Bedford

Bedford is a town located in southern Quebec, Canada, near the Vermont border. This small community is just an hours drive from larger cities such as Burlington and Montreal and is the home to southern Quebec's largest scout troop.

Bedford is part of Brome-Missisquoi regional county municipality, in the administrative region of Monteregie.

The town of Bedford is located 86 km south of Montreal and right by the border with the state of Vermont (USA). Seated in the Saint-Lawrence lowlands, at the beginning of the steep leading to the Appalachian moutnains, the Rivière aux Brochets (Pike river) flows in its middle, separating the town in two, the south and north parts.

This name was given by Loyalists who new numerous Bedfords in the former colonies that they lived in in the United States. The name may have also been given in tribut to lord John Russell, 4e duke of Bedford (1710-1771), English politician and secretary of near by area(1748-1751) or governor general of Ireland 1756 à 1761.

The first settler arrives in 1812.

About 25% of the population is anglophone, thse families being settled there after the coming of the Loyalists in 1776.