L'Orignal
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right|220px right|220px|L'Orignal Courthouse and Jail, built in 1825 thumb|St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, King Street, L'Orignal, built c. 1832 '''L'Orignal''' () is a Franco-Ontarian village and former municipality, now part of Champlain Township in eastern Ontario, Canada. Its population in 2016 was 1,450. L'Orignal likely took its name from its location on the Ottawa River once known as '''Pointe à l'Orignal''' (French for "Moose Point"), where moose crossed the river. It was one of the seigneuries of New France.
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right|220px right|220px|L'Orignal Courthouse and Jail, built in 1825 thumb|St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, King Street, L'Orignal, built c. 1832 '''L'Orignal''' () is a Franco-Ontarian village and former municipality, now part of Champlain Township in eastern Ontario, Canada. Its population in 2016 was 1,450. L'Orignal likely took its name from its location on the Ottawa River once known as '''Pointe à l'Orignal''' (French for "Moose Point"), where moose crossed the river. It was one of the seigneuries of New France.
==History== In 1674, the Company of New France granted the Seigneurie de L'Orignac to François Prévost. Through inheritance, the Seigneurie eventually passed on to the de Longueuil family, owners of several seigneuries. It was one of the two seigneuries the King of France granted in present-day Ontario, along with La Salle's Seigneurie de Cataraqui (now Kingston). As part of New France, the area was ceded to Great Britain in 1763. In 1791, with the creation of Upper Canada (Ontario) and Lower Canada (Quebec), the seigneurie became part of Upper Canada.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “L'Orignal” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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