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Charles Darnay from Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities is believed to be based on him. Son of Peter Fector. [284] [285] [286] Claude Fonnereau (1677–1740), banker, from La Rochelle. [271] James Gaultier, banker, from Angoulême. [271] King C. Gillette (1855–1932), American safety razor entrepreneur and utopian theorist. [287]
Numerous signs of Huguenot presence can still be seen with names still in use, and with areas of the main towns and cities named after the people who settled there. Examples include the Huguenot District and French Church Street in Cork City ; and D'Olier Street in Dublin, named after a High Sheriff and one of the founders of the Bank of Ireland.
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English place names in Canada is a list of Canadian place names which are named after places in England, carried over by English emigrants and explorers from the United Kingdom and Ireland. The names can also be derived from places founded by people with English surnames.
After the accession of Elizabeth I, a small number of Huguenots returned to London, including Jan Utenhove in 1559. [2] In 1561, the Dutch Church of London were allowed by Great Seal of July 6th 1561 to send 25 Huguenot families to settle in Sandwich to revitalise its otherwise-dwindling economy. [5]
The Iroquois raided the Huron in Ontario during the first half of the 17th century and began to establish greater control over the hunting grounds that existed between Lake Ontario and Lake Simcoe. By the 1640s the Huron-Wendat population had been reduced considerably by epidemics .
Provinces and territories whose official names are aboriginal in origin are Yukon, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and Nunavut.. Manitoba: Either derived from the Cree word manito-wapâw meaning "the strait of the spirit or manitobau" or the Assiniboine words mini and tobow meaning "Lake of the Prairie", referring to Lake Manitoba.
European Canadians are Canadians who can trace their ancestry to the continent of Europe. [2] [3] They form the largest panethnic group within Canada.In the 2021 Canadian census, 19,062,115 people or 52.5% of the population self-identified ethnic origins from Europe.