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ID: 7013123
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7013123
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Sherbrooke (inhabited place)  Sherbrooke (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 45 24 00 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 45.4000  decimal degrees
Long: 071 54 00 W  degrees minutes   Long: -71.9000  decimal degrees

Note: E of Montreal; located at junction of Magog and Saint-François rivers; nation's first cotton manufacturing plant established 1844; cultural amenities include Musée de sciences naturelles 1879, Musée des beaux-arts 1982 and a symphony orchestra.

Names:
Sherbrooke (preferred,C,V)  ............ after Governor General John Coape Sherbrooke 1818

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of North and Central America (continent)  ....  North and Central America (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Canada (nation)  ........  Canada (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Quebec (province)  ............  Quebec (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Sherbrooke (inhabited place)  ................  Sherbrooke (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  first permanent settlement established 1802
city (C)  ............  since 1952
administrative center (C)
transportation center (C)
educational center (C)  ............  Université de Sherbrooke founded 1954
judicial center (C)
archiepiscopal see (C)

Sources and Contributors:
Sherbrooke..........  [BHA, FDA, VP Preferred]
.......................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database (1987-)
.......................  Canadian Encyclopedia (1985) 3:1687
.......................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 182
.......................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Subject: .....  [BHA, FDA, VP]
..................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database (1987-)
..................  Canadian Encyclopedia (1985) III, 1687; 3:1687
..................  Times Atlas of the World (1992) 182
..................  Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]

 

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