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Eastern Townships

The Eastern Townships, an area in the southeast of Quebec, opened up for settlement in 1792. Claims to grants flooded into the Executive Council, and during the succeeding decade 22 townships were surveyed, where British immigrants, American loyalists, and Canadians established themselves. The British American Land Company, formed in 1834, carried out Lower Canada’s largest land deal by purchasing over a million acres in the Eastern Townships. The organization exercised almost absolute control over the agricultural and industrial development of the region, where numerous merchants also speculated in land. In the mid 19th century, the civil and religious authorities of French Canada instituted a nationalist policy aimed at increasing the number of French and Roman Catholic inhabitants in this predominantly Anglo-Saxon area. The region grew dramatically from 1852 onward, when the railway between Montreal and Sherbrooke was completed.

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Eastern Townships - The Canadian Encyclopedia
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