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The A-10 carries the name Autoroute Bonaventure (Bonaventure Expressway) from its start in Montreal's city centre to the Champlain Bridge.From there until its terminus in Sherbrooke, the A-10 is called the Autoroute des Cantons-de-l'Est (Eastern Townships Expressway), a reference to the historic name given to the region east of Montreal and north of the U.S. border.
Eastern Townships. The Eastern Townships (French: Cantons de l'Est, pronounced [kɑ̃tɔ̃ də lɛst]) is a historical administrative region in southeastern Quebec, Canada.It lies between the St. Lawrence Lowlands and the American border, and extends from Granby in the southwest to Drummondville in the northeast. [1]
Mont Owl's Head is a mountain in Potton, Quebec, in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, Canada. [1] The mountain has a height of 747 metres (2,451 ft). A ski area , with the same name, was developed on it by Fred Korman and opened in 1965 with 3 lifts (2 chairlifts and 1 t-bar) and 6 runs.
The Eastern Townships (Cantons de l'Est) extend to the south of the Saint-Lawrence River valley, covering the eponymous administrative region of Estrie, and beyond; between the U.S. border and the Appalachian Mountains to the east.
It is one of the four major ski centres in the Eastern Townships east of Montreal, the other three being Ski Mont Sutton, Ski Mont Orford, and Owl's Head. [5] [6] It is about 45 minutes from Montreal. [6] [7] Mount Brome is 2000 feet high, and the resort has a vertical drop of 1300 feet. [7] The resort has 9 chair lifts. [2]
It consists of three administrative cantons around the towns of Eupen, Malmedy, and Sankt Vith which encompass some 730 square kilometres (280 sq mi). Elsewhere in Belgium, the region is commonly referred to as the East Cantons (French: Cantons de l'Est, Dutch: Oostkantons). Eupen-Malmedy became part of Belgium in the aftermath of World War I.
The township of Dunham was the first township established in Quebec, on February 2, 1796, in the region which came to be known as the "Eastern Townships of Lower Canada" (cantons de l'Est du Bas-Canada), as opposed to the "Western Townships of Upper Canada". [4] [5] The Eastern Townships also form a historic region. Collectively, they ...
Mount Ham is located in Saint-Joseph-de-Ham-Sud, very close to Ham-Nord, in the Eastern Townships (Cantons-de-l'Est) in Quebec and is managed by a non-profit organization, "Le développement du Mont Ham".