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 A technician repairing an optical fibre cable. | |
| Industry | Telecommunications |
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| Founded | 1984 |
| Successor | Cogeco |
| Headquarters | , |
Cable Axion was a cable television distributor and Internet service provider based in Magog, Quebec. In 2018, Cable Axion was acquired by DERYtelecom, [1] which was in turn acquired by Cogeco in 2020. [2]
In August 2023, the Axion brand stopped being used and instead products now use the Cogeco brand. [3]
Estrie is an administrative region of Quebec that comprises the Eastern Townships. Estrie, a French neologism, was coined as a derivative of est, "east". Originally settled by anglophones, today it is about 90 per cent francophone. Anglophones are concentrated in Lennoxville, home of the region's only English-speaking university, Bishop's University. The Eastern Townships School Board runs 20 elementary schools, three high schools, and a learning centre.
Area codes 819, 873, and 468 are overlay telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for central and western Quebec, Canada, including the Quebec portion of the National Capital Region, and the Hudson Strait and Ungava Bay coastlines of Quebec. Major cities in the territory include Gatineau, Sherbrooke, Trois-Rivières, Drummondville, Shawinigan, Victoriaville, Rouyn-Noranda, Val-d'Or, Magog and Mont-Laurier.
Frontenac—Mégantic was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1997 to 2004.
The 2000–2006 municipal reorganization in Quebec resulted in large-scale amalgamation of smaller municipalities in Quebec into larger cities. It was undertaken by one administration, but was modified and partially undone by its successor.
Compton was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 1949, and again from 1968 to 1997.
Lotbinière was a federal electoral district in Quebec, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1867 to 2004.
The Chaudière River is a 185-kilometre-long (115 mi) river with its source near the Town of Lac-Mégantic, in southeast Quebec, Canada. From its source Lake Mégantic in the Estrie region, it runs northwards to flow into the St. Lawrence River opposite Quebec City.
Lac-Mégantic is a town in the Estrie region of Quebec, Canada. It is located on Lac Mégantic, a freshwater lake after which the town was named. Situated in the former Frontenac County in the historic Eastern Townships, Lac-Mégantic is the seat of Le Granit Regional County Municipality and of the judicial district of Mégantic.
Route 204 is a finite two-lane east–west highway on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec. It is one of the longest secondary highways in the province. Its eastern terminus is in Saint-Jean-Port-Joli at the junction of Route 132 and the western terminus is in Lac-Mégantic at the junction of Route 161. Although it is numbered as an east–west highway, the road follows a north–south course from Saint-Jean-Port-Joli to Saint-Pamphile, where it then follows a mostly southwest–northeast course until Saint-Georges, where after crossing the Chaudière River, follows it in a north–south course until the source of the Chaudiere in Megantic Lake, in Lac-Mégantic.
Route 108 is a two-lane east/west highway on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in the Eastern Townships and Chaudière-Appalaches regions of Quebec, Canada. Its eastern terminus is in Beauceville at the junction of Route 173, and the western terminus is at the junction of Route 112 in Magog.
Route 161 is a north/south highway south of the St. Lawrence River in the regions of Centre-du-Québec, Chaudière-Appalaches and Estrie in the province of Quebec, Canada. Its current northern terminus is at Autoroute 20 in Sainte-Eulalie, just east of the junction of Autoroute 55, while its southern terminus is at the border of Maine in the USA, where it continues as Maine State Route 27. Previously the highway continued to Route 155 in Saint-Célestin, but that section was decommissioned in 2006 when Autoroute 55 was completed.
DERYtelecom was a cable television distributor Internet service provider and Phone in Canada based in Saguenay, Quebec. The company operated in 13 regions in Quebec in municipalities of 600 residents or less. As of 2019, the distributor had roughly 100,000 subscribers. Since 14 December 2020, DERYtelecom is a subsidiary of Cogeco.
Area codes 418, 581, and 367 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for the eastern portion of the Canadian province of Quebec. Area code 418 was originally assigned to the numbering plan area, but all three area codes now form an overlay plan for this territory. Cities in the numbering plan area include Quebec City, Saguenay, Lévis, Rimouski, Saint-Georges, Alma, Thetford Mines, Sept-Îles, Baie-Comeau and Rivière-du-Loup. Also served are the Gaspé Peninsula, Côte-Nord, southeastern Mauricie, and the tiny hamlet of Estcourt Station, in the U.S. state of Maine.
Vallée-Jonction is a municipality in La Nouvelle-Beauce Regional County Municipality, in Quebec, Canada. It is part of the Chaudière-Appalaches region and had a population of 1,864 as of 2021.
Frontenac County was a county of Quebec, Canada. It existed between 1912 and the early 1980s. The territory it covered is today divided into the regional county municipalities of Le Granit in the administrative regions of the Estrie and Beauce-Sartigan in Chaudière-Appalaches. Its capital was the municipality of Lac-Mégantic.
This is a list of 78 federal electoral districts in the province of Quebec. New boundaries will be in effect for federal general elections called after April 22, 2024
Arsenal Media is a broadcasting company based in Quebec, Canada operating 18 radio stations. Through its various antennas, the company is able to reach more than one and a half million potential listeners in Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean, Estrie, Centre-du-Québec, Lanaudière, Beauce, Chaudière-Appalaches, Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Haute-Mauricie, Gaspésie/Bas-Saint-Laurent, and Côte-Nord.