In French! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill & Eleanor Brady" <brady-ajw@sympatico.ca> To: <QC-ETANGLO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 9:37 AM Subject: Re: [QC-ETANGLO] Where is Island Brook?? > At 10:09 PM 12/13/00 -0700, you wrote: > >Hi, does anyone out there know a place called Island Brook in Quebec. Thanks. > >Susi > > Hi Susi, > > I knew it was there, and it took a while, but I found it. Island > Brook is listed on the Quebec Commision de Toponymie search website as > follows (my notes in [ ]): > > Island Brook * (Hameau)[Hamlet] > Mun. : Newport, CT[Township]; MRC[New super county]: Le > Haut-Saint-François; Rég. adm. : Estrie[Eastern Townships] > Coord. : 45°23'00" [latitude] 71°29'00" [longitude]; Feuillet > [Topographical map sheet]: 21E/06 > > The * indicates a link to a map, so if you click on the name you get a map > of Quebec with the location marked by a star. Clicking on Local will zoom > you in to show the location of Newport Twp and Island Brook, to the east of > Cookshire. It is on Route 212, about 10 km (6 miles) east of Cookshire. I > don't know what county this was in originally. > > The Quebec Commision de Toponymie search website is at: > > http://www.toponymie.gouv.qc.ca/default.asp > > Bill Brady > Ottawa, ON > Researching: > BRADY, MONTLE, McCARTY, CARMAN in Eastern Townships of Quebec, and Vermont. > MURDOCH, CALDER, WARWICK, in Argenteuil Co., Quebec, and Scotland > YOUNIE, McKELL, RUTHERFORD, ORR, KING, ANDERSON, TEMPLETON in Chateauguay > Valley, Quebec, and Scotland. > > >