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 | | The Hamilton Diocese includes the Ontario Counties of Brant, Bruce, Grey, Halton, Waterloo, Wellington, Wentworth, and four Townships in the County of Dufferin. |
 | | The Diocese of Three Rivers was formed from the Archdiocese of Quebec, in 1852, to encompass "...the northern shore of the St. Lawrence, the Counties of Champlain and of St. Maurice — the County of Maskinongé being at that time a part of the County of St. |
 | | Maurice; on the southern bank, the Counties of Yamaska, Nicolet, Drummond, and twenty-four townships in the County of Sherbrooke..." In 1874, it was divided to form the diocese of Sherbrooke and the Vicariate-Apostolic of Pontiac, and in 1885, "...all the parishes of the southern shore were erected into the Diocese of Nicolet..." |
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