RHPS Recognizes Franco-Ontario Day This Friday, September 25

Franco-Ontario Day happens this Friday, September 25.  Don’t forget to wear green and white to recognize this day.  There is lots to learn about this important day!  The Franco-Ontario heritage goes back more than 400 years.  Beginning in 1613, Samuel de Champlain, along with the Indigenous guides, explored many parts of Ontario accessible through waterways.  Being the history person that I am, one of the great historical Canadian pieces that ties into this day is the astrolabe that Champlain is believed to have lost around modern-day Cobden, Ontario, while conducting these explorations.