francoHFW
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So are mine, and there are no Frenchies around Toronto , just a few way to the west. I was Fisher-Price Canada and talked to all 277 toy stores in Canada...The English had a huge advantage because French people didn't want to go to Canada or anywhere else...That's Quebec, idiot. The Normans were French lol...
Maybe there should be a study on conservatives' grasp of simple geography???
Ontario was actually settled by the French first and parts were annex by Quebec at one time. So it has English, Scottish, French and Native influence.
" A French explorer Étienne Brûlé explored part of the area in 1610–12.[2] The English explorer Henry Hudson sailed into Hudson Bay in 1611 and claimed the area for England, but Samuel de Champlain reached Lake Huron in 1615 and French missionaries began to establish posts along the Great Lakes, forging alliances in particular with the Huron people. Permanent French settlement was hampered by their hostilities with the Iroquois five leagues (based in New York State), who were allied with the British. By the early 1650s, using both British and Dutch arms, they had succeeded in pushing other related Iroquoian speaking peoples, the Petun and Neutral Nation out of or to the fringes of territorial southern Ontario.[3] "
Link:
History of Ontario - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
My family is from Ontario and was one of the biggest Scottish families in the region and shared a town in Ontario with the Campbell Clan.