At 02:08 PM 2000-04-10 -0400, you wrote: >Could someone tell me where the hamlet of Freeport existed at some point in time? I would especially like to know whether it was in Brome or Missisquoi County. >Graeme C. Miltimore (gcm@glen-net.ca) The Natural Resources Canada geographical names query at: http://GeoNames.NRCan.gc.ca/english/query.html did not have any match for Freeport, but it does have a link to the Quebec toponomy site, 'Noms et lieux de Quebec', at: http://www.toponymie.gouv.qc.ca/default.asp This site provided two hits for Freeport. One was of type Lieu-dit, or place known as, in the Municipalite regionale de compte (MRC) Brome-Missisquoi, in the municipalite of Cowansville V. The other was the name of a bridge of type 'Pont couvert', or covered bridge, at the same location. The topograhical map reference for both is 31H/02, which is the whole Cowansville sheet of the 1:50,000 scale topo maps. It does give the latitude of 45°13' and longitude of 72°46' . This led me to a suburb of Cowansville, shown as Freeport on the map, on the CPR railway line to the north west about 2km from the centre of town. There is a covered bridge across the Yamaska river nearby, on a small road that leads up to East Farnham. The topographical grid reference is XF750090. The official Quebec Provincial road map shows the symbol for a covered bridge, although it does not indicate Freeport. It is near the junction of routes 104 and 139 to the west of Cowansville. Since it gives the present day combined county of Brome-Missisquoi, we have to go back to the older designations of the counties, which I believe had Cowansville in Missisquoi. The map shows it within the Canton de Dunham, which would be in Missisquoi. Bill Brady, Ottawa, ON