Posted Jan 6, 2018, 3:29 PM
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Montérégien
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Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: Montréal, QC <> Paris, FR
Posts: 1,232
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"La péninsule ontarienne" is a common expression in French. Québec's first botanist, le Frère Marie-Victorin, used it in his famous work, "La flore laurentienne", 1935 (The Laurentian Flora, free translation). Also, in the 1700s, the whole exploration and colonization of the Pays-d'en-Haut gave rise to the expression "Péninsule ontarienne", as this area served as a base camp for the explorers and their First Nations allies (see the memoirs of La Vérendrye, for instance). Today, it's still quite commonly used, for example, in weather reports. It usually describes the area located between the laurentian piedmont (understand : the Gananoque-Kawartha-Midland diagonal) and lakes Huron, Erie and Ontario.
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