AATF ADVOCACY FACT PACK FOR OHIO
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IMPORTANT FRANCOPHONE
GOVERNMENT ADDRESSES
- 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
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OHIO ALLIANCES FRANÇAISES
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Sister Cities International
(Ohio-France and Francophone World)
- Cincinnati - Nancy (Lorraine)
- Montgomery - Neuilly-Plaisance
(Ile-de-France)
- Oakwood - Le Vesinet (Ile-de-France)
- Outrement (Québec)
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Foreign Language Education
in Ohio
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DIRECT ADVOCACY ADDRESSES:
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DEMOGRAPHY
Ohio has over 45,000 speakers
of French, French Creole and Cajun French
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FRENCH PLACE NAMES
IN OHIO
- Rivers: La Chapelle
Creek, Huron River, Portage River, North Fond Du Lac, La Carne, La Carpe
Creek, La Toussaint River, etc.
- Towns: Vermilion, Belmont,
Circleville, Massillon, Fort Loramie, Fayette County, Presque Isle,
and Macachee Lake. Marietta was named in honor of Marie Antoinette.
- Ohio Past and Present
Locations : http://www.geocities.com/ohioplaces/
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FRENCH
MOMENTS IN OHIO HISTORY
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 de LaSalle 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 : CARTE D'UN VOYAGE FAIT DANS LA BELLE RIVIERE EN LA NOUVELLE
FRANCE
MDCCXLIX, 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 by the link below.
Map route of Celoron de Blainville
in 1749
http://www.mapsofpa.com/18thcentury/1749bonnecamp.jpg
1752 : The French
kill the 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 leads an English army against the French in Ohio. They are ambushed
and soundly defeated, Washington saving the surviving 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
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OHIO'S ECONOMIC CONNECTIONS
WITH THE FRANCOPHONE WORLD
Ohio exports and the Francophone World:
2004 Ohio exports 31,208,000,000
Canada: 15,537.000,000
France 894,000,000
Belgium: 485,000,000
54.2% 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: 523,000,000
Nearly 53.1% of Ohio exports
go to countries where French is an official language
Direct Investment
Foreign Direct Investment (New
Economy Index, 2002 - Globalization)
http://www.neweconomyindex.org/states/2002/02_globalization_03.html
4.7% 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#B300
Foreign Investment in Ohio
http://www.odod.state.oh.us/research/FILES/B300000003.pdf
Other Sources
French-American Chamber
of Commerce of Greater Cincinnati
http://www.france-cincinnati.com/facc/index.html
Canada-Ohio Commercial Relations
http://www.canadianembassy.org/statetrade/oh-en.asp
French-American Chamber of
Commerce (Northern Ohio Chapter)
http://members.cox.net/faccohio/links.html
Northeast Ohio Trade &
Economic Consortium
http://www.neotec.org/globalpartners.htm
International CIBER
http://fisher.osu.edu/centers/international-ciber
Fisher College of Business
The Ohio State University
International 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
Here is a current list of Ohio-based companies
with important subsidiaries in France:
A. Schulman, Inc. - Akron, OH
Advanced Elastomer Systems, L.P. (Exxon Mobil Corp.) - Akron, OH
American Greetings Corp - Cleveland, OH
Automated Packaging Systems - Streetsboro, OH
Borden Chemical, Inc. - Columbus, OH
Cardinal Health, Inc. - Dublin, OH
Chiquita Brands International Inc - Cincinnati, OH
Cincom Systems Inc - Cincinnati, OH
Convergys Corporation - Cincinnati, OH
Corrpro Companies, Inc. - Medina, OH
Dana Corporation - Toledo, OH
Diebold, Inc. - North Canton, OH
Eaton Corp. - Cleveland, OH
Erico International Corporation - Cleveland, OH
Ferro Corporation - Cleveland, OH
Formica Corporation - Cincinnati, OH
Geo Specialty Chemicals, Inc. - Beachwood, OH
Gojo Industries - Akron, OH
Goodyear Tire And Rubber Co - Akron, OH
Greif, Inc. - Delaware, OH
Hilite Industries Inc. - Cleveland, OH
I M G Worldwide Inc - Cleveland, OH
International Technegroup Inc (Iti) - Milford, OH
Invacare Corporation - Elyria, OH
Keithley Instruments Inc. - Cleveland, OH
Kendle International Inc. - Cincinnati, OH
Kinetico, Inc. - Newbury, OH
Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc. - Cleveland, OH
Liquid Control Corporation - North Canton, OH
Medex, Inc. - Dublin, OH
Metal Coatings International, Inc. - Chardon, OH
Metcut Research Inc. - Cincinnati, OH
Midmark Corporation - Versailles, OH
Milacron, Inc. - Cincinnati, OH
Myers Industries Inc. - Akron, OH
Namsa, Inc. (North American Science Associates, Inc.) - Northwood OH
CR Corporation - Dayton, OH
Nordson Corporation - Westlake, OH
Omnova Solutions Inc. - Fairlawn, OH
Owens Corning - Toledo, OH
Owens-Illinois, Inc. - Toledo, OH
Parker Hannifin Corporation - Cleveland, OH
Performance Motorsports, Inc. (Dover Corporation) - Mentor, OH
Polyone Corporation - Avon Lake, OH
Procter And Gamble Co - Cincinnati, OH
Robbins & Myers, Inc. - Dayton, OH
Rpm International, Inc. - Medina, OH
TI International Metals, Inc. - Niles, OH
Schneller Inc - Kent, OH
Shepherd Chemical Co - Cincinnati, OH
Sifco Industries, Inc. - Cleveland, OH
Smithers Oasis Cie - Cuyahoga Falls, OH
Standard Textile Co., Inc. - Cincinnati, OH
Steris Corporation - Mentor, OH
Sterling Commerce - SBC Communications - Dublin, OH
Stoneridge, Inc. - Warren, OH
The Lubrizol Corporation - Wickliffe, OH
The Reynolds And Reynolds Company - Kettering, OH
The Scotts Company - Columbus, OH
The Timken Company - Canton, OH
Think3 , Inc. - Cincinnati, OH
Totes Isotoner Corporation - Loveland, OH
Waxman Industries, Inc. - Bedford Heights, OH
Wayne-Dalton Corporation - Mount Hope, OH
Worthington Industries - Columbus, OH
Xomox Corporation - Crane Company - Cincinnati, OH
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