{"id":49,"count":5,"description":"Granby is a city in southwestern Quebec, located east of Montreal. The population as of the Canada 2006 Census was 47,637. Granby is the seat of La Haute-Yamaska Regional County Municipality. It is the fifth most populated city in Mont\u00e9r\u00e9gie after Longueuil, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Brossard and Saint-Hyacinthe. The city is named after John Manners, Marquess of Granby. It is the hometown of \"Canadian Jos. St-Onge\", a well known prize fighter in the 20's and 30's, and the birthplace of Pierre-Luc Dusseault, the youngest Member of Parliament in Canadian history.\nThe city was settled at the end of the 18th century by three brothers whose name the city commemorated for a while as Frost Village. It became an incorporated municipality in 1816 and a city in 1971.\nIn May 2006, the citizens of Granby and Granby Township held a referendum on a possible merger. A majority of citizens of the two municipalities approved the merger, which took effect on January 1, 2007.\nPopulation trend\n(+)...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/granby\/","name":"Granby","slug":"granby","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}