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Although the majority of Franco-Ontarians are descended from traditional French-Canadian lineages in Quebec, the Franco-Ontarian community does include smaller populations from other French-speaking areas as well, including Acadians, Métis, Haitians and African and Asian francophones.
The Franco-Ontarian population is concentrated primarily in Northeastern Ontario, in the cities of Sudbury, North Bay and Timmins and a number of smaller towns, and in Eastern OntarioEastern Ontario is the region of the Canadian province of Ontario which lies between the Ottawa and St. Lawrence Rivers. Eastern Ontario generally refers to the following census divisions, which appear in red on the map: City of Ottawa Renfrew Lennox and, in Ottawa, CornwallCornwall ( 2001 population 45,640, metropolitan population 57,581) is a city in southeastern Ontario, Canada, located on the St. Lawrence River near the Quebec border. It is approximately 100 kilometres from Ottawa, Canada's capital, and Montreal, Quebec' and many rural farming communities.
TorontoFor alternate meanings of Toronto, see Toronto (disambiguation). City of Toronto, Ontario, Canada (in detail) (in detail) Motto: Diversity Our Strength Area: 641 sq. Distance East to West: 43 km. Distance East to West: 21 km. Population Total (2001) Cdn. also has a large francophone community -- the third largest in raw numbers behind Ottawa and Sudbury, in fact -- although due to the city's size Toronto's franco-ontarian community is only a small percentage of the total population, and is thus nowhere near as influential as it is in many smaller communities. There are also smaller pockets of francophone population elsewhere in the province, including communities such as PenetanguisheneThe town of Penetanguishene in Ontario, Canada is located on the southerly tip of Georgian Bay. Penetang, as it is often called, is a historic community, which was first recognized in 1793 by John Graves Simcoe, through the establishment of a naval base. and WellandWelland ( 2001 population 48,402) is a city on the Welland Canal in the Niagara Region of Ontario, Canada. The city was first settled in 1788 by United Empire Loyalists. In 1814, Canadian forces led by the Marquis of Tweedale met American invaders near th, and almost every community in Ontario has at least a few franco-ontarian residents.In most communities, franco-ontarians are a minority, although they may be a large and influential minority. However, some smaller communities are in fact majority franco-ontarian. These include Hearst , KapuskasingKapuskasing ( 2001 population 9,238) is a town on the Kapuskasing River in the Cochrane District of northern Ontario, Canada. It is the largest community located directly along Highway 11 between Thunder Bay and Temiskaming Shores. The town was founded in, West NipissingThe Municipality of West Nipissing is a town in northeastern Ontario, Canada on Lake Nipissing in the District of Nipissing. It is the most billingual town in Ontario with 73. 4% of its population fluent in both English and French. According to the 2001 S, St. Charles, Clarence-Rockland, Champlain, Alfred and Hawkesbury.
The French presence in Ontario dates back to the establishment of the Mission of Sainte-Marie among the Hurons at Midland in 1649. Southern Ontario was, in fact, part of Quebec until Quebec was split into The Canadas in 1791.