Belgian Consular Representatives in Ohio
Mr. Paul ALLAER, Honorary Consul
Attorney at Law
Thompson Hine LLP
312 Walnut Street Suite 1400
Cincinnati, OH 45202-4029
Phone (513) 352-6700
Fax (513) 241-4771
E-mail: paul.allaer@thompsonhine.com
Canadian Consul General in Detroit
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/can-am/detroit/
Consulate General of Canada
600 Renaissance Center, Suite 1100
Detroit, MI 482-43-1798
General enquiries:
Tel: (313) 567-2340, Fax: (313) 567-2164
e-mail: dtrot@international.gc.ca
Québec Government Office in Chicago
444 N. Michigan Avenue
Room 1900
Chicago, IL 60611-3977
Phone: (312) 645-0392
Fax: (312) 645-0542
E-mail
Website: http://www.quebec-chicago.org
Consul Général de France - Chicago
http://www.consulfrance-chicago.org/
205 North Michigan Avenue, Suite 3700
Chicago, IL 60601
Tel: 312/327-5200
Fax: 312/327-5201
E-mail : contact@consulfrance-chicago.org
Agence consulaire de Cincinnati
Mrs. Anne Cappel
9253 Village Green
Cincinnati, OH 45242
Tel (513) 791-5970
Mél : cappel.anne@fuse.net
Agence consulaire de Cleveland
M. Stephen Knerly
3300 BP American Building
200 Public Square
Cleveland, OH 44114-2301
T (216) 621-7277 / F (216) 241-2824
Mél : sjknerly@hahnlaw.com
Alliance Française de Cincinnati
http://www.france-cincinnati.com/
Sonia Bohelay
P.O. Box 498936
Cincinnati OH 45249-8936
Tel (513) 389-9100
Mél : www.af@france-cincinnati.com
La Maison Française de Cleveland
http://home.att.net/~maisonfrancaise/
Affiliée à la Fédération des Alliances Françaises
aux États-Unis
Lillian Politella
20855 Chagrin Boulevard, Apt. 6
Shaker Heights, OH 44122
Tel (216) 283-1866
Mél : maisonfrancaise@worldnet.att.net
Alliance Française de Kent
Liliane Kerns
732 Avondale Street
Kent, OH 44240-4504
Tel (330) 673-8615
French Alliance Columbus
http://www.frenchalliancecolumbus.com/
PO Box 4126 Dublin, OH 43016.
info@frenchalliancecolumbus.com
Alliance Française de Toledo
http://www.aftoledo.com/index.htm
Lilliane Dockett
Common Space Center for Creativity
1700 N. Reynolds Rd., Suite 102
Toledo, OH 43615
Tel (419) 537-9024
Mél : rouqu@accesstoledo.com
Ohio Foreign Language Association
Political Advocacy Coordinator: Sarah Shackelford
Ohio AATF
Rita Stroempl, President
E-mail: rsentier@centurytel.net
Jean Morris, Secretary-Treasurer
E-mail: jmorris@muskingum.edu
French Immersion Schools
http://www.frenchculture.org/education/studies/immersion/ohio.html
Contacting Congress
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/
Ohio General Assembly
http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/senate.cfm
State World Language Consultant: Debbie Robinson Debbie.Robinson@ode.state.oh.us
Ohio has over 45,000 speakers of French, French Creole and Cajun French
La Chapelle Creek, Huron River, Portage River, North Fond Du Lac, La Carne, La Carpe Creek, La Toussaint River, etc. Vermilion, Belmont, Circleville, Massillon.Marietta was named in honor of Marie Antoinette, Fort Loramie, Fayette County, Presque Isle, and Macachee Lake.
Ohio Past and Present Locations
http://www.geocities.com/ohioplaces/
The Tuscarawas River served as a boundary line among the Indians as early as 1650. Later it was a boundary line between the French and the English
René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle, the French explorer, traveled through Ohio landed in 1667 and is thought to have been the first white person to see the Ohio River.
The first European to visit what became the Buckeye State was the explorer Robert Cavelier LaSalle, who arrived in 1669 and claimed the area for France.
Vermillion Ohio 1669 when Adrien Jolliet traversed the north shore west to east. That year two missionaries met Jolliet who told them of his passage on the lake. They recorded their visit to Lake Erie at Grand River near Long Point, where they spent the winter.
The first historical records of the American Indians in Ohio come from the French missionaries who entered into the region in late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
1669 Robert Cavelier LaSalle, who arrived, and claimed the area [Ohio] for France.
1669-1670: French explorers Adrien Jolliet and René-Robert Cavelier, sieur de La Salle, are believed to be the first Europeans to reach Lake Erie and the Ohio River.
1671: Simon Daumont de Saint-Lusson declared the lands of the western interior for France at Sault Ste. Marie. Louis Jolliet was one of the signers of this declaration which included the area that later became Ohio.
1673 : The intendant Talon sends Louis Jolliet and father
Jacques Marquette to explore the Mississippi, the Missouri and the Ohio rivers
and claim them for France.
http://www.vermilion.net/history/explorers.htm
The Diocese of Quebec was established in 1674, with ecclesiastical jurisdiction over the entire territory of New France, which included the area now part of Ohio.
In 1682, René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle explored the Ohio and Mississippi valleys, and claimed the entire territory for France as far south as the Gulf of Mexico.
1747: Ohio Company of Virginia created by Virginia land speculators. Subsequent unsuccessful efforts to erect a settlement in Ohio anger the French, Ohio Indians, Pennsylvania fur traders, and the Penn family.
1749: Jesuit Fathers Potier and Joseph de Bonnecamp came from Quebec to evangelize the Huron Indians living along the Vermilion and Sandusky Rivers in Northern Ohio.1749.4 CARTE D'UN VOYAGE FAIT DANS LA BELLE RIVIERE ENLA NOUVELLE FRANCE M DCC XLIX, by Father Joseph Pierre de Bonnecamps.
In 1749 the French sent Celoron de Blainville down the Allegheny and Ohio Rivers as a show of force to the British. Blainville buried lead plates at major river junctures along the way as proof of French ownership. Bonnecamps accompanied the expedition and prepared this manuscript map that is now at the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. It shows 'Lac' Ontario and Erie and the route down the Allegheny, the Ohio, up the Great Miami River and then down the Maumee back to Lake Erie. Bonnecamps' journal and map appear in the Jesuit Relations and the map is reproduced in Smith's Mapping of Ohio and in Hanna, which is the image shown here.
Map route of Celoron de Blainville in 1749
http://www.mapsofpa.com/18thcentury/1749bonnecamp.jpg
1752 French kill Miami chief, fortify the Ohio Valley region with forts from Lake Erie
1754 June-July
Albany Congress: Representatives from the Iroquois League and seven English
colonies, including Pennsylvania, meet to renew friendship and discuss possible
responses to the growing French presence in the Ohio Valley.
1754 French and Indian War begins as George Washington leads Virginia troops against French in Ohio Valley.
1755 - GENERAL BRADDOCK led an English army against the French in Ohio. They were ambushed and wholly defeated, Washington saving the remnant of the army.
Map in Paris, Archives Nationales. NN 173, no 46.
Essai du cours de l'Ohio avec les forts français et anglais, tiré de la carte anglaise de Washington (1755).
http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/nllefce/fr/rep_ress/an_cp.htm
1763: France cedes the Ohio country to Great Britain at the end of the French and Indian War. Ottawa chief Pontiac leads an uprising of Native Americans in an attempt to drive out the British
Historical account of Bouquet's expedition against the Ohio Indians, in 1764
http://www.ourroots.ca/e/toc.asp?id=32931790:
A colony of French settlers, located at Gallipolis on the Ohio, and Dom Peter Joseph Didier, a Benedictine monk, built a church, but growing discouraged left after a few years.
HISTORY OF MADISON COUNTY (French role)
http://www.heritagepursuit.com/Madison/MadisonChapIII.htm
2004 Ohio exports 31,208,000,000
Canada: 15,537.000,000
France 894,000,000
Belgium: 485,000,00054.2% of Ohio exports go to countries where French is an official language
2005 Ohio exports 34,801,000,000
Canada: 16,992,000,000
France 954,000,000
Belgium: 523,000,000Nearly 53.1% of Ohio exports go to countries where French is an official language
Foreign Direct Investment (New Economy Index, 2002 - Globalization)
http://www.neweconomyindex.org/states/2002/02_globalization_03.html4.7% of all Ohio's jobs come from foreign-direct investment
Foreign Companies with Operations in Ohio (2002)
http://www.odod.state.oh.us/research/ProductListing.html#B300Foreign Investment in Ohio
http://www.odod.state.oh.us/research/FILES/B300000003.pdf
French-American Chamber of Commerce of Greater Cincinnati
http://www.france-cincinnati.com/facc/index.htmlCanada-Ohio Commercial Relations
http://www.canadianembassy.org/statetrade/oh-en.aspFrench-American Chamber of Commerce (Northern Ohio Chapter)
http://members.cox.net/faccohio/links.htmlNortheast Ohio Trade & Economic Consortium
http://www.neotec.org/globalpartners.htmThere is an International CIBER
http://fisher.osu.edu/centers/international-ciber
Fisher College of Business
The Ohio State UniversityInternational Trade - Ohio Department of Development
http://www.odod.state.oh.us/itd/Ohio International Developers, Ltd
http://www.odod.state.oh.us/itd/
Site Selection Magazine has pointed out that Ohio has "an Export Tax Credit encourages global growth. Companies that increase their export sales, and at the same time either expand their Ohio payroll or capital spending, can claim a franchise tax credit."
The Canadian Studies Center at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio has published a directory profiling 147 individual firms that have locations in both Canada and Ohio. Among the findings: seventy-two Canadian-owned companies employ over 5,850 Ohioans while Ohio-owned companies in Canada employ 18,000 Canadians. Although the U.S. invests at much higher levels in Canada, during the ten years ending in 1998 the growth of Canadian investment in the U.S. has outpaced U.S. investment in Canada.
http://www.theadvertiser.com/news/html/F8183340-3107-4E48-BDE6-F91CD6F45935.shtml
