Sherbrooke

Sherbrooke, Quebec
	Sherbrooke, Quebec
	— City —
	Ville de Sherbrooke
	Sherbrooke skyline and Mount Orford.
; Flag	; Seal
	; Coat of arms
	Nickname(s): Queen of the Eastern Townships
	Motto: Ne quid nimis
	Coordinates: 45°24′N 71°53′W / 45.4°N 71.883°W
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Estrie
Settled	1793
Electoral Districts; Federal	; Sherbrooke
Provincial	Sherbrooke
	Government
- Mayor	Jean Perrault
- Governing body	Sherbrooke City Council
- Federal MP(s)	Serge Cardin (BQ)
- Quebec MNA(s)	Jean Charest (PLQ)
	Area
- City	353.46 km2 (136.5 sq mi)
- Metro	1,231.86 km2 (475.6 sq mi)
Highest elevation	378 m (1,240 ft)
Lowest elevation	128 m (420 ft)
	Population (2006)
- City	147,427
- Density	417.1/km2 (1,080.3/sq mi)
- Metro	186,952
- Metro Density	151.8/km2 (393.2/sq mi)
- Change (2001-06)	▲6.2%
- Dwellings	70,444
Time zone	EST (UTC-5)
- Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC-4)
Postal code(s)	J1E, J1G, J1H, J1J, J1K,; J1L, J1M, J1N, J1R
Area code(s)	819
Access Routes; A-10; A-55; A-410; A-610	; Route 112; Route 108; Route 143; Route 216; Route 220; Route 222
Telephone Exchanges	-212 239 340 345-9 432 434 437 446 542 560 -6 569 570 - 4 575 577
GNBC Code	EIDHN
NTS Map	021E05
Website	City of Sherbrooke

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This article is about the city in Quebec, Canada. For other uses, see Sherbrooke (disambiguation).

Sherbrooke (2006 population: 147,427^[1]) is a city in southeastern Quebec, Canada, the only major city in the Eastern Townships (Estrie). Although originally settled in the early 19th century by anglophones, it is today primarily a francophone city.

[edit] History

Sherbrooke in 1889.

The area of Sherbrooke was first settled in 1793 by American Loyalists, including Gilbert Hyatt, a farmer from Schenectady, New York, who built a flour mill in 1802. The village was named "Hyatt's Mills" until 1818 when the village was renamed after Governor General Sir John Sherbrooke at the time of his retirement and return to England.

The city grew considerably on January 1, 2002, by the mergers of the cities of Sherbrooke, Ascot, Bromptonville, Deauville, Fleurimont, Lennoxville, Rock Forest, and Saint-Élie-d'Orford.

[edit] Geography

Historical buildings located on Dufferin Street.

Located at the confluence of the Saint-François (St. Francis) and Magog rivers in the heart of the Eastern Townships and the Estrie administrative region. Sherbrooke is also the name of a territory equivalent to a regional county municipality (TE) and census division (CD) of Quebec, coextensive with the city of Sherbrooke. Its geographical code is 43.

[edit] Economy

In 2007 Canadian Business Magazine Magazine ranked Sherbrooke as the top place to do business in Canada.^[4] The report cites large increases in commercial building permits, strong exports, a highly educated workforce, and low unemployment rate. Another benefit is the daily flight available to and from Toronto from Sherbrooke Airport.^[5]^[6]

Sherbrooke is also the centre of an important agricultural region with many dairy farms. An important business is the manufacturing of ice hockey sticks: more of these are made in Sherbrooke than anywhere else in the world.^{[citation needed]} The city has a concrete truss bridge, the first of its kind in the world.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Public health and safety

The suburban Sherbrooke University Hospital ("CHUS" or "Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbooke) has over 5,200 employees, including 550 doctors. It includes a clinical research facility, the Etienne-Lebel Research Center. CHUS operates the Hospital General Hotel-Dieu, located downtown Sherbrooke.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Education

The city is the location of one French language university, the Université de Sherbrooke, and since Lennoxville and Sherbrooke merged in 2002 (see municipal reorganization in Quebec), of an English language University, Bishop's University. U de S is a comprehensive university with schools of medicine and law and extensive graduate programs, while Bishop's is smaller and predominantly undergraduate. There are three CEGEPs in Sherbrooke, two of them French-language, the Cégep de Sherbrooke and the Séminaire de Sherbrooke, and one English-language, Champlain Regional College.

[edit] Administration

Island Street

The merged city is composed of six boroughs: Brompton, Fleurimont, Lennoxville, Mont-Bellevue, Rock Forest-Saint-Élie-Deauville and Jacques-Cartier.

Borough	Population	City Councillors
Brompton	5,956	3
Fleurimont	41,276	5
Jacques-Cartier	30,229	4
Lennoxville	5,195	3
Mont-Bellevue	33,377	4
Rock-Forest–Saint-Élie–Deauville	29,191	4

[edit] Transportation

Sherbrooke is served by an airport in Cookshire, just east of the city. Currently, flights operate on weekdays to Toronto.

Transdev Limocar provides bus service to Montreal via Granby and Magog. Autobus Jordez links Sherbrooke to Drummondville and Trois-Rivières, and also to Quebec City.

Société de transport de Sherbrooke (STS) provides bus service. It operate 17 bus routes, 11 minibus routes, and 5 taxibus routes.

The city is located at the western terminus of A-10, and directly on the Autoroute Trans-Quebecois (A-55). A-10 provides a direct freeway connection to Montreal and points west, while A-55 connects directly to Trois-Rivières, Shawinigan, and points north, as well as to Interstate 91 to the south (Vermont). A-410 and A-610 are the southern and northern bypass roads, respectively.

[edit] Demographics

[edit] City of Sherbrooke

Cathédrale Saint-Michel.

[edit] Language

from Canada 2006 Census

Language	Population	Percentage (%)
French only	129,970	89.89%
English only	5,735	3.97%
Both English and French	640	0.44%
Other languages	8,245	5.7%

[edit] Ethnic origin

Ethnic origin	Population	Percent
Canadian	117,305
French	50,540	33.61%
Irish	6,560	4.36%
English	5,065	3.37%
Scottish	3,070	2.04%
Québécois	2,415	1.61%
North American Indian	1,805	1.20%
Italian	1,505	1.00%

The information regarding ethnicities above is from the 2001 Canadian Census. The percentages add to more than 100% because of dual responses (e.g. "French Canadian" generates an entry in both the category "French" and the category "Canadian".) Groups with greater than 1,500 responses are included.

[edit] Age structure

0–14 years: 17.8%
15–64 years: 69.0%
65 years and over: 13.2%

[edit] Census Metropolitan Area

The Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) includes the cities of Sherbrooke, Magog and Waterville, the Parish of Saint-Denis-de-Brompton; the municipalities of Compton, Stoke, and Ascot Corner, Hatley county and the village of North Hatley.
The population in 2006 was 186,952. Indigenous peoples comprised just over 0.6% of the population.^[7]

Plymouth-Trinity United Church

French was mother tongue to 90.6% of residents (counting both single and multiple responses). 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. (Percentages may total more than 100% owing to rounding and multiple responses).^[8]^[9]

About 87% of the population identified as Roman Catholic in 2001 while 6% said they had no religious affiliation. Among smaller denominations Statistics Canada counted 1.2% Anglicans, 0.8% Muslims, 0.8% United Church, 0.7% Baptists, 0.5% Eastern Orthodox and 0.3% Jehovah’s Witnesses. Pentecostals and Methodists accounted for 0.2% each, while Buddhists, Presbyterians, Seventh-day Adventists, Mormons and Plymouth Brethren accounted for 0.1% each.^[10]

The area is home to about four thousand recent immigrants (arriving between 2001 and 2006) who now comprise about 2% of the total population. Approximately 13% have emigrated from Colombia, 12% from France, 7% from Afghanistan, 6% from each of Morocco and Argentina, 5% from each of Algeria and Congo, 4% from China, and 3% from each of Burundi, Tunisia, and Tanzania. About 2% of these recent immigrants were born in the United States while about 2% were born in Bosnia and Herzegovina.^[11]

Sherbrooke University Hospital Centre (properly, the Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Sherbrooke, or CHUS) in the Fleurimont borough

Mount Bellevue and the Sherbrooke skyline

[edit] Media

Main article: Media in Sherbrooke

[edit] Notable Sherbrooke residents

The former Winter Prison

Pierre-Marc Bouchard, Éric Bélanger and David Perron, hockey players for the Minnesota Wild and the St. Louis Blues (hockey)
Serge Cardin, Bloc Québécois MP for Sherbrooke
Jean Charest, federal cabinet minister, Deputy Prime Minister and Progressive Conservative Party leader; Quebec Liberal Party leader and Premier of Quebec
Jim Corcoran, singer-songwriter
Christian Dubé, ice hockey player
Northrop Frye, literary critic
Garou, singer
Yousuf Karsh, photographer
Harry Saltzman, film producer
Yanic Perreault, former NHL ice hockey player
Mathieu Dandenault, NHL ice hockey player was born here

Joseph-Armand Bombardier hailed from the Sherbrooke area. John Bassett and Conrad Black started their careers as media barons as owner and co-owner, respectively, of the Sherbrooke Record.

[edit] Image gallery

Downtown: King Street	King Street	Downtown Sherbrooke at night	Downtown: Wellington Street, January 2006
Neo-Tudor style House, Corner of Ball and Brooks streets	Montreal Street	King Street, downtown	Sherbrooke City Hall
Corner of King and Wellington streets	Mount Bellevue	The Magog River dam