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By Marchildon, Daniel
Legend of Loup Lafontaine
Part legend, part true story, the horrifying account of the wolf that terrorized Lafontaine, a tiny, rural, Franco-Ontarian community about 160 kilometres [100 miles] north of Toronto, was written by Thomas Marchildon, a parish priest, and published by Sudbury's Société historique du Nouvel-Ontario in 1955. It is the story of the founding of one of Ontario's oldest French-speaking villages, established at the beginning of the 19th century. Recounting the story of how the menace of an evil wolf managed to unite the divided descendants of the region's pioneer families to face a common ...
The English version of the Encyclopedia of French Cultural Heritage in North America is online since December 15th, 2009. It features an ever growing number of articles, documents and resources on the heritage of French-speaking North America.
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