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3 unusual facts about Sherbrooke


Norman Arthur Wakefield

Wakefield was killed at the age of 53 in a fall from a tree, while lopping branches, in his garden at his home in Sherbrooke, Victoria.

Sherbrooke

Hyatt built the first dam on the Magog River, in collaboration with another loyalist named Jonathan Ball, who had bought land on the north bank of the river.

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.


CHLT

CHLT-DT, a television station (channel 7) licensed to serve Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada

CKOY-FM, a radio station (107.7 FM) licensed to serve Sherbrooke, which formerly held the call sign CHLT-FM from 2007 to 2011; originally on AM as CHLT from 1937 to 2007

CITE-FM-1, a radio station (102.7 FM) licensed to serve Sherbrooke, which formerly held the call sign CHLT-FM beginning in the 1960s

CKSH

CKSH-DT, a television station (channel 9) licensed to serve Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada

Epperstone

In 1853 Thomas Holdsworth was principal owner and Lord of the manor, and Thomas Moore, John Towle, John Litchfield, John Thomas, William Barnard, Edward Harding and Henry Sherbrooke Esquires also held estates.

He and I

Lui et moi was originally published by Beauchesne et se Fils, 117 rue de Rennes, Paris (Imprimatur: Msgr. Jean-Marie Fortier, Archbishop Sherbrooke, November 14, 1969).

Heindl

:* William "Bill" Wayne Heindl, Jr. (1946, Sherbrooke, Quebec - 1992), a Canadian professional ice hockey left winger; Son of the Sr.

Henry Machin

Henry Turner Machin I.S.O. (Born 26 November 1832 at Newcastle-under-Lyme, England. Died 25 April 1918 at Sherbrooke, Quebec)

Huntingdon, Quebec

In Huntingdon, the business expanded to five interconnected operations around the town and the decades of the 1950s through to the early part of the 1970s saw the town prosper and the company acquire subsidiaries in Sherbrooke, Quebec and in Castlecomer, Kilkenny, Ireland.

Île Sans Fil

More than 30 community wireless networks outside Montreal are using the WifiDog solution: New York, London, Berlin, Vancouver, Toronto, Quebec City, Sherbrooke, Paris, Brest and Marseille.

John Coape Sherbrooke

The financing of Dalhousie college, now Dalhousie University in Halifax had largely come from custom duties collected by Sir John Coape Sherbrooke, then lieutenant-governor of Nova Scotia during the occupation of Castine, Maine during the War of 1812, investing GBP£7000 as the initial endowment and GBP£3000 reserved for the actual construction of the college.

Marcel Côté

In the 1973 Quebec general election, Côté was a candidate for Union Nationale in the riding of Sherbrooke, but lost to Jean-Paul Pépin of the Quebec Liberal Party.

Mouvement national des Québécoises et des Québécois

In 1947, nine of Quebec's SSJB (those of Sherbrooke, Trois-Rivières, Quebec City, Rimouski, Saint-Hyacinthe, Nicolet, Hull, Saint-Jean and Chicoutimi), formed the Fédération des Sociétés Saint-Jean-Baptiste du Québec during a congress in Sherbrooke.

Paul Desruisseaux

He was the owner of La Tribune, a daily newspaper in Sherbrooke, CHLT radio station, CKTS radio station, and television station CHLT-TV.

Quebec Major Junior Hockey League

Sherbrooke Castors moved to Maine, becoming the Lewiston Maineiacs; Montreal Rocket moved to Charlottetown and took the Prince Edward Island name, Hull Olympiques become Gatineau Olympiques.

Sherbrooke Forest

Sherbrooke Forest is famous for its population of Superb Lyrebirds and was an early, and still important, site for the study and conservation of this species.

Sherbrooke Forest lies at an altitude of 300 m within the Dandenong Ranges, 40 km east of Melbourne, in Victoria, Australia, close to the suburb of Belgrave.


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