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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

Subscriptions came in freely from Montreal and the Eastern Townships.

From The Railway Builders A Chronicle of Overland Highways by Skelton, Oscar Douglas

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