Cookshire-Eaton | |
Settlement Type: | City |
Pushpin Map: | Canada Southern Quebec |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in southern Quebec |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | Estrie |
Subdivision Type3: | RCM |
Subdivision Name3: | Le Haut-Saint-François |
Established Title1: | Constituted |
Established Date1: | July 24, 2002 |
Leader Title: | Mayor |
Leader Name: | Mario Gendron |
Leader Title1: | Federal riding |
Leader Name1: | Compton—Stanstead |
Leader Title2: | Prov. riding |
Leader Name2: | Mégantic |
Area Total Km2: | 298.70 |
Area Land Km2: | 295.95 |
Population Total: | 5171 |
Population As Of: | 2011 |
Population Density Km2: | 17.5 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Pop 2006-2011 |
Population Blank1: | 3.3% |
Timezone: | EST |
Utc Offset: | −5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | −4 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code(s) |
Postal Code: | J0B 1M0 |
Area Code: | 819 |
Blank Name: | Highways |
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Cookshire-Eaton is a city in the Estrie region of Quebec. It is the seat of Le Haut-Saint-François Regional County Municipality. Sherbrooke Airport is located there.
As part of the 2000–2006 municipal reorganization in Quebec, on July 24, 2002 the city of Cookshire, the municipality of Newport and the township of Eaton were merged to form Cookshire-Eaton;[1] prior to this, on April 25, 2001, the village of Sawyerville had merged with Eaton.[2] After a 2004 referendum, however, Newport de-merged and was reconstituted as an independent municipality as of January 1, 2006. Nevertheless, Newport and Cookshire-Eaton both remain part of the urban agglomeration of Cookshire-Eaton.
The community had a population of 5,171 in the Canada 2011 Census.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Cookshire-Eaton had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 296.25km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[3]