Cookshire-Eaton

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.

Cookshire-Eaton
City
Location within Le Haut-Saint-François RCM
Cookshire-Eaton Location in southern Quebec
Coordinates: 45.41342°N 71.63067°W / 45.41342; -71.63067[1]
Country	Canada
Province	Quebec
Region	Estrie
RCM	Le Haut-Saint-François
Constituted	24 July 2002
Government [2]
• Mayor	Mario Gendron
• Federal riding	Compton—Stanstead
• Prov. riding	Mégantic
Area [2][3]
• Total	298.70 km2 (115.33 sq mi)
• Land	295.95 km2 (114.27 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[3]
• Total	5,171
• Density	17.5/km2 (45/sq mi)
• Pop 2006-2011	3.3%
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Postal code(s)	J0B 1M0
Area code	819
Highways	R-108 R-210 R-212 R-251 R-253
Website	www.cookshire-eaton.qc.ca

As part of the 2000–2006 municipal reorganization in Quebec, on 24 July 2002 the city of Cookshire, the municipality of Newport and the township of Eaton were merged to form Cookshire-Eaton;^[4] prior to this, on 25 April 2001, the village of Sawyerville had merged with Eaton.^[5] After a 2004 referendum, however, Newport de-merged and was reconstituted as an independent municipality as of 1 January 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.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Cookshire-Eaton had a population of 5,344 living in 2,190 of its 2,283 total private dwellings, a change of -0.9% from its 2016 population of 5,393. With a land area of 296.25 km² (114.38 sq mi), it had a population density of 18.0/km² (46.7/sq mi) in 2021.^[6]

See also

• List of anglophone communities in Quebec