| Bedford | |
| Settlement Type: | City |
| Pushpin Map: | Canada Southern Quebec |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in southern Quebec. |
| Coordinates: | 45.1167°N -131°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Canada |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Quebec |
| Subdivision Type2: | Region |
| Subdivision Name2: | Estrie |
| Subdivision Type3: | RCM |
| Subdivision Name3: | Brome-Missisquoi |
| Established Title1: | Constituted |
| Established Date1: | November 21, 1866 |
| Government Footnotes: | [1] [2] |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Claude Dubois |
| Leader Title1: | Federal riding |
| Leader Name1: | Brome—Missisquoi |
| Leader Title2: | Prov. riding |
| Leader Name2: | Brome-Missisquoi |
| Area Footnotes: | [3] |
| Area Total Km2: | 4.40 |
| Area Land Km2: | 4.20 |
| Elevation M: | 53 |
| Population Total: | 2684 |
| Population As Of: | 2011 |
| Population Density Km2: | 639.4 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Pop 2006-2011 |
| Population Blank1: | 2.8% |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
| Population Blank2: | 1276 |
| Timezone: | EST |
| Utc Offset: | −5 |
| Timezone Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
| Postal Code: | J0J 1A0 |
| Area Code: | 450 and 579 |
| Blank Name: | Highways |
| Blank Info: | |
| Blank1 Name: | Exchange# |
| Blank1 Info: | 248 |
| Blank2 Name: | GNBC Code |
| Blank2 Info: | EFMFP |
| Blank3 Name: | NTS Map |
| Blank4 Name: | Geocode |
| Blank4 Info: | 2446035 |
| Blank5 Name: | People |
| Blank5 Info: | Bedfordite |
Bedford (in French pronounced as /bɛdfœʁd/) is a city located in the Estrie region of southern Quebec, Canada. The population as of the Canada 2011 Census was 2,684. This small community is just an hour's drive from larger cities such as Burlington and Montreal.
The first settlers arrived in 1812.
The name "Bedford" could have been given by Loyalists who knew of several Bedfords back in the former American colonies. The name could also have been a tribute to Lord John Russell, who was the fourth Duke of Bedford (1710–1771), an English politician and Secretary of State (1748–1751), and governor general of Ireland from 1756 to 1761.
Bedford is part of Brome-Missisquoi Regional County Municipality, in the administrative region of Estrie.
The town, located 86km (53miles) southeast of Montreal, is completely enclaved within the township of Bedford. Seated in the Saint-Lawrence lowlands, at the beginning of the steppe leading to the Appalachian Mountains, the town is separated into north and south parts by the Pike River (Rivière aux Brochets).
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Bedford had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 4.23km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[4]
| Canada Census Mother Tongue - Bedford (city), Quebec | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Census | Total | ||||||||||||||||||
| Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | ||||||
| 1,910 | 2.4% | 74.76% | 540 | 9.1% | 21.14% | 70 | 55.5% | 2.74% | 35 | 36.4% | 1.37% | ||||||||
| 1,865 | 2.1% | 75.81% | 495 | 5.7% | 20.12% | 45 | 10.0% | 1.83% | 55 | 35.3% | 2.24% | ||||||||
| 1,905 | 8.2% | 74.27% | 525 | 0.0% | 20.47% | 50 | 233.3% | 1.95% | 85 | 466.7% | 3.31% | ||||||||
| 2,075 | n/a | 78.90% | 525 | n/a | 19.96% | 15 | n/a | 0.57% | 15 | n/a | 0.57% | ||||||||
Every year since 1828, at the beginning of August, the town holds its annual fair, the oldest of its kind in Quebec and the second oldest in Canada. One can figure skate, or play hockey or curling, at the Centre sportif.Every year since 1969, Bedford has held a PeeWee hockey exchange with Kensington, PEI.