- 2026-10-08Circumventing 21 miles of falls and rapids, this portage ran some nine miles from this vicinity to a point upstream…
- 2026-10-08Circumventing 21 miles of falls and rapids, this portage ran some nine miles from Lake Superior to a point upstream…
- 2026-10-08In 1815, the Royal Navy began building a depot on the present site of Port Maitland. Though intended in the…
- 2026-10-08This portage was one of the steepest on the Kaministiquia canoe route between Lake Superior and the West. First recorded…
- 2026-10-08The neighbourhood that became commonly known as "French Town" was established in this area in 1918, when approximately 20 French-Canadian…
- 2026-10-08This 3.2 km portage around rapids in the nearby French River was among the most difficult on the Kaministiquia canoe…
- 2026-10-08A vital cultural force in eastern Ontario, the Franco-Ontarian community in Cornwall was established during the late 1870s when large-scale…
- 2026-10-08French Canadians began to settle in Hearst in 1912 during the construction of the National Transcontinental Railway. Most came to…
- 2026-10-08French explorers first arrived in the Lafontaine area around 1610. An intermittent French presence of fur traders, soldiers and missionaries…
- 2026-10-08Windsor is the oldest known site of continuous settlement in Ontario. The government of New France, anxious to increase its…