Cookshire,_Quebec

Cookshire-Eaton

Cookshire-Eaton

City in Quebec, Canada

Cookshire-Eaton is a city in the Estrie region of Quebec. It is the seat of Le Haut-Saint-François Regional County Municipality. Sherbrooke Airport is located there.

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As part of the 2000–2006 municipal reorganization in Quebec, on July 24, 2002 the city of Cookshire, the municipality of Newport and the township of Eaton were merged to form Cookshire-Eaton;[4] prior to this, on April 25, 2001, the village of Sawyerville had merged with Eaton.[5] After a 2004 referendum, however, Newport de-merged and was reconstituted as an independent municipality as of January 1, 2006. Nevertheless, Newport and Cookshire-Eaton both remain part of the urban agglomeration of Cookshire-Eaton.

The community had a population of 5,171 in the Canada 2011 Census.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Cookshire-Eaton had a population of 5,344 living in 2,190 of its 2,283 total private dwellings, a change of -0.9% from its 2016 population of 5,393. With a land area of 296.25 km2 (114.38 sq mi), it had a population density of 18.0/km2 (46.7/sq mi) in 2021.[6]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "Banque de noms de lieux du Québec: Reference number 377747". toponymie.gouv.qc.ca (in French). Commission de toponymie du Québec.
  2. [2]
    "Répertoire des municipalités: Geographic code 41038". www.mamh.gouv.qc.ca (in French). Ministère des Affaires municipales et de l'Habitation.
  3. [3]
    "Cookshire-Eaton (Code 2441038) Census Profile". 2011 census. Government of Canada - Statistics Canada.
  4. [4]
    "Archived copy" (PDF). stat.gouv.qc.ca. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 December 2006. Retrieved 22 May 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. [5]
    "Fiche descriptive".
  6. [6]
    "Population and dwelling counts: Canada, provinces and territories, and census subdivisions (municipalities), Quebec". Statistics Canada. February 9, 2022. Retrieved August 29, 2022.


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