Bromont, Quebec
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Mont Brome overlooking the city.
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| Motto: Ville Branchée | |
 Location within Brome-Missisquoi RCM. |
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| Coordinates: 45°19′N 72°39′W / 45.317°N 72.650°WCoordinates: 45°19′N 72°39′W / 45.317°N 72.650°W | |
| Country |
 Canada
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| Province |
 Quebec
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| Region | Montérégie |
| RCM | Brome-Missisquoi |
| Constituted | January 27, 1973 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Pauline Quinlan |
| • Federal riding | Brome—Missisquoi |
| • Prov. riding | Brome-Missisquoi |
| Area | |
| • Total | 116.10 km2 (44.83 sq mi) |
| • Land | 114.42 km2 (44.18 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 139 m (456 ft) |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 7,649 |
| • Density | 66.9/km2 (173/sq mi) |
| • Pop 2006-2011 |
 26.5% |
| • Dwellings | 4,293 |
| Time zone | EST (UTC−5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC−4) |
| Postal code(s) | J2L |
| Area code(s) | 450 and 579 |
Highways A-10
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 Route 139 Route 241
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| Website | www |
Bromont is a city in southwestern Quebec, Canada, at the base of Mount Brome; it is in the Brome-Missisquoi Regional County Municipality. The Bromont area and its resort, Ski Bromont, is well known as a tourist destination for its downhill skiing, mountain biking, water slides, golf as well as equestrian events. Bromont also boasts a high tech industrial park, which includes IBM,General Electric, and Dalsa, with an airport that serves the region.
In the southern portion of the city lies Lac Bromont, the largest lake within the city limits, and the smaller Lac Gale, near which is built BALNEA Spa, the largest bathhouse resort in Quebec.
On June 9, 2014, the FEI chose Bromont as the site of the 2018 FEI World Equestrian Games. The main venue for the games was supposed to be the Bromont Olympic Equestrian Park. On July 22, 2016, Bromont was forced to withdraw from hosting the event because of financial problems.
Located between Montreal and Sherbrooke in proximity of Granby, the territory known as Bromont is characterized by a mountain with several summits, called mount Brome (or Bromont), mount Gale, and a smaller top, almost a hill, mount Soleil (literally mount Sun); the terrain around this mountainous mass is flat and has hills and vales sparsely distributed; this is crossed by the Yamaska river, flowing in from Fulford arriving from its source lake Brome, separated from Bromont by Iron Hill and Fulford (both parts of Lac-Brome), and definitely leaving into Saint-Alphonse-de-Granby. Two lakes: Bromont and Gale, are pooling between the mountaintops of mount Brome; Gale lake, on mount Gale sources from the mountain. The surface of the territory is naturally covered by mixed forest and grasslands, sometimes exploited as grazing grounds or grow space.
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