Before 1818 the town of Sherbrooke, PQ was known as Grandes Fourches. The town of Sherbrooke, NS, also had a french name. it was first settled as a fur-trading outpost around the 1650's and was called Fort Sainte Marie, after the St. Mary's river, near which the settlement was built. the town was mostly French to begin with, but by the time the 1800's came, the british had also come. Shrbrooke was primarily scottish presbyterian (probably spelled wrong!) community. More on sherbrooke, check this out...

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