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The Lafontaine wolf, detail from an old photograph

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 ...

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