 unusual facts about Eastern Townships


Domaine Pinnacle

Domaine Pinnacle is a family-owned orchard, cidery, and maple-grove located near the village of Frelighsburg in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, Canada.

Eastern Townships

Damian Pettigrew, Paris-based Canadian film director, lives part-time on Lake Memphremagog.

The land there was controlled by three English seigneurs: Colonel Henry Caldwell had purchased what had been the Foucault Seigneurie, which ran along the Richelieu River and a little over the present day frontier; Colonel Gabriel Christie was seigneur of Noyan; and Thomas Dunn was seigneur of Saint-Armand.

Equality Party of Quebec candidates, 1994 Quebec provincial election

Ross K. Ladd is a former civil servant and an anglophone rights activist from Cowansville in Quebec's Eastern Townships.


Canadian Ski Instructors' Alliance

Frédérik Lépine (CSIA 4, CSCF 2), event planner, ski instructor at Ski Bromont, CSIA level 4 course conductor, and provincial representative of the Eastern Townships;

Marie-Claude Tassé (CSIA 3, CSCF 1), event planner, supervisor at Ski Bromont, CSIA level 1 course conductor, provincial representative of the Eastern Townships;

Jean-Fleury Baudrand

From 1843 to 1845 he ministered in the Eastern Townships, traveling around an immense territory whose principal centers were Granby, Stanbridge, Dunham, and Stanstead.

Kaye Vaughan

For a time they lived in Ottawa, Ontario where he played football but in 1967 moved to the village of Knowlton in Quebec's Eastern Townships.

Résistance internationaliste

In 2004, shortly before U.S. President George W. Bush's visit to Canada, a Hydro-Québec electric tower along the Quebec – New England Transmission circuit in the Eastern Townships of Quebec near the Canada-U.S. border was damaged by explosive charges detonated at its base.

Zoe Whittall

Whittall was born in 1976 in the Eastern Townships of Quebec and spent her childhood on a farm on the outskirts of South Durham.


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Derby, Vermont

In the War of 1812, an expeditionary force of Quebec Eastern Townships' volunteers destroyed a barracks built at Derby with no personnel casualties.