At 05:36 PM 12/3/2004 -0800, you wrote: >I have some info on my ancestors living in Newport PQ Canada. Vol 138 of >the NEHGS page 136 lists "Vital Records form the Proprietors Records of >Newport, Lower Canada". These records were deposited at Bishops >University in Lennoxville. > >I can't find Newport on any on-line atlas. I presume that this town is >somewhere near Lennoxville or Sherbrooke in Quebec. I don't believe that >this is Newport Vermont. Mapquest tells me that Newport is on the Gaspe >Penninsula but I don't believe that this is the same town. My ancestor >married in Eaton and later moved to Sherbrooke. > >Can anyone tell me where this Newport, Quebec? >R//geoff The Quebec Toponmyie website shows Newport as a canton [township] incorporating the Ville [Town] of Cookshire-Eaton. It also shows for Newport (Muncipalite de canton) - see Cookshire-Eaton. These are shown to be in the modern MRC of Le Haut-Saint-Francois in the Estrie administrative region. It also shows a number of references for the Gaspe one. Bill Brady Ottawa, ON