2/02/2021
Casselman - What to Expect from a Franco-Ontarian Town in Winter
2/02/2021I bet you think the largest francophone community outside of Quebec is located in New Brunswick. The truth is, almost three times more fran...
I bet you think the largest francophone community outside of Quebec is located in New Brunswick. The truth is, almost three times more francophones, over 600,000 people, reside in the province of Ontario. Expectedly, the majority of them live along the Ontario-Quebec border, with the highest concentration - in towns and villages east of Ottawa. I happened to recently visit one of those typical Franco-Ontarians towns, called Casselman, where most people speak French in their daily lives. I hope to give you a sense of it, although you can't expect much from a small town during a province-wide lockdown in the middle of a brutally cold winter. Definitely give it another try in the summer.