French River, Ontario
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French River, also known as Rivière-des-Français, is a municipality in the Canadian province of Ontario, in the Sudbury District. The municipality had a population of 2,442 in the Canada 2011 Census. It was formed in 1999 out of unincorporated portions of the Unorganized North Sudbury District, and named after the French River that flows through the municipality.