Estrie Administrative Region (Quebec)

Region: 05

Last modified: 2012-08-09 by rob raeside
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• Regional Overview
• Flag information about Municipalités régionales de comté (MRC/counties)
• Flag information about Municipalities

See also:

• Quebec subdivisions
• Quebec

Regional Overview

1966: Cantons-de-l'Est Administrative Region is created.
1981: The AR is renamed Estrie.
1996: The tourist region is renamed Cantons-de-l'Est/Eastern Townships.**

Counties (1 city* and 6 MRC):

• Ville de Sherbrooke
• Asbestos
• Coaticook
• Le Granit
• Le Haut-Saint-François
• Le Val-Saint-François
• Memphrémagog

**Note: The tourist region also includes two MRC from Montérégie administrative region: Brome-Missisquoi and La Haute-Yamaska.

Municipalités régionales de comté flag information
(MRC/counties)

No known flags

Municipal flag information

• Sherbrooke (separate page)

Incomplete Information

• Ville d'Asbestos (Asbestos):
  A photo from Jim Croft's collection appears in a 2000 issue of Flagscan [fsc]. It is red with the arms and other details.
• Ville de Richmond (Val-Saint-François):
  According to a non official website seen in May 2005, a city flag flies next to the Quebec and Canada flags.
• Ville de Valcourt (Val-Saint-François):
  There is a photo of a white flag with what appears to be the coat of arms on the city website (May 2005).