Pain Court | |
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Unincorporated community | |
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 Flag | |
  Pain Court  Pain Court | |
| Coordinates: 42°24′35″N 82°18′30″W / 42.40972°N 82.30833°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 |
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.
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]
- ^ Ontario Heritage Trust Pain Court Archived 2011-06-15 at the Wayback Machine