Sample English in Sherbrooke Worksheet Reading Comprehension
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proofreading activity   English in Sherbrooke By Lynda Fischer
1     About one hundred fifty years ago, in a province where
most people spoke French, the south eastern part of Quebec,
Canada, was mostly English-speaking. Many people from England
came to Canada, but there were also many people from America
that came, also. After the American War of Independence
(1775-1783), many Loyalists moved to Canada, including Gilbert
Hyatt. He moved to the place where the St. Francis and Magog
rivers met. He built mills there, and other people moved to the
area to work in the mills. The people called this area Hyatt's
Mills for awhile, but in 1818 they renamed it Sherbrooke after
the Governor General, Sir John Coape Sherbrooke.
2     Sherbrooke's growth was slow at first because it was in
the middle of a forest and did not have any good roads to get to