Sherbrooke, QC Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Developed as a timber town in the early nineteenth century, SHERBROOKE boomed when gold was found near here in 1861, the start of a short-lived gold rush that fizzled out within the space of twenty years, though a handful of mines struggled on until the 1940s. Most of the population checked out after the gold rush, and Sherbrooke returned to the lumber trade but without much success: the decline of the industry gradually whittled the population down to the 400 of today. One result has been the creation of the open-air museum of Sherbrooke Village (June to mid-Oct daily 9.30am–5.30pm; $7.25), which encompasses … more »