APR 19, postal places, Canada: Paris, ON

a) Reprise of material posted on April 19 in previous years ...

2020: new world palindromes, #17,18 (wordplay maps)
2021: etymology, dog (illustrated poem) 
2022: American satire, Deceit, social (poem)
2023: American satire, obstruction of justice (poem)

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b) Today's Offering (Apr 19, 2024): 

Authors' Note: 

fini (fee-NEE): occasionally used French loanword to emphatically indicate 'finished'

ON is the official abbreviation for the Canadian province of Ontario, in which the town of Paris, (population in 2024 of 15,000), is situated on the Grand River 110 km (70 miles) west of Toronto.

 

Gypsum, a partly hydrated sulphate salt of calcium, is used after pulverizing to form rigid structures that set on wetting. Plaster of Paris, a prized form of gypsum, originally found in deposits in France, has been widely used in surgical casts for broken bones. 

Paris, with its preserved Victorian architecture, was flagged as "Canada's prettiest town" by an international travel magazine. The town's name presumably derives from development of the townsite, in the mid-nineteenth century, to exploit the nearby gypsum deposits, not from involvement of French-speaking settlers nor any other French connection.

Francophones, comprising 5% of the province's total population, make up the majority of inhabitants of a few small towns in other regions of Ontario; surprisingly, some of these places have unequivocally Anglophone names including Hearst, Hawkesbury, and Moonbeam.

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