Sherbrooke

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Sherbrooke
Nickname : Ville Reine de l ' Estrie
Sherbrooke Coat of Arms
coat of arms
Motto : Ne quid nimis
Location in Quebec
Sherbrooke (Quebec)
Sherbrooke
Sherbrooke
State : CanadaCanada Canada
Province : Quebec
Administrative region : Estrie
Coordinates : 45 ° 24 ′  N , 71 ° 53 ′  W Coordinates: 45 ° 24 ′  N , 71 ° 53 ′  W
Area : 353.49 km²
Residents : 154,601 (as of 2011)
Population density : 437.4 inhabitants / km²
Time zone : Eastern Time ( UTC − 5 )
Municipality number: 43027
Postal code : J1E, J1G, J1H, J1J, J1K,

J1L, J1M, J1N, J1R

Mayor : Steve Lussier
Website : www.ville.sherbrooke.qc.ca

Sherbrooke is a city in the Canadian province of Québec and the capital of the administrative region Estrie . The city has 154,601 (mostly French-speaking ) inhabitants, it is located at the confluence of the Saint-François and Magog rivers .

climate

Sherbrooke has a continental climate ( Effective Climate Classification : Dfb), which is characterized by cold, snowy winters and warm, humid summers. The highest temperature ever recorded in Sherbrooke was 33.7 ° C in July 1983, the lowest was -40 ° C in February 1979. Further extreme values ​​occurred on August 26, 1975, when 98 mm of rain recorded the highest precipitation value for one day was on February 24, 1994, when 41 cm of snow fell, and in March 1971, when the highest snow cover was measured at 135 cm. The snow depth reaches its highest value at the end of February with an average of 41 cm.

Sherbrooke 1971-2000
Climate diagram
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Temperature in ° C ,  precipitation in mm
Source: Environment Canada
Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Sherbrooke 1971–2000
Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
Max. Temperature ( ° C ) - 5.7 - 3.9 2.1 9.9 18.1 22.1 24.7 23.3 18.3 11.9 4.4 - 2.7 O 10.3
Min. Temperature (° C) - 18.0 - 16.7 - 9.9 - 1.7 4.0 8.8 11.4 10.4 5.6 0.3 - 4.7 - 13.5 O −1.9
Temperature (° C) - 11.9 - 10.4 - 3.9 4.1 11.1 15.5 18.1 16.9 12.0 6.1 - 0.2 - 8.1 O 4.2
Precipitation ( mm ) 78.8 61.7 78.8 79.8 96.8 110.8 117.8 130.0 104.7 92.8 98.5 93.8 Σ 1,144.3
Hours of sunshine ( h / d ) 2.8 3.9 4.5 5.2 6.8 7.8 8.5 7.5 5.4 3.7 2.4 2.2 O 5.1
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history

The city's official founding year is now 1802, when Gilbert Hyatt, an American loyalist , built a mill at the confluence of the Magog and Saint-François rivers. The settlement was originally called Hyatt's Mills after its founder , but changed its name in 1818 in honor of John Coape Sherbrooke , the outgoing Governor General of Canada . Today's Sherbrooke was created on January 1, 2002 by merging the old Sherbrooke with the cities of Bromptonville, Fleurimont, Lennoxville and Rock Forest as well as the communities of Ascot, Deauville and Saint-Élie-d'Orford.

Originally the population was mostly English-speaking. While the French-speaking share was only 16% in 1851, in 1898 it was 59%. Today Sherbrooke is mostly a French-speaking city, but apart from Montreal, for example, it is the only place in the province of Québec that has an English-language daily newspaper and a university.

Education and Research

In Sherbrooke are the Université de Sherbrooke (language of instruction is French) and Bishop's University (language of instruction is English). The three Cégeps "Séminaire de Sherbrooke", "Cégep de Sherbrooke" (language of instruction French) and the "Champlain College Lennoxville" (attached to the Bishop's University) exist as a preliminary stage for attending these universities .

Culture and sights

Museums and theaters

In terms of museums, Sherbrooke has the natural history “Musée de la nature et des sciences” and the art museum “Le Musée des Beaux-Arts”, and the Université de Sherbrooke also houses the “Galerie d'art du Center culturel”. At theaters there are the two smaller “Théatre Granada” and “Le Petit Théatre”, and there are also performances in the “Salle Maurice-O'Bready”, which is housed in the aforementioned “Galerie d'art du Center culturel”.

Buildings

In the city center is the "Saint-Michel" cathedral , which was modeled on the Parisian Notre-Dame . In the immediate vicinity is the "Hôtel de ville de Sherbrooke", the current town hall, completed in 1906. The school building of the private school "Le Séminaire de Sherbrooke" is one of the most striking buildings.

  • The Basilique Saint Michel in the center of Sherbrooke

  • Hôtel de ville de Sherbrooke, the town hall

Sports

Sherbrooke is home to the Saint-François de Sherbrooke ice hockey club , which plays in the Québec League LNAH . In the 2005/2006 season the team won the championship for the first time. With the "Les Expos de Sherbrooke" there is also a baseball team that is represented in the LBSEQ (Ligue de baseball senior du Québec).

In 1976 football games of the 1976 Olympic Games were played in Sherbrooke.

In the summer of 1977 and 1995, Sherbrooke hosted the provincial youth games Jeux du Québec . In 2003, the World Youth Championships in athletics were held in the stadium of the Université de Sherbrooke . In January 2009, the Junior World Championship in the short track took place in Sherbrooke .

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The Société de transport de Sherbrooke (STS) maintains a bus route network that covers all parts of the city. The ride is free for students from the University of Sherbrook and students from the “Cégep de Sherbrooke”.

Sherbrooke also has a small airport outside the city, Sherbrooke Airport, from which flights to Toronto depart and are received twice a day .

Established businesses

Due to its status as a university city, the university sector is the city's largest employer. From the private sector, Nordia, Fédération des caisses Desjardins du Québec and Kruger have larger branches in Sherbrooke, while the furniture manufacturer Shermag is the largest private company with its headquarters in the city.

media

The city is home to the three private television stations CHLT ( TVA ), CKSH ( Radio Canada ) and CFKS ( V ).

Two daily newspapers appear in Sherbrooke: La Tribune (French) and The Record (English). The free newspapers Le journal de Sherbrooke and La Nouvelle de Sherbrooke also appear on Saturdays .

Radio:

sons and daughters of the town

Web links

Commons : Sheerbrook  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Census Profile Sherbrooke. Statistics Canada, accessed August 13, 2012 .
  2. ↑ Environment Canada : National Climate Data and Information Archive (English)
  3. ↑ histoirequebec.qc.ca: "La colonization dans les Cantons de l'Est" by Gilles Boileau ( Memento of the original from April 26, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (French) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.histoirequebec.qc.ca
  4. ↑ Société de Développement Économique de Sherbrooke: Profiel de Sherbrooke: Économie ( Memento of the original of September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (French) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.industrie.sders.com