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Eastern Townships 
eleven Quebec townships lying south of the St. Lawrence River and east of the Richelieu River, an area settled in large part by Loyalists and other American immigrants but now populated largely by French-speaking Canadians.
See also: Lower Townships Townships
- 1815 Eastern Townships, is a general name frequently given to all the Townships extending East from the River Richelieu to the Eastern boundary of the Province, which divides it from the States of New-Hampshire and Massachusettes, of which last State Maine forms a part.
- 1849 Now many young French Canadians move away, and occupy new lands at a distance from the banks of the St. Lawrence; or remove to the Eastern townships, that fertile country as yet but little appreciated, bounded on the States of New York, Vermont and New Hampshire.
- 1912 (1913) Very pathetic pictures have been drawn of the English-speaking depopulation of the Eastern Townships.
- 1966 Three thousand teachers in Quebec's Eastern Townships threatened yesterday to resign at the end of the current school year.
- 1815 Eastern Townships, is a general name frequently given to all the Townships extending East from the River Richelieu to the Eastern boundary of the Province, which divides it from the States of New-Hampshire and Massachusettes, of which last State Maine forms a part.