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Eastman, Quebec

municipality in Estrie, Quebec, Canada

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ3046582 ↗
Source-derived summary

Eastman is a municipality of about 2,300 people, part of the Memphrémagog Regional County Municipality in the Eastern Townships region of Quebec, Canada.

Demographics

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(+) Amalgamation of the Municipality of Stukely and the Village of Eastman on May 30, 2001.

Editorial summary

“Eastman, Quebec” enters the record as municipality in Estrie, Quebec, Canada. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Eastman, Quebec and municipality can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2001—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2001-05-30. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Eastman, Quebec and municipality.
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“Eastman, Quebec” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Eastman, Quebec and municipality provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3046582. VIAF identifies the subject as 167427368. Authority coordinates are 45.300, -72.317. 2 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 2 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2001.

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This entry incorporates text from “Eastman, Quebec” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.