The largest city in Québec’s Eastern Townships, about 60 mi/100km east of Montréal and 30 mi/50 km northwest of Québec’s border with Vermont and New Hampshire.
Sherbrooke is known among many New Englanders as the closest city where one can legally buy codeine at the pharmacy without a prescription (
Google “Tylenol 1” and “AC&C” for more information). Also, since Québec’s drinking age is
18, many northern New
England youth frequent Sherbrooke’s pubs and clubs.
The Eastern Townships are similar in topography to nearby New Hampshire and
Vermont and, by Québec standards, a fairly large Anglophone (English-speaking) community, many of whom
trace their ancestry to New England loyalists who fled north after the American Revolution.