Huronie
Old Huronie
At the end of the 18th century and at the beginning of the 19th century, the England and the the United States try to delimit the borders between the British colony (Canada) and the young independent republic (the United States).
With the height of the Michigan, the transfer of the station of Michillimakinac, then that of the island Drummond, in the United States of America makes drive back the population of French-speaking “travellers” and Métis towards the area of Penetanguishene-Lafontaine on banks of the Baie Georgienne. Regaining an area which had been the theater of the first attempts at evangelization, works of the missionaries Récollet S and Jésuite S at the 17th century, these Francophone S tries to be established on grounds. But several do not adapt to the life of sedentary farmers . Some are enracinent however, forming a first French-speaking core of population in this corner of the area of the Big lakes.
They are joined starting from the beginning of the year 1840 by a second group of French-speaking colonists coming from the valley of the Fleuve the St. Lawrence, more precisely of the areas of Three-Rivers and Vaudreuil-Soulanges. They are attracted towards the arable lands of old Huronie by the priest of Penetanguishene, Amable Charest, itself originating in Holy-Anne-with-the-Pérade, not far from Three-Rivers.
In a few 25 years, they lead of sufficiently significant number to constitute a significant French-speaking settlement, giving rise to even the locality of Lafontaine, a locality of which the population is almost exclusively made up of French-speaking people. Forty French-speaking families leave the area for the plains of the Manitoba and the Minnesota in 1878, but leave behind them a few thousands of French-speaking people. The natural increase in this group is such as, without the contribution of new arrivals, their number more than doubled between 1871 and 1911.
Nowadays
In 1941, the county of Simcoe account 9.145 inhabitants of French origin, of which the three quarters are still of French native tongue, on a total population of 87.057. Like their ancestors, they are still as a large majority of the farmers.
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