Orléans Ontario Canada
𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻 𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗢𝗳 𝗢𝗿𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗢𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗼
Orléans Ontario is a place saturated with history. Located near the Ottawa River in the eastern region of the city of Ottawa, it is filled with prehistoric sites, grand museums and art galleries, beaches and parks and gardens to explore. A tour of the city reveals its culture, the foods and cuisines from all over the world and the friendly people living within the borders of this small town. Orleans town is under three municipal wards; Orleans, Innes, and Cumberland.
From 1922 to 1974, Orleans was a community police village named after the postmaster Theodore Besserer. It was a Franco Ontarian Village, heavily under the Catholic Church's rule. It was between the boundaries of Gloucester and Cumberland towns in the late 1960's. Orleans was a part of the municipality of Gloucester as Ottawa was within the Greenbelt and had not attained amalgamation. In the early years, it was known as St. Joseph d'Orleans, named so after the French-speaking Roman Catholic Church. The main road of the then Orleans town, Jeanne D'Arc Boulevard, was named after the martyr Joan of Arc for her heroic deeds that led the French army to acquire victory in Orleans, France.
Urbanization For the longest time in its history, Orleans was very rural with the people living there mainly being of the francophone population. Urbanization in the town started in the 1960's when Queenswood Height was constructed. Since then, the area has been growing substantially into a suburb with the building of homes as well as business offices. Orleans is still populated with a sizable amount of French-speaking citizens, but in the recent years, that is quickly changing. In this period as well, the city of Ottawa was growing in development with an increase in housing project developments. It was gaining more and more amalgamation and pulling Orleans into itself.
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