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4 unusual facts about Stanstead


Edward Everett Rose

Rose was born in Stanstead, Quebec, and graduated from Chauncy Hall School in Boston in 1881, and studied for two years at Harvard University.

Henrietta Knight, Lady Luxborough

By Lord Luxborough, she had a son, Henry, who married, 21 June 1750, a daughter of Thomas Heath of Stanstead, Essex, and died without issue in the lifetime of his father.

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.

Richard Barwell

In 1781 he bought the estate of Stanstead in Sussex from the trustees of the Earl of Halifax for 102,500 and subsequently added to his possessions in that county.


Alvin Head Moore

Born in Hatley, Stanstead County, Lower Canada, the son of American born United Empire Loyalists, Moore was president of the Waterloo and Magog Railway.

Moses French Colby

He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada for Stanstead in an 1837 by-election and served until March 27, 1838, when the province was put under the rule of a special council after the Lower Canada Rebellion.

Quebec Route 143

Its northern terminus is in Saint-François-du-Lac, at the junction of Route 132, and the southern terminus is in Stanstead at the border with Vermont where the road continues past the Derby Line-Stanstead Border Crossing as U.S. Route 5 through Derby Line to New Haven, Connecticut.

Quebec Route 247

Part of this highway straddles the US-Canadian border along Canusa Street, separating Beebe Plain, Vermont from Beebe Plain, Quebec.


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