Eastern Townships

British  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

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

By these drastic means the government kept the Eastern Townships a wilderness until after 1791, when the townships were granted out in free and common socage, and American settlers began to flock in.

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