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![[Bromont flag]](../images/c/ca-qc-br19.gif)
image by Masao Okazaki,
18 March 2022See also:
The municipality of Bromont (9,499 inhabitants in 2008; 11,418 ha) is
located 90 km east of Montreal and 250 km south-west of Québec. The
municipality is made of six boroughs: Adamsville, Lac Bromont, Mont Brome,
Mont Soleil, Pierre-Laporte, and Shefford.
The town of Bromont was
established in 1964 by the brothers Rolland and Germain Désourdy - the
latter served as the mayor of Bromont from 1964 to 1977- as the merger of the
former villages of West Shefford and Adamsville (partially). John Savage, a
loyalist American of Irish origin, settled the area of West Shefford in 1793;
West Shefford was incorporated as a village in 1888. Georges Adams, a trader
from the seignory of Saint-Amand, acquired several plots and a sawmill on
Adamsville territory; Adamsville was incorporated as a village in 1916.
A ski resort was inaugurated on Mont Brome in 1964; later on, the town
invested in sports: ski, golf, bike, horse-riding, water sports... Bromont
hosted in 1976 the equestrian competitions of the Montreal Olympic Games, in
1986 the Acrobatic Ski World Cup, in 1989 the finals of the FIS Ski World
Cup., in 1994 the World Championship of Mountain Bike...
https://www.bromont.net/, Municipal
website
Ivan
Sache, 19 July 2018
Bromont updated its logo at some point in the last few years, and it now has
a new logo flag.
Dave Fowler, 5 March 2022
![[Bromontflag]](../images/c/ca-qc-br.gif)
image
by Ivan Sache, 19 July 2018
The previous flag of Bromont was white with the municipality's emblem.
Photo:
http://www.lapresse.ca/sports/hockey/201706/08/01-5105560-un-drapeau-des-predators-devant-lhotel-de-ville-de-bromont.php
In the French motto, "br@nchée" means "wired", "connected", therefore
the @ replacing the "a" of "branchée", and also "trendy", "hip".
Ivan
Sache, 19 July 2018