Wish we had more towns that looked like that.
Does the wolf have some kind of significance in the Franco culture? Up where we cottage in Tiny Township, in the village, of Lafontaine, they have the annual Festival du Loup. And anywhere you drive around in Tiny you will see a cutout like this in front peoples' homes here and there:
http://clipart-library.com/tiny-wolf-cliparts.html
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In honour of the region's French history, Lafontaine hosts the annual Le Festival du Loup in July, a festival of francophone music and culture which celebrates the death of a wolf that terrorised the village in the 19th century.
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Starting in 1615, French Catholic missionaries, first Recollets and then, in 1625, Jesuits, began proselytizing among the Huron-Wendat.[11] The Jesuits built the mission Sainte-Marie among the Hurons and wrote extensively about the Huron-Wendat culture. In 1636, Jesuit missionary Jean de Brebeuf observed and wrote about The Huron Feast of the Dead which occurred at the Huron-Wendat village of Ossossane which was located in what is now Tiny Township.
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By the mid-19th century, families from Quebec began moving to the Tiny Township area for the cheap and fertile land to farm.
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When you see billboards or realtor signs, etc. half the surnames are French. But I've actually never overheard someone speaking French so it's not exactly Hearst, ON.
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Pictures in chronological order of what you'd see walking this route, for a change lol
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