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Pain Court (often incorrectly spelled Paincourt), is an agricultural village in southwestern Ontario, Canada, in the municipality of Chatham-Kent. 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 Indian 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.〔(Ontario Heritage Trust Pain Court )〕 By the 1820s in the nearby "Pain Court Block", one of the earliest French-speaking (franco-ontarian) communities in southern Ontario had developed. Named ''Pain Court'' (literally meaning "short bread") by Catholic missionaries in reference to the small loaves of bread which was all the impoverished parishioners could offer, the settlement was surveyed in 1829. In 1852 a chapel was built and two years later construction of a church commenced. It quickly became the cultural and educational centre of French-speaking Catholics in the area. By 1866 when a post office was established, a small village had developed.〔(Historic Plaque of Pain Court )〕 Joseph Caron, the former Canadian High Commissioner to India, was raised in Pain Court. == Education == The ''Conseil scolaire catholique Providence'' (CSC) operates Francophone Catholic schools serving the community. It maintains its Chatham-Kent regional office in Pain Court.〔"(Bureau satellite de Chatham-Kent )." ''Conseil scolaire catholique Providence''. Retrieved on December 15, 2014. "Adresse: 14, rue Notre Dame C.P. 70 Pain Court Ontario N0P 1Z0 Canada"〕 Pain Court has an elementary and a secondary French-language (francophone) school. ''École Sainte-Catherine'' is a very small elementary school located directly across the street from its sister school, ''École secondaire de Pain Court'', a small high school with approximately 200 students.〔(Ecole secondaire de Pain Court / Pain Court Secondary School )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pain Court, Ontario」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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