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My guess is French Canadian fur traders/missionaries.
Believe it or not I read the wikipedia article on this town years ago and remember the answer. It's a part of the old Northwest Company territory, the old French Canadian dominated and Montreal based competitor of HBC. The fur traders named the lake, and I think there were missionaries there later too.
The people in La Loche appear to be Metis: mixed French and aboriginal. Most people in the town have French surnames. It's quite common in western North America to find aboriginals with French surnames.
Believe it or not I read the wikipedia article on this town years ago and remember the answer. It's a part of the old Northwest Company territory, the old French Canadian dominated and Montreal based competitor of HBC. The fur traders named the lake, and I think there were missionaries there later too.
The people in La Loche appear to be Metis: mixed French and aboriginal. Most people in the town have French surnames. It's quite common in western North America to find aboriginals with French surnames.
An overwhelmingly Catholic village, too, according to Wikipedia.
An overwhelmingly Catholic village, too, according to Wikipedia.
Most of these types of towns are Catholic it is true.
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