Pain Court
Community in Ontario, Canada / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dear Wikiwand AI, let's keep it short by simply answering these key questions:
Can you list the top facts and stats about Pain Court?
Summarize this article for a 10 year old
SHOW ALL QUESTIONS
Pain Court (pronounced pan corr by non-francophones; often incorrectly spelled Paincourt) is a historically French-speaking agricultural village in southwestern Ontario, Canada, in the municipality of Chatham-Kent.
Quick Facts Country, Province ...
Pain Court | |
---|---|
Unincorporated community | |
Coordinates: 42°24′35″N 82°18′30″W | |
Country | Canada |
Province | Ontario |
Municipality | Chatham-Kent |
Settled | 1780s |
Time zone | UTC-5 (EST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
Forward sortation area | |
Area code(s) | 519 and 226 |
NTS Map | 040J08 |
GNBC Code | FDISB |
Close
It was established in 1854, as one of the earliest French-speaking settlements in southern Ontario. Pain Court was founded when English and French-speaking squatters from the Detroit, Michigan, area began to settle the indigenous lands along the lower Thames River in the region in the 1780s. It derived its name from the small loaves of bread which the impoverished parishioners offered to Roman Catholic missionaries.[1]