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Originally Posted by CityTech
If you look at the francophone population in east Ottawa and Prescott-Russell, it arrived around the same time. Prescott-Russell was originally built by anglophones--communities like Casselman, Rockland, and Hawkesbury were founded by British settlers and initially were solidly anglophone. The eastern part of Ottawa was also initially like this as well. But francophones from Quebec settled Prescott-Russell and the eastern fringes of Ottawa quite heavily in the late 19th century. Vanier was originally known as Eastview and was overwhelmingly anglophone, but became francophone majority over time and in the 1960s was renamed to reflect this fact.
Although some of the francophone settlement in the area is earlier. IIRC, L'Orignal was actually settled by the French when it was still New France, and I think Embrun was settled in the mid-19th century by francophones from Quebec.
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Yes the L'Orignal area was home to a seigneurie during the French régime.
But most of the francophone towns in that area were originally anglo. Even ones with names that suggest otherwise like Plantagenet and Alfred.