Cookshire-Eaton
City in Quebec, Canada
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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.
Cookshire-Eaton | |
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 Location within Le Haut-Saint-François RCM | |
  Cookshire-Eaton Location in southern Quebec | |
| Coordinates: 45.41342°N 71.63067°W[1] | |
| Country |  Canada |
| Province |  Quebec |
| Region | Estrie |
| RCM | Le Haut-Saint-François |
| Constituted | 24 July 2002 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Daphné Raymond |
| • Federal riding | Compton—Stanstead |
| • Prov. riding | Mégantic |
| Area | |
• Total | 298.70 km2 (115.33 sq mi) |
| • Land | 295.95 km2 (114.27 sq mi) |
| Population | |
• 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) | |
| Area code | 819 |
| Highways |  R-108  R-210  R-212  R-251  R-253 |
| Website | www |
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]
