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Eastern Townships

Do Quebec's Eastern Townships have English-speaking majority? I once thought that in Sherbrooke, street signs have English text over French text. But do streets there even have official English names? --40bus (talk) 21:44, 2 March 2024 (UTC)

The region is now majority French-speaking, by a wide margin (89%), although there are still some small pockets of English speakers. The demographic shift occurred in the late 1950s and 1960s. Street signs are in French all over Quebec (with Inuktitut and First Nation languages used as well in Native communities). Highway signs and tourist signs sometimes include English translation, but not street signs. In Sherbrooke, the majority of streets in the city center have retained their original name; many of these are English, like King Street, which is the city's main commercial street (now called "la rue King", not "la rue du roi"). Xuxl (talk) 22:01, 2 March 2024 (UTC)