Lakeshore Advance, 2012-06-27, Page 25Renovations • Additions
Homes • Decks • Siding
Roofing
These and others became pioneer farmers on land which they acquired from
the Canada Company for prices ranging from two to three dollars for an acre. At
such prices the farms were necessarily small. They cleared the land; built houses
and barns; planted crops and tried to make a life. Life was hard and the farms
were small so that they were still poor but they persevered. Surplus grain was
carried to Francistown a distance of 14 miles to the mill there in the north end of
Exeter. Mills in Seaforth and Goderich were eventually patronized as well.
Food was often in short supply but the fish from the lake and wild fowl and game
supplemented the food which was grown.
These folks suvived on their own ingenuity
and with the help of neighbouring farmers.
The French community on these shores
has survived for 165 years but did not
expand in numbers very much because
many had to leave for the neighbouring
cities and towns of Michigan and Ontario
cities as well.
This French community makes up part
of the ethnic settlement pattern that has
characterized the south part of Huron
County. Joining the French are German,
Irish, Scots, English,and later Dutch and
Belgian groups. Place names in Huron
reflect this pattern, including one of the
names of our area: French Settlement.
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