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Eastern Townships

British  

noun

  1. an area of central Canada, in S Quebec: consists of 11 townships south of the St Lawrence

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Three Pines is “a beautiful, beautiful setting, idyllic in many ways, and yet terrible things happen there,” she said in a telephone interview from her home in Quebec’s Eastern Townships.

From Seattle Times May 10, 2023

Louise Penny stepped onto the stage of the small Theatre Lac-Brome in Knowlton, a village in Quebec’s postcard-pretty Eastern Townships 70 miles southeast of Montreal, and settled into a leather wing chair amid applause.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 12, 2021

A web of bike trails and designated cycling routes connects cities, farmlands, vineyards and towns in the Eastern Townships.

From Washington Times May 21, 2019

I chose the Missisquoi Valley, in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, because I liked what the bay’s First Nations name meant: many aquatic birds.

From New York Times Jan. 4, 2017

The Eastern Townships in the province of Quebec were not settled by the United Empire Loyalists.

From The United Empire Loyalists : A Chronicle of the Great Migration by Wallace, W. Stewart (William Stewart)

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