Sherbrooke, Qué, located 147 km east of Montréal, is the principal city of the EASTERN TOWNSHIPS. Situated in the heart of a region of lakes and mountains near MONT-ORFORD provincial park, it was for many years a commercial, industrial and railway centre. During the 1960s it also became a service centre. Sherbrooke also has the Catholic archdiocese and headquarters of the judicial district of Saint-François.