Brome-Missisquoi | |
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Regional county municipality | |
Location in province of Quebec. |
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Coordinates: 45°08′N 72°48′W / 45.133°N 72.800°WCoordinates: 45°08′N 72°48′W / 45.133°N 72.800°W | |
Country | Canada |
Province | Quebec |
Region | Montérégie |
Effective | January 1, 1983 |
County seat | Cowansville |
Government | |
• Type | Prefecture |
• Prefect | Arthur Fauteux |
Area | |
• Total | 1,685.90 km2 (650.93 sq mi) |
• Land | 1,651.73 km2 (637.74 sq mi) |
Population (2011) | |
• Total | 55,621 |
• Density | 33.7/km2 (87/sq mi) |
• Pop 2006-2011 | 5.4% |
• Dwellings | 29,296 |
Time zone | EST (UTC−5) |
• Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC−4) |
Area code(s) | 450 and 579 |
Website | www |
Brome-Missisquoi is a regional county municipality in the Montérégie region of Quebec, Canada. Its seat is Cowansville.
In Parliament it is covered by the Brome—Missisquoi federal electoral district.
In the 1980s, the RCM was formed from municipalities of historic Brome and Missisquoi counties. On January 1, 2010, the city of Bromont moved from La Haute-Yamaska Regional County Municipality to Brome-Missisquoi.
There are 21 subdivisions within the RCM:
Highways and numbered routes that run through the municipality, including external routes that start or finish at the county border: