Unfortunately, some of the provincial governments in Canada have decided that one way to reduce costs at the municipal level is to roll together a group of smaller communities into one larger one. This has happened both with the largest cities (e.g. Toronto and Montreal) as well as with many smaller centres. So Knowlton, Que. has disappeared - as have Bondville, East Hill, Foster, Fulford, Iron Hill, and West Brome - into the aggregation now referred to as Ville de Lac Brome. This foolishness has not been restricted to Quebec - Ontario has made even more of a mess of it. Cheers, Ken M. ========================================== Benetech Inc., Prenatal & Genetic Software 500 - 180 Bloor St. W. Toronto, ON M5S 2V6 Vox: 416.924.8100 Fax: 416.924.6067 http://www.benetech.com -----Original Message----- From: Udmacon@aol.com [mailto:Udmacon@aol.com] Sent: March 1, 2004 8:32 PM To: KNOWLTON-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [KNOWLTON] Field trip to Knowlton, Quebec Does anybody know why Knowlton, Quebec has had a name change; that the town is no longer officially known as "Knowlton?!" Is it a French Quebecois thing? <g> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ BILL KNOWLTON: "Bluegrass Ramble," WCNY-FM (91.3) Syracuse, WUNY (89.5) Utica, and WJNY (90.9) Watertown NY. On the web: www.wcny.org. Sundays: 9 pm to midnight EST (since 1973) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++