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'American Ghosts' : Haunted House
A review of "American Ghosts" - memoir from fiction writer and Providence, Rhode Island native, David Plante. The reviewer describes the book as "a perfect example of the cockpit autobiography," leading the reader into the thoughts and images of a writer's life from the navigational standpoint. -
'Beast' nostalgic for Quebec roots
Article subtitled, "This first novel describes the attempt of a Franco-American to find out who he is." A review of the 1984 novel "The Questing Beast" and a brief biographical sketch of its author, Richard Hébert. -
'down the Plains' : Love and Language Through Three Generations of Franco-American Women
Autobiographical magazine piece by a writer from Waterville, Maine. Reflections on her women ancestors and the Waterville neighborhood where they once lived, "down the Plains." Thoughts on the contemporary Franco-American woman experience, with a particular emphasis on the writer's relationship with the French language. Includes personal and other photographs. Featured in Portland Magazine's Maine Ethnicity issue, among articles about Italian, Greek, Polish, Lithuanian, Native American, and other Maine communities. -
'Evangeline' and bias
Short response to a question submitted to the monthly newspaper of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford regarding First Amendment politics, the Acadians, and the history of anti-Catholic prejudice in Connecticut. -
'Frenchie' confronts critics
After stepping down from his radio personality post at WBLM, Ernie Gagne, a.k.a. 'Frenchie,' takes part in a televised panel discussion about his ethnically-driven humor, its dissidents, and the cultural and historical issues it exhumes. The panel took place at the University of Maine at Augusta's Holocaust and Human Rights Center. -
'Frenchie' feature receives complaints
Article on certain reactions to Portland, Maine, radio station, WBLM's morning broadcast featuring humor based on "a slow-witted Franco-American" character. Differing public attitudes toward the station's program, including complaints issued by the Maine Human Rights Commission, defenses of the program offered by the station's management, and the varying opinions of some local radio listeners. -
'Frenchie' puts humor on cassette tape
Ernie Gagne, humorist and Maine talk radio voice of the controversial "Frenchie" character, releases a cassette tape of his ethnically-driven jokes. -
'I've Never Dreamed It Was Necessary to Marry!' : Women and Work in New England French Canadian Communities, 1870-1930
Essay on women's labor in French Canadian immigrant communities in New England. Explores and qualifies the idea that, for women, migration could be equated with social and economic liberation. From the text: "The ways in which these women and girls perceived the options available to them as migrants in New England cities, and took full advantage of them, suggest that for many Québécois migrant women in the decades around 1900, the United States indeed represented a land of opportunity and possibility" (p. 56). -
'It felt like something from a movie'
The fire at the Cowan Mill in Lewiston, Maine, as a spectacle: the crowds watching it blaze, the memories of its workers from long ago, the impact of its burning on the city's daily routine. -
'Le Club' is masculine
Letter to the editor that argues (tongue-in-cheek?) how the gender of the French term "le club" is reason enough for Le Club Calumet of Augusta, Maine, to justify rejecting a woman's application for membership in 1989. -
'Monsieur Maurras est ici' : French Fascism in Franco-American New England
Essay on the Franco American elite's adopted regard for French fascist politics and sentiment in New England. How WWII heightened political divisions in the United States, and the Franco elite failed to appeal politically to working-class Franco American communities. Includes discussion of 1920s and 30s Franco American political figures, as well as an exploration of the Sentinelle Affair vis-à -vis French fascism.Tags Biddeford ME, Central Falls RI, Chicopee MA, Cohoes NY, Demography, Education, Essay, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, France, Government and Politics, Holyoke MA, Language and Linguistics, Lewiston ME, Lowell MA, Manchester NH, Nashua NH, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Québec, Quinebaug River Valley, Violence, War, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
'One of us': Francos laud LePage win
Lewiston/Auburn, Maine, reaction to Paul LePage - a Franco American from Lewiston and Waterville - becoming the next governor of the state. Some insist LePage's ethnicity will raise the conversation about Franco Americans in Maine to a greater level, others argue his ethnicity is not nearly as important as his outspokenly conservative political orientation. -
'Quiet Presence' still resonates with cultural awareness
Article on Dyke Hendrickson's 1980 oral history book, "Quiet Presence," and its perceivable resonance into the present day. -
'The sound doesn't exist in English'
Interview with Maine language teacher, Charlie Hicks, on his passion for the French language and the benefits of teaching it to young people. -
'Try to Blend In:' French in Maine Bear Bias Quietly
Feature article attempting to characterize the historical plight of the Franco American people of the state of Maine. Contains brief quotes from social leaders and commentators in Bangor, Lewiston, Van Buren, and Orono. Abridged version of the article reprinted later in the Providence Journal-Bulletin ("Maine's Franco-Americans take in stride the discrimination that permeates their lives"). -
"All This / Is Abenaki Country": Cheryl Savageauâ's Poetic Awikhiganak
Article critically describing and exploring the work of poet and visual artist Cheryl Savageau through the contexts of other 20th and 21st century Abenaki historical and literary writings. Savageau is the author of the collections "Home Country," "Dirt Road Home," and "Mother/Land," among other creative works. -
"Chinese of the Eastern States," 1881
Une critique de la centiième année apriès la publication d'un rapport gouvernemental Massachusetts qui a nommé les émigrants Canadiens français dans la Nouvelle-Angleterre, "les Chinois des Etats de l'est." Une exploration de ce que ces mots et le rapport entier signifient pour la situation de la class ouvriière immigrante industrielle à la fin du dix-neuviième siiècle en Massachusetts. La question, du rapport en 1881, de la viabilité d'un journée de travail dix heures au lieu d'un sans limite horaire. -
"Don't I long for Montreal" : L'identité hybride d'une jeune migrante franco-américaine pendant la Premieère Guerre mondiale
De Fahri et Frenette: "Entre juillet 1917 et octobre 1918, Alma Drouin, jeune Franco-Américaine de Laconia, au New Hampshire, séjourne a` Montréal. Ce sont les perspectives de mobilité professionnelle offertes par la métropole du Canada qui l'y ont attirée, ainsi que la vie trépidante qu'elle y percevait. A`partir de sa correspondance et de son journal intime, nous avons tenté de saisir les représentations que se fait Alma de sa vie quotidienne à Montréal et de comprendre comment cette grande ville fait partie de sa cartographie mentale, qui est plus vaste; Alma Drouin est en fait porteuse d'une identité hybride et d'une conscience transnationale, qui se manifeste notamment par sa participation à un réseau épistolaire canado-américain. Tout comme son usage de la mobilité géographique à des fins de mobilité sociale, le réseau épistolaire d'Alma s'inscrit dans une tradition migratoire occidentale et canadienne-francaise. Si elle se construit dans sa correspondance et son journal intime comme une jeune travailleuse autonome, Alma dépend néanmoins d'un important réseau transfrontalier de parents, d'amis et de connaissances." -
"Jumping Frenchmen of Maine" : Myriachit
Article on a neurological disorder marked by violent and sometimes repetitive responses to startling movements or sounds, here found among French Canadian lumbermen in northern Maine. Based on an 1880 report of Dr. George M. Beard - the only author on such a phenomenon at the time - and his research in Maine's Moosehead Lake Region in the 19th century. How Beard's "jumping" condition compares with the similar conditions of "myriachit" and "latah," with references made to Gilles de la Tourette's research and the neurological syndrome named after him. Certain cases of the disorder's varying manifestations among those who possessed it, and the disorder's apparent disappearance. -
"Les franco-américains (1860-1980)" de François Weil et "Les franco-américains de la Nouvelle-Angleterre (1776-1930)" d'Yves Roby
Un révue comparatif de deux textes historiques qui ont pour sujet les franco-américains de la Nouvelle-Angleterre. -
"Nos ancétres les Gaulois": Ethnicity and History
in VermontEssay on the topic of ethnicity, ethnic whiteness, and the ethnic heritages of Vermont. An exploration in historiography that asks the question, "who are the 'real' Vermonters?" and considers how we could ever know the answer. -
"Somebody's Got to Pick Eggs" : Family Storytelling About Work
Article in performance studies exploring the ways in which "family storytelling" performs, addresses, and complicates cultural markers among and between family members. How ideas of race, class, gender, and sexuality appear in family storytelling, especially as such stories approach the topic of work. Study focuses mainly on a conversation between the author-interviewer and the Gagnons: a large, working-class, Franco American family in rural Maine. -
"Speak White" : Language Policy, Immigration, Discourse, and Tactical Authenticity in a French Enclave in New England
Article analyzing the Sentinelle Affair in 1920s Rhode Island as a case study in <i>la survivance</i>, for the role of language politics in spectres of assimilation and white ethnicity in the United States, and as a lens to the political economies that have historically upheld English Only language policy arguments. An expansive reading of Sentinellist responses to American Catholic Church English language policies for parochial schools. How events like the Sentinelle Affair imply what have been historical, multifaceted linguistic realities in education throughout the United States, and in particular in New England French-heritage enclaves of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Argument in favor of Franco American "settlement" in New England as best understood in the discourse of diaspora instead of the "resistance-assimilation" dichotomy that often accompanies discussions of local culture in American immigration. -
"This is Not a Catholic Nation" : The Ku Klux Klan Confronts Franco-Americans in Maine
From MIT Press Journals: "During the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan expanded to the northeastern United States, where it confronted Franco-American Catholics throughout Maine. In response, this ethnic population modeled an appropriate resistance to the KKK's unyielding message of Americanism and nativism, helping to precipitate the demise of this reactionary mass movement." -
"Why Don't You Be a Klansman?" Anglo-Canadian Support for the Ku Klux Klan Movement in 1920s New England
From the author: "This article examines a little-known dimension to the Ku Klux Klan movement in the United States during the 1920s. As Anglo-Canadian Protestants supported the KKK to assert control over French-Canadian and other Catholics in the New England states, they undermined the Klan's emphasis on Americanism and illustrated an inherent contradiction in this avowedly nativist organization."Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Alberta, Auburn ME, Barre VT, Bath ME, Biddeford ME, Canada, Central Falls RI, Colorado, Connecticut, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Government and Politics, Greenville ME, Lawrence MA, Lewiston ME, Lowell MA, Maine, Manchester NH, Manitoba, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, New Brunswick, New England, New Hampshire, New York, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Ontario, Oregon, Québec, Religion, Rhode Island, Saco ME, Saskatchewan, Toronto ON, United States, Vermont, Violence, Washington, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
« De votre chière soeur qui ne vous oublie jamais » : A Postal Perspective on French-Canadian Migration in North America
Essay on the function of the personal letter in historiography. How trails of correspondence between French Canadians in Canada and the United States in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries tell us about French Canadian migration: migrants, immigrants, families separated by distance and labor, and the sort of information that was communicated by post. The relationship of letter-writing to French Canadian literacy in that period. Contains analyses of certain private correspondences among French Canadian migrants, their families, and friends - the majority of which exisiting between Québec and New England cities.Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Bay City MI, Biddeford ME, Boston MA, Burlington VT, Cambridge MA, Cleveland OH, Cohoes NY, Douglas MA, Emigration and Immigration, Fall River MA, Family, Gardner MA, Haverhill MA, Lewiston ME, Lisbon ME, Louisiana, Manchester NH, Mauchburg MA, New England, New York, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Historiography, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Providence RI, Québec, Rutland VT, Salem MA, Sheldon Springs VT, Skowhegan ME, Southbridge MA, St. Albans VT, St. Paul MN, Suncook NH, Swanton VT, US Midwest, US Southwest, Wisconsin -
« Gardons contact » : l'expérience épistolaire de Jean-Henri et de Maxime-Ovila Freniière en Nouvelle-Angleterre, 1912-1929
Une exploration de la correspondance par lettre d'un pière à son fils au début du XXe siiècle, entre deux villes de la Nouvelle-Angleterre - Rutland, Vermont et Springfield, Massachusetts. L'étude d'une correspondance privée afin de mieux comprendre l'expérience complexe de migration canadienne-française ù elle concernait le travail, la famille, et l'individu dans le début du XXe siiècle. -
[Profile] Ron Currie, Jr., Reads: Postcard from Portland, Maine
Short piece that profiles Waterville, Maine writer Ron Currie Jr. in the context of a reading of his novel "Everything Matters!" at Longfellow Books in Portland, Maine. -
75th Anniversary of the Church Building : St. Joseph's Parish, Old Town, Maine, 1978
Short softcover book in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the St. Joseph's Church building in Old Town, Maine. Contains a parish directory in two forms: alphabetical list including family photographs, and alphabetical list with home address and telephone number. Includes an introductory letter from the current pastor, images of the parish staff and council, and a brief historical overview of St. Joseph's Church. -
A Boy's Dream Come True : Becoming a Maine Woodsman
Yarmouth, Maine man's personal account of his first day - with his new small axe - in the "BIG WOODS" with Uncle Edmund, a woodsman in North Yarmouth. His uncle and grandfather, woodcutters, as role models for an author who recalls the boyhood joys of cutting and stacking cord wood. Brief guest article written and submitted by a magazine reader. -
A Brief Chronology of French Canada, 1534-1982
A timeline of important political and cultural events in the history of French Canada and Québec up to 1982, introduced with a short reflection by the author. -
A Brief History of the Diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts
1931 diocesan history from a densely populated Massachusetts mill town. Dedicated in 1832, FRD's cathedral parish is St. Mary's, while the city's traditionally Franco American parish - St. Anne's - was established in 1869.Tags Acushnet MA, Assonet MA, Attleboro MA, Bass River Valley, Brewster MA, Centerville MA, Chatham MA, Dennisport MA, Dighton MA, East Taunton MA, Easton MA, Fairhaven MA, Fall River MA, Falmouth MA, Freetown MA, Hyannis MA, Labor History, Mansfield MA, Marion MA, Mashpee MA, Massachusetts, Mattapoisett MA, Mills and Mill Work, New Bedford MA, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Religion, North Attleborough MA, North Dartmouth MA, Norton MA, Oak Bluffs MA, Onset MA, Orleans MA, Osterville MA, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Pocasset MA, Provincetown MA, Raynham MA, Religion, Sandwich MA, Seekonk MA, Somerset MA, Swansea MA, Taunton MA, Wareham MA, Wellfleet MA, Westport MA -
A Brief History of the Franco-Americans in the Old Town Area
A paperback, illustrated, simply-written history of the Franco Americans in Old Town, Milford, Orono, and Bradley, Maine. Compiled from the larger book, "The Old Town Reader," also published by the National Materials Development Center. -
A Century of Acadian Culture : The Development of a Cajun Community : Erath (1899-1999)
History of the community of Erath, Louisiana, in the twentieth century. Introduced by a brief account of the Acadian exile in 1755. Contains snapshots of the town's economic and political development; the social life, religion, and education of its largely Cajun community; and the cultural presence and state of the town at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Erath as an historical and continuing center of Acadian and Cajun heritage in Louisiana. Contains 12 appendices regarding local officials, cultural advocacy, and Erath's Acadian Museum - from which this text was helped produced. Illustrated with photographs in black and white. -
A Chronological History : Fort Kent's Saint Louis Catholic Church, written for the observance of its 125th anniversary, 1870-1995
Brief parish history of the Roman Catholic church of Saint Louis and the communities surrounding Fort Kent, Maine. Text includes biographies of resident religious leaders, a history of the church building's construction and reconstruction, and a tribute to the parish lay community. -
A Cultural Frontier : Ethnicity and the Marketplace in Charlotte, Vermont, 1845-1860
A brief socioeconomic history of the town of Charlotte, Vermont, from its inception to the beginning of the Civil War. Charlotte as "cultural frontier," or borderland geographic space of interaction of varying peoples. How the 19th-century American market operated in this frontier - among settlers, French Canadian migrants, and Irish immigrants. Charlotte's early town planning, land distribution, and the relationship between ethnicity, profession, and economic class. The socioeconomic successes and failures of Irish and French Canadian immigrants in Charlotte. Calls for new ways of thinking about cultural and geographic borderlands like Charlotte - that we might learn more from its diverse popular interactions. Included in a collection of essays on the development of business and culture in the United States during the first decades after the American Revolution.Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Burlington VT, Business and Economics, Charlotte VT, Duchess County NY, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Farming and Agriculture, Irish Americans, Lake Champlain VT, Monkton VT, New Haven VT, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Vermont -
A date which will live in infamy, Augusta man was survivor: Poulin 'never saw so many planes'
On the fiftieth year following the 1941 Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Lucien Poulin of Augusta, Maine, tells of his experience of the surprise bombing and his subsequent involvement in World War II. -
A Franco-American Overview
Volume 1 of an eight-part series on Franco American history and life. From ERIC: "A brief narrative description of the journal article, document, or resource. Intended to help readers develop an appreciation of the contributions of Franco-Americans to the cultural heritage of the United States, this book, the first of six volumes, presents 14 readings representing many perspectives--from the historical to the sociological--illustrating the thinking and feelings of those in the forefront of Franco-American studies. This volume includes the following articles: 'What is an American?' (Madeleine Giguere); 'One Piece in the Great American Mosaic' (Robert Perreault); 'Louisiana's French Heritage (Truman Stacey); 'Haiti' (Thomas E. Weil); 'The Huguenots' (Marie-Reine Mikesell); 'The Acadians of Maine' (Julie Albert); 'The French in Vermont' (Peter Woolfson); 'The Rapid Assimilation of Canadian French in Northern Vermont' (Peter Woolfson); 'The Franco-American Heritage in Manchester, New Hampshire' (Thaddeus M. Piotrowski); 'A History of Franco-American Journalism' (Paul Pare); 'Bilingual Living' (Normand C. Dube); 'Cajun French and French Creole: Their Speakers and the Questions of Identities' (Dorice Tentchoff); 'La Cuisine Chez-Nous' ('Our Cuisine,' Sr. Marguerite Cyr); and 'Louisiana's Creole-Acadian Cuisine' (Ernest Gueymard)."Tags Acadians, Acculturation and Assimilation, Education, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Exploration and Colonization, Food, Journalism, Language and Linguistics, Louisiana, Maine, Manchester NH, New England, New Hampshire, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Anthology, Religion, Social History, United States, Vermont -
A Franco-American Overview : Louisiana, part 1 of 4
Volume 5 of a eight-part series on Franco American history and life. From ERIC: "Intended to help readers develop an appreciation of the contributions of Franco-Americans to the cultural heritage of the United States, this book, the fifth of six volumes, presents 18 chapters representing many perspectives--from the historical to the sociological--illustrating the thinking and feelings of those in the forefront of Franco-American studies. This volume focuses on Franco-Americans in Louisiana. The following readings are presented: 'France and the Mississippi Valley: A Resume' (Louise Phelps Kellogg); 'France and Louisiana in the Early Eighteenth Century' (Marcel Giraud); 'Bienville's First Administration' (Charles Edward O'Neill); 'Private Enterprise vs. Mercantilism: The Cadillac-Duclos Affair' (Carl A. Brasseaux); 'The Superior Council in Colonial Louisiana' (James D. Hardy, Jr.); 'The Development of Industries in Louisiana During the French Regime, 1673-1763' (Nancy M. Miller Surrey); 'An Adventurous Voyage to French Colonial Louisiana: The Narrative of Mother Tranchepain, 1727' (Marion Ware); 'The Establishment of a Colonist' (Antoine-Simon Le Page Du Pratz); 'From African Captivity to American Slavery: The Introduction of Black Laborers to Colonial Louisiana' (Daniel H. Usner, Jr.); 'The French and the Natchez Indians in Louisiana: 1700-1731' (Patricia D. Woods); 'La Louisiane avant Vaudreuil' ('Louisiana before Vaudreuil,' Guy Fregault) 'New Orleans under French Rule' (Sarah Searight); 'Les problemes d'installation des Acadiens en Louisiane au XVIIIe siecle' ('Settlement Problems of the Acadians in Louisiana in the 18th Century,' Jacqueline Voorhies); 'The New Orleans Revolution of 1768: A Reappraisal' (Richard Ira Matthews); 'Some Eighteenth-Century French Views on Louisiana' (Pierre H. Boulle); 'Louisiana as a Factor in French Diplomacy from 1762 to 1800' (Mildred Stahl Fletcher); 'The World Aspects of the Louisiana Purchase' (William M. Sloane); and 'The Transfer' (Pierre-Clement de Laussat)."Tags Acadians, Acculturation and Assimilation, Business and Economics, Death and Disaster, Education, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Exploration and Colonization, France, Government and Politics, Journalism, Labor History, Louisiana, Mills and Mill Work, Mississippi River Valley, New Orleans LA, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Anthology, Social History, United States, War -
A Franco-American Overview : Louisiana, part 2 of 4
Volume 6 of a eight-part series on Franco American history and life. From ERIC: "Intended to help readers develop an appreciation of the contributions of Franco-Americans to the cultural heritage of the United States, this book, the fourth of six volumes, presents 15 chapters representing many perspectives--from the historical to the sociological--illustrating the thinking and feelings of those in the forefront of Franco-American studies. This volume focuses on Franco-Americans in New England. The following readings are presented: 'New England French Culture' (Gerard J. Brault); 'Public or Parish: A Study of Differences in Acculturation of Franco-American Schoolchildren' (Peter Woolfson); 'An Ethnic Survey of Woonsocket, Rhode Island' (Bessie Bloom Wessel); 'Franco-American Efforts on Behalf of the French Language in New England' (Herve Lemaire); 'Sports and Franco-Americans in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, 1870-1930' (Richard S. Sorrell); 'U. S. Journal--Biddeford, Maine: Ou se trouve la plage?' (Calvin Trillin); 'Ethnic Stratification in the Community' (Elin Anderson); 'Race, Ethnicity and the Achievement Syndrome' (Bernard C. Rosen); 'Living Space and the Advancement of the Generations' (W. Lloyd Warner, J. O. Low, Paul S. Lunt, and Leo Srole); 'The Socio-Economic Status of the French-Canadians in the United States' (Leon F. Bouvier); 'A Genealogical Approach to the Study of French-Canadian Fertility 1650-1950' (Leon F. Bouvier); 'Language Usage in the United States: July, 1975' (U. S. Bureau of the Census); 'Social and Economic Profile of French and English Mother-Tongue Persons: Maine, 1970' (Madeleine Giguere); 'French-Canadian Settlement in Vermont Prior to the Civil War' (Ralph D. Vicero), and 'Sentinelle Affair (1924-1929): Religious and Militant 'Survivance' in Woonsocket, Rhode Island' (Richard S. Sorrell). Appendices providing a map, research notes, and an annotated bibliography conclude the document."Tags Acadians, Business and Economics, Death and Disaster, Education, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Exploration and Colonization, Farming and Agriculture, France, Government and Politics, Journalism, Lafayette Parish LA, Louisiana, New Orleans LA, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Anthology, Social History, United States -
A Franco-American Overview : Louisiana, part 3 of 4
Volume 7 of an eight-part series on Franco American history and life. Concerned specifically with "Postbellum Louisiana." Contains the following essays: "The Splendid Mystery of the Civil Code of Louisiana" - Albert Tate, Jr., "Early New Orleans Society: A Reappraisal" - Joseph G. Tregle, Jr., "Impact of Epidemic Yellow Fever on Life in Louisiana" - Jo Ann Carrigan, "The New Orleans Sabbath" - Lester R. Shippe (Ed.), "Mardi Gras in New Orleans" - A.L.S., "The Old-Time Mardi Gras" - Charles Lyell, "Dancing Belles and Beaux of Old New Orleans" - Mary Grace Swift, "The Golden Age of Opera, Theater, and the Performing Arts" - Leonard V. Huber, "The French Opera House" and "Opera in New Orleans in Days of Yore" - André Lafargue, "The Crescent City's Charismatic Celebrity: Louis Moreau Gottschalk's New Orleans Concerts" - Wille Prophit, "The French Literature of Louisiana" - Alcée Fortier, "Charles Gayarré and the Philosophy of Progress" - Herbert H. Lang, "A Voodoo Dance" - Charles Dudley Warner, "Voodoo in New Orleans" - Blake Touchstone, "The Opelousas Riot of 1868" - Claude F. Oubre, "The Brazil Exiles: A Forgotten Chapter in the History of St. Landry Parish" - Carl A. Brasseaux, "A Proposed Exhibition of Human Ferocity" and "Vive la France! Bastille Day at New Iberia, 1900" and "Alexandre Mouton and the Sugar Industry" - George A. Stearns, "A Late Nineteenth-Century View of Acadiana: Charles Dudley Warner's 'The Acadian Land'" - James H. Dormon (Ed.), "The Outdoor Oven in Louisiana" - Fred Kniffen, "Louisiana Acadian Domestic Architecture" - R. Warren Robison, "The Pieux Fence" - Mary Alice Fontenot, "Some Southwest Louisiana Toys of the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries" - Penny Baird, "Acadians and Anglo-American Education" and "The Acadians of Louisiana" - Robert L. Daniels.Tags Acadians, Art and Architecture, Brazil, Business and Economics, Caribbean, Community: Customs and Social Life, Death and Disaster, Education, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Exploration and Colonization, Fiction and Literature, France, Government and Politics, Journalism, Lafayette Parish LA, Language and Linguistics, Louisiana, New Orleans LA, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Anthology, Performing Arts, Religion, Social History, United States -
A Franco-American Overview : Louisiana, part 4 of 4
Volume 8 of an eight-part series on Franco American history and life. Concerned specifically with "French Louisiana in the Twentieth Century." Contains the following essays: "Les Acadiens au XXe siecle" - Margeurite Roman, "Acadians and Acadians" - W.C. Gaynor, " Some Population Characteristics of a Negro Village in the French Section of Louisiana" - Vernon J. Parenton, "Social Isolation of the French-Speaking People of Rural Louisiana" - Harlan W. Gilmore, "Notes on the Social Organization of a French Village in South Louisiana" - Vernon J. Parenton, "Family-Capitalism in a Community of Rural Louisiana" - Harlan W. Gilmore, "French-Speaking Farmers of Southern Louisiana" - Walter M. Kollmorgen and Robert W. Harrison, "The Country Butchery: A Cooperative Institution" - T. Lynn Smith and Lauren C. Post, "Les courses de chevaux: un sport de la campagne" - Sandra Hebert, "Naked Hell Cockfights in Acadiana" - Kenneth Paul Stewart, "Socio-Psychological Integration in a Rural French-Speaking Section of Louisiana" - Vernon J. Parenton, "Acculturation Among the Lousiana French" - T. Lynn Smith and Vernon J. Parenton, "Yesterday, Today, and Maybe Tomorrow: Pictographs in Southwest Louisiana" - Anna M. Boudreaux, "Acadian Fiddler Dennis McGee and Acadian Dances" - Brenda Daigle, "Acculturation in Cajun Folk Music" - Harry Oster, "The Influence of English on Louisiana 'Cajun' French in Evangeline Parish" - Harley Smith and Hosea Phillips, "Louisiana Creole French, Black or White?" - William J. Thomas, "Historique du journalisme d'expression française en Louisiane" - Larbi Oukada, "An Ethno-Telephonic Survey of French Louisiana" - Peveril Meigs III, "The Louisiana French" - Jerah Johnson, "The Acadian Family: Anachronism or Paradigm?" - Sarah Brabant, "The Edwards Victory" - Charles E. Grenier and Perry H. Howard.Tags Acadians, Acculturation and Assimilation, Art and Architecture, Business and Economics, Community: Customs and Social Life, Demography, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fiction and Literature, Folklore, France, Geography, Government and Politics, Journalism, Lafayette Parish LA, Language and Linguistics, Louisiana, New Orleans LA, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Anthology, Religion, Social History, Sports and Leisure, United States -
A Franco-American Overview : Midwest and West
Volume 2 of an eight-part series on Franco American history and life. From ERIC: "Intended to help readers develop an appreciation of the contributions of Franco-Americans to the cultural heritage of the United States, this book, the second of six volumes, presents 15 readings representing many perspectives--from the historical to the sociological--illustrating the thinking and feelings of those in the forefront of Franco-American studies. This volume focuses on Franco-Americans in western and midwestern United States. The following articles are presented: 'French Explorers and Settlers in Northern California, 1769-1870' (William George Reese); 'The Church in Colonial America 1492-1790' (John Tracy Ellis); 'The Huguenots of Colonial South Carolina' (Arthur Henry Hirsch); 'Le Canadien-Francais et L'Amerindien' ('The French-Canadian and the American Indian,' Charles Noyes); 'Belle-Riviere, Griffon et Creve-Coeur: La Tenace Poursuite d'un Reve Imperial' ('Beautiful River, Griffin and Heartbreak: The Tenacious Pursuit of an Imperial Dream,' M. Helene Pauly); 'De Normandie en Mongolie? Nicolet chez les Etranges Winebagos' ('From Normandy to Mongolia? Nicolet in the Land of the Strange Winebagos,' M. Helene Pauly); 'The Fur Trade in Wisconsin' (Larry Gara); 'The French Residents of Wisconsin' (Louise Phelps Kellogg); 'Minnesota--A History of the State' (Theodore C. Blegen); 'The Historical Geography of Detroit' (Almon Ernest Parkins); 'The Story of Detroit' (George B. Catlin); 'Annals of St. Louis in its Early Days under the French and Spanish Dominations' (Frederic L. Billon); 'Gulf Coast Country' (Hodding Carter and Anthony Ragusin); 'Sketches of Early Texas and Louisiana' (Frederic Gaillardet); and 'Four Cents an Acre' (Georges Oudard)."Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, California, Death and Disaster, Detroit MI, Education, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Exploration and Colonization, Geography, Government and Politics, Journalism, Louisiana, Minnesota, Native Americans, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Anthology, Social History, South Carolina, St. Louis MO, Texas, United States, Wisconsin -
A Franco-American Overview : New England, part 1 of 2
Volume 3 of an eight-part series on Franco American history and life. From ERIC: "Intended to help readers develop an appreciation of the contributions of Franco-Americans to the cultural heritage of the United States, this book, the third of six volumes, presents 17 readings representing many perspectives--from the historical to the sociological--illustrating the thinking and feelings of those in the forefront of Franco-American studies. This volume focuses on Franco-Americans in New England. The French-Canadians in New England' (William MacDonald); 'French Catholics in the United States' (J. K. L. LaFlamme, David E. Lavigne, and J. Arthur Favreau); 'French and French-Canadians in the United States' (Mason Wade); 'The Acadian Migrations' (Robert LeBlanc); 'The Loyalists and the Acadians' (Mason Wade); 'The Franco-Americans in Maine: A Geographical Perspective' (James P. Allen); 'Quebec to 'Little Canada': The Coming of the French-Canadians to New England in the Nineteenth Century' (Iris Saunders Podea); 'The French Colony at Brunswick, Maine: A Historical Sketch' (William N. Locke); 'The Franco-Americans of New England' (George F. Theriault); 'The Laborers of Manchester, New Hampshire 1912-1922: The Role of Family and Ethnicity in Adjustment to Industrial Life' (Tamara K. Hareven); 'The Franco-American Working-Class Family' (Laurence French); 'Traditional French-Canadian Family Life Patterns and Their Implications for Social Services in Vermont' (Peter Woolfson); 'The Presidential Politics of Franco-Americans' (David B. Walker); 'A Profile of Franco-American Political Attitudes in New England' (Norman Sepenuk); 'The French Parish and 'Survivance' in 19th Century New England' (Mason Wade); 'The Shadows of the Trees: Religion and Language' (Jacques Ducharme); and 'French National Societies in New England' (Edward Billings Ham)."Tags Acadians, Acculturation and Assimilation, Brunswick ME, Community: Customs and Social Life, Demography, Education, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Exploration and Colonization, Family, Geography, Government and Politics, Journalism, Labor History, Maine, Manchester NH, Mills and Mill Work, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Anthology, Religion, Social History, United States, Vermont -
A Franco-American Overview : New England, part 2 of 2
Volume 4 of an eight-part series on Franco American history and life. From ERIC: "Intended to help readers develop an appreciation of the contributions of Franco-Americans to the cultural heritage of the United States, this book, the fourth of six volumes, presents 15 chapters representing many perspectives--from the historical to the sociological--illustrating the thinking and feelings of those in the forefront of Franco-American studies. This volume focuses on Franco-Americans in New England. The following readings are presented: 'New England French Culture' (Gerard J. Brault); 'Public or Parish: A Study of Differences in Acculturation of Franco-American Schoolchildren' (Peter Woolfson); 'An Ethnic Survey of Woonsocket, Rhode Island' (Bessie Bloom Wessel); 'Franco-American Efforts on Behalf of the French Language in New England' (Herve Lemaire); 'Sports and Franco-Americans in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, 1870-1930' (Richard S. Sorrell); 'U. S. Journal--Biddeford, Maine: Ou se trouve la plage?' (Calvin Trillin); 'Ethnic Stratification in the Community' (Elin Anderson); 'Race, Ethnicity and the Achievement Syndrome' (Bernard C. Rosen); 'Living Space and the Advancement of the Generations' (W. Lloyd Warner, J. O. Low, Paul S. Lunt, and Leo Srole); 'The Socio-Economic Status of the French-Canadians in the United States' (Leon F. Bouvier); 'A Genealogical Approach to the Study of French-Canadian Fertility 1650-1950' (Leon F. Bouvier); 'Language Usage in the United States: July, 1975' (U. S. Bureau of the Census); 'Social and Economic Profile of French and English Mother-Tongue Persons: Maine, 1970' (Madeleine Giguere); 'French-Canadian Settlement in Vermont Prior to the Civil War' (Ralph D. Vicero), and 'Sentinelle Affair (1924-1929): Religious and Militant 'Survivance' in Woonsocket, Rhode Island' (Richard S. Sorrell). Appendices providing a map, research notes, and an annotated bibliography conclude the document."Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Biddeford ME, Business and Economics, Community: Customs and Social Life, Demography, Education, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Exploration and Colonization, Genealogy, Journalism, Language and Linguistics, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Anthology, Social History, Sports and Leisure, United States, Vermont, Woonsocket RI, Youth -
A French-Canadian Education and the Persistence of 'La Franco-Américanie'
From the author: "The migration of one million French Canadians from Québec to the United States between 1840 and 1940 was different from the migrations of other ethnic groups. The proximity of Québec made possible the maintenance of intimate social and cultural relationships between emigrants and their homeland. Thousands of Franco-Americans were educated in the colleges classiques of French Canada, assuring an ideological conformity between elite groups on both sides of the border and delaying the Americanization of Franco-Americans for several decades." -
A French-Canadian Wanted. Parishioners Refuse to [...] Father Feron as [...].
Article on Fall River, Massachusetts, French-Canadian Catholic parishioners gathering in "protest against the appointment of Father Feron, an Irish priest, as pastor of the parish." -
A Function of Bilateral Kinship Patterns in a New England Industry
How kinship, or how certain behaviors within a distinct social group, shape interactions between persons in industrial work settings. A presentation of case study research in applied anthropology on northern New England Franco Americans at work in a brick factory in the 1940s and 1950s. Structure and process of studied brick company and industry, presented under a fictional name. How the cultural norms of both maternal and paternal kinship - "bilateral kinship" - are infused within a separate structure and system of work, including organizational and labor habits, communication among employess, staff hierarchy, and new worker recruitment. -
A History of Franco-American Journalism
A condensed history of Franco American journalism - from its birth in 1837, to its downturn and fall in 1972. The emigration of French Canadians to the United States and the correspondingly wide and rapid production of Franco American, French language publications in the industrial centers of New England and the US Midwest. The developments and differences in political and cultural attitudes among competing publications. The controversies both spurred and captured in print by Franco American journalists. Varying degrees of Franco journalistic militancy, profiled in comparison to 19th and 20th century American political history in a global context. Emphasis on Franco American journalism in Maine, with other details on the Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island publications best known in New England.Tags Augusta ME, Berlin NH, Biddeford ME, Brunswick ME, Burlington VT, Canada, Caribou ME, Chicago IL, Cohoes NY, Community: Customs and Social Life, Concord NH, Danielson CT, Detroit MI, Dexter ME, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Farmington ME, Haverhill MA, Holyoke MA, Illinois, Journalism, Lawrence MA, Lowell MA, Madawaska ME, Manchester NH, Massachusetts, Michigan, Millbury MA, Minnesota, New England, New York, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Journalism, Northampton MA, Orono ME, Plattsburgh NY, Québec, Rhode Island, Salem MA, Sanford ME, Skowhegan ME, South Berwick ME, South Brewer ME, St. Albans VT, US Midwest, Van Buren ME, Ware MA, Waterville ME, Wisconsin, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
A History of Rumford, Maine, 1774-2000
Comprehensive history of the city of Rumford, Maine. Revised edition of the text that spanned from pre-incorporation to 1972. Updates extend to the year 2000. The Androscoggin River city in western Maine - its people, significant events, the paper industry, and the Oxford County landscapes. Includes over 100 pictures of the town. -
A History of St. Denis Catholic Church, Fort Fairfield, Maine
Roman Catholic parish history. Includes pictures of the church and its town of Fort Fairfield, Maine, reprints of relevant newspaper articles, and expositions that span the period from 1842 to 1986. -
A is for Allagash' : The life of a northern Maine man
Article on a recent memoir on the life and times of Louis Pelletier in the Allagash, Maine, of the past century. His family, his work in the woods, and his memories of early twentieth-century northern Maine. Co-authored by Louis and his daughter, fiction writer Cathie Pelletier. -
A Land of Discord Always : Acadia from Its Beginning to the Expulsion of Its People, 1604-1755
From Down East Books: " 'A Land of Discord Always' is the history of Acadia up to the time of the grand derangement. It tells how a unique society grew and prospered in an obscure corner of North America only to be crushed in a contest between eighteenth-century imperial superpowers. Peopled with memorable men and women whose exploits make fascinating reading, it is a narrative filled with the bravery and cowardice, the foresight and foolishness, and the design and happenstance that determined Acadia's turbulent history." -
A Listener's Guide to Francophones in the Northeast
Linguistic guide to French dialects often heard among French speakers in New England. Essay that traces, in condensed form, the historical evolution of Indo-European language into North American and New England dialects of French. Origins of certain French dialects in New England. Comparisons between North American and European French vocabularies and pronunciations, generally, with certain examples. Linguistic explanation of southern New England dialect common vowel and consonant sounds. Includes list of "northeastern American French usages not heard in Europe" and a short bibliography. Annotations of soundtapes that are included with written material. Designed for workshop use. Divided into the following sections: The Problems The History The Language The Tapes Developed by the Bilingual Education Service Center at the University of Vermont. -
A Living Pulsating Phenomenon : The French-Canadian Immigrant Experience in Lawrence
Descriptions of Franco American people and community in Lawrence, Massachusetts. One essay in a collection of graduate-level academic essays on immigration and ethnicity in Massachusetts and the United States. From a seminar in the study of history, "Graduate Studies in Immigration," at Salem State College. -
A look back in time
A time line of the history of the Cowan Mill in Lewiston, Maine, published on the day following the great fire that burned the defunct mill to the ground. -
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A Map of Mexico City Blues : Jack Kerouac as Poet
From Southern Illinois University Press: "In this pioneering critical study of Jack Kerouacâ's book-length poem, 'Mexico City Blues' a poetic parallel to the writerâ's fictional saga, the 'Duluoz Legend' James T. Jones uses a rich and flexible neoformalist approach to argue his case for the importance of Kerouacâ's rarely studied poem....After a brief summary of Kerouacâ's poetic career, Jones embarks on a thorough reading of 'Mexico City Blues' from several different perspectives: he first focuses on Kerouacâ's use of autobiography in the poem and then discusses how Kerouacâ's various trips to Mexico, his conversion to Buddhism, his theory of spontaneous poetics, and his attraction to blues and jazz influenced the theme, structure, and sound of Mexico City Blues....Jonesâ's multidimensional explication suggests the formal and thematic complexity of Kerouacâ's long poem and demonstrates the major contribution Mexico City Blues makes to post–World War II American poetry and poetics."
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A memorial for Kerouac
Article part 2 of 2 on the recent Lowell, Massachusetts, city council vote to commemorate author Jack Kerouac with a park bearing his name. Full article title includes the line: "After years of indifference, Lowell votes to build a park." Charts Kerouac's sudden rise to fame with the publication of his novel, "On the Road." His ensuing lifestyle in the public eye, his behaviors scrutinized by many in Lowell. Kerouac's life and works as an affront to the popular values of his working-class hometown, and his apparent abandonment by fellow Lowellians. The recent apparent change in attitude toward Kerouac, though with some evidence of familiar resistance. -
A Modern-Day Voyageur Family : Paddling the 3,000 Mile Fur Trade Canoe Route Across the U.S. and Canada
From the author: "When Kevin and Ben Kent were ages seven and five, their parents conceived an exciting, enriching, and educational project for the family. As a team, they began paddling the 3,000 mile length of the mainline fur trade canoe route across the U.S. and Canada, retracing the steps of their French ancestors. This ancient native route, which consisted of an extensive series of rivers and lakes, stretched from Montreal to the Great Lakes to Ft. Chipewyan on Lake Athabasca, in northern Alberta. This was the primary highway on which most fur trade, military, and religious personnel had traveled and hauled cargo into and out of the interior regions of North America during the entire fur trade era. Successfully paddling this ancient water highway from end to end over a series of fifteen consecutive summer trips, the Kent family experienced daunting challenges and terrifying calamities, as well as innumerable thrills and a great deal of satisfaction. In the process, the members of the family also absorbed much geography and history, and, most importantly, developed an appreciation of their own inner strengths. This engrossing and thought-provoking account of the adventures of the family incorporates a considerable amount of fur trade history, in which their direct French ancestors participated from about 1618 to at least 1758. 'A Modern-Day Voyageur Family,' written by one of the pre-eminent historians of the fur trade era, serves as both a source of inspiration and a guidebook for other families, couples, and individuals who wish to paddle all or portions of the historic route, or various other wilderness waterways. It also provides vicarious experiences and myriad lessons for those individuals whose venturing usually takes place in a safe reading chair on land. This work consists of a vivid adventure story, a how-to guide, and a primer on virtually all aspects of the French fur trade, all in one volume." -
A New France in New England
Some comments from an American critic at the time of a visible wave of French Canadian immigration to the United States - especially New England - in the 1880s. Provides a favorable social and political context from the French Canada of this period. Attempts social, linguistic, and political description of both French Canadian immigrant professionals and members of the working class. Discusses immigrant attitudes toward assimilation, their reasoning and their feasibility. Thoughts on the future growth of the French Canadian population in New England. -
A New Order of Things : How the Textile Industry Transformed New England
General history of the textile industry and its workers in the towns and cities of New England. From early domestic and small-scale manufacturing in the 17th and 18th centuries, to weaving industries of the early 19th, to the massive riverside brick mill structures and labor forces that persisted into the later 20th century. Contains scholarship, oral histories, and many illustrations in painting and photograph of industrial-era settings, workers, and their manufacturing equipment. Written by former director of the American Textile History Museum and the Maine State Museum.Tags Alna ME, Andover MA, Androscoggin River Valley, Augusta ME, Berlin NH, Billerica MA, Blackstone River Valley, Braintree MA, Brunswick ME, Business and Economics, Chelmsford MA, Clinton MA, Dedham MA, Dover NH, Dracut MA, Dudley MA, Emigration and Immigration, England, Fall River MA, Gardiner ME, Gonic NH, Hallowell ME, Harrisville NH, Holden MA, Holyoke MA, Irish Americans, Kingston NH, Labor History, Laconia NH, Lawrence MA, Lewiston ME, Lincoln RI, Londonderry NH, Lovell ME, Lowell MA, Ludlow MA, Maine, Manchester NH, Manville RI, Massachusetts, Merrimack River Valley, Middlefield NY, Mills and Mill Work, Nashua NH, New Bedford MA, New England, Newburyport MA, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Pawtucket RI, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Portsmouth NH, Providence RI, Quequechan River Valley, Rhode Island, Rockville CT, Rowley MA, Saco ME, Salem MA, Salem NH, Sanford ME, Slatersville RI, Somersworth NH, South Waterford ME, Springvale ME, St. John River Valley, Taunton MA, Ware MA, Warren RI, Webster MA, Winthrop ME, Worcester MA, Yarmouth ME, York ME -
A New Order of Things : How the Textile Industry Transformed New England
General history of the textile industry and its workers in the towns and cities of New England. From early domestic and small-scale manufacturing in the 17th and 18th centuries, to weaving industries of the early 19th, to the massive riverside brick mill structures and labor forces that persisted into the later 20th century. Contains scholarship, oral histories, and many illustrations in painting and photograph of industrial-era settings, workers, and their manufacturing equipment. Written by former director of the American Textile History Museum and the Maine State Museum.Tags Alna ME, Andover MA, Androscoggin River Valley, Augusta ME, Berlin NH, Billerica MA, Blackstone River Valley, Braintree MA, Brunswick ME, Business and Economics, Chelmsford MA, Clinton MA, Dedham MA, Dover NH, Dracut MA, Dudley MA, Emigration and Immigration, England, Fall River MA, Gardiner ME, Gonic NH, Hallowell ME, Harrisville NH, Holden MA, Holyoke MA, Irish Americans, Kingston NH, Labor History, Laconia NH, Lawrence MA, Lewiston ME, Lincoln RI, Londonderry NH, Lovell ME, Lowell MA, Ludlow MA, Maine, Manchester NH, Manville RI, Massachusetts, Merrimack River Valley, Middlefield NY, Mills and Mill Work, Nashua NH, New Bedford MA, New England, Newburyport MA, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Pawtucket RI, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Portsmouth NH, Providence RI, Quequechan River Valley, Rhode Island, Rockville CT, Rowley MA, Saco ME, Salem MA, Salem NH, Sanford ME, Slatersville RI, Somersworth NH, South Waterford ME, Springvale ME, St. John River Valley, Taunton MA, Ware MA, Warren RI, Webster MA, Winthrop ME, Worcester MA, Yarmouth ME, York ME -
A new voice : Feisty editor gives Franco pride a boost
Profile of University of Maine's Franco-American Centre director and journal editor, Yvon Labbé. Comments from Labbé on the social and linguistic conditions of New England Franco Americans, and the ways in which the Centre's journal (Le FAROG Forum) attempts to bring these and their historical backgrounds to greater public attention. Contains a brief biographical sketch, comments from certain academics, and some of Labbé's commentary on the historical circumstances of a modern Franco American cultural identity. -
A Parish Grows Around the Common : Notre-Dame-des-Canadiens, 1869-1995
History of the Roman Catholic parish of Notre-Dame-des-Canadiens (what became "Notre Dame/St. Joseph Parish") in Worcester, Massachusetts, from 1869 to 1995. Presented chronologically according to the lives and service of parish pastors and the achievements of their parishioners. The role of this parish in Worcester, and its development intertwined with the change and growth of the city. Emphasis on the parish's Franco American community - its parish laity and leadership. Includes lists of pastors, associate pastors, and their terms of service at Notre-Dame-des-Canadiens; pastors and terms of services at St. Joseph, Holy Name of Jesus, and St. Anthony parishes; choir directors, organists, and concerts from 1869 to 1995. -
A Pictorial History of Immigration
American immigration history in photos by the author of the award-winning historical piece, "The Uprooted." -
A Popular History of the Catholic Church in the United States
A single volume on the history of the Catholic Church in North America: from Columbus' arrival in 1492 to the French Jesuits and Native Americans of the 16th and 17th centuries, to the Irish of the 18th and 19th, up to the America of the period of the book's publication. A late-nineteenth-century perspective on the growth of Catholicism in America written by the Archbishop of New York. Some comments on the state of religious freedom in the early United States. Chapters devoted to Catholic male and female religious orders in the United States, as well as the state of Catholic education, art, print media, and other subjects concerning American Catholic expression. According to the author, published in the United States partly as an attempt to counter the decline of "public virtue" he saw evidenced in the content of newspapers and public discussion. From a review of the text published therein: "[This volume] gives a rapid and faithful sketch of the progress of the Church in North America from the days of Columbus to the present year [1876]..." (Manhattan Monthly, xviii)Tags Art and Architecture, Baltimore MD, Boston MA, Canada, Cincinnatti OH, Education, Emigration and Immigration, Fiction and Literature, German Americans, Government and Politics, Irish Americans, Italian Americans, Journalism, Native Americans, New England, New Orleans LA, New York NY, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Religion, North America, Poetry, Religion, United States -
A Profile of Franco-American Political Attitudes in New England
A scholarly paper exploring some of the potential reasons for the absence of Franco Americans from political life in New England, and, in the author's estimation, the apparent reluctance of Franco Americans to engage in the public life and political leadership of their respective cities and states. The "attitudes" of New England Franco Americans toward politics in general. Some discussion of "the French-Canadian Ethos" and its historical foundations in Quebec, the place of assimilation in Franco American life, and the cultural context of twentieth-century Franco American political activity. Unpublished paper written for John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Also featured in A Franco-American Overview : New England, Part 1 of 2.Tags Berlin NH, Biddeford ME, Brunswick ME, Canada, Central Falls RI, Chicopee MA, Claremont NH, Connecticut, Demography, Fall River MA, Fitchburg MA, France, Franklin NH, Gardner MA, Government and Politics, Holyoke MA, Labor History, Laconia NH, Lawrence MA, Leominster MA, Lewiston ME, Lowell MA, Madawaska ME, Maine, Manchester NH, Massachusetts, Nashua NH, New England, New Hampshire, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, North Adams MA, Pawtucket RI, Putnam CT, Rhode Island, Rochester NH, Rumford ME, Salem MA, Sanford ME, Somersworth NH, Southbridge MA, Van Buren ME, Vermont, Waterville ME, Winooski VT, Winslow ME, Woonsocket RI -
A Reference Librarian in Special Collections : Making the Most of a Learning Opportunity
Brief article written by a reference librarian on her experience at work in multiple capacities during a transitional period of the Franco-American Collection of Lewiston-Auburn College, University of Southern Maine. Includes tips from the author on "cross-training" in both reference and archival librarianship, and the good fortune she had of being able to work closely in a subject area of personal interest. -
A Rich Past -- A Challenging Future : A Tribute to SS. Peter and Paul Parish (Paroisse St. Pierre et St. Paul)
A parish history of SS. Peter and Paul in Lewiston, Maine, up to the year 1996 - before the church's dedication as a basilica. An overview of the building's constructions, the parish's resident priests, and the Franco American community's involvement with the local church. -
A Shoe-Maker's Story: Being chiefly about French Canadian immigrants, enterprising photographers, rascal Yankees, and Chinese cobblers in a nineteenth-century factory town
A history of photography, shoemaking, mining, and immigration as they converged on North Adams, Massachusetts, in the 1870s. From the text: "...[this book] is concerned...with the industrialization of a New England craft at one of its key historical moments; the tumultuous and often violent debates about labor, race, class, and citizenship during the decade and a half after the Civil War..." -
A Short History of Waterville, Maine
A brief history of Waterville, Maine, written by a graduate of Waterville's Colby College and published online by the city government of Waterville. Begins with the city's peopling, moving through the town's incorporation apart from Winslow in 1802, to its industrial and immigrant transitions, up to the present. Includes a bibliography of texts on Waterville. -
A Society Of Two Worlds : Une Société des Deux Mondes
Article subtitled, "French-Canadian Life And Culture In Vermont." A profile of French Canadian and Franco American communities in the state of Vermont, through the eyes of some Vermonters and academics. Large emphasis on the roles of family, religion, and traditional music as perpetuated cultural norms. What generational changes to these things mean to Franco Americans in Vermont. Contains captioned images.Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Averill VT, Beebe VT, Burlington VT, Community: Customs and Social Life, Derby Line VT, Emigration and Immigration, Essex Junction VT, Family, Farming and Agriculture, Isle LaMotte VT, Lakeside VT, Mills and Mill Work, Music, Newport VT, North Troy VT, Northeast Kingdom VT, Norton VT, Québec, Religion, Rutland VT, South Burlington VT, Vermont, Winooski VT, Youth -
A Study of Textile Mill Closings in Selected New England Communities
A study of the 1950s closings of selected textile mills from all six New England states, explorations of their local and regional economic impacts, and analyses of community adjustments to economic change. Local recovery measures taken to compensate for losses in labor, industry, and government income. Studies take into account the varying economic settings of the New England communities at hand, including their potential for economic development, their capacity to provide work opportunities to former millworkers, and their ability to withstand out-migration. Data is compiled from interviews with community members and state and local government statistics. Based on the following textile centers in their respective industrial cities: Saco-Lowell Shops, Bates Manufacturing Company, and Pepperell Manufacturing Company in Biddeford, Saco, and Sanford, Maine; Textron, Incorporated (previously Nashua Manufacturing Company) in Nashua, New Hampshire; the Fort Dummer mill (Berkshire Hathaway, Incorporated) in Brattleboro, Vermont; the Berkshire mills (Berkshire Hathaway, Incorporated) of Adams, Massachusetts; Wauregan Mills, Incorporated of Wauregan, Connecticut.Tags Adams MA, Arctic RI, Biddeford ME, Brattleboro VT, Business and Economics, Central Village CT, Clyde RI, Connecticut, Crompton RI, Danielson CT, Death and Disaster, Government and Politics, Labor History, Lippit RI, Maine, Massachusetts, Mills and Mill Work, Moosup CT, Nashua NH, Natick RI, New Hampshire, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Old Orchard Beach ME, Pawtuxet River Valley, Phoenix RI, Plainfield CT, Providence RI, Quinebaug River Valley, Rhode Island, Riverpoint RI, Saco ME, Sanford ME, South Carolina, Vermont, Wauregan CT, West Warwick RI -
A Transcript of Interviews with Franco-Americans
A documentation of results from language tests given to Franco Americans in the late 1950s. Considers local vocabulary and phonetics. From the document's abstract: "The interviews were designed to illustrate the chief features of the French spoken by New England Franco-Americans and to provide useful information for facilitating instruction in standard spoken French of the New England area." ERIC title indicates a resource in two parts. -
A Translator's Journey : A Retrospective
Personal observations of a Franco American author and psychotherapist on his French-to-English translation of "Body Psychotherapy: History, Concepts, and Methods" by Michael Heller. Confronting the prospect of a translation project; reencountering the "long dormant French language" of his youth; configuring and reacquainting his body to speaking in French. -
A Yankee in Canada : with Anti-slavery and reform papers
Compilation of travelogue and political writings of American essayist and public thinker, Henry David Thoreau. Part one describes brief travels by train from Thoreau's Concord, Massachusetts home, through New Hampshire and Vermont, and into the province of Quebec. Originally published in 1866, "A Yankee in Canada" describes some Québec landmarks (Morenci, St. Anne, Québec City), French Canadian Catholics, and the author's attempts at communicating with the people around him. Part two presents writings on slavery, reform, and civil disobedience in the middle of the nineteenth century. -
A? travers les frontiières : Québec and Québec Studies
From the author: "Since the onset of la Revolution Tranquille more than 25 years ago, the province of Québec has established an ever-increasing international presence, alone and in cooperation with the Canadian federal government. Provincial authorities, with assertiveness and confidence, have worked to establish the province as the heartland of the French in North America and also to present the Québécois as representing a distinctive society. This study briefly traces the evolution of the Québécois' adventurous nature and examines the various ways in which the province functions beyond its frontiers, especially within the academic milieu." -
About Men : A Middle-Aged Orphan
Short essay on the recurring presence of writer Clark Blaise's deceased father - the stories he both took with him and left behind, and the impact of certain memories of this man on Blaise in his adult life. -
Acadian Hard Times : The Farm Security Administration in Maine's St. John Valley, 1940-1943
Collection of photos of farmers, farm families, and landscapes in the St. John Valley, Maine, taken by the federal Farm Security Administration in the early 1940s. Doty gives historical context and new captions to the photos. The book concludes with new photos from a 1980s return to the people and places visited decades earlier by the FSA.Tags Acadians, Business and Economics, Caribou ME, Community: Customs and Social Life, Family, Farming and Agriculture, Food, Fort Kent ME, Frenchville ME, Government and Politics, Grand Isle ME, Keegan ME, Labor History, Lewiston ME, Lille ME, Maine, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Nonfiction -- History -- Local, Nonfiction -- History -- Pictorial, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Québec, Sinclair ME, Soldier Pond ME, St. Agatha ME, St. David ME, St. John River Valley, Van Buren ME, Wallagrass ME, Youth -
Accentuating the Differences
A preface to this issue of Yale French Studies that focuses upon the idea of "writing in Québec(ois)." Sarkonak traces the North American transition from français, to Canayen, to French Canadian, to québécois, and asks how language and writing in Québec helps to rethink French Studies. -
Achieving Bibliographical Control over the Franco-American Printed Heritage
A brief historical essay commenting on the wide and various publication of French language periodicals (dailies and other newspapers) in New England and Quebec during the period of great cross-border migration, between 1860 and 1930. The author's argument for finding, identifying, collecting, and archiving these publications that document an historical period and long-term event for which little other access exists. The importance of this historical data not only for American immigrants, but for Canada, and for a better knowledge of the impact of emigration on economy and national identity in Quebec. Efforts toward the discovery and preservation of this French language print material as an attempt at more deeply informing borderland peoples and governments about their pasts. Featured in the May 1996 newsletter of the Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions. -
Acquiring a Slice of Anglo-American Pie : A Portrait of Language Shift in a Franco-American Family
Third chapter in a collection of essays on language ideology as related to issues surrounding the political movement in favor of codifying English the official language of the United States. This essay presents a case-study in the processes and progression of language shift in the home - from French to bilingual to English - as taking place within a large family in a rural Vermont community. Certain impacts of rurality/urbanity, educational institutions, socialization norms, world events involving the United States (eg., wars), and age on the processes of linguistic assimilation. Differences in language abilities, as well as differences of opinions on language usage and legislation, as seen between younger and older siblings. Contains a brief overview of French Canadian immigration to New England.Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Connecticut, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Farming and Agriculture, Government and Politics, Language and Linguistics, Mills and Mill Work, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Language and Linguistics, Northeast Kingdom VT, Vermont -
Actuelles : Les Franco-Américains : I & II
La transcription d'une programme de radio de série, présentée par Radio-Canada sur une période de deux semaines. Deux animateurs canadiens parlent aux personnes à travers la Nouvelle-Angleterre sur les sujets de la langue, l'immigration, la littérature, la religion, et plus encore. Divisé en chapitres suivants:
Semaine I (3-7 sept.): Les Franco-Américains L'arrivee aux Etats-Unis L'installation et les conditions de vie L'eglise catholique et les Franco-Americains: Hier et aujourd'hui Semaine II (10-14 sept.): Le peuple des invisibles Une culture nostalgique Culture, c'est aussi litterature Les Francos et la francophonie L'avenirTags Albany NY, Auburn ME, Biddeford ME, Bristol CT, Burlington VT, Business and Economics, Central Falls RI, Champlain NY, Chazy NY, Cohoes NY, Concord MA, Education, Emigration and Immigration, Essex VT, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Farming and Agriculture, Folklore, Forestry, Fort Kent ME, Greene ME, Hardwick VT, Holyoke MA, Irish Americans, Italian Americans, Jewish Americans, Language and Linguistics, Lawrence MA, Lewiston ME, Lowell MA, Madawaska ME, Madison ME, Manchester NH, Mills and Mill Work, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Documentary, Old Orchard Beach ME, Old Town ME, Orono ME, Plattsburgh NY, Québec, Radio, Saco ME, Schenectady NY, St. John River Valley, Troy NY, US Midwest, Van Buren ME, Violence, Waterford NY, Winooski VT, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
Advertisement: St. Augustine Federal Credit Union
Advertisement for the St. Augustine Parish credit union in North Augusta, Maine. -
Advocates defend school programs on chopping block
Supporters of a number of educational programs - including elementary French - threatened by cuts to the Augusta, Maine, city budget make their voices heard at a Board of Education public forum. -
AGAINST ALL ODDS: LIFE ON THE HILL: A neighborhood held together by common bonds
Part 1 of 4 of the October, 1991, series entitled, "Against all odds: Life on the 'Hill'" - a close look into Augusta, Maine's Sand Hill (Sandhill) neighborhood. Part 1 gives the cultural background of the Hill and looks to a few of its community members to provide some personal anecdotes and an intimate neighborhood history. -
AGAINST ALL ODDS: LIFE ON THE HILL: Places that provided common heritage gone or declining
Part 4 of 4 of the October, 1991, series entitled, "Against all odds: Life on the 'Hill'" - a close look into Augusta, Maine's Sand Hill (Sandhill) neighborhood. Part 4 includes two pieces: one acknowledging the vast changes that have taken place in the community since the early 20th century, the other acknowledging the still present voice of Le Club Calumet, a Franco-American social club, that has undergone its own sort of struggle. -
AGAINST ALL ODDS: LIFE ON THE HILL: St. Augustine Church - the spiritual, social center
Part 2 of 4 of the October, 1991, series entitled, "Against all odds: Life on the 'Hill'" - a close look into Augusta, Maine's Sand Hill (Sandhill) neighborhood. Part 2 focuses on St. Augustine Roman Catholic Church, the unifying center for many in the parish spread up and across this part of north Augusta. -
AGAINST ALL ODDS: LIFE ON THE HILL: St. Augustine School changes with the times
Part 3 of 4 of the October, 1991, series entitled, "Against all odds: Life on the 'Hill'" - a close look into Augusta, Maine's Sand Hill (Sandhill) neighborhood. Part 3 is a brief look into St. Augustine School, the educational foundation - alongside Sylvio J. Gilbert Public School - for Hill residents. St. Augustine School opened in 1888 and closed in 2008, to be merged with St. Mary's School into a single Augusta Catholic Diocesan school - St. Michael. -
Age of equality
Editorial piece arguing that Le Club Calumet should, as directed by the Kennebec County Superior Court, admit women as members, and discontinue the membership policy of its Augusta, Maine, establishment that is arguably based in part on sex discrimination. -
Agriculture and the Lumberman's Frontier in the Upper St. John Valley, 1800-70
Essay on the interconnection of agriculture and forestry, the farming and lumbering industries, their effects on one another, and their implications on population through the nineteenth century in the St. John River Valley in Maine and New Brunswick. -
Agriculture et marché au Madawaska, 1799-1850
Une histoire de l'économie de Madawaska entre 1799 et 1850, et un question de l'éxistence d'une vie de subsistance ou d'un dépendance de circuits commerciaux dans cette époche. Du texte: "Les zones de colonisation passent pour avior été pauvres et limitées aux cultures de subsistance. Distances et mauvais moyens de communication les auraient coupées des marchés. Le Madawaska ne fait pas exception a cette régle, et les historiens décrivent ses débuts comme difficiles, mais le Madawaska fait mentir le stéréotype: son agriculture fut triès tot prospière et commercial." From the text: "The areas of colonization have been thought of as being poor and limited to those cultures based solely on subsistence. Long distances and poorly developed means of communication supposedly cut off many local economies. Madawaska was no exception to this rule, and its historians describe its economic beginnings as being difficult, but Madawaska also belies the stereotype: the bulk of its early agricultural economy flourished and was highly marketable." -
Ah les États! : Les travailleurs canadiens-français dans l'industrie textile de la Nouvelle-Angleterre d'apreès le témoignage des derniers migrants
Un portrait historique des travailleurs canadiens-français aux États-Unis, dans les usines de la Nouvelle-Angleterre, au prémiere moitié du 20e siiècle. Les synthièses historiques de l'immigration et du travail, avec certaines statistiques pertinentes. Témoignages de ceux et celles qui ont travaillé aux Etats-Unis. Des breves discussions sur l'adaptation des immigrants au travail et la vie industrielle, à la vie aux États-Unis, et sur les gens qui sont retournés au Québec dans le 20e siiècle. Des témoignages - des histoires orales - de 1981 et 1982, des entrevues avec sept travailleurs canadiens-français qui a vécu les expériences décrites dans le récit historique de l'auteur. Illustrée dans les photos noirs et blancs.Tags Biddeford ME, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Family, Labor History, Lawrence MA, Lewiston ME, Lowell MA, Manchester NH, Manville RI, Mills and Mill Work, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- General, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Nonfiction -- Immigration, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Québec, Social History, Taunton MA, Ware MA -
Album souvenir du 75e anniversaire de la Paroisse Saint-Pierre et Saint-Paul de Lewiston, Maine, 1871-1946
De l'avant-propos: "Lieu de rencontre du Ciel et de la Terre, temoin de l'effusion des tendresses divines et des accents sinceres du culte chretien, l'eglise paroissiale est l'ame qui fait battre le couer de la population franco-américaine....On aura mieux compris cette idee quand on aura parcouru cet album-souvenir ou sont racontes triès brievement les grands elans de vie catholique franco-américaine inspirées et dirigées par la paroisse Saint-Pierre et Saint-Paul de Lewiston, Maine." -
Album-souvenir du centenaire de la fondation de la Paroisse St-Bruno, Van Buren, Maine : 1838-1938
Une histoire de la Paroisse St-Bruno de Van Buren, Maine, entre 1838 et 1938. Ecrit pour l'occasion de la centiième année de cette paroisse dans la Vallée St-Jean. Contiens photos des curés et des soeurs paroissials, aussi que les histoires de leurs contributions à la paroisse et la communauté catholique de Van Buren. Photos des écoles paroissiales et le college Ste-Marie (avec des noms et des visages de quelques étudiant(e)s), la couvent, et l'église de la paroisse. -
Along the St. John Valley
Feature article on the towns and people of the St. John River Valley in Aroostook County, Maine. Photos of farm, church, and family, in illustration of the descriptions of rural life along Maine's north and northeastern Canadian border. Interviews with a priest, town manager, and other Valley residents.Tags Acadians, Acculturation and Assimilation, Allagash ME, Dickey ME, English Americans, Farming and Agriculture, Forestry, Fort Kent ME, Frenchville ME, Hamlin ME, Irish Americans, Keegan ME, Language and Linguistics, Lille ME, Madawaska ME, Maine, Notre Dame ME, Scottish Americans, St. David ME, St. Francis ME, St. John ME, St. John River Valley, Van Buren ME -
America's French Heritage
A brief history of the French presence in North America. English translation of "Une Amérique française." From the text: "When we think of the French contribution to the history of the United States, we immediately think to Lafayette, especially in the bicentennial year of American Independence. We might be prone to forget that a large part of the American territory was, in the first place, French: discovered, mapped, and colonized as such from Montreal to Quebec....A work designed for the greater public and for all types of students, 'America's French Heritage' is a vast portrait illustrating the contribution that, for more than 350 years, millions of coureurs de bois, voyageurs, missionaries, colonists, businesspeople, workers, intellectuals, and others from France and Canada have brought AND still bring to the United States...."Tags Acadians, Arkansas, Boston MA, Canada, Detroit MI, Emigration and Immigration, Exploration and Colonization, France, Government and Politics, Great Lakes Region, Illinois, Language and Linguistics, Louisiana, Manchester NH, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montréal QC, Native Americans, New England, New Hampshire, New Orleans LA, New York, Newport RI, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- French in North America, Nonfiction -- History -- General, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA, Québec, South Carolina, St. Louis MO, United States, War, Wisconsin -
American Perceptions of Québec
Article describing popular American ideas of Québec and Canada in the 1970s and 1980s. The appearance of Québec in USA print and television media; attitudes of the American business community toward Canadian and Québécois economy; American understandings and misunderstandings of Québec linguistic and cultural identities. Low interest among Americans in Québec and Canadian politics, and the changing perceptions of Québec among American economists and foreign policy analysts amidst Québec separatist energies in the 1980s. Comparisons between Québec and the historical make-up of the USA Confederacy and the American South. -
American Perspectives on La fiièvre aux États-Unis, 18601930 : A Historiographical Analysis of Recent Writings on the Franco-Americans in New England
Article in Franco American historiography. Analysis and comparison of recent major historical writings on New England Franco Americans and their importance for American and Franco American Studies. Particular emphasis on historiographical perspectives of scholars in the United States, as compared to Canadian scholarship. Trends in Franco American history writing: preoccupation with la survivance; consideration of divisions among Franco American communities; new social history; gender; ethnic revival; post-assimilation. References to particular scholars, scholarly events, methods of scholarship, and pieces of writing. Questions and suggestions for future study. Contains a considerable list of cited works. -
American, United Statian, USAmerican, or Gringo?
One of two articles in the "From the Culture of Borders to Border Cultures" issue of AmeriQuests journal. From AmeriQuests: "The text discusses the use of the word 'American' when referring to people from, or citizens of, the United States of America. The fact that the citizens of the United States call themselves 'Americans' causes discomfort for many Latin Americans, who see the appropriation of the collective identity of all peoples and countries of the Western Hemisphere as a clear act of cultural imperialism. The article discusses the historic origins and the consolidation of the use of 'American' in this restricted sense." -
Américanité-américanisation des Québécois : quelques éclairages empiriques
Une exploration du terme et du thième "américanité" en tant qu'un point focal d'identité et d'identification du Québécois francophone. Les maniières dont la géographie, la langue et la perception culturelle de soi comprendre pour les perceptions d'une relation à l'Amérique du Nord ou aux États-Unis. Des statistiques d'une enquête démographique québécoise - des réponses des quéstions du vocabulaire et l'identification culturelle de soi - présentés dans les tableaux de données. -
Amoskeag : Life and Work in an American Factory-City
History of the former Amoskeag mills and Manchester, New Hampshire, through the eyes and mouths of their laborers and citizens. Contains worker interviews, as well as a detailed study of mill divisions and processes. From the book jacket: "The book focuses on the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, once the largest textile factory in the world. The shells of its awesome mills still extend for two miles along the Merrimack River in Manchester, New Hampshire. Never before have we known so vividly what it was like to live a life in the closed world of a single gigantic industrial entity, from the first moment a child set foot in a mill carrying his father's or mother's lunchpail to the moment he retired or was laid off 60 years later."Tags Community: Customs and Social Life, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Labor History, Manchester NH, Merrimack River Valley, Mills and Mill Work, New Hampshire, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Social History -
An Acadian Heritage from the St. John River Valley
Collection of newspaper articles, essays, and images in an illustration of Acadian cultural heritage at the US-Canada border. From the Madawaska Historical Society in the St. John River Valley of northern Maine. -
An Analysis of Canadian Bilingual Districts Policy
A paper looking into the location and development of Bilingual Districts in Canada - meaning, the establishment of outposts of Canadian federal services that can take place in both English and French to serve a population that has significant percentages (greater than a 10% collective) of people who speak one language or the other in the minority. The author evaluates how proclaiming certain districts and not others "bilingual" can have an effect on the perception of that region, on the psychology surrounding assimilation, and on the population in that region keen to the language politics active in its surroundings. -
An Ethnic Survey of Woonsocket, Rhode Island
A case study and scientific report on ethnic make-up in Woonsocket, Rhode Island around 1930. Demographic figures on school populations, families, and communities in Woonsocket with regard to ethnicity and culture, compiled from survey data. Takes into account immigrant residents' geographic region of origin. Lacks information from Woonsocket Catholic schools because of the concurrence of what we now know as the "Sentinelle Affair" - a drawn-out dispute between laypersons and Church hierarchy over the preservation of national parishes. Some statistics on language usage. From the author: "In general, the survey of Woonsocket seeks to describe the public-school population in terms of geographic origin, ethnic ancestry, ethnic fusion, and the degree of Americanism" (9). Submitted as Ph.D. thesis at Columbia University, 1935. Republished in 1970 by Arno Press. -
An Explanation of "Petits Choux"
Short article describing the origins of "petits choux" as a term of endearment among francophones, and of certain myths used by Franco Americans in New England cities like Lewiston, Maine to explain to young children how new babies are brought into the world. -
An Exploratory Study of the Purchasing Habits of French-Surnamed Americans in the State of Maine
Report of 1973 survey research conducted on the purchasing, consumption, and leisure habits of Franco Americans in Maine. Analyses of shopping patterns - brand selection, store location, and more - based on data from 10 sample communities. Also contains data on family size and structure, income, and education of survey participants. General recommendations for further demographic and economic research. Tables (31) containing all collected data, as well as a sample of the survey/questionnaire received by informants. -
An Open Letter to Whom It May Concern: A Rebuttal to Calumet Club Superior Court's Judgment
A lengthy open letter concerning the potential effects of Kennebec County Superior Court's ruling against Le Club Calumet, charging it to begin admitting women into the membership ranks of its historically all-male establishment in Augusta, Maine. The letter's primary concern is the court's designation of the Club as a "public accommodation," not a private one, that might potentially be forced to admit any person without regard for ethnicity. -
And one who's still waiting
A commentary on the headline article of this issue, "Women in the Clubs," that elaborates a discussion of Nancy Albert Ellis. In 1988, Ellis was refused membership to the all-male Franco American social club, Le Club Calumet, of Augusta, Maine, and began a course of litigation that lasted a number of years. -
Anti-Calumet attitude
Letter to the editor berating Augusta, Maine's Kennebec Journal for its selective coverage of the controversy involving Le Club Calumet and Nancy Ellis - a battle over gender and club membership that landed both parties in the Maine Supreme Court. -
Antoinette's Patience : A Canadian Family in Epping
Article profiling Antoinette Bernier, 79, and her family in Epping, New Hampshire. Her young life in a New Hampshire town shaped by the brick yards there and the French Canadians - her relatives and husband included - who immigrated to work in them. On baking bread: how she learned it, her methods, and its popularity among her children. Based on an interview with Mrs. Bernier, conducted while she makes bread, and written largely in her voice. Illustrated in black and white photograph. Presented in an issue of of Salt entitled, "I could never call myself a Yankee: Five Immigrant Experiences." -
Artist's stark portraits suited to his subjects
Article on a 1983 exhibition of art held at the University of Maine at Orono. Entitled "Calling forth the Spirits - Souffle Vital," this exhibition featured drawings and other prints created by Peter Archambault, a Madawaska, Maine native and then-resident of Edmunston, New Brunswick. Some of the artist's comments on his method and medium, and some thoughts on how his work is received. -
Assimilation in American Life : The Role of Race, Religion, and National Origins
1960s study of social life in the United States with regard to ethnic and religious characteristics and their significance to processes of assimilation. Social group observation as a means of understanding cultural conflicts based on incommensurate "value-assumptions," and as a foundation to eliminating many sources of inter-group prejudice (16). Contains information acquired from interviews with officials from numerous American organizations concerned with intercultural relations. General sociological introduction to group structures, stages of assimilation and its subprocesses, and theories for occurrences of these in the United States. The American formation and presence of the "ethclass" - "[the characteristic sub-societal unit] based on race, religion, and, to a declining extent, national origin, criss-crossed by social class stratification..." (160). Sections devoted to African Americans, Jews, Catholics, and intellectuals as functioning American "subsocietal" structures. Hypotheses and suggestions for the future of cultural and structural pluralism in the twentieth-century United States.Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, African Americans, Community: Customs and Social Life, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, German Americans, Irish Americans, Italian Americans, Jewish Americans, Mexican Americans, Native Americans, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Ethnic Studies, Nonfiction -- Social Sciences, Nonfiction -- Sociology, Religion, United States -
Aubuchon Hardware: Celebrating 100 Years
A newspaper supplement to the Bangor Daily News, Morning Sentinel, Kennebec Journal, Lewiston Sun Journal, Portland Press Herald, and York County Coast Star in celebration of Aubuchon Hardware's 100th anniversary. Contains a number of old photos and new essays on the company's history in New England. -
Augusta
An "Images of America" series, pictorial history of the city of Augusta - Maine's capital - with images and captions from the late nineteenth through the first half of the twentieth century. Augusta's place in Maine state politics; its early families, businesses, and city structures; leisure-time activities. One chapter devoted to Augusta's Franco American community, its people and its insitutions.Tags Augusta ME, Business and Economics, Clubs and Societies, Cobbosseecontee Lake ME, Community: Customs and Social Life, Family, Government and Politics, Kennebec River Valley, Lisbon Falls ME, Maine, Mills and Mill Work, Moosehead Lake Region, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Local, Nonfiction -- History -- Pictorial, Photography, Religion, Sand Hill ME, Sports and Leisure -
Augusta 200/Days remembered
A captioned image from within Pomerleau's Bakery that sat on Franklin Street in Augusta, Maine, in the 1940s. The Kennebec Journal celebrated Augusta, Maine's bicentennial (1797-1997) throughout that year by regularly featuring city images from days long past. -
Augusta couple: The mill was their life
Article on Davilla and Yvonne Croteau, husband and wife, who together spent more than 100 years working at the Edwards Mill in Augusta, Maine. Their reminiscing here comes in the aftermath of the mill burning to the ground in the winter of 1989. Article includes pictures from the 1934 Edwards Mill strike. -
Augusta seizes abandoned paper mill, City plans to have buildings demolished, seeks options for redevelopment
The City of Augusta, Maine seizes the eastside paper mill, formerly known as "Statler Tissue," with the stated purpose of demolition for potential development. According to the Kennebec Journal, the mill closed in 2001. -
Backing Calumet Club
Letter to the editor regarding the 1989 Le Club Calumet controversy sparked by a woman's seeking entry into the all-male club. Offers a measure of support for the Augusta, Maine, Club in its rejection of the woman's request. -
Backwoods Consumers and Homespun Capitalists : The Rise of a Market Culture in Eastern Canada
From University of Toronto Press: "In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a local economy made up of settlers, loggers, and business people from Lower Canada, New Brunswick, and New England was established on the banks of the Upper St. John River....In 'Backwoods Consumers and Homespun Capitalists,' Béatrice Craig examines and describes this economy from its origins in the native fur trade, the growth of exportable wheat, the selling of food to new settlers, and of ton timbre to Britain. Craig vividly portrays the role of wives who sold homespun fabric and clothing to farmers, loggers, and river drivers, helping to bolster the community. The construction of saw, grist, and carding mills, and the establishment of stores, boarding houses, and taverns are all viewed as steps in the development of what the author calls 'homespun capitalists.'"Tags Acadians, Business and Economics, Canada, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, Farming and Agriculture, Fishing, Forestry, Government and Politics, Labor History, Maine, Mills and Mill Work, New Brunswick, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Nova Scotia, Québec, St. John River Valley -
Ballots and Bibles : Ethnic Politics and the Catholic Church in Providence
From Cornell University Press: "Through her account of the newcomers' fight for political inclusion, Evelyn Savidge Sterne offers a fresh perspective on the nationwide struggle to define American identity at the turn of the twentieth century....In a departure from standard histories of immigrants and workers in the United States, 'Ballots and Bibles' views religion as a critical tool for new Americans seeking to influence public affairs. In Providence, this book demonstrates, Catholics used their parishes as political organizing spaces. Here they learned to be speakers and leaders, eventually orchestrating a successful response to Rhode Island's Americanization campaigns and claiming full membership in the nation."Tags Community: Customs and Social Life, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Government and Politics, Ireland, Italy, Labor History, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Nonfiction -- History -- Religion, Providence RI, Québec, Religion, Rhode Island, Violence, War -
Bates College officials shocked : Didn't know certain workers barred from speaking French
Article relating the reaction of Bates College officials to being made aware, after student protests, of a rule forbidding campus employees to speak French in the company of non-French-speakers. The college president and dean's apologies for the practice and the ban, and the commitment to draft new policies protecting the language rights of French-speaking employees. -
Becoming American : An Ethnic History
A history of immigration in the United States, its national impact, and the effects of American naturalization upon immigrant ethnic identity. From the cover: "From the English settlers who founded the Jamestown colony to the recent refugees from Vietnam and Cuba, the history of American has always been tied to the fortunes of its immigrants. Thomas J. Archdeacon presents a fascinating account of the foreign peoples and cultures that for nearly four centuries have transformed America and, in the process, transformed themselves. Discussing Europeans and Asians, Africans and American Indians, he weaves their stories together, shows how they mingle and diverge, and relates their collective experience to the critical decisions we face in coping with the thousands of immigrants who continue to arrive yearly on our shores."Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, African Americans, Canada, Chinese Americans, Emigration and Immigration, England, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, German Americans, Government and Politics, Ireland, Irish Americans, Italian Americans, Japanese Americans, Jewish Americans, Labor History, Mexican Americans, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Immigration, Québec, Religion, Slavic Americans, United States -
Being social at the social club
News article on social clubs in Lewiston, Maine - what they offer, who they cater to, how they have changed over time, and the value they still provide to many in the city. -
Berlin : Ville industrielle du nord (texte et audio)
Le deuxieme texte de la collection "Villes franco-américaines de la Nouvelle Angleterre." Une histoire de la ville de Berlin, New Hampshire - son peuple et son paysage. Introduit par Céline Fortier de Berlin. Ecrit pour les jeunes pour l'apprentissage de la langue française. Accompagné d'un enregistrement audio du texte narré par Céline Fortier. The second text in a series entitled, "New England Franco American Cities." A profile of the city of Berlin, New Hampshire - its people and its landscape. Introduced by Celine Fortier of Berlin. Written for the French language-learning classroom. Accompanied by an audio narration of the text by Celine Fortier. -
Berlin Mirrors State Trend
Brief article outlining the history of the French Canadian and Franco American presence in Berlin, New Hampshire, and the cultural changes the city has undergone from 1890 onward. The rise and fall of the influence of historically French Canadian cultural institutions - parochial school, church, music - in Berlin. -
Beyond a U.S. - 'Anglo' Curriculum
Short essay describing the inability of current education models to serve the needs of Maine "native non-English bilinguals." Arguments in favor of acknowledging cultural difference through education policy and curriculum development. General suggestions based on linguistic scholarship on bilingualism and diglossia. Certain examples of French-English language realities in Maine. Featured in an issue of Maine Emphasis entitled, "Curriculum Design." -
Biddeford : A Franco-American Experience in Old Photographs
Pictorial History of Biddeford, Maine, with a particular emphasis on Franco American life there. Biddeford, an industrial city, can claim the presence of working mills from as far back as 1800, many years before the first French Canadian migrations to the area. -
Big Liquor Seizures in Bennington, Vermont
Article on multiple criminal alcohol seizures from a number of Vermont social clubs in the 1910s. -
Bilingual Education : A Program in New England
Some thoughts on the special features and concerns of "bilingual education" as one of many sorts of language education methods, and with a certain set of goals for an individual's growth. The particular state of the French language relative to the Franco American's use of it, the contexts for its usage, and the successes that might be achieved from its usage in a bilingual education setting. Featured in a collection of papers from a 1974 Indiana University conference on the francophones of the Americas. Complete title of the text includes the following: "Actes ducolloque tenu aè l'Université d'Indiana, Bloomington, du 28 au 30 mars 1974." -
Bilingual Education Pays Off, New Documentary Says
Article of interview with filmmaker Marcia Jarmel on her and colleague Ken Schneider's new documentary, "Speaking in Tongues," about bilingual education in America. Features a Vimeo linked preview to the film. From the editor of New America Media: "To date, 30 states have passed English-only laws, and many American[s] are skeptical of bilingual education because they want their children to learn in English, not Chinese or Spanish. 'Speaking in Tongues,' the latest documentary by Bay Area filmmakers Marcia Jarmel and Ken Schneider, sheds light on the cognitive and developmental value of learning in two languages at a young age..." -
Bilingualism good for the brain
Subtitled, "The longer a person has spoken two or more languages, the greater the cognitive effects." Article on the long-term benefits of bilingualism, including marked enhancements in decision-making functions, as well as longer retained brain function for bilinguals with Alzheimers. Also considers, however, the natural limits to a bilingual person's dual vocabulary. -
Bishop Celebrates One of Final Masses at Saint André, Biddeford
Brief article on a Roman Catholic mass celebrated by Bishop of the Diocese of Portland, Maine, Richard Malone, at St. André Church, Biddeford, Maine. This ceremony was held, in tribute to the parish, two months before the occasion of the church's closing on December 31, 2010. St. André Church was opened in 1910. -
Bishops for the French Canadians
Article from the Montreal Witness, January 22, about a French-Canadian American's visit to a Quebec Cardinal in order to request French-Canadian coadjutor bishops in New England, for the purpose of representing the majority Franco congregations. -
Black Robe on the Kennebec
Historical piece on early French Jesuits missionizing to Abenaki in Maine's Kennebec River Valley in the 17th century.Tags Acadians, Art and Architecture, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Exploration and Colonization, France, Government and Politics, Illinois, Kennebec River Valley, Maine, Native Americans, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Religion, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Religion -
Border Culture, the Boundary Between Canada and the United States of America, and the Advancement of Borderlands Theory
Discussion of "border culture" as a product of both the divisions and the transnational cultural and political relationships apparent in societies that share a geopolitical boundary. Exploration of "borderlands theory" as a means for considering the origins, functions, and development of national borders in a globalizing world. Specific focus on the boundary between the United States and Canada, on what the authors call "the multiple layers of border" - political, social, economic, legal, cultural - and how they are woven organically though communities on each side of the dividing boundary. How borders shape and help us to think about human culture. From the authors: "In the process of globalization it is border culture that ultimately sustains linkages, assures continuity and maintains prosperity between bounded states. In this essay we explore how border culture works, and how the conceptualization of border culture advances our understanding of how borders work. Our approach is to establish a place for the consideration of culture in the more extensive debates about border theory through a focus on the Canada-U.S. border, and how this border advances our knowledge of border culture and border theory." -
Boston's French Secrets : Guided Walks That Reveal Boston's French Heritage
Travel guide to the city of Boston, Massachusetts, centered around local sites with significant French history. An effort in French archaelogical tourism. Includes brief histories of all large-scale migrations to the United States from the Francophone world, including the first of the Huguenots during the seventeenth-century Wars of Religion in Europe. -
Bravo! les Franco-Américains
Quelques commentaires sur le rapatriement de Canadiens français des États-Unis à Québec. Certaines investissements dans l'infrastructure au Québec, comme pris par une banque franco-américaine de Rhode Island. Des descriptions de ces investissements - de terres agricoles et de voies ferrées au Canada - comme opportunités d'affaires et l'emploi pour les rapatriés. -
Bravo! Monsieur Yastrzemski frappe un coup d'exterieur
Article on the translation of baseball into the cultural registers of French Canada and the vernaculars of the Canadian French language. -
Brewing for Baxter
Profile on Maine engineer and brewer, Michael LaCharite. The founder of Portland, Maine's Casco Bay Brewing company, LaCharite was sought out to help develop the varieties of beer now produced by Lewiston, Maine's Baxter Brewing. LaCharite cites a family tradition of home-brewing as one of the foundations for his passion and talents. -
Bringing Religion into Working-Class History : Parish, Public, and Politics in Providence, 1890-1930
Essay exploring the diverse ways in which the Catholic church in Providence, Rhode Island served its predominantly immigrant, working-class parishioners as a public space from which to express political opinion, and as a mouthpiece for the assertion of various civil rights. The church as meeting space, often standing in for other American means of organization, education, or public communication. "[T]he centrality of the Catholic Church in working-class public life..." (151). An attempt at a new articulation of the place of religion in 20th century American working-class history. Focuses on Providence's Irish, Italian, and French Canadian immigrant Catholics.Tags Community: Customs and Social Life, Education, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Federal Hill RI, Georgiaville RI, Government and Politics, Irish Americans, Italian Americans, Labor History, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Religion, Providence RI, Religion, Violence -
Brokers of Ethnic Identity : The Franco-American Petty Bourgeoisie of Woonsocket, Rhode Island (1865-1945)
Article describing the emergence of a Franco American petty bourgeoisie class in southern New England at the beginning of the 19th century, and the ability of francophone elites in this region and time period to maintain strong ties with French Canada. The interweaving of Woonsocket, Rhode Island entrepreneurial and French cultural life, including parish, fraternal, and community organizations. -
Brunswick's French Connection
Historical essay marking the links between the Franco American community of Brunswick, Maine, and the city's historic liberal arts institution, Bowdoin College. Details of Brunswick's French history alaongside notes on Bowdoin's Franco American enrollment, college employees, and various historical commitments to local research and local people. Introductory notes on immigration from Québec, labor in local industry, community life, and the diverse ethnic make-up of neighboring cities. Illustrated in black and white photograph. Based on research conducted for an exhibition of the Pejepscot Historical Society entitled, "Pejepscot's Little Canadas: Franco Americans of the Region." Featured in the official magazine of Bowdoin College. -
By Necessity or by Right : The Language and Experience of Gender at Work
Article exploring how feminist historiography impacts interpretations of the rise of labour in the US and Canada, recognizing the divisions of gender that are fixed along the North American process of industrialization. From the text: "It is the purpose of this article to uncover the ways in which these fissures and divisions within class and organized labour either furthered or truncated the political ideal of class unity in Canada's past. How has the consideration of women's work and the problem of how industrialization reinforced cultural constructions of gender outside the workplace offered by historians over the past 25 years in 'Labour/Le Travail' either contributed to or altered the conventional views?" -
By Penacook
Article on the annual gathering of the New England Franco-American Chamber of Commerce at Concord, New Hampshire, in 1903. -
By-Laws of the Department of Connecticut, Franco-American War Veterans, Inc.
Booklet of by-laws written, proposed, and adopted by members of the Department of Connecticut Franco-American War Veterans, Inc. Introduced with the organizational preamble. Contains 17 adopted articles regarding membership, dues, organization, conventions, officers, duties, and administration. According to the preamble, this group was organized "with patriotic, educational, historical, and fraternal purposes"..."to stimulate a greater interest in the principles of Americanism among the Franco-Americans of the United States of America," among other reasons. By-laws revised from the original by-laws proposed 14 February 1958. -
Calumet appeal argued in court
Le Club Calumet, a Franco American men's social club in Augusta, Maine, appealed to the Maine Supreme Court a decision made by the superior court that would have forced the club to admit women as members. This article covers the beginning of the arguments heard at the highest court in Maine. -
Calumet claims bias against French women legal; rights panel disagrees
Article on the arguments heard in Kennebec County Superior Court, Augusta, Maine, in a case of the Maine Human Rights Commission versus Le Club Calumet, a Franco-American fraternal organization. -
Calumet Club cancels celebration
Augusta, Maine's Le Club Calumet canceled its 1991 anniversary celebration. The Club cited a lack of participation. -
Calumet Club claims law permits limited private ethnic membership
Article on public comments made by Le Club Calumet following its lawsuit against the Maine Human Rights Commission. Maine HRC previously ruled that the Club was breaking a law of public organization when it refused to admit a woman as a member. -
Calumet Club faces rights hearing
A Readfield, Maine, woman who was denied membership at Le Club Calumet - a men's Franco-American social club in Augusta, Maine - appealed to the Maine Human Rights Commission on account of discrimination. -
Calumet Club loses Round 1
The Maine Human Rights Commission ruled that Le Club Calumet, an all-male Franco American social club in Augusta, Maine, discriminated when it refused membership to a woman applicant. The article contains commentary from arguing members of the Club and the MHRC councilpersons who voted unanimously to label officially the Club's decision as discrimination based on sex. -
Calumet Club vows to fight court ruling
After being forced by the Kennebec County Superior Court to admit women members, Le Club Calumet of Augusta, Maine, objected, and claimed to consider filing an appeal. -
Calumet faces big problems
Letter to the editor acknowledging the problems that would potentially arise for Le Club Calumet - an all-male Franco American social club in Augusta, Maine - if it were declared public by the judicial system, and thus forced by law to admit women as members. -
Calumet hurt its own
Letter to the editor opposed to the Maine Supreme Court's decision in favor of Le Club Calumet barring women from membership in its Augusta, Maine, organization. -
Calumet members make no decision yet on admitting women
After the Maine Human Rights Commission deemed Le Club Calumet - an Augusta, Maine, Franco-American men's club - discriminatory for not admitting women as members, the Club was forced to decide if it would change its policies regarding membership or face litigation. -
Calumet should stay as it is
Letter to the editor in support of the 1989 decision of Augusta, Maine's Le Club Calumet to reject the membership application of a woman, Nancy Albert Ellis, and remain an all-male organization. -
Calumet told it must let women join: Calumet loses bid to keep women out
In a 1991 ruling, the Kennebec County Superior Court decided that Le Club Calumet, a Franco American fraternal organization in Augusta, Maine, was a public organization , and therefore could not exclude women from its membership - as it had done for 69 years, and as had been the provisions of its bylaws. -
Calumet's first-class women
Letter to the editor lauding the women who volunteer at the all-male Franco American social club, Le Club Calumet, in Augusta, Maine, without becoming club members. Comes in response to the controversy of a woman whose attempt at membership in the Club was rejected, and who appealed to the Maine Human Rights Commission to prove the Club's unlawful discrimination based on her sex. -
Camille Lessard-Bissonnette: The Quiet Evolution of French-Canadian Immigrants in New England
The published book form of Shideler's 1991 Ph.D. thesis from the University of Massachusetts. A biographical study of a québécoise and first-generation Franco American author and her works - as a means, Shideler writes, "to identify the position of the immigrant at the juncture of two diverse societies and ways of life" (2). From the publisher: "The inclusion of the ethnic voice in the examination of what has been termed 'American' literature is a significant development, but what of the voice of the ethnic woman? This study seeks to answer that question and, at the same time, shed light on the effects exercised by the act of immigration as well as on the specific fate of French-Canadian immigrants to the United States at the turn of the century...." Lessard-Bissonnette is perhaps best known for her serialized novel entitled, "Canuck," about a French-Canadian immigrant to industrial New England.Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Community: Customs and Social Life, Criticism and Review, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Fiction and Literature, Gender and Sexuality, Government and Politics, Journalism, Labor History, Lewiston ME, Lowell MA, Québec, Religion, Social History -
Can this heritage be saved?
Feature article on the present (1977) cultural situation of Franco Americans in Maine. Discussion of their minority demographics, as well as local, academic, and federal intiatives to bolster bilingual educational support, community solidarity, and public recognition. Looks specifically to the Acadians of the St. John Valley and the Francos of the lower half of the state, especially in Lewiston, and the differences between their communities and histories. Written in light of pending federal legislation to recognize Franco-Americans as an official and distinct minority group, thereby making available more federal money for culturally relevant programs. -
Can two languages survive in Québec?
Article on the concurrent usages of French and English in 1970s Québec, and opinions as to the future of the province of Québec's language landscape. Special to the CSM written by Lisbon, Maine, author, Denis Ledoux. -
Canada in the United States : Perspectives on Migration and Continental History
Brief historiographical piece that begins with discrepancies between Canadian and American data on Canadian migrants to the United States. Concerning studies of continental migration - both empirical and theoretical, international statistics on migrants, and what all of their points might say about the border as a crux of the development of Canadian-American relations in the early twentieth century. Argues that "the migration process" itself and all of its actors, not simply the ethnic cultures of some of its particular actors, must be examined to better a grasp of migration history. -
Canada Road artifacts find a home
Article on the Old Canada Road Historical Society's purchase of an aged home in Bingham, Maine, as a location to publicly display historical artifacts from the upper Kennebec River Valley region. -
Canada: Changes of Fifteen Years. The French-Speaking Population Influence of The Roman Catholic Clergy "A Word to The Wise" The British Army And The Young Canadians Idleness Out of Fashion Manufacturing Enterprise, &c. The Russian Army. Republican Nominations.
1874 article remarking on the social conditions of Canada, seemingly split between predominantly French- and English-speaking geographies. -
Canadian firm seeks legal right to handle freight at Madawaska mill: Rail dispute
Dispute over rail access between Canadian National Railway Co. and Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway, the latter ostensibly blocking CN from reaching a Madawaska, Maine, paper plant. -
Canadian Wave Seen Swamping Border States
Article on French-Canadian immigration as a point of concern for the American Institute of Politics, especially with regard to debt policy in the United States. -
Canadians in New England
1885 editorial that begins with the appointment of a French-Canadian priest to a Fall River, Massachusetts, Catholic parish only after parishioners appealed to the Archbishop to overturn the diocesan bishop's Irish appointment. Devolves into a tirade against the French-Canadian immigrant population. -
Canadiens et Américains chez eux : journal, lettres, impressions d'une artiste française
Un texte par Armand Dupras (France Ariel est un pseudonyme) sur une tournée de concerts du trio musical Larrieu (de la France) aux États-Unis dans les années 1910. -
Canadiens, Acadiens, and Canada : Knowledge and Ethnicity in Labour History
Essay on the relevance of French Canadian immigrant workers in the United States to the history of Canadian labor. The persistence of an emigrant French Canadian national identity in the United States; convergences of ethnic and class identities.Tags Biddeford ME, Chicopee MA, Community: Customs and Social Life, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Fitchburg MA, Holyoke MA, Labor History, Lowell MA, Marlboro MA, New Bedford MA, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Nonfiction -- Immigration, North Adams MA, Plainfield CT, Québec, Salem MA, Southbridge MA, Suncook NH, Ware MA, Woonsocket RI -
Caribou : Mon pays blanc
Un texte de la collection "Villes franco-américaines de la Nouvelle Angleterre." Une histoire de la ville de Caribou, Maine - son peuple et son paysage. Ecrit pour les jeunes pour l'apprentissage de la langue française. Accompagné d'un enregistrement audio du texte (pas encore disponible). A text in the series entitled, "New England Franco American Cities." A profile of the city of Caribou, Maine - its people and its landscape. Written for the French language-learning classroom. Accompanied by an audio narration (not yet available). -
Casavant
From a Kennebec Journal special six-part series on local history, this article focuses on Rev. Joseph Casavant of St. Augustin Roman Catholic Church in Augusta, Maine. Fr. Casavant served the parish from 1919 to 1958. -
Catholic Rule in Canada. The Present Position of French Residents. Their Efforts in the Northwest Lead to Hostility on the Part of All Progressive Canadians.
1890 article accounting for some resistance to French in the Canadian northwest. Also Québec resistance to clerical rule which, says the author, is partly evidenced by the French-Canadian exodus to New England. Moreover, the author predicts the passing-away of French institutions in North America. -
Cease and desist, Le Club Calumet
Editorial piece arguing that Augusta, Maine, fraternal organization Le Club Calumet, appealing a ruling that charged it with sex discrimination, should reconsider its position and "alter its men-only policy for membership." -
Celebrating Our 50th Anniversary: Le Club Calumet, 1922-1972
A supplement to the Daily Kennebec Journal in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Le Club Calumet, a (then) men's-only Franco American social club in Augusta, Maine. Includes many advertisement congratulations from local businesses, pictures of club events, among other pieces. 24 pages long. -
Celebrating our 53rd year....Le Club Calumet
Advertisement for Augusta, Maine's Le Club Calumet, featured in the 150th Anniversary Edition of the Kennebec Journal. -
Chez les Patenaudes, l'héritage vit encore
Article on Augusta, Maine's Patenaude's Superette, a family-run market serving people in the northern part of the city for nearly a century. A brief history of the store - its owners, their family, and the services and products offered its largely Franco-American clientele. The market atmosphere as a barometer of cultural and linguistic change within the community, seen profiled here by then third-generation owner, Tom Patenaude. -
Chez nos freères les Acadiens : Notes d'histoire et impressions de voyage
De l'intro, "aux Lecteurs," écrit par Emile Dubois: "Au cours des vacances de 1918, en compagnie de M. l'abbe Edmond Lacroix, je faisais un séjour d'un mois au pays d'Evangeline. Au jour le jour, a mesure que je visitais les endroits illustrés par le colon francais, et que, grace aux historiens Rameau et Casgrain, se déroulaient sous mes yeux l'histoire du peuple martyr, je jetais sur le papier des notes et des impressions. Les pages qui suivent sont le fruit de ces lectures et de ce voyage." -
Chez-Nous : The St. John Valley
A book written to accompany a 1982 Maine State Museum exhibit dedicated to history and life in the St. John Valley, Aroostook County, Maine. Author Guy Dubay is a member of the Maine State Franco-American Hall of Fame. From the text: "Guy Dubay's work...is the final product in a three-year project of the same name. This project also resulted in a Maine State Museum exhibit, a traveling exhibit, valuable artifactual research and a heightened awareness and appreciation of the Valley's unique place in the mosaic of Maine's history and culture." -
Children of the Uprooted
Sequel to Handlin's monumental text, "The Uprooted." Voices of first-generation Americans: the children of immigrants to America. In addition to pieces from Theodore Dreiser, Carl Sandburg, Louis Brandeis, and Reinhold Niebuhr, "Children" features the writing of prominent tabloid journalist Emile Gavreau - the child of French-Canadian immigrants to the US Northeast. From the introduction: "The most significant variations among the children of the uprooted were those created by changes in the society in which they lived. Their writings have therefore been arranged chronologically by the date of their birth, on the assumption that the significant attitudes were shaped in childhood and youth." -
Children's and Mothers' Wage Labor in Three Eastern U.S. Cities, 1880-1920
Article on the dynamics of class and ethnicity as related to the labor of women and children in the northeastern United States around the turn of the century. Statistical relationship between family and economy in urban, industrialized America during a period of heavy immigration. Emphasis on child labor as varying by type of family, ethnicity, and the relevant legal structures of different locales. A gradual replacement of children's wage labor by the employment of women. Statistics based on U.S. census data from 1880, 1900, and 1920. From the author: "The battle over child labor fought in the United States at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries pitted emerging understandings about children's well-being against those of the rest of the family....This article explores the variations in children's and mothers' labor in three very different settings: Pittsburgh, Fall River, and Baltimore between 1880 and 1920. It finds that child labor and education legislation resulted in a decrease in children's employment and increased the likelihood that mothers would take paid jobs."Tags African Americans, Baltimore MD, Business and Economics, Chicago IL, Demography, Education, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Family, Fishing, Gender and Sexuality, German Americans, Government and Politics, Irish Americans, Italian Americans, Labor History, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Demography, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh PA, Polish Americans, Portuguese Americans, Sharpsburg PA, Slavic Americans, Youth -
Cities make varying efforts to preserve French culture
Article describing the specific efforts of four Maine cities - Augusta, Lewiston, Waterville, and Biddeford - to preserve Franco American history and honor their French heritage communities. Includes interviews with locals who describe in detail their city's projects - festivals, heritage centers, social groups, and others. -
Citizenship and Those Who Leave : The Politics of Emigration and Expatriation
English translation of "Citoyenneté et émigration: Les politiques du départ" (éditions de l'école des hautes études en Sciences sociales, 2006). Collection of essays on migration, expatriation, and the perpetuation of national identities abroad. The historical roles played by governments in the emigrations of their peoples. Considerations of the economic and "political perceptions of departure" (2). From the editors: "Emigration, like immigration, needs to be understood at the intersection of structural and individual agency" (8). From University of Illinois Press: "Exit, like entry, has helped define citizenship over the past two centuries, yet little attention has been given to the politics of emigration. How have countries impeded or facilitated people leaving? How have they perceived and regulated those who leave? What relations do they seek to maintain with their citizens abroad and why? 'Citizenship and Those Who Leave' reverses the immigration perspective to examine how nations define themselves not just through entry but through exit as well." Translation of French original (2006).Tags African Americans, Business and Economics, Canada, China, Emigration and Immigration, Essay, Europe, Exploration and Colonization, France, Germany, Government and Politics, Great Britain, Holland, India, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Immigration, Poland, Social History, United States -
Class dramatizes the Franco-Mainer experience
Bowdoin College senior seminar in the French language culminates in a documentary film and a theatrical piece. Students used information learned through over 60 hours of interviews with local Francos. -
Club is like a private home
Letter to the editor questioning the motives of Nancy Albert Ellis, the woman who in 1989 sought entry into an all-male Franco American social club, Le Club Calumet, of Augusta, Maine. -
Club is victim of bias
Maurice Violette, past president of Augusta, Maine's Le Club Calumet and author of "The Franco-Americans" (New York: Vantage Press, 1976), writes about the bias he sees in the Kennebec Journal's editorial commentary on the Club controversy of 1989-1992. -
Club lost peace pipe
Letter to the editor berating Le Club Calumet of Augusta, Maine, for its refusal of Nancy Albert Ellis' membership bid on account of her sex. The author seeks a peaceful resolution to what became a controversial issue surrounding the inclusion of women in Club ranks. -
Cohen sponsors ethnic legislation
Article recognizing Congressman William Cohen's (R-Maine) contribution to the Emergency School Aid Act of 1975. His authorship of an amendment to the bill, which in passing would offer the same financial and educational benefits to Franco Americans as those extended to other ethnic minority groups included in the bill's language. Some of Cohen's comments on the sizeable Maine Franco American population, and the impact that Federal monies would have on the development of educational programs better suited to certain cultural specificities. -
Collective Efforts Among Maine Workers : Beginnings and Foundations, 1820-1880
A restorative history of the birth and early life of organized labor in Maine in the middle of the nineteenth century, on the rise of the industrial period. From the preface: "The history of organized labor in Maine has been ignored by the State's historians. This volume represents an additional effort by the author to correct this deficiency and to add to a more complete understanding of the forces, events, and personalities that have shaped Maine's history." -
Come Set in the Warm: Twenty-or-so Anecdotes of Rural Vermont
Collection of folklore that, transcribed by a listener, also has the function of oral history. Concerning story, home, and rural life in Vermont. -
Coming to America : A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life
Comprehensive history of immigration to the United States from the 17th to the 21st century. Divided into [ ] parts: Colonial America; The Century of Immigration (1820-1924); and Modern Times.Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Business and Economics, California, China, Cuba, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Exploration and Colonization, Germany, Government and Politics, Greece, Haiti, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Labor History, Mexico, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Immigration, Norway, Pennsylvania, Poland, Puerto Rico, Québec, Religion, Scotland, Sweden -
Commemorating a Transnational Hero : The 1909 Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Discovery of Lake Champlain
Article describing and comparing American and Canadian commemorations of the 17th century French explorer, Samuel de Champlain, around Lake Champlain in 1908 and 1909. Champlain as a celebrated "transnational" figure, and the imagery associated with his accomplishments from either side of the USA/Canada border. Particular elements of the celebrations and their suggestions for political, social, and memorial climates of the time. Emphasis on understanding a United States claim to Champlain as national historic figure, and the tercentenary celebration as an American and Canadian reconciliation. Local justification for celebration in New York and VermontTags Burlington VT, Canada, Crown Point NY, England, Exploration and Colonization, Fort Ticonderoga NY, France, Iroquois, Isle LaMotte VT, Lake Champlain VT, New York, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Geography, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Nonfiction -- History -- French in North America, Nonfiction -- Travel and Tourism, Plattsburgh NY, Québec, Québec City QC, Saranac River Valley, Swanton VT, United States, Vergennes VT, Vermont, War -
Communicating Ethnic and Cultural Identity
Reader in ethnic studies. Critical approaches to ethnic, linguistic, cultural, and group identity in the United States, and the various ways they are manifest. Includes an essay by University of Maine scholar Kristin Langellier entitled, "'Where I Come From Is Where I Want To Be:' Communicating Franco-American Ethnicity." -
Community-Building in Uncertain Times : The French-Canadians of Burlington and Colchester
Article characterizing the social and economic conditions surrounding Vermont's fluid French Canadian immigrant populations in Burlington and Colchester at the outset of 1850, and the ensuing decade's historical significance in the process of immigrant community definition. The difficult foundation of French Canadian national cultural institutions - school, church, and social organization - in these towns in the 1850s; and the impact of these advancements on community growth and French Canadian identity (cultural, religious, linguistic) among ethnic groups in the region. Discussion of the relevance of Burlington's early lumber and manufacturing industries - before the American Civil War - to the local immigrant workforce. -
Constant Turmoil : The Politics of Industrial Life in Nineteenth-Century New England
Book-length social history exploring the development of industry, industrial life, and the power of the politics surrounding them in southeastern New England - especially Fall River, Massachusetts - in the nineteenth century. Discussions of gender in the contexts of textile mill work and labor unionism; immigrant workforces, class consciousness, and inter-worker strife. Includes a critical assessment of primary sources consulted, as well as an appendix with demographic and economic data tables referred to in the text.Tags Business and Economics, Connecticut, Coventry RI, English Americans, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Gender and Sexuality, Government and Politics, Irish Americans, Labor History, Lowell MA, Massachusetts, Meriden CT, Mills and Mill Work, New Bedford MA, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Norwalk CT, Providence RI, Quequechan River Valley, Rhode Island, Social History -
Constant Turmoil : The Politics of Industrial Life in Nineteenth-Century New England
Book-length social history exploring the development of industry, industrial life, and the power of the politics surrounding them in southeastern New England - especially Fall River, Massachusetts - in the nineteenth century. Discussions of gender in the contexts of textile mill work and labor unionism; immigrant workforces, class consciousness, and inter-worker strife. Includes a critical assessment of primary sources consulted, as well as an appendix with demographic and economic data tables referred to in the text.Tags Business and Economics, Connecticut, Coventry RI, English Americans, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Gender and Sexuality, Government and Politics, Irish Americans, Labor History, Lowell MA, Massachusetts, Meriden CT, Mills and Mill Work, New Bedford MA, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Norwalk CT, Providence RI, Quequechan River Valley, Rhode Island, Social History -
Contribution of French Canadians to the History of the United States of America: Their Future Role Concerning This Great Country
Short piece on French-Canadian political involvement in the United States up to 1976, and the continuation of this involvement into the foreseeable future. -
Convicted terrorist Raymond Luc Levasseur denied permission by parole commission to travel to Amherst
Article on Ray Luc Levasseur's suspended invitation to speak at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 2009. Levasseur, a Maine resident, is serving a paroled sentence in that state for his alleged involvement in politically-motivated crimes in the 1970s and 80s. The talk at UMass, scheduled to continue without his participation, was on the topic of the 1989 sedition trial in which he was acquitted. -
Coping before l'ètat-providence : Collective Welfare Strategies of New England's Franco-Americans
Article describing religious institutions and mutual aid societies created by French Canadian immigrant communities in New England around the turn of the century. Their functions for social welfare, economic well-being, and medical necessity among French-speaking, working-class, Catholic migrants. The appearance of these Québec-modeled support mechanisms - often Catholic, non-public - among urban, industrial communities before the appearance of welfare in the United States. Emphasis on Lewiston, Maine hospitals and religious orders; Manchester, New Hampshire and Woonsocket, Rhode Island mutual aid societies. -
Cotton Was King : A History of Lowell, Massachusetts
A collection of 14 essays on the history of Chelmsford and Lowell, Massachusetts, from pre-incorporation to industrialization, into the middle 20th century. As the title suggests, an emphasis on the prevalence of mill work and immigrants cultures very much responsible for shaping life in this, one of New England's most productive industrialized cities. From the editor: "'Cotton Was King' traces Lowell's history from its Indian beginnings through two centuries of the history of the town of Chelmsford and one hundred and fifty years of urban industrial history, to the present day. The history of Lowell is, in microcosm, the history of America's Industrial Revolution. The city's history is a case study in the evolution of the corporate system, the labor movement, and the role women played in the labor force. The cotton mills of Lowell provided the first opportunity for American women to leave their farms and families and earn an independent living. The city with its enormous factories and canals also served as a magnet for the first waves of immigrants. By the mid-nineteenth century the city felt the first stirrings of both the labor and feminist movements, as Lowell entrepreneurs expanded the factory system."Tags Boston MA, Chelmsford MA, Community: Customs and Social Life, Concord MA, Dracut MA, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Exploration and Colonization, Gender and Sexuality, Labor History, Lowell MA, Merrimack River Valley, Mills and Mill Work, Native Americans, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Nonfiction -- History -- Local, Religion, Social History, Waltham MA -
Country Eastern
Documentary piece written on the country music culture of bottle clubs in Maine, with a focus on Harmony Hall in North Yarmouth. Features photos and story of a Maine country music band, as well as some profiles and interviews with other Mainers who find joy in the music and dancing at Maine bottle clubs.Tags Alcohol and Drugs, Alton ME, Bethel ME, Biddeford ME, Bucksport ME, Chelsea ME, Community: Customs and Social Life, Cumberland Mills ME, Friendship ME, Harrison ME, Lewiston ME, Limington ME, Maine, Mechanic Falls ME, Music, Nobleboro ME, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Documentary, North Yarmouth ME, Portland ME, Québec, Saco ME, Skowhegan ME, South Waldoboro ME, Standish ME, Steep Falls ME -
Court rules Calumet can exclude women
In May, 1992, the Maine State Supreme Court ruled that Le Club Calumet, a Franco-American men's club in Augusta, Maine, can exclude women as members from its organization. This decision was based on the court's finding that the Club was, in fact, a private accommodation, not a public one. Laws regarding the private status of ethnicity-based social clubs allow such clubs to limit their membership based on a number of unique characteristics - including sex. -
Cowan Mill burns. Thousands watch fire in Lewiston
The Cowan Mill, on the shore of the Androscoggin River between Lewiston and Auburn, Maine, goes up in flames. The Cowan building is one of many in the vast Bates Mill complex. -
Cowan Mill facade falls down during Wednesday's fire
A series of captioned photos chronicling the crumbling, tumbling, and ruin of the Cowan Mill in Lewiston, Maine, as it burned in a spontaneous fire. -
Credit Unions : A Theoretical and Empirical Overview
Summary of the international history of the credit union, its functions, and how it operates. Covers the credit union's birth, growth, popularization around the world, and its continuing structural development. Makes mention of the significance of the Quebec and New England "caisse populaire."
Contains the following sections: Introduction Historical Development Classification and Statistical Overview Modeling the Objective Function Structure and Conduct Regulatory Environment Demutualization Concluding Comments References From the author: "In 2009 there were over 49,330 credit unions across 98 countries with more than 184 million members and approximately $1,354 billion in assets. There is a great diversity within the credit union movement across these countries. This reflects the various economic, historic and cultural contexts within which credit unions operate. This paper traces the evolution of the credit union movement...." -
Critics jumped on 'frog power:' Joual row scuttled U.S. bilingual plan
Article on the discord surrounding a French/English bilingual education program - its funding, leadership, and controversial activism - in the public schools of Lewiston, Maine. Commentary from the former director of the failed program, Don Dugas, and Franco American activist, Paul Paré. Reference to the short-lived Lewiston alternative weekly newspaper, Observations. Brief profile of the Franco-American Resource Opportunity Group (FAROG) at the University of Maine at Orono, with commentary from its director, Yvon Labbé. The final piece in a series of Montreal Star articles on Franco Americans. -
Crossing the 49th Parallel : Migration from Canada to the United States, 1900-1930
A chronicling of movement from English and French Canada to the United States in the first thirty years of the twentieth century. Focused less on American community building than on patterns and means of human migration visible in government records from across the length of the Canadian-American border. An attempt at integrating the often-overlooked Anglo Canadian migration with that of French Canadians, and measuring Canadian emigration both within and beyond boundaries of ethnicity. Observations on instances of "remigration" - the movement to the United States of recent immigrants to Canada - in the time period of concern. From the book jacket: " 'Crossing the 49th Parallel' is the first book to encompass that entire, continent-wide population shift, bringing Canadian migration to the center of both Canadian and U.S. history." "Bruno Ramirez researches the contents of previously unused border records to bring to light the wide variety of local contexts and historical circumstances that led Canadian men, women, and children to cross the border and become key actors in the U.S. economy and society."Tags Acadians, Berlin NH, British Columbia, Buffalo NY, Business and Economics, Canada, Central Falls RI, Cohoes NY, Demography, Detroit MI, Eastport ME, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Farming and Agriculture, Goffstown NH, Haverhill MA, Holyoke MA, Illinois, Jackman ME, Labor History, Lawrence MA, Lowell MA, Lynn MA, Manchester NH, Manitoba, Massena NY, Michigan, Mills and Mill Work, Montana, Montréal QC, Nashua NH, New Bedford MA, New Brunswick, New England, New York, Niagara Falls NY, North Dakota, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Providence RI, Québec, Salem MA, Sault Sainte Marie MI, St. Lawrence River Valley, Toronto ON, Watertown NY, Waterville ME, Wisconsin, Woonsocket RI -
Cultural Face-Off : Yankees, British, and the St. John Valley French
Comparison of descriptions of the Upper St. John River Valley and its people as found in the travelogues of British voyagers, the official reports of American agents, and the accounts of Canadian historians at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Descriptive distinctions between "Acadian" and "French Canadian." The impact of outsider-written characterizations of the St. John Valley area on general perceptions of its residents, on conceptions of the Acadians, and on American attitudes toward the British. The challenges of American officials wanting to integrate the St. John Valley French border population into the laws and customs of the United States, and the realization of these frustrations in political and journalistic description. -
Cultural Sovereignty, Identity, and North American Integration : On the Relevance of the U.S.-Canada-Quebec Border
Article exploring cultural policies implemented by Canada and Québec governments to both protect and promote cultural industries and indigenous cultural forms. The function of these policies in shaping national identities. The impact of these policies on Canada-U.S. relations. Canadian policy as response to American cultural industries. How international trade through the lens of FTA, NAFTA, and the WTO relate to Canadian cultural industry and identity politics. -
Cultural Trigonometry of Franco-American Stereotypes
Using the example of Bath, Maine's Thomas Plant, a successful nineteenth-century French Canadian immigrant entrepreneur, Rodrigue argues for a new interpretation of the Franco-American ethnic experience. The life and work of Plant in New England before the great French Canadian migration of 1870-1920. Research on waterway and roadway connections between the early 19th-century regions of Lower Canada and western Maine, with corresponding references to French Canadian and Yankee migrations. Attempt to initiate "a general re-evaluation of the French experience in North America" (42).Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Augusta ME, Bath ME, Business and Economics, Chaudiere River Valley, Emigration and Immigration, Kennebec River Valley, Lynn MA, Maine, Mills and Mill Work, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Ethnic Studies, Québec, Somerset County ME, St. Lawrence River Valley -
Cuts to French curriculum run into opposition
French teachers and Franco advocates plan to speak at upcoming Board of Education meeting. Their comments will come in response to the City of Augusta, Maine, school superintendent, Cornelia Brown, in her presentation of an upcoming school budget that leaves out, among other programs, elementary French language. -
DAVID B. OFFER: Bigot with spray paint leaves scar on our political process
Article on the derogatory vandalism of a political sign for Augusta, Maine, State Senate candidate, Roger Katz, that sat in Augusta's Franco-American neighborhood. Offer points out the sadness of Katz, his reaction, and the immense negative reaction of the local community in Katz's support. -
Dawn Over the Kennebec
Historical piece on the European explorers of the Kennebec River Valley and the Abenaki people of that Maine region. Highlights the relationships among British, French, and Native American, and their confrontations from the 17th century onward. The geography of the region. Includes a chapter that traces the histories of place names in the Kennebec Valley - towns, land masses, bodies of water, etc. Illustrated with photographs from the author, regional maps, and drawings.Tags Augusta ME, Bingham ME, Brunswick ME, Community: Customs and Social Life, Concord ME, Dresden ME, Emigration and Immigration, England, Europe, Eustis ME, Exploration and Colonization, Fairfield ME, France, Geography, Georgetown ME, Hallowell ME, Kennebec River Valley, Madison ME, Maine, Moosehead Lake Region, Native Americans, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Religion, Norridgewock ME, Phippsburg ME, Pittston ME, Québec, Religion, Sidney ME, Solon ME, Starks ME, Vassalboro ME, War, Waterville ME, Wells ME, Winslow ME, Woolwich ME, York ME -
De "Canadiens français aux États-Unis" à "Franco-américains" : What's in a name?
Un bref essai sur le dièbut du titre "Franco-américain" aux Etats-Unis, et le développement là d'un nouveau culture américain comme mode de vie sur un modièle des réalités québécoises. -
De certains Québécois, pionniers des États-Unis
Une introduction à l'histoire des prémiières Français aux États-Unis, commençant par les explorateurs historiques qui ont établis les noms français de nombreux endroits en Amérique. Le début et la fin de la Nouvelle France, aussi que la grande émigration française-canadienne à la Nouvelle-Angleterre et au Midwest. La maniière dont une dynastie vaincue française est significative aux histoires et noms de lieux aux États-Units.Tags Berlin NH, Biddeford ME, Boston MA, Canada, Dubuque IA, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Exploration and Colonization, Fall River MA, France, Illinois, Lewiston ME, Lowell MA, Manchester NH, Michigan, Minnesota, Nashua NH, New Bedford MA, New England, Québec, United States, US Midwest, War, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
De l'origine et de l'histoire de quelques patronymes
Une enquête sur les débuts en Amérique du Nord de certains noms de famille canadien-français. Illustre l'etude de la genealogie et fournit des exemples spécifiques de la largeur de familles françaises en Amérique du Nord. Explore l'histoire des familles suivantes: Tremblay, Gagnon, Leblanc, Duhamel, et Leclerc. -
De la difficulté de naître et de survivre dans une ville industrielle de la Nouvelle-Angleterre au XIXe siiècle : mortalité infantile, infanticide et avortement à Lowell, Massachusetts, 1870-1900
De Consortium Érudit: "Le présent texte est consacré à l'étude de la mortalité infantile ainsi qu'aux difficultés de survivre dans une ville industrielle de la Nouvelle-Angleterre durant la seconde moitié du XIXe siiècle. Nous tentons principalement de décrire la maniière dont les contemporains ont perçu, expliqué et tenté de résoudre le problième aigu que représentait la mortalité infantile pour les populations ouvriières. Nous relions briièvement à ce sujet, la question de l'avortement et de l'infanticide."
Tags Beverly MA, Boston MA, Brockton MA, Cambridge MA, Chelsea MA, Chicopee MA, Death and Disaster, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, Everett MA, Fall River MA, Fitchburg MA, Gloucester MA, Haverhill MA, Holyoke MA, Illness, Labor History, Lawrence MA, Lowell MA, Lynn MA, Malden MA, Massachusetts, Medford MA, Mills and Mill Work, New Bedford MA, Newburyport MA, Newton MA, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Nonfiction -- Science and Medicine, Nonfiction -- Social Sciences, Nonfiction -- Sociology, North Adams MA, Northampton MA, Pittsfield MA, Quincy MA, Salem MA, Social History, Somerville MA, Springfield MA, Taunton MA, Waltham MA, Woburn MA, Worcester MA, Youth -
Death and Rebirth of the American Mill Town
Essay on the divisions of power and labor in industrialized American economies - more specifically, mill towns - as transformations of earlier forms of authority in America. Uses the thought-work of Marx, Durkheim, and Weber, as well as the social critics and historians who have applied these thinkers' theories to the historical present. From the author: "The problem of power in nineteenth century mill towns rests on a conflict between employer absolutism and the democratic rights of the employees. The treatment of power in recent community studies has been inadequate. This is particularly true in works influenced by symbolic anthropology, where the problem is seen to have been resolved in a consensual value system. However, the persistence of conflict in strikes and disorder compels an examination of the mechanisms of domination, as well as legitimacy. To this end, the ideas of Marx and Weber offer more valuable guidance than those of Durkheim." -
Death of Francis Parkman. His Life Ended at His Home at Jamaica Plain, Mass. A Historian Who Ranks with Bancroft, Motley, and Prescott -- His Field the Lands and Period in Which the French and English Contended for Supremacy in North America -- Prosecuted His Work, Involving Immense Research, While Practically Blind
1893 obituary of historian of French in North America, Francis Parkman. Wrote, among other books, "Pioneers of France in the New World" (1871). -
Débuts de la colonie franco-américaine de Woonsocket, Rhode Island
Un portrait riche et approfondie de la naissance d'un des plus grandes communautés franco-américaines du Rhode Island. Présenté en trois parties: "Histoire de l'ancien Woonsocket et de ses environs," "L'émigration des Canadiens français aux Etats-Unis en général et à Woonsocket, R.I., en particulier," et "Les Franco-Américains et le Woonsocket contemporain." Illustré avec des photos en noir et blanc, et aussi avec quelques arbres généalogiques de familles franco-américaines à Woonsocket.Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Blackstone River Valley, Business and Economics, Community: Customs and Social Life, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Genealogy, Government and Politics, Journalism, Manville RI, Mills and Mill Work, Native Americans, New England, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Religion, Rhode Island, Smithfield RI, Social History, War, Woonsocket RI -
Democracy and Assimilation : The Blending of Immigrant Heritages in America
An early immigrant history of the United States with a particular emphasis on the impact of World War I, and with a heavy reliance on United States marriage statistics. Drachsler evaluates the cultural and economic impacts of foreign immigration to the United States, examines immigrant community life, and proposes new measures in public policy. -
Demographic Components of the Francisation of Rural Québec : The Case of Rawdon
Analysis of the population, migration, and marriage patterns of Rawdon, Québec, as they relate to a growing percentage of predominantly French speakers in that region. From the author: "This paper is an empirical examination of the processes by which a rural area of Québec originally colonised by anglophones has become increasingly francisised. While popular imagery associates French Canadian population growth in Québec with very large family sizes and with the outmigration of anglophones, no studies currently exist which attempt to measure the relative impact of each factor. In addition, other contributing demographic variables may be examined for their effects on population changes, notably the proportion of persons who marry, mortality statistics, age at marriage, and child-spacing." -
Demolition of tissue mill in full swing
The demolition of the Augusta, Maine, east-side paper mill, which began June 2010, continues in plain view on the bank of the Kennebec River. -
Denies Cardinal in Church Dispute: Rev. J. D. Binette Says He Did Not Quote O'Connell
Article on the comments of a Bellingham, Massachusetts, pastor regarding his alleged opinion of attorney/journalist Elphege J. Daignault - a harsh critic of the local Cardinal and his position relative to national churches and schools coming under the purview of the archdiocese, no longer to be exclusively francophone. This controversy would come to be known as the "Sentinellist Affair." -
Dial 581-FROG : The Struggle over Self-Naming by Franco-Americans in Maine
Essay exploring the 1989 controversy surrounding the Maine State Legislature's protest over the University of Maine Franco-American Centre's use of the word "frog" in advertising its telephone number: 581-FROG. A case-study in communication research that identifies the divergences between Franco American legislators and Franco American university activists in terms of their attitudes toward language, self-naming, and dominant modes of discourse. Brief historical background. -
Dictionnaire des auteurs de langue française en Amérique du Nord
Index d'auteurs (biographique, bibliographique) nord-américains qui écrivent dans la langue française. -
Directory of Saint Denis Roman Catholic Church
1994 parish directory for St. Denis Roman Catholic Church of Fort Fairfield, Maine. Includes pictures of parishoners. Begins with a brief history of the parish. -
Disobedient Ancestors
Personal and historical essay weaving a son's reflections on his Québec-born, rebellious, itinerant father through the changing shape of Catholicism in New France, Lower Canada, and Québec into the 21st century. The persistent grip of a longtime North American family's roots. His father's formative youth and later hatred of clergy, their tenuous relationship, the power of cultural narrative, and the shapes that one's departing quests from them can take. -
Diversity and Franco-American Identity Politics
Article on theories of assimilation and group identity politics in the United States. Franco Americans in Maine as a cultural case study. Outline of ways in which rethinking cultural identity and cultural difference might give new insight into multiculturalism more generally. Brief analysis of six specific aspects of Franco American culture commonly acknowledged - language, class, gender, age, religion, schooling - and citation of examples that complicate their significance for Franco American cultural identity. Reference to the 1992-1993 WBLM "Frenchie" scandal; 1991 Bates College language rule; Le Club Calumet refusal of a woman member in the early 1990s; and certain other events. -
Do it this way, Nancy
Letter to the editor chastising Nancy Albert Ellis, the woman who in 1989 sought entry into the all-male Franco-American social club, Le Club Calumet, of Augusta, Maine. -
Doesn't make it right
Short letter to the editor written against Maurice Violette's letter of May 28, 1992, coming in the wake of Le Calumet Club's rejection of a woman vying for membership in the Augusta, Maine, all-male organization. -
Don Roy, Fiddle Music, and Social Sustenance in Franco New England
Profile of the life, training, and works of expert Maine-based fiddler, Don Roy. The musical traditions in which he seats himself, and the attention he has brought to contemporary fiddle playing through public performance. The author's critique of models of cultural sustainability, cultural preservation industry, and other institutions through the example of Roy's pursuits, his community music project, "Fiddle-icious," and through his "inherited sense of music as a participatory activity" (36). Summary history of Franco American immigration and subsequent communities in southern Maine. Contains segments of interviews with Don Roy and Cindy Roy, among others. -
Don't Give Me No Lip : The Cultural and Religious Roots of Leo Durocher's Competitiveness
Infamous early 20th-century Major League Baseball player and manager, Leo Durocher, explored through the lens of his French Canadian Catholicism. How his various on- and off-field antics compare to his sociocultural situation on the margins of New York City immigrant Catholicism. His early support for Jackie Robinson and his later bigotry relative to popular knowledge about sportsmanship and integration during that time period. The West Springfield, Massachusetts native Durocher's unique competitive spirit in reflection of his cultural and religious roots. -
Down Memory Lane
Article about a granddaughter - now in her sixties - who enjoys traveling the same pass her grandmother rode from Canada to Central Maine on Route 201. The author recounts the history of emigration from Canada to the US down this route, and talks about how, now, many descendants of immigrants enjoy the fruits of their ancestors' labors and reconnect with their history by returning to Canada on this road trodden since the early nineteenth century. -
Dr. Adams Criticised: "Franco American" Writes of His Labor Article in the Andover Review
Article responding the the claims of one W.W. Adams that there exists a spiritual problem in the mill town of Fall River, Massachusetts - a town with a high French Catholic population. The article's author takes the pseudonym, "Franco American." -
Drum Roll, Please
Photo of the 1947 St. Augustine Drum and Bugle Corps performing in Augusta, Maine. The caption includes a list of members of the corps from that period. -
Écrin de pensées des Franco-Américains
Compilation des citations écrites ou parlées par la franco-américanie intellectuelle, religieuse, ou influente du XIXe et XXe siiècles. Une liste des contributeurs au livre et leurs villes respectives dans la Nouvelle-Angleterre.Tags Berlin NH, Biddeford ME, Boston MA, Canada, Central Falls RI, Danielson CT, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Fitchburg MA, France, Gardner MA, Lawrence MA, Leominster MA, Lewiston ME, Lowell MA, Manchester NH, Manville RI, Nashua NH, New Bedford MA, New England, Nonfiction -- French in North America, Nonfiction -- History -- Clubs and Societies, North Adams MA, North Grosvenordale CT, Pawtucket RI, Portsmouth NH, Providence RI, Putnam CT, Rogers MA, Roxbury MA, Rutland VT, Salem MA, Springfield MA, Warren RI, Watertown (?), West Hartford CT, Winooski VT, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
Edwards mill fire probe done, cause not found
The Maine Fire Marshall's office finds no certain cause of Augusta, Maine's 1989 Edwards Mill fire, and mentions that either "a discarded cigarette or broken elevator" was probably what sparked the blaze. -
Edwards Mill looks like bombed town, Owners say hydropower station to go back on line, damage unknown, Mill site crews still working
Article getting feedback from Mark Isaacson, vice president of the Edwards Manufacturing Co. whose Augusta, Maine, mill site was demolished by fire one month ago. Includes a picture of Isaacson in front of the mill ruins. -
Eight Hours for What We Will : Workers and Leisure in an Industrial City, 1870-1920
Study of the off-hours lives of working-class people in the industrial city of Worcester, Massachusetts. Workers' hobbies, their hangouts, and the impact of their leisure on the workplace and politics in the immigration era. A fresh social history of working-class people not confined to the work space. From Cambridge University Press: "In the first comprehensive study of American working-class recreation, Professor Rosenzweig takes us to the saloons, the ethnic and church picnics, the parks and playgrounds, the amusement parks, and the movie houses where industrial workers spent their leisure hours. Focusing on the city of Worcester, Massachusetts, he describes the profound changes that popular leisure underwent. Explaining what these pastimes and amusements tell us about the nature of working-class culture and class relations in this era, he demonstrates that in order fully to understand the working class experience it is necessary to explore the realm of leisure. For what workers did in the corner saloon, the neighborhood park, the fraternal lodge hall, the amusement park, and the nickelodeon had a good deal of bearing on what happened inside the factories, the union halls, and the voting booths of America's industrial communities." -
Ellis wants media attention
Letter to the editor questioning the motives of Nancy Albert Ellis in her filing suit against Le Club Calumet of Augusta, Maine, for refusing her a membership based on her sex - a suit she eventually lost in the Maine Supreme Court. -
Ellis' win will destroy club
Letter to the editor arguing that if Le Club Calumet, a Franco-American social club in Augusta, Maine, is forced by the Maine courts to admit women, and is thereby ruled a "public" organization, it will no longer be able to limit its membership based on ethnicity. -
Elpheège-J. Daignault et le mouvement sentinelliste aè Manchester, New Hampshire
Une examination du mouvement sentinelliste aè l'éxterieur de Providence, Rhode Island, dans une autre ville franco-américain: Manchester, New Hampshire. Perreault écrit une nouvelle type de l'histoire sentinelliste telle qu'elle était concevu par le journaliste Elphege-J. Daignault. Ce texte tiens beaucoup des articles publié par Daignault sur l'affaire sentinelliste. De l'avant-propos: "Mais nous désirons, cependant, offrir au moins les quleques renseignements suivants qui portent sur la question sentinelliste telle qu'elle toucha les Franco-Americains dans un autre coin de la Nouvelle Angleterre. Il s'agit d'une série d'éditoriaux rédigés par le directeur de La Sentinelle de Woonsocket, Rhode Island, maitre Elphiège-J. Daignault, ou celui-ci discute de la situation paroissiale et d'éducation au New Hampshire, et plus précisément, dans la Paroisse Saint-Georges de Manchester." -
Emigration
Chapter 22 of a late nineteenth-century history of the state of Vermont: from the explorations of Samuel de Champlain to the 1890s. This chapter accounts for the outward flow of Vermont farmers and pioneers to the American Midwest and West - Ohio, Wisconsin, California, and other states - despite the New England state's largely open forests and uncultivated farmlands of the 1890s. The inward flow of immigrants from French Canada to work the Vermont soil. The author's descriptions of these "invasions from Canada" and his crude characterizations of French Canadian immigrant worker habits, skills, and ways of life. Descriptions of French Canadian poverty and theft in Vermont. -
Emigration: A Franco-American Experience (or, du Québec aè la Nouvelle-Angleterre)
Numéro du Magazine OVO de Montréal - une revue de la photographie - dédié aux Franco-américains dans le New Hampshire, et les phénomiènes de l'immigration canadienne française et américaine du travail au 20ième siiècle. Photos de 1895 à 1982. Issue of Montreal's Ovo Magazine - a periodical in photography - dedicated to Franco Americans in New Hampshire, and to the phenomena of French-Canadian American immigration and work in the 20th century. Photographs from 1895 to 1982. -
Employing the Local : A Penobscot Modern in the Federal Writers' Project
Essay exploring the 1930s Federal Writers' Project interview of Indian Island, Maine, resident and canoe maker, Henry Mitchell, transcribed by Old Town native, Robert Grady. Arguments favoring the particularly modern quality of the dually-authored interview, as compared to outside depictions of Native Americans in the local Maine literatures of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. How early 20th-century Old Town business and local government perpetuated the construction of stereotyped and antiquated Penobscot cultural categories and descriptions - aesthetically, linguistically, or in terms of work and leisure. How the literary output of the Federal Writers' Project played into this sort of identity construction on a more diverse, national scale, and in what ways singular FWP interactions like those between Grady and Mitchell challenged both the national project and the local cultural categories it sometimes reinforced. What the Mitchell/Grady interview owes to the relationship out of which it was born, Grady's other interviews mostly conducted with Franco Americans in Old Town.Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Business and Economics, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Government and Politics, Indian Island ME, Maine, Native Americans, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Old Town ME, Penobscot, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Violence -
En quête d'Amérique
Booklet accompaniment to the 1990 exhibition, "En quête d'Amérique," created by the Museology Program at Laval University and Québec's Musée de la civilisation. A brief presentation of the contemporary French Canadian presence in North America as a series of quests and a reflection of popular mobility. Migration between Québec and New England from 1840 to 1930; between Québec and Western Canada; and to the US Midwest and West Coast. Published as an extension of the 1990 colloquium, "Le Québec et les francophones de la Nouvelle-Angleterre," sponsored by the Chaire pour le développement de la recherche sur la culture d'expression française em Amérique du Nord. -
End of an era
Captioned photos of the Cowan Mill in Lewiston, Maine, after it was destroyed by fire in the summer of 2009. -
End of an era on Sand Hill
St. Augustine School, the historically Franco Catholic school on Sand Hill in Augusta, Maine, closes at the end of the 2007 school year. It is to be merged with St. Mary's School of Western Avenue, Augusta, and housed at that location, taking the new name, "St. Michael School." -
English-speaking Quebec in the Light of Its Reaction to Bill 22
An evaluation of reactions to, condemnations of, and opinions relative to Québec's 1974 passage of Bill 22 - making law the preference and predominance of the French language in that province. Much of the hubbub surrounding this bill was created by its opponents who cited, among other things, its imposition on freedom of linguistic choice, or its strangulation of a parent's choice of the language in which one's child might be schooled. The author of this article used information gathered from English-speaking Québecers and English-language newspapers from the province. His ultimate argument is for the bill to be repealed, claiming, in the words of other opponents, that it is "a repressive piece of legislation" that pays scant attention to Québec's anglophone minorities. -
Enquête Géolinguistique
Le titre complet: Enquête Géolinguistique: du vocabulaire, et de la pronunciation de celui-ci, employés dans l'état du Maine pour désigner tout ce qui se rapporte à l'intérieur et à l'extérieur de la maison, d'apriès le questionnaire de MM. Gaston Dulong et Gaston Bergeron de l'Université Laval
Du texte: "La variété de français parlée par les Acadiens (établis dans le nord de l'Etat depuis le XVIIIe siiècle), ainsi que par un grand nombre d'immigrés québécois venus aux Etats-Unis aux XIXe et XXe siiècles et leurs enfants, restait stigmatisée d'une part chez ses locuteurs et d'autre part chez les locuteurs du francais international. Le présent volume donne les resultats d'une enquête lexicale qui constitue le premier effort de sonder les Franco-Américains de tous les coins de l'Etat du Maine sur le lexique de la maison. Il représente en partie le travail de plusieurs décennies et fait partie d'un effort de la part du regretté Robert Rioux de valoriser sa langue natale." -
Entraidez-vous : Stick Together
A collection of Franco-American folklore from the northern communities of the state of Vermont. From the foreword to the text: "We have tried to assemble here some of the folklore of the French-American that we have been able to find in the past year in the northern part of Vermont. In this book, you will find some riddles, sayings, songs, poetry, recipes, and some favorite old home remedies."Tags Alburg VT, Bloomfield VT, Canaan VT, Charlestown NH, Coventry VT, Derby Line VT, Folklore, Food, Grand Isle VT, Holland VT, Illness, Island Pond VT, Isle LaMotte VT, Music, Newport VT, North Hero VT, North Troy VT, Norton VT, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Poetry, South Hero VT, Troy VT, Vermont -
Entre nous la neige : correspondance québécaméricaine
Une collection de lettres echangées entre deux écrivain(e)s et deux pays, Canada et les Etats-Unis, au début des années 1980. -
Equal or a step down?
Letter to the editor questioning the meaning of the phrase "equal rights" as it has been used in the conversation between Nancy Albert Ellis and the all-male Club Calumet of Augusta, Maine. -
Essai de Journalisme
Essai-livre sur la journal (quotidien, hebdomadaire, etc.) de la langue francaise pour les Franco-Américains dans la Nouvelle-Angleterre dans la fin du XIXe et du début du XXe siiècles. Son importance historique et culturelle. Dédié en grande partie aux efforts d'un journal en particulier - "La Justice" de Holyoke, Massachusetts - et à son leadership éditorial. Conclut avec des sélections de poésie d'un éditeur de La Justice, Joseph Lussier. Les annexes comprennent des listes de romans-feuilletons, des poiètes, des poièmes, et certains articles de la prose publiés dans cette revue de Holyoke. Table des matiières: Le journal franco-américain Le contenu et la forme des journaux La presse franco-américaine de Holyoke Les journaux d'une existence éphémière Louis Tesson: journaliste, romancier, et linguiste Le journalisme franco-américain à Holyoke: 1900 à 1963 La Justice: 1903 à 1963 -Circulation géographique -La role de la religion -Joseph Lussier: écrivain doué, orateur renommé -L'héritage français -Le format et le contenu -Jacques Ducharme -Roméo D. Raymond 1941 à 1963 Conclusion Notes La poésie de Joseph Lussier Appendices A, B, CTags Arlington MA, Concord NH, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fiction and Literature, Fitchburg MA, Holyoke MA, Journalism, Language and Linguistics, Lewiston ME, Lowell MA, Manchester NH, Marlboro MA, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Journalism, North Adams MA, Northampton MA, Norwich CT, Plattsburgh NY, Poetry, Religion, Somersworth NH, Waterbury CT, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
Essais et conférences
Une sélection des lettres, essais, et conférences d'un prêtre et un critique littéraire québécois aux ètats-Unis. Composé des piièces suivantes: A ma mière Le journalisme américain Croquis palestiniens Jérusalem En l'Isle Louis Fréchette: Son oeuvre, ses inspirations, son art La Vierge et le Perle La Vierge et la Nuée La Vierge et la Lumiière Tête d'étude Le Cimitiière de mon village Coins de nature Edmond de Nevers: Le Penseur et l'Artiste La Nazaréene Profil de Christ La culture intellectuelle Priez ainsi La Fiancée mystique Cloître en ruine Un barde précurseur: Octave Crémazie - Sa correspondance, Son journal, Ses poésies -
Ethnic Catholicism and Craft Unionism in Worcester, Massachusetts, 1887-1920 : A Mixed Story
Article detailing the varying relationships between labor organizing, ethnic communities, members of the Catholic Church, and local journalism in Worcester, Masachusetts at the turn of the century. How ethnic and religious community identification among Irish, Franco, and Swedish Americans - among other immigrants groups - factored into the dynamics of Worcester unionism and popular political life from the middle 19th century onward. Instances of Worcester labor strikes; the diversity of Worcester trade labor. Descriptions of various religious, labor, and ethnic modes of group identification before 1920.Tags Albanian Americans, Armenian Americans, Blackstone River Valley, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Finnish Americans, Greek Americans, Irish Americans, Journalism, Labor History, Marlboro MA, Mills and Mill Work, Nashua NH, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Ethnic Studies, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Nonfiction -- History -- Religion, Nonfiction -- Journalism, Religion, Social History, Swedish Americans, Syrian Americans, Worcester MA -
Ethnic Diversity in Catholic America
Sociology of Catholic religion in the United States. Explores how ethnicity characterizes Roman Catholicism in immigrant communities in the. Abramson supports his claims with statistics compiled by the National Opinion Research Center.Tags Community: Customs and Social Life, Demography, Education, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Geography, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Religion, Nonfiction -- Social Sciences, Nonfiction -- Sociology, Poland, Puerto Rico, Québec, Religion, Social History, United States -
Ethnic Families in America : Patterns and Variations
Collection of essays on the sociology of the family in the United States, with a particular reliance upon the cultural diversity of ethnic immigrant groups. The 1976 edition of the text - the edition available in most libraries - contains an essay entitled "The Franco American Working Class Family," by Laurence French. From Pearson Higher Education: "Reflecting the social and political dynamics in the United States, this edited volume offers an inclusive look at multicultural diversity in the U.S. with extensive coverage of the family life styles, traditions and values of seventeen American ethnic groups. Providing unique and personal insights, each chapter is written by a contributing author representing a particular ethnic group and is structured in a similar pattern - covering the historical background, key ethnic cultural components, traditional and current ethnic family characteristics, and changes and adaptations to the ethnic family and culture."Tags Community: Customs and Social Life, Education, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Farming and Agriculture, Maine, New England, New Hampshire, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Ethnic Studies, Nonfiction -- Social Sciences, Nonfiction -- Sociology, Québec, Religion, Social History, United States, Vermont, Youth -
Ethnic Identity : The Case of the French Americans
Sociological essay highlighting Franco American assimilation in a case-study of Lewiston, Maine. Includes a brief history of French Canadian immigration to Lewiston coinciding with the city's birth as an industrial center. Part of the preface reads, "The general thrust of the book as it has developed, centers around the documentation of a case of cataclysmic cultural breakdown. Drawing upon many types of data, an attempt has been made to show that the French-American culture suffered an abrupt, multigenerational shift in cultural and social orientation. This alone justifies the study...."Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Androscoggin River Valley, Auburn ME, Community: Customs and Social Life, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Labor History, Language and Linguistics, Lewiston ME, Maine, Massachusetts, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Ethnic Studies, Nonfiction -- Social Sciences, Nonfiction -- Sociology, Québec, Religion, Social History, War -
Ethnicité, pêche et petrole : les Cadjins du bayou Lafourche en Louisiane francophone
Une étude de la relation entre l'industrie, l'économie, et les formes de l'ethnicité en Louisiane. Utilisant le population et des établissements de la village de Golden Meadow comme étude de cas, ce profil socioéconomique interpriète la croissance économique et industrielle en relation avec les concepts d'identité, la culture et l'assimilation dans un milieu rural et majoritairement francophone de la Louisiane. Des changements entre les établissements culturels - linguistiques, communautaires, les entreprises, la famille - qui ont pris effet aux côtés de certaines modernisations technologiques et économiques, en particulier dans la pêche et les industries pétroliières. Monographie numéro un dans une série de trois. ècrit prémiièrement pour une thièse maîtrise à York University, 1980. Du texte: "Le pierre angulaire de notre etude est donc sans contredit, le phenomene de l'industrialisation et de la modernisation d'une petite communaute rurale, mis en parallele avec le phenomene de l'ethnicite" (11).Tags Acadians, Acculturation and Assimilation, Business and Economics, Cajuns, Demography, Education, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Farming and Agriculture, Fishing, Forestry, Geography, Golden Meadow LA, Government and Politics, Lafourche Parish LA, Language and Linguistics, Louisiana, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Anthropology, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Nonfiction -- Social Sciences, Petroleum -
Ethnicity
A selection of essays on religion and ethnicity in international contexts. Emphasis on Catholicism. Includes pieces situated in Western Europe, North America, and French Canada, on topics ranging from church attendance, to nationalism, to biblical exegesis and religious studies. -
Ethnicity in the United States : A Preliminary Reconnaissance
A Chicago, Illinois Catholic priest's view of ethnicity in the United States, with a particular emphasis on religious and political characteristics. From the author of "Why Can't They Be Like Us? : America's White Ethnic Groups" (Dutton, 1971). -
Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie
Maine native Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem about "le Grand Dérangement" - the Acadian Expulsion - and one Acadian woman's rampant search for a love lost. This text also includes an introduction, a brief historical sketch of the Acadians, and a short biography of Longfellow. From the editor: "This is a special commemorative edition of the great poem to honor the Acadians as they celebrate the 400 year anniversary, in 2004, of the first Acadian settlement; remember the 250 year anniversary of the deportation in 2005; and accept the Queen's "acknowledgement of the facts of the deportation" and her proclamation of July 28 of every year as "A Day of Commemoration of the Great Upheaval," starting on July 28, 2005."Tags Acadians, Art and Architecture, Connecticut, Death and Disaster, England, Exploration and Colonization, France, Georgia, Language and Linguistics, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Native Americans, New Brunswick, New York, Nova Scotia, Pennsylvania, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Poetry, Prince Edward Island, Québec, South Carolina, St. David ME, St. John River Valley, United States, Van Buren ME -
Ex-head of La Kermesse festival sentenced for theft
Priscille Gagnon, for head of La Kermesse Franco American festival in Biddeford, Maine, is sentenced to three months in prison after being convicted of embezzling nearly $80,000 in festival funds to pay for her husband's hospital bills. -
Exploring the Canada Road : Delving into his past leads man along ghostly route
Article on geographer and anthropologist Barry Rodrigue's exploration and excavation of the Old Canada Road, or the stretch of land between central Maine and the Canadian border that traverses the northwestern part of the state. This route is known to have been traveled by migrant workers and emigrants - now mostly tourists - between Quebec and New England. The article connects Rodrigue's work to the cultural heritage work of Yvon Labbe, whose efforts to publicize a tourism corridor along the same route were acknowledged and bolstered by the support of Maine and Quebec government officials. -
Factory Under the Elms : A History of Harrisville, New Hampshire, 1774-1969
Nearly two hundred years of history in a New Hampshire town. Harrisville's businesses and communities, the production of its farms, and the centrality of its mills. The economic, political, and social transformations of Harrisville laid out chronologically, with great emphasis on the impact of industry and immigration. From the author: "This book describes the evolution of a small mill town in New England."Tags Business and Economics, Community: Customs and Social Life, Emigration and Immigration, Farming and Agriculture, Government and Politics, Harrisville NH, Labor History, Mills and Mill Work, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Nonfiction -- History -- Local, Religion, Violence, War -
False Accents : Embodied Dialects and the Characterization of Ethnicity and Nationality
Exploration of how the dramatic use of accents and dialects in English speech informs and complicates discourse on race and ethnicity. How the function of identity in drama and performance distinguishes between the concepts of race and ethnicity. Some observations on recent contributions to the study of accents and dialects as elements of the fields of both linguistics and performance studies. The relationship of "theatre practices" to "social realities" as evidenced in the performance of a wide-ranging variety of English dialects.Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, African Americans, Arab Americans, Asian Americans, Chinese Americans, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Filipino Americans, Hispanic Americans, Irish Americans, Italian Americans, Japanese Americans, Korean Americans, Language and Linguistics, Mexican Americans, Native Americans, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Language and Linguistics, Performing Arts -
Family and Population in Nineteenth-Century America
A collection of papers on family history and demography in the United States. Based on 1974 Williams College seminar. Coedited by the author of "Amoskeag": a study in oral history on millwork in Manchester, New Hampshire. From a review of "Family and Population" written by Lois Horton, featured in the journal, Ethnohistory: "This volume of essays brings the perspective of family history to the study of urbanization and industrialization. The authors draw on a wide variety of approaches and data sources to examine marriage, fertility, family and household composition, and life style in rapidly changing nineteenth-century America....The essays in 'Family and Population in Nineteenth Century America' clearly demonstrate the shortcomings of other studies which draw conclusions about family and household patterns from the study of the social facts contained in aggregate data. Their greatest strength is the illumination of the complexities of human behavior and the importance of factors which can only be discovered by examining smaller units of social organization." -
Family Time and Industrial Time : The Relationship Between the Family and Work in a New England Industrial Community
Study of the complex relationship between family dynamics and demanding mill work. Takes as its focus the industrial city of Manchester, New Hampshire, its vast mill complexes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the worker families that inhabited its communities and spun its wheels of industrial production. A theoretical look at family in American social history. A discussion of oral history as historical form and methodology. Originally published by Cambridge University Press. From University Press of America: "The myth that industrialization broke down traditional family ties has long pervaded American society. Professor Hareven, a leading social historian, dispels this myth and illustrates how the family survived and became an active force in the modern factory. In this book, Hareven examines the multiple roles that the workers' families fulfilled in facilitating their adaptation to the pressures of changing work patterns and new modes of life in an industrial city. She reconstructs family and work patterns among immigrants as well as native textile laborers over two generations during a crucial period in the transformation of American industry from the late nineteenth century....A case study based on what was the world's largest textile plant - the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company in Manchester, New Hampshire - the book integrates a wide array of documentary evidence with oral testimony. It examines the lives of real people - the way they acted, the way they perceived their lives, and the kinds of decisions they made when pacing their lives in relation to the demands of the industrial system."Tags Business and Economics, Community: Customs and Social Life, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Labor History, Manchester NH, Mills and Mill Work, New Hampshire, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Québec, Social History -
Farm to Factory : Women's Letters, 1830-1860
From Columbia University Press: "Between 1820 and 1860, tens of thousands of single women streamed from rural New England to find work in the burgeoning factory towns of the region. In 'Farm to Factory' Thomas Dublin has selected five sets of letters in order to provide a personal view of the first generation of American women employed for wages outside their own homes. The letters he has selected provide a unique perspective on early industrial capitalism and its effects on women."Tags Business and Economics, Emigration and Immigration, Family, Farming and Agriculture, Gender and Sexuality, Haverhill MA, Labor History, Lowell MA, Manchester NH, Massachusetts, Merrimack River Valley, Mills and Mill Work, Nashua NH, New England, Newbury VT, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Rochester NH, Social History, Vermont -
Feature Obituary: John Margarones, 87, OOB historian, retired Bates professor
Obituary of longtime Old Orchard Beach, Maine, resident and local historian, also a professor of education at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. -
Festal Days : Songs and Games of the Franco-Americans of New Hampshire
From the introduction: "Today approximately 150,000 Americans of French ancestry, including a few who came directly from France, are living in New Hampshire. Like their grandparents in Quebec, they have preserved many of the traditions of their people. In this book we have tried to outline and describe briefly the festivals, games, and songs which are part of the background of the lives of these loyal New Hampshire citizens." -
Fête Champêtre Saint Jean-Baptiste : 1939, 23-24-25 juin, Woonsocket, R.I.
Programme-souvenir et petit-livre historique compilé à l'occasion de la Fête Champêtre 1939 de l'Union Saint-Jean-Baptiste d'Amérique de Woonsocket, Rhode Island. Quelques biographies et photos des personnalités religieuses dans le diocièse catholique de Providence. Des profils de paroisses catholiques de Rhode Island. Les noms et les descriptions des autres associations franco-américaines dans la région. De nombreuses pages d'annonces. -
Fire levels Augusta mill, Blaze causes no injuries
A fire consumes the Edwards Mill in Augusta, Maine, beginning in the afternoon of November 30, 1989. Article includes a picture of the smoke and fire at the base of Sand Hill, a neighborhood in the north part of the city. -
Fire ties up traffic in city
Effect of the Cowan Mill fire on traffic in the cities of Lewiston and Auburn, Maine. -
Firefighters were called back, Mill blaze doesn't give up easily
As the discontinued Edwards Mill began to burn more strongly at the foot of Sand Hill in Augusta, Maine, in 1991, many firefighters were called back to the site from which they had already left. -
First Fall River Mayor of French-Canadian Descent
Article on the 1922 election of Edmond P. Talbot to the office of mayor in the city of Fall River, Massachusetts. -
First-Person America
Edited and annotated compilation of oral histories from the Federal Writers' Project of the 1930s Works Progress/Projects Administration (WPA) in the United States. These selections come mostly in the form of short passages that aspiring writers recorded from people in various parts of the United States during the onslaught and aftermath of the Great Depression. Banks's famous book is an indispensable part of the canon of American social history, and a testament to the efforts of recorders of local American histories in the 1930s. From the author's website: "First Person America brings together eighty oral histories gathered in the 1930's by the Federal Writers Project, including stories of a North Carolina patent medicine pitchman, a retired Oregon gold prospector, a Bahamian midwife from Florida, a Key West smuggler, Chicago jazz musicians, union organizers and others."Tags Barre VT, Chicago IL, Community: Customs and Social Life, Durham NC, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Farming and Agriculture, Florida, Gender and Sexuality, Labor History, Lowell MA, Maine, Manchester NH, Massachusetts, Montana, Music, New Mexico, New York NY, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Oklahoma, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Social History, South Carolina, Texas, United States -
FLES : A Comparative Study
Findings of a New England study comparing the listening comprehension, reading abilities, and general mental abilities of English-speaking, Franco American French-speaking, and bilingual fourth-grade students in parochial school French language classes. An evaluation of a specific FLES (Foreign Language in Elementary Schools) curriculum - the "Holy Ghost French Series" - used widely in the Roman Catholic elementary schools of New England in the 1950s and 1960s. Presents tables and figures comparing scores from student tests taken in 1962. Comments on inefficiencies and shortcomings of the administered tests (Otis Quick-Scoring Mental Ability Test and Elementary Reading Test), as well as the suggestions of their results for language learning among bilingual and monolingual students. -
Flight from Certainty : The Dilemma of Identity and Exile
Collection of essays in cultural criticism, with specific emphases on national, ethnic, and linguistic identities in transit. Divided in the text by the geographies to which each essay pertains. From the introduction: "The authors [in 'Flight from Certainty'] have attempted to combine scholarship, personal experience, wit, and irony in dealing with questions which so far have gone unanswered: 'How far is identity modelled by the country in which people grow up and believe they have their roots? What happens to the concept of identity when a person abandons one country to live in another?'"Tags Acadians, Acculturation and Assimilation, Africa, Australia, Criticism and Review, Emigration and Immigration, England, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, India, Ireland, Italy, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Louisiana, New England, New Zealand, Québec, Sanford ME, South Africa, South Asia, Sri Lanka, Violence -
Floribec : espace et communauté
Une étude sociogéographique sur le Floribec: les communautés touristiques québécois qui avaient habité en masse - ou passé les vacances - à Hollywood, Florida pendant les mois d'hivers depuis les années 1970. Floribec comme éspace, communauté, phénomiène. Les lieux physiques saillants et l'organisation spatiale/géographique de Floribec; "l'espace d'appartenance" sociale de Floribec; les liens culturels entre Floribec et Québec, entre les "Floribecois" et les Québécois, et au sein de la communauté elle-même. -
For Franco-Americans, it's now or never
Subtitled, "French in New England fear their language and culture risk being lost forever unless something is done soon." An article presenting the Franco Americans in Vermont as a people at risk of cultural and linguistic assimilation. Focuses on the worries of a generation of native French speakers and direct descendents of French Canadian American immigrants over threats to their linguistic relevance, unwelcome challenges posed to the cultural currency they pass on to their own descendents, and the historical context that orientates their concerns. Includes commentary from many Vermonters, and relates their difference of opinion as to the role the French language should play in the lives of Franco Americans. Thoughts on the relevance of these concerns to the current (1980s) political movements in Quebec. -
For Pete's sake : Calumet's sports fields to bear Gagne's name
Le Club Calumet, the Franco-American social organization in Augusta, Maine, dedicates its youth sports fields in memory of local entrepreneur Albert "Pete" Gagne. Includes pictures of the monument erected at the fields in Gagne's honor. -
Former workers recall the mill
In the aftermath of the burning of the Edwards Mill in Augusta, Maine, some former workers look back on their many years spent there during its time of operation. This article focuses on the stories of Edward Doyon, Valmond Rodrigue, Robert Beaudoin, and Fr. Gilbert Patenaude. -
France to honor local man for WWII service
New Gloucester, Maine, man receives the French Legion of Honor medal for his military service during the United States military's participation in the liberation of France during World War II. Growing up speaking French, he was able to translate for American and French soldiers. -
Franco-America's Growing Pains: The Shadows of the Trees. By Jacques Ducharme. 258 pp. New York: Harper & Brothers. $2.50.
A review of the exploratory book-length essay entitled "The Shadows of the Trees," by Jacques Ducharme, on the Franco-American experience in the United States. Ducharme attempts to explore the most prominent aspects of French-Canadian emigrant culture brought into question by life outside of Canada. -
Franco-Américains et francophones aux États-Unis
De l'auteur: "13 millions d'Américains se sont déclarés 'd'origine française' lors du recensement de 1980, et un million et demi parlent français chez eux. La notion d'origine française est relativement floue, mais la répartition selon les Etats met en valeur les deux principales zones de peuplement franco-américains: la Louisiane et la Nouvelle-Angleterre. La répartition des francophones ressemble à celle des franco-américains, mais de surcroît, elle révièle l'existence de quelques îlots de francophonie, dans les zones d'immigration contemporaine. La comparaison avec les italophones et les germanophones confirme l'originalité de la répartition des francophones et témoigne d'un développement autonome de la langue française." -
Franco-American Citizens
Article on a Massachusetts "national convention of French residents," with discussion held about political party affiliations, support for various candidates, etc. -
Franco-American Congress Meets
Article on the meeting of the fifth military congress of the Franco-American Brigade of New England at Fall River, Massachusetts. -
Franco-American Democrats Gather
Article on a summer 1915 gathering of the Franco-American Democratic Club of Massachusetts in the coastal town of New Bedford. -
Franco-American Doc Treats Ethnic Wound
Article on Dr. Denis R. Baillargeon of Pomfret, Connecticut, and his recent efforts to promote Franco American culture in the light of what he describes as Quebec and French Canada's history of loss. -
Franco-American Ethnic Identity in Maine : Mémoire de Maiêtrise
Book-length study based on demographic research and personal observations on Franco Americans in Maine. Begins with a brief exploration of the diversity of Franco American history in New England and moves into the theoretical particularities often used to talk about the common Franco-American minority experience. Ends with case-studies of Franco Americans from Brunswick, Turner, Portland, Waterville, Lewiston, and Augusta, Maine. Attempts to trace the transformation of Franco American attitudes toward their heritage. From the author: "This paper is the outcome of a nine-month observation. From September 1989 until May 1990, the observer was a French Teaching Fellow at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine...."Tags Acadians, Acculturation and Assimilation, Auburn ME, Augusta ME, Biddeford ME, Brunswick ME, Community: Customs and Social Life, Cumberland ME, Demography, Eagle Lake ME, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Labor History, Language and Linguistics, Lewiston ME, Maine, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Ethnic Studies, Nonfiction -- Social Sciences, Québec, Religion, Saco ME, St. John River Valley, Waterville ME -
Franco-American Folklore : A Cornucopia of Culture
Paper on the folklore of the Acadian and Malecite people of the St. John River Valley in New Brunswick and northern Maine. Types of Franco American folklore, processes of its retrieval and study, and what it teaches about the history of the communities from which it comes. Written by a folklorist and professor of history at the University of Maine at Fort Kent. Compiled from four summer seminar lectures at the University of Maine: Franco-American Folklore; Folklore and History; Folklore and Language; Stock-taking. Includes an index of names of people from Maine and New Brunswick whose folklore resources and idiomatic terms were included in the text of the paper. Reprinted in "Vers l'évolution d'un culture," by Céleste Roberge. -
Franco-American Foresters Meet
An article on the meeting of the Franco American Order of Foresters held in Manchester, New Hampshire, in 1909. -
Franco-American History Projects in the State of Maine : Oral History, Historic Photographs, and Archival Surprises
Paper describing some of Doty's scholarship on Franco Americans in the state of Maine, with a handful of specific suggestions for how material variety on Maine Franco Americans and the richness of certain historical archives could form the basis for more research and scholarship. Relates examples from Farm Security Administration activity in the St. John Valley in the 1930s, the life and works of musician Rudy Vallée of Westbrook, and the writings of priests and other Franco American elite in the first half of the twentieth century. -
Franco-American Life and Culture in Manchester, New Hampshire : Vivre La Différence
An intimately crafted Franco American cultural history of Manchester, New Hampshire, written by one of its resident historians. From the author of such works as "One Piece in the Great American Mosaic," "La Presse Franco-Américaine et La Politique," and "Elpheège-J. Daignault et le mouvement sentinelliste," among others. From The History Press: "A strong sense of unity and tradition frames a fascinating history of Manchester, New Hampshire's Franco-American community. Author Robert B. Perreault presents this story through compelling vignettes, including the triumphant success of photographer Ulric Bourgeois, the undeniable conflict between the French and Irish immigrants, and a colorful profile of book collector and author Adélard Lambert. Featuring vintage images from Perreault's private collection, this work is a stunning visual narrative of the French-Canadian contributions to local culture."Tags Art and Architecture, Community: Customs and Social Life, Education, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Gender and Sexuality, Journalism, Labor History, Manchester NH, Mills and Mill Work, New Hampshire, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Local, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Social History, Violence -
Franco-American loses lawsuit
Subtitled, "Judge says TDC didn't discriminate." Article relating the results of a U.S. District Court case in which a Franco American man filed suit against his former Bangor, Maine employer for unlawful hiring practices and discrimination based on ethnicity. According to the journalist, "the case...is the first discrimination case involving a Franco-American to go to trial in Maine." -
Franco-American man helps others awaken cultural backgrounds through writing workshops : Mapping Memories
Article about fiction writer Denis Ledoux of Lewiston, Maine, who has turned to helping others write their own personal histories. Ledoux's workshop, "Turning Memories into Memoirs," has sparked international interest from writers, genealogists, community historians, and others in recording their family histories. -
Franco-American Parade
Article on a 1911 march of Franco-American foresters in New Bedford, Massachusetts. -
Franco-American Republican Club Holds Convention
Article on a Lowell, Massachusetts, meeting of the Franco-American Republican Club and the election of its president. -
Franco-American Republicans Elect
Article on the 1917 meeting and elections of the Massachusetts Franco-American Republican Club. -
Franco-American Student Affairs at the University of Maine at Orono
Original text of a presentation included in "The French in New England, Acadia, and Quebec," a 1972 conference sponsored by the New England-Atlantic Provinces-Quebec Centre at the University of Maine, Orono, Maine. Considers the birth, plight, and collective efforts of a newly formed Franco American student group at the University of Maine. Reprinted in a Summer 2010 issue (35.1) of Le Forum, a publication of the Franco-American Centre, University of Maine.
A redacted version of this presentation can be found in the published conference proceedings: "The French in New England" -
Franco-American Studies in the Footsteps of Robert G. LeBlanc
Article praising the work of scholar Robert LeBlanc. Cites not only the importance of the focus on geography and the treatment of history in his research, but his precision and innovation in Franco-American Studies - his efforts to see ethnic culture as a much more complex thing than the simple reduction of customs or language. -
Franco-American Viewpoints
Illustrations of Massachusetts' Franco American cultural landscape in personal photos, personal interviews, and historical context. A local pictorial history in short form, singular in its use of quotations.Tags Acadians, Albany NY, Chicopee MA, Community: Customs and Social Life, Connecticut River Valley, Easthampton MA, Education, Emigration and Immigration, Fall River MA, Family, Fitchburg MA, Gardner MA, Holyoke MA, Labor History, Lawrence MA, Lewiston ME, Lowell MA, Maine, Massachusetts, New Bedford MA, New England, New York, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Local, Nonfiction -- History -- Pictorial, Northampton MA, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Québec, Religion, Springfield MA, Vermont, Waltham MA, Worcester MA -
Franco-American Women Awakening a Silenced Culture
E-news article on women reviving Franco culture in Maine. -
Franco-Americans
Outline of Franco American history, traditional practices, cultural norms. Culminates in suggestions to healthcare providers for communicating with Franco Americans. Published online by the Child Welfare Training Institute, Muskie School of Public Education, University of Southern MaineTags Acadians, Auburn ME, Augusta ME, Bangor ME, Biddeford ME, Caribou ME, Death and Disaster, Demography, Education, Emigration and Immigration, Exploration and Colonization, Family, Food, Health and Wellness, Language and Linguistics, Lewiston ME, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Essay, Nova Scotia, Québec, Religion, Sports and Leisure -
Franco-Americans and Quebec
The first chapter in a book-length series of short essays, interviews, conversations, and journalistic explorations into the impact of Quebec's Quiet Revolution on Canada and the US. Written by a researcher from Woonsocket, Rhode Island, who makes an attempt at bridging the growing division between Franco Americans in the United States and issues and events surrounding the province of Quebec. This introductory essay contains demographic figures on Franco American people in New England, and the conditions of early French Canadian immigrant communities in the US. -
Franco-Americans and Québécois : Americans Twice Over
From the author: "For the last 25 years, Franco-Americans and Québécois, two branches of the French-Canadian family, have experienced important social and cultural transformations. Although the modernization of Québec society and the redefinition of Franco-American ethnicity contributed initially to the disappearance of relations between the two, a post-Revolution Tranquille perspective brings new possibilities for interaction. Moreover, scrutiny of the experience of French Canadians on this continent opens the door to an understanding of Québec's identity based upon the Americanite of its culture." -
Franco-Americans and the International Paper Company Strike of 1910
The case of a 1910 paper industry labor strike - its success among the millworkers of Livermore Falls, Maine, and its relative failure among those of nearby Rumford Falls. Certain observations of attitudes espoused by Franco Americans toward labor unions and striking. A brief historical overview of New England Franco American participation in labor unions and the pulp and paper industry, including comments on factors of place and gender. Social contexts of Livermore Falls and Rumford Falls around the time of the concerned strike, and the impact of the strike on the communities in both towns. Includes local demographic data.Tags Androscoggin River Valley, Business and Economics, Chesterville ME, Chisholm ME, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Forestry, Gender and Sexuality, Irish Americans, Jay ME, Labor History, Latvian Americans, Lawrence MA, Lithuanian Americans, Livermore Falls ME, Livermore ME, Lowell MA, Maine, Manchester NH, Mexico ME, Mills and Mill Work, New Bedford MA, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Polish Americans, Riley ME, Rumford Falls ME, Rumford ME, Scottish Americans, Social History, Woonsocket RI -
Franco-Americans eye Quebec : 'We don't need another Cuba up there'
Article on Maine Franco Americans' opposing positions relative to Québec separatism in the 1970s. Comments from state legislators, loggers, and university professionals from across the state. Thoughts on the possible positive and negative impacts of Québec's potential independence on Canada and on Franco Americans in Maine. -
Franco-Americans gather for forum : French-speaking participants recall how their language drew ridicule
Article on a French-language forum about cultural heritage and viability in the St. John River Valley, northern Maine. The talk, sponsored by the Maine Humanities Council, was led by advocates for the Acadian and Quebecois heritages prevalent in Frenchville, Fort Kent, Grand Isle, and many other communities throughout northern Aroostook County and the state of Maine. -
Franco-Americans in Lewiston wanted radio programming which reflected their culture. WLAM wanted profits. Guess who won.
Article on the efforts of two Maine people - Paul Paré and Denis Ledoux - who sought out the sort of radio programming at a Lewiston, Maine, AM station that would be representative of and appeal to Franco Americans in that area. Their cultural concerns, the legalities supporting their broadcasting claims, and how they fared in their struggle with WLAM. -
Franco-Americans in Maine : A Geographical Perspective
A study of Franco Americans in Maine with respect to geography: movement, placement, population growth, and cultural stability. From the author: "The major purpose of this paper is to depict the geographic characteristics of Maine's Franco-Americans during the twentieth century and to show what changes have occurred in recent years....A second purpose of the paper is to describe certain changes in culture and social structure which have occurred as Franco-Americans have experienced assimilation to varying degrees in different places."Tags Augusta ME, Biddeford ME, Caribou ME, Demography, Eagle Lake ME, Education, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Farming and Agriculture, Forestry, Frenchville ME, Geography, Labor History, Lewiston ME, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Geography, Religion, St. John River Valley, Van Buren ME, Wallagrass ME, Waterville ME, Winterville ME -
Franco-Americans in the Civil War Era, 1861-1865
French Canadians and Franco Americans in the context of the American Civil War. Includes enlistment figures in relation to immigration, as well as population figures around 1860. Considers the short history surrounding the complicated reality of new immigrants fighting in a war for their new country. From the preface: "This booklet was written in an effort to better acquaint Franco-Americans with their outstanding contribution to American life. Indeed, it is partly up to Canadian historians to reveal this heritage to French Canada's often neglected and overlooked diaspora. For too long, Franco-Americans have remained the 'forgotten Americans.' This study seeks to help remedy this unfortunate oversight. 'Franco-Americans in the Civil War Era' is the first booklet in a bilingual series called 'Études sur l'histoire des relations canado-américaines/Studies in the History of Canadian-American Relations' that explores various aspects of the historical relationship between Canada and the United States. The series' goal is to provide the reader with a more holistic understanding of Canadian and American history." -
Franco-Americans in Vermont : A Civil Rights Perspective
From the members of the Vermont Advisory Committee: "The report presents an historic overview of the French-Canadian presence in Vermont over the past 300 years, a discussion of the size of the State's Franco-American population, and the different definitions and techniques used in identifying Franco-Americans. In the chapter on Status, data are presented which demonstrate statistical disparities between Franco-Americans and the Anglo population in education and employment. Societal attitudes reflected in scholarly works and in fiction are surveyed as well. Franco-Americans have been the victims of anti-Catholic, anti-foreign sentiment in the past, and of negative stereotyping in much of the 20th century. To determine whether these attitudes result in actions (discrimination), which in turn result in the observed disparities, is a formidable process, requiring additional historical research and analyses of educational and employment practices. Through this report, the advisory committee hopes to identify directions for future study."Tags Burlington VT, Business and Economics, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Exploration and Colonization, Government and Politics, Greenville NH, Labor History, Middlebury VT, Mills and Mill Work, Montpelier VT, New Hampshire, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Demography, Québec, Religion, Social History, St. Albans VT, Swanton VT, Vermont, Winooski VT -
Franco-Americans include five cultures
Article about the focus on Franco-American cultures during Appreciating Diversity Day at Falmouth Middle School in southern Maine. -
Franco-Americans of Maine
An "Images of America" pictorial history that illustrates parts of the Franco-American experience in Maine, Maine's people, and the things and places that occupied their lives. Chapters run as follows: 1)Work, 2)Family, 3)Religious Life, 4)Community, 5)Sports and Recreation, 6)Arts and Entertainment, 7)Education, 8)Franco-American Pride, 9)The Acadians. This is Dyke Hendrickson's second book on Franco-Americans, the first being "Quiet Presence: Dramatic, First-Person Accounts: The True Stories of Franco-Americans in New England" (1980)Tags Acadians, Allagash ME, Auburn ME, Augusta ME, Biddeford ME, Community: Customs and Social Life, Eagle Lake ME, Education, Family, Farming and Agriculture, Forestry, Fort Kent ME, Frenchville ME, Grand Isle ME, Journalism, Labor History, Lewiston ME, Lille ME, Madawaska ME, Mills and Mill Work, New Auburn ME, New Brunswick, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Pictorial, Sanford ME, Sinclair ME, Sports and Leisure, St. Agatha ME, St. David ME, St. John River Valley, Van Buren ME, Wallagrass ME, Westbrook ME, Youth -
Franco-Americans of the State of Maine, U.S.A., and Their Achievements : Historical, Descriptive, and Biographical
From the text: "This volume is published chiefly for the purpose of showing the achievements of the Franco-American citizens of Maine to-day. Written from an independent viewpoint, the work seeks to make familiar to English reading people the status of those of French-Canadian birth or parentage in the professions - business, religious, and social affairs of our state." -
Franco-Americans want radio character off the air
Orlando, Florida, coverage of Maine controversy around WBLM character "Frenchie," whose ethnically-driven humor aroused many negative public reactions. -
Franco-Amérique
Tags Acadians, Alberta, Canada, Criticism and Review, Emigration and Immigration, Essay, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Exploration and Colonization, Florida, Government and Politics, Haiti, Illinois, Language and Linguistics, Louisiana, Maine, Manitoba, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Native Americans, New England, North Dakota, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Oregon, Québec, United States -
Francophone Literatures : An Introductory Survey
From Oxford University Press: "The canon of French literature has undergone substantial transformation in recent years and francophone literature is now an increasingly important element in French literature courses. This study introduces the diverse literatures from the numerous French-speaking areas around the world, including Africa, French Canada, and both the Caribbean and Indian Ocean Creole islands, among others. Moving region by region, Jack details the ways in which the most important authors establish a post-colonial and linguistically and culturally unique literary tradition while they subvert--through rewriting, parody, and pastiche--the established French literary tradition. More importantly, she suggests a new critical approach for understanding these various French-speaking cultures and, consequently, the French culture which they recast and subvert." -
Francos offer mixed response to LePage win
Article featured one day prior in the Lewiston, Maine, Sun Journal under the title "'One of us': Francos laud LePage win." Local reaction to Paul LePage - a Franco American from Lewiston and Waterville - becoming the next governor of the state. Some insist LePage's ethnicity will raise the conversation about Franco Americans in Maine to a greater level, others argue his ethnicity is not nearly as important as his conservative political orientation. -
Franglais, a case of lexical bilingualism
Brief article on instances of "lexical biligualism," with particular emphasis on the measured impact of American English on the French language in France. Attitudes developed in France between 1950 and 1970 toward this linguistic influence, and toward international variations on the French language, and some efforts aimed at managing them during said period. -
Frank Pomerleau's Inc. of Augusta, Maine
16-page add featured in the Kennebec Journal's 150th Anniversary Edition paper. -
Frank Pomerleau's legacy: an 'entrepreneurial spirit'
Article on Augusta, Maine, entrepreneur, Frank Pomerleau, written soon after his death. Pomerleau's furniture and appliance store was a staple in the community for over 50 years, with Pomerleau himself being recognized for his success by business and cultural groups alike. This issue of the newspaper also contains Frank Pomerleau's obituary. -
Freedom of association
Letter to the editor that claims to be in support of the Maine Supreme Court decision to protect the all-male Le Club Calumet's freedom of association. -
Freeing the silenced tongue : Mainers with French-Canadian roots try to revive their banished patois
Brief profile of a Waterville, Maine, group of adults intent on reclaiming the French language that permeated their earlier lives but that - for reasons personal, political, and otherwise historical - was replaced or repressed by communication in English. Includes testimonies of the circumstances surrounding language loss from others in northern Maine's St. John River Valley, as well as from a Maine documentary filmmaker. -
French America : Mobility, Identity, and Minority Experience Across the Continent
Translation and expansion of "Du continent perdu..." by Dean Louder. A collection of historiographical, geographical, anthropological, and theoretical essays on francophone cultures in North America - from Québec, to New England and the US Northeast, to Louisiana, and back across the breadth of Canada. Contains the following writings: The "ungovernable" people : French-Canadian mobility and identity - Christian Morissonneau The Franco-Americans of New England - Pierre Anctil Ontarois and Québécois as distinct collectivities - Danielle Juteau When a majority becomes a minority : the French-speaking Métis in the Canadian West - Gilles Martel The French Canadians of the West : hope, tragedy, uncertainty - André Lalonde French-Canadian communities in the upper midwest during the nineteenth century - D. Aidan McQuillan Lead mining and the survival and demise of French in rural Missouri - Gerald L. Gold Maillardville : all quiet on the western front - Paul Y. Villeneuve The Acadian migrations - Robert G. Leblanc Space and sense of place : the example of the Acadians in New Brunswick - Jean-Claude Vernex The Newfoundland French : an endangered minority? - Eric Waddell, Claire Doran French Louisiana : an outpost of l'Amérique française or another country and another culture? - Eric Waddell The linguistic geography of Acadiana - Roland J.-L. Breton, Dean R. Louder The Cajuns of Canal Yankee : problems of cultural identity in Lafourche Parish - Alain Larouche The Cajuns of East Texas - Dean R. Louder, Michael Leblanc Redressing the linguistic situation : a critical analysis of Les Héritiers de Lord Durham and Deux poids, deux mesures - René-Jean Ravault An America that knows no name : postscript to a quincentenary celebration - Jean Morisset The search for home in America : an afterword - Eric Waddell, Dean R. LouderTags Acadians, British Columbia, Emigration and Immigration, Essay, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Geography, Language and Linguistics, Louisiana, Missouri, Native Americans, New Brunswick, New England, Newfoundland, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Anthology, Ontario, Québec, Texas, Travel and Movement, US Midwest -
French and Francophone : The Challenge of Expanding Horizons
The preface to an issue of Yale French Studies. Part of the text reads: "This volume of Yale French Studies is concerned with the emergence of new relations between 'French' and 'Francophone' in institutions, in pedagogy, and in interpretations of literature and culture." -
French and German : A Comparative Study
Essay presenting data on a study of French, French Canadian, and German immigrants in the United States; French and German language usage therein; and figures corresponding to French and German American language communities. Data on patterns in French and German language instruction in United States schools from the late 19th century to the late 20th. The relationship of the 1968 US Bilingual Education Act to French and German language instruction and usage. Some of the author's predictions for the future of French and German language in the United States. -
French Canada in Transition : The Effects of Anglo-American Industrialization upon a French-Canadian Small Town
From Oxford University Press, 2009 edition: "'French Canada in Transition' is a landmark study of the impact of rapid industrialization on small French Canadian communities. First published in 1943 by the University of Chicago Press, it remains one of the most widely cited works of Canadian Sociology. Hughes's careful study of a typical Quebec city revealed trends and developing fault lines that would only make themselves apparent to less perceptive observers two decades later with the flowering of the so-called 'Quiet Revolution.' " -
French Canada's Diaspora and Labour History
Review of Jacques Rouillard's text, "Ah les Etats!: les travailleurs canadiens-français dans l'industrie textile de la Nouvelle-Angleterre d'apriès le témoignage des derniers migrants" (Boreal Express, 1985) couched in a brief reflection on Franco-American history. From the text: "More than ever it struck me as to just how elitist French Canada's historiography has been and to a large degree remains. The constitutional, nationalist, neo-nationalist, and ideological schools have all been recycling the same elitist hash: in essence a Whig interpretation from the loser's perspective. Rouillard's emigrants, however, were the survivors in the grand tradition of la survivance. Personal interests came first..." -
French Canadian Catholics
Very brief article about the number of French-Canadian Catholics in the United States and their representation in the American Church hierarchy. -
French Canadian Families
Publication in psychotherapy on the historical backgrounds and cultural registers of a variety of ethnic subcultures in the United States. One essay on communicating with Franco Americans, acknowledging traditional familial roles, and understanding cultural trends. From the text: "'Ethnicity and Family Therapy' represents a good beginning in breaking through the barriers toward honest dealing with the psychology of America's still vibrant subcultures. The findings and practices described here are sure to be controversial, especially when our emotions are ignited by what we read about our own group. As a guide to practicing family therapists and to other general readers interested in cultural systems, the material presented here will prove to be endlessly fascinating and eminently useful." -
French Canadians in Maine
Article on the large presence of French-Canadian emigrants in Maine, yet the conspicuous lack of information about them. -
French Canadians in Massachusetts Politics, 1885-1915 : Ethnicity and Political Pragmatism
Based on Petrin's Ph.D thesis entitled "Ethnicity and political pragmatism: The French Canadians in Massachusetts, 1885-1915" (Clark University, 1983). In-depth, statistic-full analysis of the relationship between ethnicity and politics during a 30-year period surrounding turn-of-the-century Massachusetts. Explores French Canadian citizenship, voting patterns, party politics, and interethnic conflict in light of the active streams of immigration and industrialization of that period. Examines individual city statistics.Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Adams MA, Amesbury MA, Attleboro MA, Auburn MA, Boston MA, Cambridge MA, Chicopee MA, Demography, Douglas MA, Dudley MA, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Fitchburg MA, Government and Politics, Grafton MA, Hardwick MA, Haverhill MA, Holyoke MA, Language and Linguistics, Lawrence MA, Leominster MA, Lowell MA, Ludlow MA, Lynn MA, Marlboro MA, Massachusetts, Millbury MA, Montague MA, New Bedford MA, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, North Adams MA, North Brookfield MA, Northbridge MA, Oxford MA, Palmer MA, Pittsfield MA, Québec, Religion, Salem MA, Southbridge MA, Spencer MA, Springfield MA, Sturbridge MA, Sutton MA, Taunton MA, Ware MA, Webster MA, Worcester MA -
French Canadians in Michigan
Overview of the French Canadian presence in the Great Lakes Region - from the forests of the seventeenth century to the industrial landscapes of the nineteenth and twentieth. Migration waves and community developments in this region, particularly in Michigan, over hundreds of years. From Michigan State University Press: "As the first European settlers in Michigan, the French Canadians left an indelible mark on the place names and early settlement patterns of the Great Lakes State. Because of its importance in the fur trade, many French Canadians migrated to Michigan, settling primarily along the Detroit- Illinois trade route, and throughout the fur trade avenues of the Straits of Mackinac. When the British conquered New France in 1763, most Europeans in Michigan were Francophones. John DuLong explores the history and influence of these early French Canadians, and traces, as well, the successive 19th- and 20th-century waves of industrial migration from Quebec, creating new communities outside the old fur trade routes of their ancestors."Tags Bibliography, Canada, Community: Customs and Social Life, Detroit MI, East Lansing MI, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Exploration and Colonization, Food, Forestry, Fur-trading, Great Lakes Region, Houghton County MI, Lake Linden MI, Language and Linguistics, Mackinac Island, Michigan, Monroe County MI, Montréal QC, Native Americans, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- French in North America, Ottawa ON, Québec, River Raisin, Saginaw River Valley, United States, US Midwest -
French Canadians in New England
1901 supplementary article on French-Canadian communities in New England. According to author, these communities - unlike other immigrants to the United States around the turn of the century - appear to resist cultural assimilation by the insular nature of their make-up.Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Community: Customs and Social Life, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Labor History, Lawrence MA, Lowell MA, Maine, Manchester NH, Merrimack River Valley, Michigan, Mills and Mill Work, Nashua NH, New England, New York, North Dakota, Québec -
French Canadians in New Hampshire
Outline of dates and figures; compilation of facts and notes relevant to the history of French Canadian immigrants in the state of New Hampshire around the beginning of the twentieth century. Designed by the New Hampshire Historical Society for teachers and students. Contains brief bibliography.Tags Bibliography, Community: Customs and Social Life, Education, Emigration and Immigration, England, Epping NH, Finland, Goffstown NH, Gonic NH, Hooksett NH, Ireland, Italy, Labor History, Lebanon NH, Manchester NH, Mills and Mill Work, New Hampshire, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Education, Nonfiction -- History -- Local, Pembroke NH, Poland, Québec, Religion, Russia, Suncook NH, War, Worcester MA -
French Canadians In New-England
Brief article taken from the Boston Commercial Bulletin that cites Boston French Canadians being granted a hearing to protest against the Bureau of Statistics labeling them the "Chinese of the East." -
French Canadians Object
1890 article on one Fall River, Massachusetts, social organization's response to the Catholic Centennial Congress's outright rejection of the existence of national societies. -
French Colonists and Exiles in the United States
French presence in the United States from 1684 to the beginning of the 20th century. Includes early missions from France to the American South and Midwest, colonies in Louisiana, Huguenot communities on the Mid-Atlantic American coast, French soldiers in the American Revolutionary War, and French travelers in the region of the United States. Also includes a list of French place names in the United States.Tags California, Education, Exploration and Colonization, France, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- French in North America, Nonfiction -- History -- General, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Religion, South Carolina, Virginia, War, West Virginia -
French consul general to help Maine prepare for trade mission
French consul general to Boston, Cristophe Guilhou, makes a tour of Maine guided by Severin Beliveau. Guilou's visit comes in preparation of an October 2010 Maine/France trade mission. Article originally written for the Portland Press Herald. -
French consul visits Old Town
François Gauthier, former French consul to Boston and New England, and Françoise Gauthier visit Old Town, Maine, and the University of Maine's Franco-American Centre to learn more about Maine's French heritage. -
French Contributions to America
Historical text on French, French Canadian, and Franco American persons significant to political, social, religious, and artistic life in the United States both before and after 1776 - from the early 17th century to the 1940s. Composed of descriptions of events, deeds, and works in their historical contexts; a collection of brief biographical profiles and popular lists; genealogical sketches; place names, architecture, and businesses; and illustrative quotations. Particular geographical emphases on the Midwest and Northeast/New England regions, with consideration of whole of the United States up to 1940. Includes French translations of the Star-Spangled Banner and the Declaration of Independence. Concludes with a lengthy bibliography. Contains the following chapters: French Seedling in America For God and Country Huguenots' Contributions In the Heart of America French Military Men Explorers, Frontiers' Men, Founders Expansion of Religion Versatility Outstanding Americans of French Descent Bits of French Benevolent Works Attainments Franco-American WritersTags Arctic Centre RI, Arizona, Art and Architecture, Attleboro MA, Augusta ME, Berlin NH, Biddeford ME, Boston MA, Brockton MA, Brunswick ME, Burlington VT, Cambridge MA, Canada, Central Falls RI, Chelsea MA, Clubs and Societies, Cohoes NY, Colorado, Everett MA, Exploration and Colonization, Fall River MA, Fiction and Literature, Fitchburg MA, Florida, Fort Kent ME, France, Gardner MA, Government and Politics, Holyoke MA, Huguenots, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Iroquois, Journalism, Kennebec River Valley, Kentucky, Lawrence MA, Leominster MA, Louisiana, Lowell MA, Lynn MA, Maine, Manchester NH, Marlboro MA, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Music, Nashua NH, Native Americans, New Mexico, New York, Newburyport MA, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- General, North America, North Dakota, Oswego NY, Pawtucket RI, Pennsylvania, Penobscot River Valley, Plainville CT, Plattsburgh NY, Poetry, Providence RI, Québec, Religion, Rochester NH, Rutland VT, Salem MA, Sanford ME, Scarborough ME, Sharon Heights MA, Shirley MA, Somerville NH, South Berwick ME, South Carolina, South Dakota, Southbridge MA, Springfield MA, St. Croix River Valley, St. Lawrence River Valley, Suncook NH, United States, US Midwest, Violence, Virginia, Wabanaki, Waltham MA, Wanton VT, War, Watertown NY, Waterville ME, West Warwick RI, Winooski VT, Wisconsin, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
French language books to be distributed
Article on Quebec's donation of nearly 10,000 books in the French language to the Franco-American Centre at the University of Maine, to be distributed into the state's Franco-American communities. -
French National Societies in New England
Article on the early-twentieth-century establishment of Franco American social organizations, and their implications for cultural heritage preservation, or the idea of "la survivance." Refers to already-established social organizations in Québec as developmental models for emigrant French Canadian and Franco American communities in New England.Tags Acadians, Acculturation and Assimilation, Boston MA, Community: Customs and Social Life, Fitchburg MA, Holyoke MA, Illinois, Maine, Malone NY, Manchester NH, Michigan, Montréal QC, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New York, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Clubs and Societies, Nova Scotia, Religion, Springfield MA, Vermont, Waltham MA, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
French Neutrals in Massachusetts: the Story of Acadians Rounded up by Soldiers from Massachusetts and Their Captivity in the Bay Province, 1755-1766
Tags Boston MA, Charlestown MA, Community: Customs and Social Life, Death and Disaster, Government and Politics, Hingham MA, Lexington MA, Malden MA, Marblehead MA, Medfield MA, Nova Scotia, Pennsylvania, Plymouth MA, Religion, Roxbury MA, Salem MA, Stoughton MA, Violence, Weston MA, Weymouth MA, Woburn MA -
French New Bedford : A Historical Overview of Franco-Americans of New Bedford, Massachusetts
A brief history of the Franco Americans in New Bedford, Massachusetts. About half of the text is dedicated to the role of New Bedford's Catholic churches, while the remainder addresses New Bedford's community life, work, the French language, and Franco American culture. Includes photographs. -
French Patterns in Québec and New England
Thoughts on political and cultural attitudes in Québec with particular reference to the war effort. Ham interrogates New England French Canadian minority culture to examine more intimately the general political thought-processes of WWII-era Québec. From the text: "...no critic should attempt an estimate of Québec internationalism without reference as well to the French-Canadian attitude in New England." -
French women must unite
Letter to the editor calling upon "all women of French ancestry" to unite in response to the Maine Supreme Court's decision to allow the Calumet Club of Augusta, Maine, to refuse membership to women. -
French-Canadian as a Language
Article reflecting on the work of a Québec social scholar, and exploring the idea that there may or may not exist "a distinct French Canadian patois." -
French-Canadian Communities in the Upper Midwest during the Nineteenth Century
Article on French Canadian immigrant and worker communities in the states of Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Illinois in the nineteenth century. How farming, lumbering, and mining communities of this era differed from the fur-trading, French Canadian frontier establishments of the same region in the eighteenth century. Figures on the cultural and linguistic assimilation of French Canadian immigrants in the Upper Midwest US. How economic success or poverty, urbanity or rurality, related to the loss or persistence of the French language and customs in these immigrant communities. Provides maps of the region from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century, with markers for trading posts, area demographics, and migration routes.Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Bay City MI, Bourbonnais IL, Chicago IL, Demography, Detroit MI, Emigration and Immigration, Farming and Agriculture, Forestry, Geography, Grand Haven MI, Grand Rapids MI, Illinois, Kankakee County IL, Kansas, Michigan, Midland MI, Mills and Mill Work, Mining, Minneapolis MN, Minnesota, Polk County (Minn.), Québec, Red River Valley, US Midwest, Wisconsin -
French-Canadian Criers
Article on the New England institution of the "town crier" - one who yells out public announcements from a central community area to alert those in earshot. -
French-Canadian Names: Vermont Variants
A look into the unique renditions of names of French Canadian families in Vermont, and the recent and transformative linguistic histories of these names in a largely anglophone space. -
French-Canadian of To-Day
1900 letter to the New York Times refuting pejorative descriptions leveled on "the French-Canadian of to-day" by a New York Times editorialist who had only spent a short time in Canada. The letter covers the editorialist's attitude toward French-Canadian "superstition," "accent," and "uncleanliness," and remarks on his oversight of the strength of French-Canadian communities in the United States. -
French-Canadian Protestants. Anxious to Move to South Carolina to Escape Alleged Persecution
1893 article on the letter of a Fall River, Massachusetts, French-Canadian Congregationalist minister to the governor of South Carolina, requesting information on how he and his protestant community might relocate to South Carolina and escape the persecution of his community by Roman Catholics in Massachusetts. -
French-Canadians came for the land
Excerpt from the forthcoming book, "The Franco-Americans," by Augusta, Maine resident, Maurice Violette. Discusses the purported logics behind French-Canadian immigration to New England in the 19th century. -
French-Canadians Meet. Jubilee Celebration of Society of St. John the Baptist -- 2,000 Visitors Here
1900 article on the New York City assembly of l'Union St-Jean-Baptiste in commemoration of the organization's fiftieth anniversary. -
French-Canadians Strong in Numbers; Total Nearly One-Seventh of Population of New England States. Dominant in Some Cities; Eager to Keep Their Language, School and Church--A Valuable Labor Class
Brief editorial on the growth of the French-Canadian/Franco-American population in the United States relative to other cultural groups. Considers the dilemma of the French-Canadians' resistance to full assimilation alongside their healthy contribution to the American labor force. -
French-Canadians to Leave. Large Number Who Are Discontented May Return to Quebec from Maine Early Next Spring
Christmastime 1900 article predicting the potential mass return of immigrant workers from Maine to French Canada in the coming spring. The author cites the principal reason for relocation as French Canadians being denied Francophone priests in the Roman Catholic churches of the United States. -
FrenchCanadian Settlement in Vermont Prior to the Civil War
Paper describing the use of United States census material from between the dates of 1850-1880 to understand French Canadian migration and population growth in the counties of Vermont during the period surrounding the USA Civil War.Tags Addison County VT, Bennington County VT, Brandon VT, Burlington VT, Caledonia County VT, Chittenden County VT, Colchester VT, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, Enosburg VT, Essex County VT, Farming and Agriculture, Franklin County VT, Franklin VT, Grand Isle County VT, Highgate VT, Labor History, Lake Champlain VT, Lamoille County VT, Mills and Mill Work, Montpelier VT, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Immigration, Orange County VT, Orleans County VT, Québec, Rutland County VT, Rutland VT, Shoreham VT, St. Albans VT, Swanton VT, Vermont, Washington County VT, Windham County VT, Windsor County VT, Winooski VT -
Frenchmen into Peasants: Modernity and Tradition in the Peopling of French Canada
History text on the later migrations of the French to Atlantic Canada, written by the Director of the French Institute at Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts. From Harvard University Press: "In unprecedented detail, Leslie Choquette narrates the peopling of French Canada across the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the lesser known colonial phase of French migration. Drawing on French and Canadian archives, she carefully traces the precise origins of individual immigrants, describing them by gender, class, occupation, region, religion, age, and date of departure. Her archival work is impressive: of the more than 30,000 emigrants who embarked for Quebec and the Maritimes during the French Regime, nearly 16,000 are chronicled here....In considering the pattern of emigration in the context of migration history, Choquette shows that, in many ways, the movement toward Canada occurred as a by-product of other, perennial movements, such as the rural exodus or interurban labor migrations. Overall, emigrants to Canada belonged to an outwardly turned and mobile sector of French society, and their migration took place during a phase of vigorous Atlantic expansion. They crossed the ocean to establish a subsistence economy and peasant society, traces of which lingered on into the twentieth century. Because Choquette looks at the entire history of French migration to Canada--its social and economic aspects as well as its place in the larger history of migration--her work makes a remarkable contribution in the field of immigration history."
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From "Acadien" to "Cajun" to "Cadien" : Ethnic Labelization and Construction of Identity
An essay on the origins and historical transformation of the term "Cajun" in the context of French Louisiana. An historical etymology of "Cajun" and an analysis of its usage from its 17th century iterations to those of the present day. An attempt at framing the historical context for a definition of Cajun ethnicity. The linguistic development and social impact of an ethnic label. -
From Evangeline to Papa, or How to Acquire a Past : A Sociological/Historical Perspective on French/Canadian Americans
A self-published, self-printed sociology project written for Goddard College. A series of journal entries from July 1976 written on an American's trip through Nova Scotia. Includes conversations, information about historical places, and general reflections on the French Acadian heritage of the region.Tags Acadians, Biddeford ME, Brunswick ME, Emigration and Immigration, Language and Linguistics, Lewiston ME, Maine, New Brunswick, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Social Sciences, Nonfiction -- Sociology, Nonfiction -- Travel and Tourism, Nova Scotia, Old Town ME, Orono ME, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Sanford ME, Waterville ME -
From Habitant to Cultivateur : The Rural Quebecer
How the Québécois farmer of the 1980s - confronted with urbanization and industrialization - compares with the agricultural traditions and longheld assumptions about Québec "habitant" ways of life. Based on a case study of farm business, farming, and farm families from La Visitation, outside of Nicolette, Québec. Frequent comparisons made to Horace Miner's 1939 landmark text, "St. Denis: A French-Canadian Parish." -
From Working Daughters to Working Mothers : Production and Reproduction in an Industrial Community
From the author: "The increased participation of women in the paid labor force in the 20th-century United States has been marked by a transition from an era of 'working daughters' to one of 'working mothers.' Using data from a New England industrial community, I trace the connection between this transition and the growth and decline of the textile industry, the incorporation of immigrants into a hierarchical production process, and family strategies for allocating productive and reproductive labor. While the era of working daughters left the allocation of reproductive labor (housework and child care) intact, the wage work of recent immigrant mothers has had a more profound impact on families by reallocating some of 'women's work.' Nevertheless, many families have continued to maintain an ideology that values the husband's authority, emphasizes respect for parents, and stresses differences between men and women, all of these in the face of considerable changes in actual behavior."Tags Business and Economics, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Gender and Sexuality, Labor History, Mills and Mill Work, Mossasuck River Valley, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Pawtucket RI, Providence RI, Rhode Island, Weaverton RI, Wierville RI -
G Is for Grief
New York Times review of Providence-born writer David Plante's recent novel, "ABC." -
Gendered Passages : French-Canadian Migration to Lowell, Massachusetts, 1900-1920
Book-length study on French Canadian migrants and migration to Lowell, Massachusetts at the beginning of the 20th century. The role of family in cross-border human movement, and the impact of migration and its social, economic, and labor dimensions on men, women, and children migrants in an industrial New England city. A study of French Canadian migration as an important and distinct continental population movement; the "socially expansive space[s]" created by migrants uniquely across Canada/USA borders. Emphasis on gender dynamics - their responses to migration, labor, and the family in transition, with explorations of the individual experiences of women and men. Includes study of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century social and economic contexts of Québec and Lowell, in-depth consideration of migration realities, and exploration of settlement in the United States through the lens of the paid and unpaid work experiences of French Canadian women and men. Contains many demographic data tables; illustrated in black and white photograph.Tags Boston MA, Caribou ME, Death and Disaster, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Gender and Sexuality, Geography, Greek Americans, Health and Wellness, Irish Americans, Labor History, Lowell MA, Manchester NH, Merrimack River Valley, Mills and Mill Work, Nashua NH, New York NY, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Portuguese Americans, Québec, Seattle WA, Social History, Sports and Leisure, Travel and Movement, Willimantic CT, Wisconsin -
Gilbert O. Roy : peintre populaire de la vallée Saint-Jean
Une examination de la vie et l'ouevre de Gilbert Roy, un peintre qui a vécu à Fort Kent, Maine. De l'avant-propos: "Ce livre, on veut qu'il soit le premier parmi plusieurs. La série aura un meme thième: l'art populaire et l'artisanat chez les franco-américains, un peuple riche en histoire, en traditions et en culture, mais dont l'energie creative est demeurée assez mal connue." -
Goes to Worcester
Article on the relocation of Massachusetts' Franco-American Club from Boston to Worcester. -
Grade, Sex, and Ethnic Differences in Self-Concept of Franco-American and Anglo Primary Grade Students
Studies conducted by University of Maine researchers on early school-age children. Observations and evaluations of psychological self-concept. Studies measure age, sex, and ethnic heritage factors and present data and observations based on these three categories. Mentions the lack of research done on Franco American socialization, despite the amount of information on the socialization of other immigrant ethnic groups. From the authors: "The research reported here was designed to investigate grade, sex, and ethnic background differences in self-concept of 301 kindergarten and first grade children from Anglo, Franco-American, and mixed parentage families. Higher self-concept scores were found on three subscales of the Self-Appraisal Inventory (SAI) for children with two Anglo parents and lowest scores for children of mixed ethnic parentage. No sex differences were found and first graders scored higher than kindergarteners on the General Scale. Implications for research and education are discussed." -
Granite : Artists and Their Work
Catalog accompaniment to the October 1978 Vermont exhibit of artists, stonework, and granite-inspired pieces, "Granite: Artists and Their Work." From the text: "...includes a brief introduction to the history of the granite industry and the multi-cultural heritage of Barre, and information about the artists working in granite as well as those who have used the quarries and the people of the granite industry as subject matter in their paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs" (1).Tags Art and Architecture, Austrian Americans, Barre VT, Chelsea VT, Danish Americans, Finnish Americans, Greek Americans, Irish Americans, Italian Americans, Jewish Americans, Labor History, Lebanese Americans, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Art and Architecture, Photography, Scottish Americans, Spanish Americans, Swedish Americans, Swiss Americans, Vermont -
Great Day at Manchester
Article on a gathering of the Franco-American Board of Trade of New England held at Manchester, New Hampshire, in the summer of 1900. -
Guide franco-américain : Les Franco-Américains et la Guerre Mondiale
Un repertoire des noms, professions, et brièves biographies des principaux citoyens franco-américains dans la Nouvelle-Angleterre, New York, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, et Minnesota. Organisé par état, diocièse catholique, ville, et paroisse. Cette édition remarque sur la participation des Franco-Américains dans la Premiière Guerre mondiale, indiquant le nombre et les noms de soldats et marins qui ont venu de chaque paroisse. Contient aussi des listes des couvents et collièges significatives pour la franco-américanie dans cette période. De l'introduction: "La guerre mondiale a fourni aux Franco-Américains une splendide occasion de montrer, non seulement aux Etats-Unis, mais au monde entier, la pureté de leur patriotisme....[N]ous croyons que le présent volume, avec les informations qu'il contient, aidera à prouver que les Franco-Américains, comme toujours ont fait leur devoir, que la cause Américaine est la leur, et qu'ils ne sont pas des étrangers dans ce pays."Tags Adams MA, Albany NY, Albion RI, Alburg VT, Aldenville MA, Alpena MI, Amesbury MA, Arctic Centre RI, Attleboro MA, Auburn ME, Augusta ME, Bakersville VT, Baltic CT, Barbeau MI, Barton VT, Bay City MI, Bennington VT, Berlin NH, Biddeford ME, Black Brook NY, Bourbonnais IL, Bradley IL, Bridgeport CT, Bristol CT, Bristol VT, Brockton MA, Brunswick ME, Burke NY, Burlington VT, Cadillac MI, Calumet MI, Cambridge MA, Cape Vincent NY, Caribou ME, Carolltown MI, Central Falls RI, Champlain NY, Chazy NY, Cheboygan MI, Chelsea MA, Chicago IL, Chicopee Falls MA, Chicopee MA, Claremont NH, Clayton NY, Clintonville NY, Cloquet MN, Cochituate MA, Cohoes NY, Concord NH, Connecticut, Constable NY, Cooks Mills MI, Cooperville NY, Dafoe MI, Daigle ME, Danielson CT, Dannemora NY, Death and Disaster, Detroit MI, Dodgeville MA, Dover NH, Duluth MN, East Dorset VT, Easthampton MA, Ellenburg NY, Enosburg Falls VT, Epping NH, Escanaba IL, Essex Junction VT, Everett MA, Fairfield ME, Fairfield VT, Fairhaven MA, Fall River MA, Faribault MN, Fiskdale MA, Fitchburg MA, Fort Covington NY, Fort Kent ME, Franklin NH, Frenchville ME, Gardner MA, Gardner MI, Gilbertville MA, Glens Falls NY, Gonic NH, Grand Isle ME, Graniteville VT, Greenland MI, Greenland NH, Greenville ME, Grosvenordale CT, Groveton NH, Hartford CT, Haverhill MA, Highgate VT, Hillsborough NH, Holyoke MA, Hooksett NH, Hudson Falls NY, Illinois, Indian Orchard MA, Ipswich MA, Iron Mountain MI, Ishpeming MI, Island Pond VT, Jackman ME, Jewett City CT, Kankakee IL, Keeseville NY, Laconia NH, Lake Clear NY, Lake Linden MI, Lawrence MA, Lebanon NH, Leominster MA, Lewiston ME, Linwood MI, Long Lake NY, Lowell MA, Lowell VT, Ludlow MA, Lyndonville VT, Lynn MA, Mackinac Island, Madawaska ME, Maine, Malone NY, Manchang MA, Manchester NH, Manistee MI, Manville RI, Mapleville RI, Marieville RI, Marlboro MA, Marlborough NH, Marquette MI, Martinsburg NY, Massachusetts, Menomenee MI, Meriden CT, Michigan, Millbury MA, Milton VT, Minneapolis MN, Minnesota, Moers Forks NY, Moosup CT, Morrisonville NY, Nashua NH, Natick RI, New Bedford MA, New Hampshire, New Haven CT, New York, Newburyport MA, Newport VT, Newton MA, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- General, Norfolk NY, North Adams MA, North Attleborough MA, Northampton MA, Norton VT, Occum CT, Old Town ME, Onaway MI, Pawtucket RI, Perkins MI, Peru NY, Phenix RI, Piercefield NY, Pinconning MI, Pittsfield MA, Plattsburgh NY, Portland ME, Presque Isle ME, Providence RI, Putnam CT, Québec, Religion, Rhode Island, Richford VT, Rochester NH, Rouse's Point NY, Rumford ME, Rutland VT, Saginaw MI, Salem MA, Salmon Falls NH, Sanbornville NH, Sanford ME, Sault Sainte Marie MI, Shelburne VT, Sheridan ME, Shirley MA, Skowhegan ME, Somersworth NH, Southbridge MA, Spalding MI, Spencer MA, Springfield MA, Springvale ME, St. Albans VT, St. Johnsbury VT, St. Paul MN, St. Regis NY, Suncook NH, Taftville CT, Taunton MA, Three Rivers MA, Tilton NH, Trout River NY, Troy NY, Tupper Lake NY, Turners Falls MA, Underhill VT, Van Buren ME, Vergennes VT, Vermont, Waltham MA, War, Ware MA, Warren MA, Warren RI, Waterbury CT, Waterville ME, Wauregan CT, Webster MA, West Springfield MA, Westbrook ME, Westport MA, Williamstown MA, Willimantic CT, Windsor VT, Winooski VT, Wisconsin, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
Guide officiel des Franco-Américains
Un répertoire/annuaire d'endroits et peuples (noms et biographes) franco-américains aux États-Unis. Des hommes d'affaires, religieuses, ou les autres personnes publiques ou importantes à leur communauté. Avec histoires des paroisses et des sociétés mutuelles. Divisé par état, ville, village, et paroisse. Mis à jour et publié neuf fois entre 1922 et 1940. -
Handbook of Teacher Lesson Plans on Franco-American Culture and Language
A collection of lesson plans in the subjects of language and social studies, pre-school through high school, with content fitting to the history and languages of Franco American students in York County, Maine. Lessons and suggested materials for use in upper- and lower-level language, literature, and history courses, as well as lessons specifically designed for discussing prejudice and diversity with elementary students. Created by York County Community Colleges, the University of Southern Maine, and a collection of public, private, and parochial school teachers from the Biddeford and Sanford, Maine area, with support from the United State Office of Education, Ethnic Heritage Studies Branch. -
Hard Stone, Hard Feelings
Article compiled from oral history interviews Vermont stonecutters of the early twentieth century. Featured in the Vermont Folklife Center's annual publication, "Visit'n." From the Vermont Historical Society: "Because many French Canadians first came to work in Barre's granite quarries during the strikes of '22 and '33, their relations with Italian granite workers and other ethnic groups were at first very tense."Tags Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Folklore, Italian Americans, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History, Nonfiction -- History -- Documentary, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Nonfiction -- History -- Local, Nonfiction -- Immigration, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Stonecutting, Vermont, Violence -
Haute Cuisine Goes to College
Article focusing on Brunswick, Maine, native, Bowdoin College director of dining services, and chef extraordinaire, Laurent C. "Larry" Pinette. How he has achieved success in the college kitchen among the great menu of transitions that have taken place within the 1980s' college student's dietary norm, and within nutritional standards in American colleges. Subtitled, "Bowdoin students once subsisted on sea bread and salt fish - or worse. Larry Pinette changed all that." -
Have You Seen Ayla Reynolds?
Magazine article on the 2012 disappearance of Waterville, Maine toddler, Ayla Reynolds, as local and national news phenomenon. The missing child and her family at the center of 21st century "info-tainment," situated in the author's own hometown. Currie's reflections on growing up in Waterville, and his thoughts on the effects of the area's patterned economic depression as illustrated in the turns and characters of the Ayla Reynolds story. -
He exemplifies the modern priesthood
Extended article on Augusta, Maine, Roman Catholic priest, Fr. Valmond Gilbert, celebrant of St. Augustine Church. Discusses his community involvement - religious, economic, political, and otherwise. Includes photos of Fr. Gilbert at mass, with Augusta schoolchildren, and with Augusta legislator, Rep. Patrick Paradis. -
HEAVE HO
Captioned photo of man shoveling snow on Monroe Street, adjacent to the former Labbe's Market on Augusta, Maine's Sand Hill. -
Heritage Lost and Refound : Franco-Americans in Vermont
Feature article on French Canadian and Franco American heritage in Vermont. Early 20th-century discrimination and violence against French Catholics in Vermont. Characterizations of Franco American community life among other Vermont ethnic groups; testimonies of French language loss; recent attempts to revive cultural traditions in daily life. The ways in which certain interviewees find value in their cultural heritage. Includes brief interviews and personal profiles of Vermont journalist, Tena Starr; Roman Catholic Brother Adrian Bouchard; Burlington mayor, Peter Alfred Clavelle; and musician, Martha Pellerin Drury. -
Hidden Minorities : The Persistence of Ethnicity in American Life
Collection of essays on acculturation, assimilation, and minority ethnic groups otherwise generally overlooked. A majority emphasis on ethnicity in Rhode Island and New England.
Contains the following essays by their respective authors:
"Ethnic identity, acculturation, and assimilation" by Joan H. Rollins
"Narragansett Indians" by William S. Simmons
"Mohegans and Scatacooks" by Ethel Boissevain "The French-Canadians of New England" by Leon F. Bouvier
"The Armenians of North America" by Frank Andrews Stone
"The Arabic-speaking communities in Rhode Island" by Marlene Koury Smith
"Azoreans in America" by Mark J. Handler
"Cape Verdean Americans" by Deirdre Meintel MachadoTags Acculturation and Assimilation, Armenian Americans, Azoreans, Cape Verdean Americans, Demography, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Lebanon, Native Americans, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Ethnic Studies, Portuguese Americans, Québec, Rhode Island, Social History, Syria, United States, Woonsocket RI -
Hier et aujourd'hui : 75eème anniversaire, Société St. Jean-Baptiste de Bienfaisance de N.Y., 1850-1925
Historique de la Société St. Jean-Baptiste de Bienfaisance de New York City depuis sa fondation à 1850, publiée dans la célébration de son 75e anniversaire. Des événements majeurs impliquant la société à New York et ailleurs. Liste et photos des "dignitaires de la société de 1850 à 1925," et beaucoup des portraits et biographies de ces hommes significatifs. Une lettre de félicitations du premier ministre du Québec. Publicités imprimées de la page 103 à 136. Ecrites et compilée par le secrétaire / archiviste de la société.Tags Biddeford ME, Canada, Chicago IL, Cohoes NY, Community: Customs and Social Life, Detroit MI, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, France, Glens Falls NY, Holyoke MA, New York, New York NY, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Clubs and Societies, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Plattsburgh NY, Québec, Religion, Springfield MA, United States, War -
Histoire d'un reêve brisé? : Les Canadiens français aux états-Unis
De Septentrion: "Au début du XXe siiècle, priès de la moitié de la population d'origine canadienne-française vivait à l'extérieur du Québec, en Nouvelle-Angleterre pour la plupart. Cette saignée démographique aurait pu contribuer à l'établissement d'une société francophone vigoureuse et dynamique aux États-Unis. Mais, au milieu des années 1970, le dominicain Thomas-Marie Landry signera l'acte de déciès de ce rêve pieux tandis que les élites franco-américaines considéreront cette tentative comme un échec. Toutefois, pour ceux qui ont choisi de s'installer aux États-Unis d'abord et avant tout pour améliorer leur sort et celui de leurs enfants, l'anglicisation et l'assimilation apparaissent non comme un échec, mais comme une réussite. Ils voient dans leur histoire une heureuse évolution qui a fait d'eux des Américains d'origine canadienne-française. Deux lectures différentes d'un même passé..."Tags Bedford NH, Berlin NH, Blackstone River Valley, Burlington VT, Business and Economics, Central Falls RI, Chicopee MA, Connecticut, Connecticut River Valley, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, Fall River MA, Farming and Agriculture, Fitchburg MA, Forestry, Haverhill MA, Holyoke MA, La Beauce QC, Language and Linguistics, Lawrence MA, Lowell MA, Madawaska ME, Manchester NH, Massachusetts, Merrimack River Valley, Nashua NH, New Bedford MA, New Hampshire, New York, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- General, Nonfiction -- Immigration, North Adams MA, Old Town ME, Orono ME, Pawtucket RI, Pawtuxet River Valley, Providence RI, Québec, Religion, Rhode Island, Rouse's Point VT, Saco ME, Salem MA, Southbridge MA, Springfield MA, St. Albans VT, Taunton River Valley, Vermont, Warwick RI, Waterbury CT, Winooski VT, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
Histoire de la paroisse de Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu
Une histoire compliète d'une paroisse catholique québécoise, de la Vallée-du-Richelieu, jusqu'en 1905. -
Histoire de la presse Franco-Américaine : Comprenant l'historique de l'émigration des Canadiens-Français aux Etats-Unis, leur développement, et leur progriès
Du texte: "Inventaire chronologique des journaul et revues publies en langue francais aux États-Unis pour les Canadiens-Français émigrés, de 1838 jusque'a 1911, et qui n'existent plus aujourd'hui." Il aussi tiens beaucoup d'images de celles publications (quotidiennes, par semaine, etc.) qui sont non seulement franco-americaines, mais sont écrit en français.Tags California, Chicago IL, Community: Customs and Social Life, Connecticut, Emigration and Immigration, Fall River MA, Holyoke MA, Journalism, Louisiana, Lowell MA, Maine, Manchester NH, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Journalism, Religion, Rhode Island, St. Albans NY, Troy NY, Worcester MA -
Histoire des Franco-Américains
Un histoire compliète des franco-américains - les français et canadiens-français en Amérique - depuis le temps de Champlain (17e siiècle) jusqu'à la fin de la Deuxiième Guerre Mondiale. Cet volume a été publié par l'Union St. Jean Baptiste d'Amérique, ainsi les concentrations de chaque chapitre et chaque sous-section sont généralement en ce qui concerne le bien-être et les préoccupations de cette organisation: son église (Catholique), sa géographie (la Nouvelle-Angleterre), ses affaires, et sa politique. Un historien qui est né en France et a émigré à Québec, Robert Rumilly est surtout connu d'être favorable aux sentiments politiques nationalistes dans ses oeuvres historiques. Son livre le plus connu est "l'Histoire de la province de Québec."Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Baltimore MD, Biddeford ME, Brunswick ME, Burlington VT, Business and Economics, Canada, Chicago IL, Community: Customs and Social Life, Education, Emigration and Immigration, Exploration and Colonization, Fall River MA, Forestry, Government and Politics, Haiti, Holyoke MA, Irish Americans, Journalism, Lewiston ME, Louisiana, Manchester NH, Montréal QC, Nashua NH, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- General, North Brookfield MA, Portland ME, Providence RI, Québec, Religion, Rhode Island, Springfield MA, United States, Vermont, Violence, War, Waterville ME, Willimantic CT, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
Histoire des Franco-Américains de Southbridge, Massachusetts
Une histoire des arrivées, origines, et de la religion, la communauté, l'art et la vie politique des Franco-Américains de Southbridge, Massachusetts. ècrit en 1919. De la texte: "A l'occasion du Cinquantenaire de la Paroisse Notre-Dame, des Noces d'Or de la Societé St-Jean-Baptiste, et du retour de nos Soldats, qui ont pris part aè la guerre mondiale." -
Histoire du Madawaska d'apreès les Recherches Historiques de Patrick Therriault et les Notes Manuscrites de Prudent L. Mercure
L'histoire du Madawaska, Maine, et ses villages voisins du dix-huitiième siiècle jusqu'à 1920.Tags Acadians, Baker Lake ME, Caribou ME, Community: Customs and Social Life, Daigle ME, Eagle Lake ME, Emigration and Immigration, Folklore, Fort Kent ME, Genealogy, Geography, Grand Falls ME, Grand Isle ME, Madawaska ME, New Brunswick, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Geography, Nonfiction -- History -- Local, Religion, Riviere Verte ME, Wallagrass ME -
Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens
Gros anthologie en six tomes sur les gens acadiens. La premiière partie est un histoire des peuples, et les autres parties sont divisées par les sujets et géographies suivant: 2) Port-Royal, 3) Beaubassin, Grand-Pré, 4) Pisiguit, Cobequid, Chipoudy et Petitcoudiac, Cap-de-Sable et Pobomcoup, Rivieère Saint-Jean, Ristigouche, 5) Plaisance, Ile Royale incluant Louisbourg, Ile Saint-Jean, 6) Iles Saint-Pierre et Miquelon, Iles-de-la-Madeleine, Bordeaux, Belle-Ile-en-Mer, Louisiane.Tags Acadians, Death and Disaster, Emigration and Immigration, Exploration and Colonization, Family, France, Genealogy, Government and Politics, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi River Valley, Native Americans, New Brunswick, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- General, Nova Scotia, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Prince Edward Island, Québec, St. Lawrence River Valley -
Histoire et statistiques des Canadiens-Américains du Connecticut : Congreès nationaux, 1885-1898
Livre qui présente les "minutes des Conventions Nationales des Canadiens-Américains de l'état du Connecticut," enregistrées de 13 congreès nationaux entre 1885 et 1898. Divisées par année et par rencontre, ces minutes contiennent des discussions sur la naturalistion, la langue, la religion, l'education, et aussi que le groupe lui-même comme represantant "les colonies franco-canadiennes de l'Etat du Connecticut" (Préface). Livre publie un tableau de la démographie canadienne-française par ville dans le Connecticut à 1898. Montre aussi par intermittence des portraits et des biographies d'hommes d'affaires, des prêtres et autres personnes significatives de ces réunions et aux Franco-Américains de Connecicut à la fin du 19ième siiècle. Les hommes apparaissent dans l'ordre suivant: L'Honorable Hugo-A. Dubuque Docteur Omer Larue Rév. F.-X. Chagnon M. David-Adelphie Dolbec M. Eugeène Cartier M. David-Pierre Chabot M. Roch Quessy M. Joseph M. Baril M. Octave Lanouette M. Jules Baribault Rév. J.-E. Bourret M. Louis-Joseph Tétreault Docteur A.-D. David Docteur Charles-J. Leclaire M. H.-J. Reeves M. J.-B. Vallée Rév. Charles-Ferdinand Bédard Rév. Joseph-Ubalde-Jean Papillon M. Benjamin Bonin M. Louis-J. Perreault M. Louis-P. Lamoureux Docteur James-Fabien McIntosh M. Henri Paradis M. T.-A. Paradis Rév. J.-A.-N. Grenier M. William-S. Buteau M. Alexandre Commette Rév. J.-L. Desaulniers M. Rémi Marsan Rév. Joseph-Philippe Perreault Rév. Ulderic-Oscar Bellerose M. Philéas Dion Rév. Ernest Lamontagne Docteur Joseph-N. Bellemare Rév. J.-E. Senesac Docteur L.-O. Morasse M. Wilbrod L'Heureux M. Joseph-Octave Blanchette M. F.-X. Nobert M. David-P. Comtois Docteur Arthur-O. Baribault M. Joseph Lavigne Rév. J.-H. Chapdelaine M. Théodore Potvin M. Hormisdas Dion M. Alphonse Chagnon Docteur Charles-H. Girard M. Joseph Mullen M. Edmond-A. Parent M. N.-P. Forcier M. D.-P. Auclair M. J.-N. Bernier M. Lucien PratteTags Ansonia CT, Attawaugan CT, Avon CT, Ballouville CT, Baltic CT, Beacon Falls CT, Bennington VT, Bethel CT, Branford CT, Bridgeport CT, Bristol CT, Brooklyn CT, Business and Economics, Canton CT, Central Village CT, Centreville CT, Champlain NY, Clubs and Societies, Community: Customs and Social Life, Connecticut, Coventry CT, Cromwell CT, Danbury CT, Danielson CT, Danielsonville CT, Dayville CT, Demography, Derby CT, Eagleville CT, East Hartford CT, East Killingly CT, Elmville CT, Excelville CT, Fall River MA, Fishkill NY, Glasgo CT, Greeneville CT, Greenwich CT, Groton CT, Haddam CT, Hartford CT, Haverhill MA, Hazardville CT, Huntington CT, Jewett City CT, Journalism, Lowell MA, Manchester CT, Manchester NH, Mechanicsville CT, Meriden CT, Middletown CT, Milford CT, Montville CT, Moosup CT, Naugatuck CT, New Boston CT, New Britain CT, New England, New Hartford CT, New Haven CT, New London CT, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Clubs and Societies, Nonfiction -- History -- Local, North Grosvenordale CT, North Haven CT, North Windham CT, Norwalk CT, Norwich CT, Norwich Falls CT, Oneco CT, Palmer CT, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Pineville CT, Plainfield CT, Providence RI, Putnam CT, Québec, Quinebaug CT, Religion, Seymour CT, Shelton CT, Somers CT, South Coventry CT, Southington CT, Sprague CT, Stafford CT, Stafford Springs CT, Stamford CT, Sterling CT, Stonington CT, Taftville CT, Thompsonville CT, Torrington CT, Versailles CT, Voluntown CT, Wallingford CT, Waterbury CT, Waterville CT, Wauregan CT, Westfield MA, Williamsville CT, Willimantic CT, Windsor Locks CT, Windsor Mills CT, Winsted CT -
Histoire Franco-Américaine : Historique de la paroisse St-Jacques de Manville 1872-1908
Une histoire de l'administration et des développements à Saint-Jacques paroisse catholique romaine à Manville, Rhode Island, au tournant du siiècle. Une chronologie des prêtres de Saint-Jacques. Mouvement des prêtres d'autres paroisses dans le Rhode Island, le Massachusetts et New York. Croissance d'organisations franco-américaines nationales et fraternelles dans le Rhode Island. Les chiffres sur la paroisse Saint-Jacques de la population, les familles, les étudiants, les propriétaires fonciers, etc.Tags Albion RI, Ashton RI, Berkeley RI, Blackstone River Valley, Central Falls RI, Education, Fall River MA, Glens Falls NY, Holyoke MA, Manchester NH, Manville RI, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Religion, Pawtucket RI, Performing Arts, Providence RI, Religion, Rhode Island, Spencer MA, Valley Falls RI, Warren RI, Woonsocket RI -
Historians bemoan loss of old house
As a plan is set forth to demolish five old housing tenements at the base of Sand Hill in Augusta, Maine, local historians consider their historical significance. -
Historic Lewiston : A Textile City in Transition
The second book in a series on the history of Lewiston, Maine, Historic Lewiston, from the Lewiston Historical Commission. Historic Lewiston: A Textile City in Transition is a 60-page overview of Lewiston and Auburn, Maine's industrial history and post-industrial developments, situated on the banks of the Androscoggin River. -
Historic Lewiston : Bales to Bedspreads
The sixth book in a series on the history of Lewiston, Maine - Historic Lewiston - from the Lewiston Historical Commission. Historic Lewiston: Bales to Bedspreads is a 47-page, in-depth description of the work production processes that were run by the Bates Manufacturing Company and conducted by Lewiston workers at the Bates Mill complex. Follows the production of textiles first from the usage of textile mill terminology, through the various steps involved in weaving, to task descriptions, machines and implements, and on to the final products. Full title reads, "Bales to Bedspreads: A pictorial account of the processes used by Bates Manufacturing Company." Illustrated in black and white photographs, with persons both identified and unidentified. Contents: Dedication Preface Common Mill Terms Opening Process Weaving Room Dye Room Rayon Production A Few Miscellaneous But Important Workers Packing and Shipping Products Spare Time Activities -
Historic Lewiston : Franco-American Origins
The first book in a series on the history of Lewiston, Maine, Historic Lewiston, from the Lewiston Historical Commission. Historic Lewiston: Franco-American Origins is a 47-page overview of Lewistonâ's Franco American past, divided into two parts. Part one focuses on the prevalence of social organizations, the plethora of Lewiston/Auburn Roman Catholic churches, and the work-a-day normalcy of nearly two centuries of French in Lewiston. Part two is a building survey, dedicated specifically to Franco-American architecture, giving one an artistic glimpse into the Lewiston buildings of old that have been retained only in part up to the present day. Contains a variety of photographs and other images. Contents: Preface 1. Lewiston's Franco-Americans: Their Origins and Early History 2. Little Canada and Vicinity: A Building Survey -
Historic Lewiston : Its Architectural Heritage
The fifth book in a series on the history of Lewiston, Maine, Historic Lewiston, from the Lewiston Historical Commission. Historic Lewiston: Its Architectural Heritage is a 116-page overview of the architecture of the city: the depth of its history, stylistic and functional diversity, and widespread beauty. Includes a large number of photographs to accompany descriptions of historic structures. Contents: Industrial Buildings Churches Schools Public Buildings Commercial Buildings Bates College Campus Homes -
Historic Lewiston : Its Fire Department
The fourth book in a series on the history of Lewiston, Maine, Historic Lewiston, from the Lewiston Historical Commission. Historic Lewiston: Its Fire Department is an 87-page overview of firefighters, firefighting, and its infrastructure in Lewiston from 1849 to the 1980s. Includes photographs and descriptions of water supplies, firefighting tools, vehicles, and stations of past and present. Describes significant social events and historic fires. Presents photographs and names of Lewiston firefighters, often associated with each person's engine, ladder, and station. Shares a timeline of events in other cities for which Lewiston firefighters provided assistance. Contents: Early Firefighting Water Supplies Alarm Systems Fire Stations Apparatus Major Fires Mutual Aid Parades, Musters, and Socials Dirty Mary and other Oddities Manpower Men Killed in Action Firemen's Relief Association Administration Bureau of Fire Prevention Emergency Reporting Communication System -
Historic Lewiston : Its Government
The third book in a series on the history of Lewiston, Maine, Historic Lewiston, from the Lewiston Historical Commission. Historic Lewiston: Its Government is a 3-part, 53-page overview of Lewiston's town and city government from incorporation, to establishment as city, to 1980. Outlines past and present structures of Lewiston's municipal government. Describes the construction of the city building. Part 3, the book's longest section, provides brief biographical profiles of each of Lewiston's mayors from 1863 to 1980. Illustrated with photographs of buildings and persons. Contents: Chapter 1 Town Government Early City Government The "New" Charter Attempts to Revise the Charter The Present System of Government Chapter 2 Construction of City Building Chapter 3 Mayors of Lewiston -
Historic Lewiston-Auburn depot to be renovated
Article marking the beginning of the funded restoration of Lewiston, Maine's Grand Trunk Depot, a now-defunct train station famed for its historical role in the reception of a large percentage of Lewiston-Auburn's French Canadian immigrants in the early 20th century. The depot is referred to here as "the Ellis Island of Lewiston-Auburn." -
Historical Perspective on Waterville's 19th-Century Franco-Americans
Website publication. Brief essay on the beginnings of French Canadian migration to Waterville, Maine, in the nineteenth century, and the impact of later, more pervasive chain migrations on that town and its riverside industrialization before World War I. Includes at its conclusion a section entitled "Miscellaneous trivia on the Franco-Americans of Waterville and of Maine," relating bits of history extending from the migration period (1860-1930), through the twentieth century, and into the present. -
Historically Speaking on Lewiston-Auburn, Maine Churches
Historical overview of the churches and religious communities spread throughout the twin cities of Lewiston and Auburn, Maine, from the 18th century to the 1960s. Discussions on the various growths of local buildings and congregations - divided by denomination. Includes Christian churches, Jewish synagogues, and discussion on ecumenism and inter-faith communities. Compiled and expanded from "Home History Talks," the author's historical commentaries broadcast on Lewiston, Maine's WLAM radio. Illustrated in black and white photograph. -
Historiographie et identité collective en Amérique française : le cas des élites francophones de la Nouvelle-Angleterre, 1872-1991
Un essai historiographique sur les façons dont l'identité ethnique et nationale a été imaginé, représenté, et vécue par des Franco-Américains de la Nouvelle-Angleterre qui ont écrit leurs histoires. Comment des textes français dans la Nouvelle-Angleterre présentent l'histoire du français en Amérique du nord, et la façon dont ces textes ont contribué à façonner l'identité franco-américaine dans leur temps. L'identité franco-américain comme précédemment produit par ceux qui l'ont écrit: prêtres, avocats, médecins, journalistes. Les étapes historiques de la représentation ethnique (canadienne-française, française, française nord-américaine, franco-américaine) dans certains écrits franco-américains, à partir de premiières publications jusqu'au fin du vingtiième siiècle.
Présenté dans les parties suivantes: «Faire oeuvre de reparation et d'honneur», 1872-1898 Une identité franco-américaine, 1899-1933 Appropriation culturelle et affirmation ethnique, 1934-1960 Difficultés, 1961-1991 -
Historiography of the Acadians' Grand Dérangement, 1755
Historiographical exploration of the Acadians' expulsion from their homeland region in Atlantic Canada in 1755. The roles and functions of oral and written histories on and of this time period. Description, assessment, reasoning, and judgment of the expulsion by British powers as earliest apparent in the work of 19th-century anglophone historians, and in conversation with contemporary metropolitan French historiography. The appearance of Acadian histories of the event around the beginning of the 20th century. Evolving perceptions of the event's breadth and meaning, and the impact of more recent work by scholars and literary figures of Québec and Acadia. -
History of Jay, Franklin County, Maine
1912 history of the city of Jay in Franklin County, Maine, situated alongside the Androscoggin River. Gives a brief background sketch of the Native American presence there; historical profile detailed from the town's 1795 incorporation to the turn of the century. Contains a concise local genealogy in its appendix. -
History of St. John Valley & St. Bruno's Parish, 1891-1974
A descriptive catalog of the towns of the St. John Valley in northern Maine. Includes geographic positioning, demographic information for each incorporated place, and the names and occupations of public officials. Also includes a time line of facts and events key to St. Bruno's Roman Catholic Parish in Van Buren, Maine.Tags Allagash ME, Caswell ME, Cyr ME, Eagle Lake ME, Education, Fort Kent ME, Frenchville ME, Government and Politics, Grand Isle ME, Hamlin ME, Madawaska ME, New Canada ME, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Religion, Portage Lake ME, Religion, St. Agatha ME, St. Francis ME, St. John ME, St. John River Valley, Van Buren ME, Wallagrass ME, Winterville ME -
History of the Acadians
Translation of the first volume of Arsenault's original historical collection, "Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens." This volume, "Histoire des Acadiens," attempts a comprehensive history of the Acadian people - their arrival in sixteenth-century North America, the developments of their communities in modern day Nova Scotia, and their historical persistence through expulsion and dispersion. This volume sets the context for the more intimately local and pointedly genealogical approaches to the subject of the Acadians undertaken in the subsequent volumes of Arsenault's collection.Tags Acadians, Community: Customs and Social Life, Death and Disaster, Emigration and Immigration, Exploration and Colonization, Family, Farming and Agriculture, France, Genealogy, Government and Politics, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi River Valley, Native Americans, New Brunswick, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- General, Nova Scotia, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Prince Edward Island, Québec, St. Lawrence River Valley, Violence -
History of the Catholic Church in the New England States : Volume 1
Lengthy 1899 historical portrait of Roman Catholic dioceses in the New England states. Includes the archdiocese of Boston, the dioceses of Providence (Rhode Island), Portland (Maine), and Manchester (New Hampshire).Tags Bangor ME, Biddeford ME, Boston MA, Brighton MA, Cambridge MA, Concord NH, Damariscotta Mills ME, Dorchester MA, Exploration and Colonization, Fall River MA, Gloucester MA, Government and Politics, Haverhill MA, Lawrence MA, Lowell MA, Manchester NH, Native Americans, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Religion, Pawtucket RI, Portland ME, Providence RI, Religion, Roxbury MA, South Boston MA, Waltham MA, War -
History of the Huguenot Emigration to America : Volumes I and II
Late nineteenth-century historical text on the Huguenot emigration from a France in religious strife to the eastern coast of North America between the middle 16th and middle 18th centuries. According to the author, Volume 1 of this 2-volume text only concerns Huguenot history as it relates to New England. Volume 2 concerns "the Middle and Southern provinces or States - in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware - and in Maryland, Virginia and South Carolina."Tags Acadians, Antilles, Brazil, Canada, Emigration and Immigration, England, Family, Florida, France, Massachusetts, Native Americans, New England, New Rochelle NY, New York, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Immigration, Nova Scotia, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Québec, Religion, South Carolina, Staten Island NY, Switzerland, War -
Holy Family Parish, Daigle, Maine, 1906-2000 : Commemorating 94 Years of Ministry
A Maine Roman Catholic parish commemorative project. Includes a brief history of the town of Daigle, Maine. Text covers from the late 19th century to the year 2000, when Holy Family Church was closed. -
Holy Name of Jesus Parish : 100 Years in South Worcester
Centennial history of the Holy Name of Jesus Roman Catholic Parish in South Worcester, Massachusetts. -
Holyoke, Massachusetts : A Case History of the Industrial Revolution in America
A study of labor and industry in Holyoke, Massachusetts, beginning with the city's agrarian traditions, and establishing later an emphasis on the city's industrialization at the end of the nineteenth century. Published during the Great Depression, covers also the first three decades of the twentieth century and the saddening economic decline that led to Holyoke's engagement with businesses on the state and federal levels. A case study in New England mill-town economic transition.Tags Boston MA, Business and Economics, Chicopee MA, Connecticut River Valley, Demography, Farming and Agriculture, Forestry, Geography, Holyoke MA, Illness, Labor History, Massachusetts, Merrimack River Valley, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Social History, South Hadley MA, West Springfield MA -
Home is where (the heart is) I-95N ends.
Blog post which responds to the question: "Of all the places I'd choose to live, why on earth would I choose to stay in Aroostook County?" The writer's answer includes personal definitions of "culture," descriptions of community and rural life, and geographical comparisons that challenge stereotypes and rural Maine and shed a favorable light on the people and atmosphere of northern Maine's Aroostook County. -
Honored By Rome
1886 brief article about a Fall River, Massachusetts, man traveling to Québec and Rome as a delegate of his local Catholic parishes. -
How I Became a Yankees Fan
The historical frustrations of being a fan of the Boston Red Sox baseball team - their missteps, shortcomings, let-downs. How Boston's 2004 World Series victory changed, for a time, its fans' attitudes and expectations for the team, and how the author worked through this awkward and disappointing change. Written by the Waterville, Maine, author of "God Is Dead" (2007) and "Everything Matters!" (2009) for a special baseball issue of The Southern Review. -
How Many Frenchmen Does It Take To...?
A brief history behind ethnic slurs directed toward Franco Americans in the US Northeast. A historical contextualization of this type of discrimination in government, business, and scholarship. Some historical foundations of the "dumb Frenchman" joke. Also featured in the collection, Voyages: A Maine Franco-American Reader.Tags African Americans, Asian Americans, Auburn ME, Bangor ME, Biddeford ME, Central Falls RI, Chicopee MA, Cohoes NY, Connecticut, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Holyoke MA, Irish Americans, Journalism, Lewiston ME, Lowell MA, Maine, Manchester NH, Massachusetts, Mexican Americans, Nashua NH, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Ethnic Studies, Old Town ME, Portuguese Americans, Quinebaug River Valley, Religion, Rhode Island, Violence, Waterville ME, Westbrook ME, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
How the Acadians Came to Maine
Chronological history of the Acadian people and their eventual settlement of communities in Maine. Begins in the early 1600s and chronicles events and migrations up to the early 20th century. -
Huge Franco-American celebration set for July: Le Festival de la Bastille, hosted by Augusta's Le Club Calumet, now occurs every other year.
Article on the biennial Augusta, Maine, celebration organized by the city's Le Club Calumet - a Franco-American community organization of nearly 100 years. -
I Am Franco-American and Proud of It : An Anthology of Writings of Franco-American Women
A selection of women's writings - fiction, poetry, essay, journalism - that have appeared in the University of Maine Franco-American Centre's publication, "Le FAROG Forum." Le Forum is a periodical dedicated to issues related to the Franco American in the state of Maine and elsewhere. The writings in this collection span in time from the Forum's birth in the early 1970s to the time of the compilation's completion, around 1995.Tags Acadians, Albany NY, Art and Architecture, Bangor ME, Barre VT, Biddeford ME, Blue Hill ME, Bradley ME, Brewer ME, Caribou ME, Chicago IL, Criticism and Review, Crown Point IN, Eagle Lake ME, Emigration and Immigration, Essay, Fairfield ME, Food, Fort Kent ME, French Island ME, Frenchville ME, Gender and Sexuality, Gorham ME, Government and Politics, Haiti, Indianapolis IN, Journalism, Laconia NH, Ledyard CT, Lewiston ME, Manchester ME, Mexico ME, Montréal QC, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Anthology, Old Orchard Beach ME, Old Town ME, Performing Arts, Portland ME, Religion, Rumford ME, Saco ME, Sand Hill ME, Scarborough ME, St. Albans VT, St. John River Valley, Van Buren ME, Vermont, War, Waterville ME, Westbrook ME -
I Have Words to Spend : Reflections of a Small-Town Editor
Book-length collection of 85 selected newspaper columns and magazine pieces written by famed author Robert Cormier of Leominster, Massachusetts, published between 1951 and 1980. Writings featured in this text were printed in the "Fitchburg Sentinel and Enterprise"of Fitchburg, Massachusetts; the "St. Anthony Messenger"; or the "Worcester Telegram" of Worcester, Massachusetts. Writings on various topics, including some reflections on the writer's youth in Depression-era Leominster, in the neighborhood of French Hill. Divided into the following sections: Preface, by Constance Senay Cormier "I Have Words to Spend" Yesterday The Observer Home Away Follies and Fancies Movies, Books, and Others And So On... -
I took my dead father to a Red Sox game
Short fiction piece by Waterville, Maine writer, Ron Currie, Jr., about a trip to Fenway Park with his dead father. Published in the online magazine, "Salon," with reference to the author's recent novel, "Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles" (Viking, 2013). -
Ida's lookin' to spread some holiday cheer
Article advertising the upcoming Christmas performances of Maine actress, writer, and humorist, Susan Poulin. Brief introduction to Poulin and a short summary of her show, "A Very Ida Christmas," set in a fictional Maine mill town. -
Identité et cultures nationales : l'Amérique française en mutation
Une collection d'essais sur l'évolution du fait français en Amérique du Nord. La langue, les histoires, et les cultures de communautés francophones au Canada et aux ètats-Unis. Origines des expressions culturelles à l'époque actuelle. Articles divisés en texte par géographie: le Canada français, l'Acadie, la communauté franco-ontarienne, la communauté franco-américaine, et le Québec.
Les titres suivants:
Remerciements - Simon Langlois
Présentation - Simon Langlois
Un cas typique de mutation de la référence nationale : le Canada français - Simon Langlois
Lâ'ethnographie au secours de la nation. Mobilisation de la culture populaire par les lettrés canadiens-français (1850-1900) - Gérard Bouchard
Le Québec et le Canada français : histoire dâ'une déchirure - Fernand Harvey
Naissance, déploiement et crise de lâ'idéologie nationale acadienne - J. Yvon Thériault
Lâ'historiographie et lâ'identité acadienne aux XIXe et XXe siiècles - Jean Daigle
Des racontars des vieux à lâ'autobiographie postmoderne : une prise de parole identitaire acadienne - Lise Ouellet
La langue française en Acadie du Nouveau-Brunswick, symbole dâ'appartenance, mais pas seulement… - Annette Broudreau
Lâ'historiographie et la construction de lâ'identité ontaroise - Jean Lapointe
Les Franco-Ontariens ont-ils droit au discours identitaire ? - François Paré
Les Franco-Ontariens vus à travers leur littérature - Jules Tessier
De Canadiens français des Etats-Unis à Franco-Américains : une analyse des discours de lâ'élite franco-américaine - Yves Roby
Historiographie et identité collective en Amérique française : le cas des élites francophones de la Nouvelle-Angleterre, 1872-1991 - Sylvie Beaudreau et Yves Frenette
La littérature et la construction de lâ'identité nationale : la Franco-Américanie - J.-André Senécal
La double identité de Jack Kérouac - Catherine Wells
Les Franco-Américains, la langue française et la construction de lâ'identité nationale - Gérard J. Brault
En québécois : langue de traduction, discours de lâ'identité - Annie Brisset
Identité et pluralisme libéral au Québec - Guy Laforest
Bibliographie sélective commentée sur lâ'identité et la nation dans lâ'Amérique française - Jean LamarreTags Acadians, Burlington VT, Canada, Connecticut, Danielson CT, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Fiction and Literature, Holyoke MA, Journalism, Language and Linguistics, Lowell MA, Manchester NH, Nashua NH, New Brunswick, New England, New Hampshire, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Anthology, North Brookfield MA, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Québec, Religion, Rhode Island, Southbridge MA, Spencer MA, Suncook NH, United States, Vermont, Violence, Winooski VT, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
Ils se souviennent, They remember : The quiet presence of New England's Franco-Americans
Article describing modern impressions of Franco American culture in New England, including recent and diverse efforts undertaken to preserve certain of its aspects - language, food, music, and others. Presents descriptions of how Franco American assimilation, and Franco Americans' attitude toward it, are sometimes understood.Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Amherst MA, Barrington NH, Community: Customs and Social Life, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Food, Genealogy, Irish Americans, Italian Americans, Language and Linguistics, Leominster MA, Lowell MA, Manchester NH, Massachusetts, Mills and Mill Work, New England, Orono ME, Religion, Webster MA, Woonsocket RI -
Imagining New England : Explorations of Regional Identity from the Pilgrims to the Mid-Twentieth Century
The shape of regional identity in New England, from its Puritan origins, to its Yankee iterations, to its immigrant diversity. How popular conceptions of the New England region were created, established, and communicated, and how these conceptions and their imagining have been disrupted, developed, and reborn over the past four centuries. New England as a region both "historically grounded and culturally invented" (5). From the author: "Though my analysis acknowledges, indeed traces, Puritan-Yankee continuities in regional culture, it emphasizes how tradition remains, or, rather, becomes, tradition by a continual process of invention and reinvention" (5). Written by a professor of New England and American Studies at the University of Southern Maine.Tags Community: Customs and Social Life, Connecticut, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, England, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Exploration and Colonization, Fiction and Literature, Geography, Government and Politics, Journalism, Maine, Massachusetts, New England, New Hampshire, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- General, Religion, Rhode Island, Sports and Leisure, Vermont -
Immigrant City : Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1845-1921
A history of the city of Lawrence, Massachusetts, as a site of mass industrialization, diverse immigration, and unique dynamics of class and ethnicity around the turn of the 20th century. From UNC Press: "The violence and radicalism connected with the Industrial Workers of the World textile strike of 1912 in Lawrence, Massachusetts, left the popular impression that Lawrence was a slum-ridden city inhabited by un-American revolutionaries. 'Immigrant City' is a study of Lawrence which reveals that the city was far different....The population of Lawrence was almost completely immigrant in nature; in 1910, 90 per cent of its people were either first or second generation Americans, and they represented nearly every nation in the world. The period covered by the book--1845 through 1921--is the great middle period of American immigration, which began with the Irish Famine and ended with the Quota Law of 1921. While 'Immigrant City' concentrates on one American city, it reveals much about American immigration in general and demonstrates clearly that, in spite of the poverty that most immigrants fought, life for the foreign-born in America was not as grim as some writers have suggested."Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Community: Customs and Social Life, Death and Disaster, Emigration and Immigration, Family, Government and Politics, Haverhill MA, Irish Americans, Italian Americans, Labor History, Lawrence MA, Massachusetts, Merrimack River Valley, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Nonfiction -- Immigration, Québec, Religion, Social History, Spicket River -
Immigrant Voices : New Lives in America, 1773-1986
From University of Illinois Press: "In this richly evocative collection ten men and women of European, Latin American, and Asian backgrounds tell of their immigrant experiences. They range from a Shetland Islander who sailed to Virginia as an indentured servant before the American Revolution to a Vietnamese refugee family living in Chicago in the 1980s....Thomas Dublin presents diaries, letters, reminiscences, and oral history in a volume that memorably reflects the diversity and commonalties of two centuries of U.S. immigration. His introduction places the primary sources in a broad interpretive framework and offers readers an overview of the place of immigration in national development." -
Immigrants from the North : Franco-Americans recall the settlement of their Canadian families in the mill towns of New England
From the preface: "This book is the culmination of a two-year project conducted by Hyde School students and faculty. With the backing of grants from the Ethnic Heritage Studies Division, Office of Education, and the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, [Hyde School] started this project to learn about Franco-American history in Maine. The book traces the French-Canadian immigration to Maine and the development of their culture as seen through the experiences of forty Franco-Americans." -
Immigrants to US share cultural knowledge
Article on a panel discussion in Bangor, Maine, involving participants from China, Sri Lanka, Colombia, Vietnam, and Russia sharing their observations of culture as immigrants in Maine. -
Immigration as a Factor in American History
Varied selections of scholarship, speeches, interviews, and articles that, according to the author, "attempt to illustrate the immigration contribution to American civilization and the forces which brought the movement to a close" (Handlin, intro). Pays homage to the impact of immigration on the entirety of the United States, and looks to federal government's role in stemming the inflow of people to the States in the middle of the twentieth century. Oscar Handlin won a Pulitzer Prize in 1952.Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Community: Customs and Social Life, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Government and Politics, Labor History, Language and Linguistics, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Immigration, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Religion, Social History, United States -
Immigration, colonisation, et propagande : du reêve américain au reêve colonial
D'Editions MultiMonde: "L'un des traits marquants du XIXe siiècle a été le grand brassage de population qui a déversé sur les mers du globe des dizaines de millions d'immigrants. Jamais, depuis la fin de l'empire romain, n'avait-on vu un tel mouvement de masse, auquel même le Québec a participé. Construit autour d'une source originale les brochures de propagande parues en Grande-Bretagne, dans certains pays d'Europe continentale, au Canada, au Québec, aux États-Unis, en Afrique du Sud, en Australie et en Nouvelle-Zélande , l'ouvrage passe en revue les discours qui, pendant plus d'un siiècle, ont accompagné la conquête des terres neuves. Non seulement il en révièle le contenu, mais il en analyse aussi les procédés, pour en faire un objet de comparaison avec le discours québécois de colonisation et en exposer les particularités." -
In Fair Aroostook
Subtitled, "Where Acadia and Scandinavia's Subtle Touch Turned a Wilderness into a Land of Plenty." Travel writings of a journalist's visit to Aroostook County in northern Maine at the beginning of the 20th century. The writer's impressions of landscapes, industries, and peoples there, and his perception of Scandinavian and French Acadian heritage in that region. Illustrated with photographs. Reprinted in 1973 by the Madawaska Historical Society. Full text available @ Google Books. Contains the following chapters: Frontispiece - Grand Falls on the St. John Chapter 1 - The Entrance into Maine's Great Game and Garden County Chapter 2 - Ashland and its Great Saw-mill - The Impounding of a Moose Chapter 3 - Fish River Waters - Portage Lake and Camp Iverson Chapter 4 - Into Maine's Acadia -The Fish of the Eagle Lake Chapter 5 - Fort Kent - Its Blockhouse and Training School - The Aroostook War Chapter 6 - More of the Acadians - The Girls of the Training School - "Madawaska" - The Story of the Acadians Chapter 7 - From Over the Sea - New Sweden - The Fruitage of a Great Colonization Idea Chapter 8 - Agriculture - The Backbone of Aroostook Prosperity - Coming Towns of the County - L'envoiTags Acadians, Ashland ME, Business and Economics, Education, Emigration and Immigration, Farming and Agriculture, Fishing, Forestry, Fort Fairfield ME, Fort Kent ME, Frenchville ME, Grand Isle ME, Hunting, Italian Americans, Limestone ME, Madawaska ME, Maine, Mills and Mill Work, New Brunswick, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Local, Nova Scotia, Portage Lake ME, Presque Isle ME, St. David ME, St. John River Valley, Stockholm ME, Swedish Americans, Travel and Movement, Van Buren ME, Violence, Westmanland ME -
In search of Franco-America (and its food)
Article on Franco American foods and their relative invisibility, inspired by this food writer's engagement with some of the customs and cuisine to be found in the homes of Brunswick, Maine. Contains brief interviews on Franco American culture with two University of Maine professors, as well as excerpts from a conversation about food and family with head chef of Westbrook, Maine's The Frog and Turtle, James Tranchmontagne. Includes two adaptations of Tranchmontagne's recipes. -
In search of the real Kerouac
Review of the documentary film on Jack Kerouac, entitled, "Whatever Happened to Kerouac?" (Richard Lerner and Lewis McAdam, 1987). Film is a biographical portrait of the Lowell, Massachusetts, writer, featuring interviews with Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, and William S. Burroughs, among others. Article written on the occasion of the film's showing in Somerville, Massachusetts. -
Integrating Québec History into the Curriculum
Article describing several ways to integrate resources in Québec history into American university curricula on the history of the United States and North America. Historiographical summaries of historical periods and subject areas in Québec history, from exploration to the present day, with lists of selected French- and English-language texts as suggestions for students and educators. -
Intellectual Desire
Autobiographical essay that attempts to tease out intersections between class, culture, and sexuality. Bérubé recounts his past "in a way that focuses on class, ethnic, and educational migration" out of a homebase in working-class Franco America. The author writes: "I do my work now in the borderlands between social classes, between the university and the community, between heterosexual and homosexual, between educated speech and down-to-earth talk, between Franco-American and Québécois, between my family and the gay community." Reprinting of a presentation Bérubé gave at the 1992 Montreal colloquium, "La Ville en Rose: Le Premier colloque Québécois d'études lesbiennes et gaies." Also available in the anthology, "Queerly Classed: Gay Men and Lesbians Write About Class" (Boston: South End Press, 1997).Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Aldenville MA, Androscoggin River Valley, Chicopee MA, Connecticut River Valley, Education, Emigration and Immigration, Gender and Sexuality, Holyoke MA, Merrimack River Valley, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Essay, Penobscot River Valley, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Québec, Social History -
Intergenerational Progress in Educational Attainment When Institutional Change Really Matters : A Case Study of Franco-Americans vs. French-Speaking Quebeckers
Comparative study of the education levels of Franco Americans and francophone Quebeckers of similar age, based on census data from 1970/1 and 2000/1. Patterns of educational attainment among each group. Franco American educational achievement as related to French Canadian immigration to New England before 1930, and to an exposure to the United States public schooling systems. Change over time in comparisons of achievement between each group. Argues that patterns of educational achievement may be related to institutional - in addition to family - structures. Accompanied by graphs and tables that describe migration patterns and educational attainment. -
Into the Heart of Maine : A Look at Dexter's Franco-American Community
The history of French Canadian immigration and Franco American community building in the town of Dexter, Maine. Illustrated with photos and quotes from oral interviews. From the text: "The study of French-Canadian immigration is generally centered around New England's larger cities; small towns receiving migrants are usually overlooked. This article examines the French-Canadian population in one such rural town. Dexter, Maine, serves as a microcosm of larger 'petits canadas' throughout New England, but it also projects a different type of ethnic experience. Dorothy A. Blanchard discusses the rewards and the hardships of the Franco experence in rural Maine."Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Community: Customs and Social Life, Demography, Dexter ME, Education, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Farming and Agriculture, Gender and Sexuality, Irish Americans, Labor History, Language and Linguistics, Maine, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Local, Québec, Religion, Sebasticook River Valley, Sports and Leisure, Violence -
Investigators have determined...Mill fire began in elevator shaft, cause still in question, official says
State officials determine where - but not yet how - the Edwards Mill fire began in Augusta, Maine, in the winter of 1989. Article also provides an update on the work being done by local firefighters to control the blaze's spread. -
J'aime le New York : A Bilingual Guide to the French Heritage of New York State
French heritage travel and resource guide to New York state, divided by region and described by town and city. From the foreword to the text: "Continuing the tradition begun in the 17th century, French and Canadian ties flourish in New York which attracts businesses and commerce from Canada, its largest trading partner, as well as from France. This guide begins to tell the story of the memorable but half-forgotten chapters of New York State's French history which form the backdrop for today's ties with France and Canada. It was made possible through a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to the Franco-American and Quebec Heritage Series at the State University of New York at Albany." -
J'aime New York : A Bilingual Guide to the French Heritage of New York State / Guide bilingue de l'héritage français de l'état de New York
Second edition of guide to resources of French and French Canadian histories and heritage in the state of New York. Historical introduction to New York explorers, settlers, and immigrants of French heritage from as early as 1524. Guide to people, places, and events (current and historical) in each of the state's major districts, complete with resource descriptions and contact information. Presented in English and French. Guide de ressources aux histoires et héritage français et canadien-français dans l'état de New York. Une introduction historique aux explorateurs, colons, et immigrants du patrimoine français, à partir de 1524. Guide aux gens, endroits, et événements (actuelles et historiques) dans tous dans tous grands districts de l'ètat. Des descriptions des certaines ressources actuelles, informations de contact, et plus. Présenté en anglais et en français.Tags Albany NY, Blooming Grove NY, Cohoes NY, East Greenbush NY, Exploration and Colonization, France, Gardiner NY, Hudson River Valley, Huguenots, Larchmont NY, Native Americans, New Paltz NY, New Rochelle NY, New York, New York NY, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Travel and Tourism, North America, Oneida NY, Onendaga NY, Plattsburgh NY, Québec, Rye NY, Saratoga Springs NY, Schenectady NY, Tivoli NY -
Journalisme et création romanesque en Nouvelle-Angleterre francophone, 1876-1936
Essai qui identifie les plus anciennes des romans québec-américains, et qui explore les façons dont ces écrits refliètent l'expérience québec-américain vers le début du XXe siiècle. Comprend les romans suivants: "Jeanne la fileuse," d'Honoré Beaugrand; "Les deux testaments," d'Anna Duval-Thibault; "Canuck," de Camille Lessard-Bissonette; "L'innocente victime," d'Adélard Lambert; et "Mirbah," d'Emma Port-Joli. Les dates de ces écrits, les contextes historiques de leur publication; des thièmes de la classe, la nationalité, la sexualité, etc., qu'ils transmettent. -
Judge rejects Ellis' request for lien on Le Club Calumet
Kennebec County (Maine) Superior Court judge rejects Nancy Ellis' bid to attach a lien to Calumet Club property in the case that, if her lawsuit against the club is victorious, the club disbands, sells land, and refuses coverage of her legal fees. -
Juliana L'Heureux: Reawakening French at UMaine at Augusta
Article on University of Maine at Augusta professor, Chelsea Ray, and her commitment to French language, comparative literature, and the Franco-American communities in which she finds herself immersed as teacher. -
Justice and the memory of a song
Free-lance journalist's piece on overhearing her "first French joke" among students in a Maine high school. Her experience of the joke as an outsider, and her thoughts on French ethnic humor in Maine. Recalling this joke and its effects after being moved and empowered by a performance by French-speaking Franco American musicians. -
K. of C. In State Convention
Article on the Knights of Columbus convention to be held at the Franco American Hall in Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1907. -
Keeping the Faith at St. Joseph's
Subtitled, "A century old parish and a local Jeanne d'Arc face off against the Diocese in a showdown up on French Hill." Article on the efforts of St. Joseph's Parish members to keep their Worcester, Massachusetts church open after the bishop's announcement of his decision to shut it down. Descriptions of the church building, its history, and the context for its closure. Examples of individual and collective actions taken by parishioners in their refusal to accept the decision. This drawn-out event as placed within a general trend of growing skepticism toward episcopal authority in the late 20th century. Contains a small historical insert labeled, "One Hundred Years of St. Joseph's Parish," with a timeline of major parish events between 1826 and 1991. -
Kerouac in Black and White
An essay in exploration of Jack Kerouac's French-Canadianness in twentieth-century America. How digging into this particular ethnicity, time, and place shapes how one considers Kerouac's late-life ideas about race, his relationship with religion, or the stylings of his writing. Blaise considers Kerouac alongside other fiction writers (William Faulkner, Theodore Dreiser, William Saroyan, Thomas Wolfe) that, to Blaise, have engaged their fiction in similar conversations with both sentimentality and American diversity. From the author of "I Had a Father: A Post-Modern Autobiography" and "Lunar Attractions." Also published in "Selected Essays" by Clark Blaise (Emeryville, Ontario: Biblioasis, 2008). -
Kerouac's forgettable Montreal road trip
Article recognizing the brief hype surrounding the 50th anniversary of the publication of Jack Kerouac's most famous novel, "On the Road." Discusses a much less explored event in Kerouac's life when, in 1967, the author appeared on the Montreal talk show "Sel de la Semaine." The Montreal crowd's reaction to hearing Kerouac speaking in a "rural and unlearned and folkloric" French. Other characteristics of the Lowell, Massachusetts native that the author here argues may be due to Kerouac's Québecois heritage. -
Kill the Devil or Marry an American : Descent and Consent among the Cajuns
Article exploring the development of Cajun ethnic identity through its iterations in modern theatrical performance in Louisiana, in a period of apparent ethnic revival. How Cajun theatre and its use of the French language function in terms of shaping and defining Cajun identity in Louisiana, abroad, and in the dramatic arts. -
Kinship and Migration to the Upper St. John Valley (Maine - New Brunswick)
Article exploring the demographic shifts of the Upper St. John River Valley - Maine and New Brunswick - through the first fifty years of the Madwaska settlement, beginning in 1785. The author uses parish records and genealogical sources - what she calls the "cohort-life history method" - to build a portrait of the early in-migration of French Canadian and Acadian Madawaska communities, their habits, and their peopling. Individual, family, and community mobility and some thoughts on the explanations behind it. -
Kiss old Calumet goodbye
Letter to the editor criticizing the comments of Le Club Calumet's legal representation, Norman Bourget, and giving thanks to the 1989 decision by the Maine Human Rights Commission declaring the Club discriminatory for its refusal to admit women as members. -
L.J. Rioux Made Colonel
Article on the promotion of a Massachusetts man in the 1st regiment of the Franco-American Brigade of Volunteers of the United States out of New Bedford, Massachusetts. -
L'aême franco-américaine
Un livre majeur d'un défenseur triès passionné de la survivance franco-américaine, et d'un maire ancien de Manchester, New Hamshire. L'auteur de "Catéchisme d'Histoire Franco-Américaine" et "Rois ou Esclaves de la Machine." De l'auteur: "Nous nous proposons de souligner, dans le présent ouvrage, un autre prodige de vitalité française en Amérique, trop inconnu ou méconnu de nos frières de France et du Canada: la survivance française aux Etats-Unis, chez ceux qu'on a justement appelés les Franco-Américains. Dans une premiière partie, nous passerons en revue les faits qui entourent la naissance et le développement de ce groupe franco-américain, dont nous ta?cherons d'analyser l'ame nationale. Une second partie aura pour but de faire ressortir les causes de cette survivance franco-américaine. Au cours de la troisiième partie, nous exposerons en toute sincérité les obstacles qui nous semblent retarder les progriès de ce groupe ethnique et s'opposer le plus directement à la survivance des Franco-Américains."Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Albany NY, Bay City MI, Boston MA, Bourbonnais IL, Burlington VT, Chicago IL, Community: Customs and Social Life, Detroit MI, Duluth MN, Education, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Exploration and Colonization, Fall River MA, Family, Fitchburg MA, France, Holyoke MA, Illinois, Journalism, La Beauce QC, Lewiston ME, Louisiana, Lowell MA, Maine, Manchester NH, Marquette MI, Massachusetts, Minneapolis MN, Nashua NH, New Bedford MA, New York, New York NY, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History, Nonfiction -- History -- Intellectual, Philadelphia PA, Plattsburgh NY, Québec, Religion, Salem MA, Southbridge MA, St. Paul MN, Vermont, Wisconsin, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
L'Alliance française de Lowell
Une publication de conférences - historiques, artistiques, académiques, culturels - faites par divers intervenants américains et internationaux au Cercle de Lowell, une branche de la Fédération de l'Alliance Française aux Etats-Unis, entre 1929 et 1936. Ces conférences étaient publié précédemment dans L'Etoile, un périodique de Lowell, Massachusetts. Commence par une briève introduction à l'Alliance Française et son Cercle de Lowell. Du texte: "Ce livre a une mission, la meme que semble s'etre imposee son auteur tant a titre de journaliste que de travailleur social infatigable: celle de collaborer par des ouevres à la cause de la Survivance française aux Etats-Unis" (7). Contient les écrits et les conférences suivantes, dans leur ordre d'apparition: Frontispice, Dédicace, et Préface Historique du Cercle de Lowell de l'Alliance Française "Notre-Dame de Paris," Marcel Aubert "La galanterie française," Marcel Braunschvig "La valeur humaine de la culture française," André Morize "Le miroir de l'âme," Dr. Joseph Nolin "Clemenceau," Gaston Gille "La France devant la civilisation américaine," Louis Landré "La cour et les maisons royales: la vie à Versailles, Saint-Germain, Fontainebleau, Marly et Trianon," Charles Maricheau-Beaupré "Moliière, la musique et le cinéma," Léon Vallas "Un cas de conscience national," R.P. Georges Simard, o.m.i. "Le 'Malade Imaginaire,'" Chorale Saint-Jean-Baptiste "Les hommes de la Révolution, d'apriès Louis Madelin," Dr. Julien-J. Champenois "Paris et l'Exposition Coloniale," Paul-V. Donovan "Les femmes à l'époque de Moliere," R.P. Engelbert, a.a. "Relations artistiques entre la France et les Etats-Unis," Louis Réau "Impressions d'un Français au Canada en 1932," Raoul Blanchard "L'évolution de la France depuis 1870," André Allix "Esprit francais, esprit critique," André Morize "Autour de Noel: traditions, légendes, poésies," André Morize "Walt Whitman - l'homme et son oeuvre," Rosaire Dion-Levesque "Trois villes, trois mondes: Paris, Londres, New-York," Jean Canu "Napoléon, directeur de théatre," Louis Allard "L'esclave et l'enfant à travers la littérature latine et leur émancipation par l'Eglise," R.P. Engelbert, a.a. "L'enfance devant la crise," Philippe Soupault "Trois dictateurs: Mussolini, Hitler, Staline," Raymond Lange "La Cote d'Azur de Georges Toudouze," Rodolphe Pepin "Napoléon: d'Ajaccio à Sainte-Hélene," Lina-M. Gremillot "'Le presbytière en fleurs," Cercle dramatique Notre-Dame de Lourdes "Le chevalier d'Eon," Major Max Vivier "Quatre profiles d'ecclésiastiques francais: abbé Délong, Mugnier, Brémond, cardinal Baudrillart," Fernand Baldensperger "Paris sans guide," Josaphat Benoit "Film français," La Maternelle "La Fontaine et ses fables," R.P. Armand Baron, o.m.i. "Les enfants de la promesse (Chez les Franco-Américains)," H.-A. Jules-Bois "Aspects du théâtre contemporain," Albert Farmer Epilogue -
L'Alliance française de Lowell : 1937-1947
Une publication de conférences - historiques, artistiques, académiques, culturels - faites par divers intervenants américains et internationaux au Cercle de Lowell, une branche de la Fédération de l'Alliance Française aux Etats-Unis, entre 1937 et 1947. Ces conférences étaient publié précédemment dans L'Etoile, un périodique de Lowell, Massachusetts. Commence par une briève introduction à l'Alliance Française et son Cercle de Lowell. Du texte: "[On] avait déja publié en 1937 un premier volume sur l'Alliance Francaise de Lowell qu'il avait dédié 'à la gloire des canadiens-francais, nos peres au pays, qui nous ont conservés catholiques et francais' et 'à l'honneur de la génération franchement franco-américaine du XXe siecle qui arbore bien haut le flambeau de la survivance, et à l'édification des générations franco-américaines à venir pour leur persévérance dans la foi et les traditions des ancetres'." Contient les écrits et les conférences suivantes, dans leur ordre d'apparition: Frontispice, Dédicace, et Préface Historique de l'Alliance française de Lowell (1937-1947) SAISON 1936-1937 "La France telle que l'étranger ne la connaît pas: la famille française," Raymond Lange "Théâtre de Brieux," Léon Lemonnier "Napoléon et la politique étrangière actuelle de la France," Raymond Gaston-Chérau "Les cinq siièges de Québec," Lt-col. Ernest Legaré SAISON 1937-1938 "La Société française à la veille de la Révolution," Mme. Aline Caro-Delvaille "Chansons du folklore français," Mme. Adièle de Doudeuil "L'opinion publique en France: sa formation et son role," Pierre de Lanux "Tragiques amours de princesses au Moyen-Age," Duc de Lévis-Mirepoix "Les droits patriotiques des minorités," R.P.J.-Vincent Ducattillon, o.p. SAISON 1938-1939 "Concert de chansons françaises et de folklore," Le Petit Septuor de la Bonne Chanson "Louis-XIV, Roi Soleil," Le consul François Briière "Discours du novel officier d'Académie" "Noà«ls de France," Mme. Jeanne Brondel-Allen " 'Les Perles de la Couronne' " (film français) "Le portrait française de Fouquet à Cézanne," Charles Sterling " 'La Normandie,' 'Les provinces françaises' " (films français) "Grandeur de la musique française de notre siiècle," Henry Malherbe "Quelques aspects méconnus de la survivance franco-américaine," Edward-B. Ham "Dicours du nouvel officier d'Académie" SAISON 1939-1940 "En marge d'une crise: Psychologie comparée des Français et des Allemands," Frédéric Urmatt "C'est le 10e anniversaire" "Paul Claudel: l'homme et l'oeuvre," R.P. Léon Loranger, o.m.i. "Diseuse," Germaine Arosa "Sarah Bernhardt: tragédienne de l'amour," Louis Allard " 'Le Roussillon' et 'Le Veille d'Armes' " (films français) SAISON 1940-1941 "L'Acadie Louisianaise: sa langue, ses traditions, ses coutumes," André Lafargue "La France se roidit déjà pour résister au vainqueur," André Morize "Sketches monologués," André Frere "Expériences d'un Français attaché à la B E F en Flandres et à Dunkerque," Comte Jehan de Noue " 'Son premier bal,' " Cercle dramatique de New-Bedford SAISON 1941-1942 "Revue des Deux Mondes: choses vues et entendues," Mme Claude Eylan "Un prophiète qu'on n'a pas écouté: Jacques Bainville et l'Europe d'Hier," Robert de St-Jean "L'Alsace fidièle: régime français, régime allemand, situation actuelle," R.P. Jean-Baptiste Pflieger, s.j. "L'histoire de la littérature canadienne-française," Mlle. Marine Leland "Récital de chants français," Camille Girouard SAISON 1942-1943 " 'Le Curé de Village,' " Robert Choquette "L'histoire d'un livre: Maria Chapdelaine," Pauline Moll-Tougas "La démocratie française: hier, aujourd'hui, demain," Roger Picard "La France et l'Europe: les conditions du sécurité de la France," Louis Rougier "La vie intellectuelle au Canada français," Jean Seznec "L'amour dans la poésie canadienne-française," Alice Lemieux-Lévesque "Récital de chansons de folklore français," Pierre Pelletier "La Belgique et la Guerre," Dr. Robert Goffin SAISON 1944-1945 "Les légendes du Vieux Québec," Paul Rainville "La langue française en Haiti: le créole et le folklore," Son Exc. Dantes Bellegarde "Concert de chant avec trio Bilodeau," Gilberte Barrette "Du légendaire, du poétique et du satirique dans la chanson et dans la littérature de folklore françaises," Mme. Louise Arnoux "La France et l'Europe," Louis-J.-A. Mercier SAISON 1945-1946 "La vie à Paris pendant l'occupation," Serge-Paul Sotiroff "David contre Goliath ou l'intelligence française sous l'occupation," George Adam "La France d'octobre 1945," Auguste Viatte "Fantaisies théâtrales," Mme. Fernande Pontalba "Concert d'artistes franco-américains," Diane Morin-Dubé SAISON 1946-1947 "Concert," Les Petits Chanteurs de Nashua "Belle réception à neuf épousées françaises et belges" "Paul Valéry: l'homme et l'oeuvre," Raoul Pelmont "Au service d'une survivance," Abbé Adrien Verrette "Le sacrifice du matin: Des épreuves, un livre," Diner-réception au Général de Bénouville, à Mgr. Guérin et à M. Chambon "Les présentations par le Président" SAISON 1947-1948 "Mon voyage en Europe," Le R.P. Lucien Brassard, O.M.I. "L'écrivain et les grands hommes de ce temps," Le Dr. Maurice Bedel "La vie dans une ville de province en France," Mlle. Suzanna Bertillon Appendice Les Congriès de Paris et de New York "Qu'est-ce qu'une grande nation?" Georges Duhamel "Votre vie est dans vos mains," Vercors L'Alliance française de Lowell Les nouveaux membres de 1939 à nos jours "Epilogue," Albert-L. BourgeoisTags Canada, Community: Customs and Social Life, Criticism and Review, Education, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Europe, Fiction and Literature, Folklore, France, Germany, Haiti, Journalism, Language and Linguistics, Lectures, Louisiana, Lowell MA, Nashua NH, New Bedford MA, New England, New York NY, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Anthology, Performing Arts, Poetry, Québec, United States, War -
L'Américanité, the Dual Nature of the Québécois Identity
Article exploring the notion of "américanité" in Québec: not as an extension of a USA process of "Americanization," but as a descriptive continental term that relates to, contextualizes, characterizes, and pluralizes Québécois identity. Changing ideas of "américanité" in Québec in the 20th century, and more recently considered in light of NAFTA. Presentation and preliminary analysis of survey data from Québec with questions on the vocabulary of self-identification, perceptions of the term "américain," its geographical scope, and how respondants compare themselves generally to people in the United States. -
L'Amérique du Nord française dans les archives religieuses de Rome 1600-1922 : Guide de recherche
Guide de recherche qui souligne des connections religieuses historiques entre l'Amérique française et la Rome ponitificale, visible dans des documents d'archives de Rome. Caractières majeurs de la durée de vie de l'histoire ecclésiastique des archives du Vatican. Descriptions des fonds - des archives au Vatican, archivistes, et projets historiques pertinents au l'église catholique. Produit d'un colloque en 1999 au Québec.
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Table des matiières: Rome et l'Amérique du Nord française / Pierre Hurtubise et Roberto Perin
Archivistes, Historiens et Archives Romaines / Luca Codignola et Matteo Sanfilippo
Description des fonds / Luca Codignola, Matteo Sanfilippo, et Giovanni Pizzorusso
Chronologie d'histoire civile et religieuse, 1600-1922 / Fernand Harvey et Luca Codignola
Annexe 1 - Annexe 2 - Bibliographie - Liste des cartes et figures - Liste des collaborateurs -
L'amour de la culture française
Article in recognition of Burlington, Vermont's 2011 French Friendship Day - a gathering together of local and international francophiles and francophones to celebrate the presence of French Canadian and Franco American culture in Vermont. Contains an historical overview of French Canadian emigrant community in Burlington and its environs. Mentions a number of activities and items historically common to French Canadian and Franco American life, as well as historical instances of persecution against Franco Americans in Vermont, and contemporary efforts - like the French Friendship Day - to maintain and share Franco culture.Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Barre VT, Burlington VT, Colchester VT, Community: Customs and Social Life, Death and Disaster, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Food, France, Government and Politics, Language and Linguistics, Leicester VT, Montpelier VT, Music, Québec, Religion, Rutland VT, St. Albans VT, Stonecutting, Vergennes VT, Vermont, West Rutland VT, Winooski VT -
L'Archipel : un commentaire personnel sur deux cultures fortes mais marginales
De l'auteur: "Une mission salvatrice à l'a?ge de dix-neuf a amené l'A. à connaître l'Archipel. Cet essai trace son périple personnel, professionnel et intellectuel depuis la région culturelle mormone jusqu'à l'île principale de l'archipel francophone d'Amérique et examine briièvement certains aspects de deux cultures fortes mais marginales, l'une québécoise et l'autre mormone." -
L'Echo : Paroisse St Bruno
Un petit livre qui marque le début de l'année 1919 à la paroisse St. Bruno de Van Buren, Maine. Des explications de la coutumes de l'église catholique romain, des essaies sur la foi, et des autres écrits sur la vie catholique. Produit pour les communiants de St. Bruno. -
L'émigration des Canadiens aux États-Unis avant 1930 : mesure du phénomiène
Une analyse des principles sources statistiques sur l'émigration de peuples canadiens aux ètats-Unis avant 1930. Des tableaux et des graphiques démographique; des notes evaluatives par l'auteur sur leur signification et leur importance pour comprendre le processus de cent ans de migration. Des données provenant de sources informatiques gouvernmentales de Canada et des ètats Unis, de recherche académiques, et d'autres sources ; des explications et comparaisons des données. Accent géographique sur ¹¹le mouvement au Nord-Est américain. Table des matiières:
Introduction 1 - Les statistiques migratoires des ètats-Unis
2 - Les recensements américains
3 - Les recensements canadiens
4 - Les enquêtes gouvernmentales
5 - Les statistiques et les enquêtes non officielles
6 - Confrontation des principales sources statistiques en vue de determiner le volume de l'émigration des Canadiens aux ètats-Unis
Conclusion
Bibliographie
Listes des tableaux et des graphiquesTags Biddeford ME, Bridgeport CT, Brockton MA, Brunswick ME, Burlington VT, California, Canada, Central Falls RI, Cohoes NY, Colorado, Connecticut, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, Fall River MA, Fitchburg MA, Government and Politics, Hartford CT, Holyoke MA, Illinois, Lewiston ME, Lowell MA, Manchester NH, Manville RI, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nashua NH, New Bedford MA, New Haven CT, New York, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Demography, North Adams MA, North Dakota, Northampton MA, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Rutland VT, Southbridge MA, Spencer MA, Springfield MA, Taunton MA, Troy NY, Vermont, Waterbury CT, Waterville ME, Winooski Falls VT, Wisconsin, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
L'émigration des Québécois aux États-Unis de 1840 à 1930
Un petit livre qui présente un compte général, des chiffres démographique, et un étude historique sur l'émigration québécoise à la Nouvelle-Angleterre et le Midwest dans le 19ième siiècle et début du 20ième. Rédigé à partir d'un point de vue du Québec. Présentée avec des tableaux et graphiques, des photos de paysages et de publications passées, et statistiques provenant de diverses études antérieures. Documentation du Conseil de la langue française, Gouvernement du Québec. Contient les sections suivantes: Introduction I - Les débuts du dépeuplement L'enquête de 1849 L'enquête de 1857 II - La montée du mouvement Des chiffres, mais... Les paroisses nationales et le mode de vie des Franco-Américains III - Le sommet (1880-1890) Une enquête dans le comté du Champlain Des réactions dans le milieu d'accueil IV - Déclin et renversement du mouvement Les Franco-Américains du début du XXe siiècle: une population à prédominance masculine et qui vieillit Les rentrées massives au pays et l'immigration américaine Conclusion BibliographieTags Albany NY, Biddeford ME, Brockton MA, Brunswick ME, Burlington VT, Central Falls RI, Cohoes NY, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, Fall River MA, Fitchburg MA, Gender and Sexuality, Holyoke MA, Kansas, Lake Linden MI, Lewiston ME, Lowell MA, Maine, Manchester NH, Manville RI, Meriden CT, Minnesota, Missouri, Nashua NH, New Bedford MA, New England, New Hampshire, New York, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Immigration, North Adams MA, Northampton MA, Photography, Québec, Rhode Island, Rutland VT, Southbridge MA, Spencer MA, Springfield MA, St. Albans VT, Taunton MA, Troy NY, US Midwest, Waterbury CT, Waterville ME, Winooski Falls VT, Wisconsin, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
L'émigration québécoise vers les villes industrielles de la Nouvelle-Angleterre au XIXe siiècle
Un bref essai sur la grande émigration canadienne-française du Québec aux États-Unis au XIXe siiècle. Une exploration des raisons économiques pour ce mouvement populaire entre 1840 et 1930; une explication des conditions de vie et de travail pour les immigrants dans les Petits Canadas, des nouvelles communautés canadiennes-françaises dans la Nouvelle-Angleterre.Tags Biddeford ME, Burlington VT, Business and Economics, Connecticut, Emigration and Immigration, Fall River MA, Family, Farming and Agriculture, Forestry, Holyoke MA, Lewiston ME, Maine, Manchester NH, Massachusetts, Mills and Mill Work, New England, New Hampshire, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Immigration, Old Town ME, Québec, Rhode Island, Salem MA, Southbridge MA, Vermont, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
L'Étoile blanche
Le carnet de route d'une artiste qui a quitté son mari et ses enfants à Boston afin de voyager vers la France et l'Italie. "L'Étoile blanche" est le nom qu'elle donne au navire qu'elle prend à travers l'Atlantique. Comprend une partie de la poésie de l'artiste. -
L'évolution de la presse franco-américaine aux États-Unis
Une vue d'ensemble de l'histoire de la presse franco-américaine du 19e et 20e siiècles, écrit par un professeur de Millersville State College. Commentaire sur les divers publications et leur ampleur géographique à la hauteur de leurs succiès. L'évolution de leur popularité en tant que liée à l'évolution culturelle et linguistique des communautés franco-américaines, la Deuxiième Guerre mondiale comme un tournant.Tags Attleboro MA, Bay City MI, Biddeford ME, California, Chicago IL, Cohoes NY, Colorado, Detroit MI, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Fitchburg MA, Haverhill MA, Holyoke MA, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Journalism, Kansas, Language and Linguistics, Lawrence MA, Lowell MA, Manchester NH, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nashua NH, Nebraska, New Bedford MA, New England, New York, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Journalism, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Orono ME, Pennsylvania, Providence RI, Québec, Salem MA, Sanford ME, South Dakota, Springfield MA, St. Albans VT, Virginia, Washington, Waterville ME, Wisconsin, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA, Wyoming -
L'exil américain de Louis Dantin : un intellectual au carrefour des cultures
Un essai qui examine des lettres sélectionnées d'un intellectuel et un écrivain québécois aux États-Unis au début du XXe siiècle - Louis Dantin - et ses pairs canadien-français - Olivar Asselin, Rosaire Dion-Lévesque, et Alfred DesRochers. Le contenu de ses lettres comme un motif de réflexion sur une croissance de culture littéraire américaine entre Nouvelle-Angleterre et Québec. -
L'harmonica dans la musique traditionnelle québécoise : histoire, techniques, partitions, musiciens
Un histoire de la musique québécoise et de l'harmonica. Des techniques de jouer l'harmonica du facon québécois traditionel. Des biographies d'un quatre-vingtaine de musiciens québécois. -
L'Héritage français dans la vallée du Mississippi
Publication sur l'histoire de l'exploration et la colonisation française en Amérique du Nord, et les emplacements américaine dans laquelle les constructions et les noms de lieu françaises persistent dans le présent.Tags Canada, Detroit MI, Duluth MN, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Exploration and Colonization, France, Geography, Government and Politics, Great Britain, Great Lakes Region, Green Bay WI, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Mississippi River Valley, Mobile AL, Native Americans, New Orleans LA, Ohio, Ontario, Pittsburgh PA, Québec, St. Louis MO, St. Paul MN, Texas, Vincennes IN, War, Wisconsin -
L'identité culturelle : les Franco-Américains de la Nouvelle-Angleterre
Une description des moeurs et de la vie franco-américaine dans la Nouvelle-Angleterre. Une exploration de la survivance dans le contexte d'une histoire précise et d'un avenir imprévisible pour un peuple francophone aux Etats-Unis. Etude sociologique compréhensif des Franco-Américains, du dix-neuviième siiècle jusqu'à 1983.Tags Amherst MA, Boston MA, Bristol CT, Burlington VT, California, Community: Customs and Social Life, Connecticut, Demography, Dover NH, Education, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Florida, Gender and Sexuality, Hartford CT, Holyoke MA, Illinois, Indiana, Journalism, Language and Linguistics, Lewiston ME, Louisiana, Lowell MA, Manchester NH, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nashua NH, New England, New Jersey, New York, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Social Sciences, Nonfiction -- Sociology, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Portland ME, Providence RI, Religion, Rhode Island, Southbridge MA, Springfield MA, Texas, United States, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, Woonsocket RI -
L'identité de l'immigrant québécois en Nouvelle-Angleterre : le rapport Wright de 1882
Un portrait historique de la réponse publique au rapport infa?me écrit par Carrol Wright et du Bureau of Labor Statistics du Massachusetts, 1881, dans le contexte de l'immigration canadienne-française classe ouvriière, de la communauté, et de l'identité. Des renseignements biographiques sur Carroll Wright. Activité journalistique dans les communautés franco américaines, en particulier autour de l'œuvre de Ferdinand Gagnon et Hugo A. Dubuque, à l'époque. Réactions au rapport 1881 comme éléments significatifs au notre compréhension de l'identité des immigrants en Nouvelle-Angleterre au 19ième siiècle. Référence à l'œuvre historique de Frances Early et un rapport fédéral subséquent sur le travail et le capital qui traite les travailleurs immigrants canadiens-français.Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Baltic CT, Cohoes NY, Connecticut, Dunbarton NH, Fall River MA, Grosvenordale CT, Holyoke MA, Lewiston ME, Lowell MA, Manville RI, Massachusetts, Merrimack River Valley, Mills and Mill Work, Nashua NH, New England, New Hampshire, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Nonfiction -- Immigration, Plattsburgh NY, Putnam CT, Québec, Rhode Island, Troy NY, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
L'image du Vermont : mythologie américaine et réalité géographique
Un profil de l'État du Vermont des années 1970. Un essai qui compare les perceptions et les mythes sur le Vermont avec les données géographiques et historiques qui ont servi à les inspirer et de les soutenir. Réflexions de l'auteur sur «les tendances américaines» - morales, économiques ou autres - qui ont en partie conduit à la naissance d'un certain image de l'état, et en quelle facon cette image influence la vie réelle dans le Vermont. -
La Bonne Aventure : A Formative Evaluation
A presentation of data collected on the pilot programs of a children's French language television series (La Bonne Aventure) produced by the Maine Public Broadcasting Network and created by Project FACTS. Intended as a review and a "validation" of the program's intentions and achievements. Data is shown in table form with accompanying summary reports of the meanings of certain figures and categories. Includes in the appendices transcripts of the pilot episodes, as well as workbook questions for children viewers, and a questionnaire for parents allowing their children's participation in pilot testing. -
La crise de l'enseignement du français dans nos écoles paroissiales
Sous-titrée, "Actes du VIIIe Congreès des Franco-Américains tenu aè Manchester, New Hampshire, les 15, 16, et 17 october 1965." Des actes d'un congreès de 1965 dont le but principal était une discussion sur l'état de la langue française dans les écoles paroissiales de Nouvelle-Angleterre: "une crise grave, aigue, urgente," la rareté croissante de la langue parmi les jeunes étudiants, et quelques suggestions pour son avenir. Des orateurs (religieuses, académiques, etc.) utilisent les examples générales des enseignants, étudiants, écoles (paroissialles et publiques), et paroisses aè Massachusetts, dans le New Hampshire et Rhode Island. Le livre est divisé en sections: Avant-propos Proclamation du VIIIe Congres "La crise de l'enseignement du français dans nos écoles paroissiales", par le R.P. Thomas-M. Landry, o.p. Exposé présenté par M. le docteur Robert A. Beaudoin Exposé présenté par la Révérende Soeur Raymond-de-Jésus, F.S.E. Exposé présenté par M. l'abbé Joseph Martineau, pretre Voeux et Résolutions du VIIIe Congres des Franco-Américains les 15, 16, 17, octobre 1965 Sermon de Monseigneur Paul-Emile Gosselin, P.D. -
La femme franco-américaine
Un recueil d'essais sur la femme franco-américaine tant qu'individuelle ainsi qu'un partie d'une collectivité sociale - de la France vers le Canada, du Québec vers les États-Unis. Certains expériences de femmes franco-américaines, et l'examen des situations historiques particuliières des femmes dans la culture franco-américaine. Du texte : "La femme franco-américaine a toujours vécu dans l'ombre: dans l'ombre du clocher, dans l'ombre de la salle de classe, dans l'ombre de la salle de travail à l'usine, dans l'ombre de curé, dans l'ombre de son mari. Le moment était arrivé, nous semble-t-il, de l'en sortir pour étaler au grand jour son apport indispensable à la vie et à la survie de la Franco-Américanie" (iii).Tags Acadians, Canada, Central Falls RI, Education, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Family, Fitchburg MA, France, Gender and Sexuality, Labor History, Leominster MA, Lewiston ME, Lowell MA, Manchester NH, Massachusetts, Montréal QC, Nashua NH, New England, New Hampshire, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Anthology, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Québec, Religion, Rhode Island, Social History, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
La Foi, La Langue, La Culture : The Franco-Americans of Biddeford, Maine
Edited and updated book version of a dissertation published five years earlier ("Ethnic survival in a New England Mill Town," Syracuse University, 1977), with a foreword by author and Biddeford resident, Norman Beaupré. A Franco American history from immigration to community development, cast through the lens of the town of Biddeford, Maine, or the "Mill City."Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Biddeford ME, Business and Economics, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Geography, Government and Politics, Labor History, Language and Linguistics, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Nonfiction -- History -- Local, Religion, Saco ME, Saco River Valley, Social History -
La franco-américanie ou le Québec d'en bas
Essai sur certains rélations entre l'émigration québécoise envers les Etats-Unis, la prolétarisation d'une population francophone nord-américaine, et la montée du nationalisme au Quebec à la seconde moitié du XIXe siiècle. Comment la classe ouvriière émigrante dans des collectivités comme Woonsocket, Rhode Island, nous aident à comprendre la franco-américanie et l'histoire du Québec. L'auteur utilise des ressources écrites et orales. De l'auteur: "Par l'exemple de Woonsocket au Rhode Island, l'auteur tente d'illustrer les caractières historiques de cette partie majeure de la diaspora québécoise en Amérique du Nord; preuve de l'immense influence au XIXe siiècle, de la République américaine sur le développement d'un Québec moderne." (résumé) From the author: "...Through the example of Woonsocket in Rhode Island, the author illustrâtes the major elements of Franco-American history. As the most important component of the Québécois diaspora in North America, the New England French populations provide strong evidence, in the nineteenth century, of the enduring influence of the American Republic on the shaping of a modem day Québec" (abstract).Tags Albion RI, Biddeford ME, Blackstone River Valley, Community: Customs and Social Life, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Farming and Agriculture, Gender and Sexuality, Gilbertville MA, Greenville NH, Holyoke MA, Lawrence MA, Lewiston ME, Lowell MA, Manchester NH, Manville RI, Mills and Mill Work, New Bedford MA, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Immigration, Pawtucket RI, Québec, Social History, Southbridge MA, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
La genièse d'une communauté canadienne-française en Nouvelle-Angleterre : Lewiston, Maine, 1800-1880
Adapté d'une plus longe forme (1988). D'Erudit: "Le présent article a pour sujet la genièse d'une communauté canadienne-française en Nouvelle-Angleterre, celle de Lewiston, Maine, avant 1880. L'auteur décrit d'abord la localité à la veille de l'arrivée des premiers Canadiens français en I860, s'attardant plus particuliièrement aux bouleversements causés par la Révolution industrielle, qui fit de Lewiston un des plus importants centres textiles des États-Unis. Il explique ensuite la nature des migrations canadiennes-françaises au 19e siiècle, et le rôle de premier plan qu'y jouaient la famille et la parenté. De fait, la famille était la cellule de base de la communauté ethnique en formation. L'économie familiale caractérisait les ménages nucléaires et se tissièrent entre ceux-ci et les manufactures de coton des liens étroits et complexes. La parenté aussi avait des fonctions économiques, sociales et psychologiques, facilitant l'adaptation des migrants dans leur nouveau milieu, un milieu ù les conditions d'existence étaient triès précaires. De cette masse de paysans devenu ouvriers émergea une petite-bourgeoisie composée d'hommes d'affaires, de professionnels et de prêtres. Ces hommes utilisièrent leur pouvoir pour intensifier le sentiment religieux de leurs coreligionnaires et pour tenter d'instiller en eux l'idéologie de la survivance culturelle. Certains prirent leur distance de la masse des migrants, alors que d'autres, le curé et les professionnels notamment, travaillièrent à la création d'un réseau institutionnel centré sur la paroisse, contribuant ainsi thnique sur des fondations solides et à transformer les migrants en immigrants." -
La langue française : mourant à Augusta? (The French language : Dying in Augusta?)
Focus article on the linguistic changes evident among French speakers and Franco Americans in the communities of Augusta, Maine. Comments on language frequency within families and schools, as well as differences in French fluency among children and adults. Contains quotes from many Augusta residents. Written in the wake of a minor controversy over the elimination - then return - of a French-language Canadian television channel provided by the Augusta area cable network. -
La politique dans le Rhode Island
Sur Aram J. Pothier, candidat républicain au poste de gouverneur du Rhode Island, comme il a été décrit par New England Magazine. Un dirigeant local - culturellement, politiquement, économiquement. Aussi quelques mots sur l'homme comme écrit dans La Revue des Deux-Frances. Comment bien qu'il est «américain» en donnant aux discours à la Providence, Boston et Biddeford, Maine. Un argument en faveur de son élection, en dépit de sa naissance canadienne, et aussi des mots à l'appui de l'égalité politique générale pour les immigrants aux États-Unis. -
La presse chez les Franco-Américains
Une collection des titres des journaux de langue française et des articles de périodiques franco-américains de la Nouvelle Angleterre. Une introduction historique de la grande variété dans la presse écrite franco-américain des 19e et 20e siiècles.Tags Bay City MI, Biddeford ME, Boston MA, Bourbonnais IL, Burlington VT, California, Chicago IL, Cleveland OH, Cohoes NY, Detroit MI, Duluth MN, Education, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Hartford CT, Holyoke MA, Journalism, Kankakee County IL, Lake Linden MI, Lawrence MA, Lewiston ME, Lowell MA, Lynn MA, Madawaska ME, Manchester NH, Marinette WI, Marquette MI, Minneapolis MN, Montréal QC, Muskegon MI, New England, New Orleans LA, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Journalism, Norwich CT, Orono ME, Providence RI, Salem MA, Somersworth NH, Springfield MA, St. Albans VT, St. Martinville LA, St. Paul MN, Taunton MA, Van Buren ME, Woonsocket RI -
La presse franco-américaine et la politique : l'oeuvre de Charles-Roger Daoust
La vie et les ouevres d'un écrivain franco-américain dans la Nouvelle Angleterre, actif à la fin du XIXe siiècle. Son journalisme politique au début du vingtiième siiècle et sa rélation avec le début du journalisme franco aux États-Unis.Tags Cohoes NY, Community: Customs and Social Life, Fall River MA, Government and Politics, Journalism, Lewiston ME, Lowell MA, Manchester NH, Montréal QC, Nashua NH, New Bedford MA, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Journalism, Pawtucket RI, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Plattsburgh NY, Québec, Southbridge MA, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
La situation du Français aux États-Unis
Un rapport démographique et culturelle sur les réalites de la présence francophone et franco-américaine aux Etats-Unis. Ce rapport fournit des chiffres et autres données descriptives relatives aux efforts du patrimoine français dans les affaires, le divertissement, et l'éducation langue française aux États-Unis. Dans les annexes sont publiés des listes d'organismes et journaux franco-américains. Préparé pour le Conseil de la langue française.Tags Acadia Parish, Alabama, Amesbury MA, Androscoggin County ME, Berlin NH, Bristol County MA, Central Falls RI, Chicopee MA, Community: Customs and Social Life, Coos County NH, Cumberland County ME, Demography, Durham NH, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Evangeline Parish LA, Fall River MA, Film and Television, Franklin VT, Greenville NH, Hartford CT, Hillsborough NH, Holyoke MA, Iberia Parish LA, Lafayette LA, Lafayette Parish LA, Lafourche Parish LA, Lawrence MA, Lewiston ME, Lowell MA, Lynn MA, Manchester NH, Middlesex County MA, Nashua NH, New Bedford MA, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Demography, North Carolina, Orleans County VT, Pawtucket RI, Providence RI, Radio, Salem MA, Springfield MA, St. Landry Parish LA, St. Martin Parish LA, Tennessee, Terrebonne Parish LA, US Midwest, Vermilion Parish LA, Washington, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
La situation religieuse aux États-Unis : illusions et réalité
Un histoire et critique de l'église Catholique aux États-Unis, écrit en deux parties par un scolaire français au Canada. Certaines réflexions sur le développement d'un catholicisme américain. Comparaisons entre des prévisions pour le catholicisme aux États-Unis et les faits, ou la réalité, de l'église américaine. -
La situation religieuse aux États-Unis : illusions et réalités
Un histoire et critique de l'église Catholique aux États-Unis du point de vue au tournant de siiècle d'un chercheur français. -
La situation religieuse aux États-Unis : illusions et réalités
Une histoire et une critique de l'église Catholique romain aux États-Unis, écrit par un scolaire français. -
La stratification sociale du groupe ethnique canadien-français aux États-Unis
Analyse démographique du groupe ethnique canadien-français aux États-Unis ou dans la Nouvelle-Angleterre entre 1830 et 1950, utlisant des chiffres de la Bureau of the Census. Déscriptions historiques de l'immigration canadienne du Québec aux États-Unis; présentation des chiffres socio-economiques par rapport à d'autres groupes ethniques immigrants avant de 1950. -
La Survivance
Article subtitled, "Families of French-Canadian descent once regarded French Catholicism and the French language as inseparable keys to their ethnic survival." An overview of the history and culture of Franco Americans in New England, beginning with the earliest French presence in 17th century North America. How work, religion, and language, historically important to many Franco American New England communities, have changed shapes among other arguably more persistent cultural symbols. Franco American culture as it is seen in the 1980s.Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Burlington VT, Community: Customs and Social Life, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Exploration and Colonization, Farming and Agriculture, Holyoke MA, Journalism, Labor History, Language and Linguistics, Lewiston ME, Lowell MA, Madawaska ME, Manchester NH, Mills and Mill Work, Social History, St. John River Valley, Woonsocket RI -
La thièse messianique et les Franco-Américains
Un bref essai sur la persistance de la religion, l'ethnocentrisme, et le nationalisme dans l'attitude des dirigeants du Québec (prêtres, les penseurs du public, et autres), comme dirigés vers les émigrants aux États-Unis au 19ième et début du 20ième siiècle. Une caractérisation de l'évolution des attitudes des prêtres catholiques du Québec sur l'émigration et leurs paroissiens migrants - notamment la façon dont l'américanisation a été confondue avec l'apostasie, et plus tard, en quelle façon l'émigration a la Nouvelle-Angleterre a été conçu comme une colonisation, ou mission messianique, francophone des Amériques. Le rôle joué par l'Église catholique au Québec et en Nouvelle-Angleterre, pendant la période d'immigration canadienne-française aux États-Unis. -
Labbe: station, store was atop Sand Hill
Augusta, Maine, resident Paul Labbe helps the local Capital Weekly newspaper to identify a 1940s photo of a store and gas station. Article features the picture itself, as well as claims from others who attempted to make an identification of the photo. -
Labor and the Shut-Down of the Amoskeag Textile Mills
Reprinting of a 1939 publication funded by the Works Progress Administration. Exploration of the economic conditions in Manchester, New Hampshire, and the economic climate surrounding the mill complex of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Corporation. The 1920s and 1930s decline of the Amoskeag company, its 1935 shutdown and subsequent business failures, and the significance of these events with regard to Manchester's organized workers.Tags Boston MA, Business and Economics, Community: Customs and Social Life, Demography, England, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Labor History, Manchester NH, Massachusetts, Merrimack River Valley, Mills and Mill Work, New Hampshire, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Social History -
LaCasse Bats gets a boost from Subway : Madison native to receive ESPN plug during Bangor event
Madison, Maine, native, Jesse LaCasse, operates a wooden baseball bat business out of the nearby town of Skowhegan. His products and company "teamed up with Subway Restaurants" for a joint advertising bid at the Senior League World Series in Bangor, Maine. -
Landings, Logging, & Lumbermen : Memories from St. John, Me., 1901-2001
A pictorial history of life and logging in St. John, Maine, at the beginning of the twentieth century. Includes some pictures that are featured in the book "Acadian Hard Times" (Stewart Doty, 1991), as well as many others that capture the households and working woods in the space between the Allagash and St. John Rivers of northern Maine. The transition of the population, industry, and landscape over 100 years. -
Language and Culture : Heritage and Horizons : The 1976 Northeast Conference
Summary description of the twenty-third annual meeting of the Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, held in New York City. The conference's theme relating to the origins and endurance of languages other than English among immigrant groups in the United States, and culminating in three reports: "Origins," "Cultural Pluralism," and "Contributions." Descriptions of conference participants and program content, with emphases on French, Spanish, and German languages. Includes brief descriptions of the work of Normand Dubé, Don Dugas, Guy Dubay, Alain Blanchet, Paul Chassé, Claire Quintal, Nelson Pepin, Joan Young, Roger Paradis, Richard Santerre, Ann Woolfson, Robert Paris, and others. -
Language and Nationalism : Two Integrative Essays
From ERIC: "The extent to which the language planning that has been pursued in many localities and in many periods has been guided by nationalism, that is, by '...the social movements, attitudes, and ideologies which characterize the behavior of nationalities engaged in the struggle to achieve, maintain or enhance their position in the world' (Wirth 1936) is examined in this text. The study familiarizes the reader with the formations and the transformations of nationalism itself, and also examines how and why language commonly comes to be one of the ingredients in nationalist goals and programs..." -
Language Loyalty in the United States : The Maintenance and Perpetuation of Non-English Mother Tongues by American Ethnic and Religious Groups
Collection of essays on the linguistics of non-English-speaking immigrants to the United States. The impact of movement on language, the perpetuation of local trends, the transformation of language in transit. The variety of language loyalties in the United States explored through sociological and psychological data, and through the many political and institutional structures set in support of the cultural life of certain American communities. Includes Herve B. Lemaire's "Franco-American Efforts on Behalf of the French Language in New England." Contains the following essays, in order of appearance: The Historical and Social Contexts of an Inquiry into Language Maintenance Efforts Mother Tongue and Nativity in the American Population The Non-English and the Ethnic Group Press, 1910-1960 Foreign Language Broadcasting The Ethnic Group School and Mother Tongue Maintenance Mother Tongue Retentiveness in Ethnic Parishes Organizational and Leadership Interest in Language Maintenance Some Community Dynamics of Language Maintenance German-American Language Maintenance Efforts Franco-American Efforts on Behalf of the French Language in New England Spanish Language and Culture in the Southwest Ukrainian Language Maintenance Efforts in the United States The Process and Problems of Language Maintenance: an Integrative Review Planned Reinforcement of Language Maintenance in the United States; Suggestions for the Conservation of a Neglected National Resource Language Maintenance in a Supra-Ethnic Age: Summary and Conclusions Appendices & Indexes -
Language Planning and Language Use : Canada's National Capital Area
Discussion on Canadian government service "language planning" in light of its official bilingual status. Particular attention is paid to the percentage of federal employee positions that, before unilingual, are now slated and anticipated to be held by bilingual people. Other attention is paid specifically to where efforts at bilingual accomodation are made to preserve Canadian confederation from, for example, the growing percentage of francophone Quebecers reliant solely upon unilingual provincial services, or anglophone Canadians resistant to minority language. Some distinction is made between what the author terms the "personality" and the "territorial" principles of bilingualism. -
Language, Ethnicity, and the Schools : Policy Alternatives for Bilingual-Bicultural Education
Polarizing 1970s policy text describing structural aspects of bilingual/bicultural school programs. From ERIC: "This book presents a discussion paper of policy alternatives for bilingual-bicultural education. It also includes two critiques of the paper. Since the enactment of the Bilingual Education Act, the U.S. Office of Education has sponsored programs to help low achieving students with little or no command of English by teaching reading, math, and other subjects in the native language. Although not a failure, this approach does not demonstrate that it makes a difference in terms of student achievement, or acquisition of English...." -
Languages in Conflict : Canada, 1976
An explanation of 1970s Canadian census figures specifically regarding language, birth rates, and geography. From the author: "Canada is an ideal country in which to study the progress of language transfer and other factors affecting minority survival, because the decennial census includes three questions on language and one on ethnic origin. From census data, it will be shown that two-thirds of Canada's population live in English dominated regions, within which minorities of all other languages are dwindling through assimilation, but that there is also a French Canada, within which it is the use of the English language that is declining. The two languages co-exist only within a narrow bilingual belt." -
Langue et identité dans le Québec du XIXe siiècle : une écriture triangulaire
Une analyse de 44 lettres échangées en 1880 par des membres d'une famille à travers la frontiière entre les États-Unis et Canada - de la ville de Montréal aux mines de Leadville, Colorado. Quelques explications sur les notions de la famille, la religion, la langue, et le travail, telles qu'elles apparaissent dans les lettres étudiées. Une briève analyse de la grammaire et l'usage comme on le voit dans le contexte de chaque lettre. -
Last two nuns retiring from St. Michael : Sister Rachel and Sister Joan each dedicated 50-plus years to education
Article on the retirement of two Sisters of the Presentation of Mary from their school in Augusta, Maine. Describes the early lives and teaching journeys throughout New England of Sister Rachel Boucher and Sister Joan Desmarais, and gathers some of their thoughts on community and education in the 21st century. -
Latin Americans of the North
Essay exploring the author's personal genealogical quest in Québec. A characterization of the author's French Canadian migrant father in New England and Canada, using many themes and sentiments from Mexican author Juan Rulfo's famous novel, Pedro Páramo. How cultural inheritances straddle national borders and transform upon their crossing; the questions that lead Blaise on a search for his passed father. Written by former Director of the International Writing Program of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. -
Le Citoyen
ècrits théologiques et philosophiques sur "l'homme" et "le citoyen" en soi, et ses relations à la société, la patrie et son Dieu, dans la perspective d'un prêtre aux ètats-Unis au début du XXe siiècle. Des réflexions sur le citoyen chrétien et francophone du Canada ainsi que des Etats-Unis - le canadien-français et le franco-américain dans son contexte historique. Contient les chapitres suivants: L'homme La société La patrie (La terre; la race; le culte des anciètres; la Constitution) Le citoyen chrétien (La subordination; le dévouement) Conclusion Table des matiières -
Le Club Calumet deems Adams outstanding citizen
Article on the recipient of the annual Outstanding Citizen Award proffered by Le Club Calumet of Augusta, Maine. 2010's recipient, Jay Adams, played a large role in including the cultural reality of Franco Americans in the historical tourism of Maine's capital city. -
Le Club Calumet files complaint
Le Club Calumet seeks approval from the court for its decision to exclude women from membership in its organization: one that the Maine Human Rights Commission deemed "public," and thus discriminatory in its sexed bylaws. -
Le Club Calumet suspends brothers for backing Ellis
Nancy Albert Ellis' father and uncle, Demetrius and Henry Albert, were suspended by Le Club Calumet after refusing to appear before their executive board to discuss their public support of Ellis' controversial bid for membership in the all-male, Augusta, Maine, club. -
Le Club Calumet will appeal order for female membership
Le Club Calumet of Augusta, Maine, decided to appeal a decision of the Kennebec County Superior Court that deemed the Club a public organization, and thus prevented by law from excluding women from its historically all-male membership. -
Le Crédit Foncier Canadien à Québec
Un article sur les développements d'infrastructure réalisés au Québec gra?ce à des investissements d'une banque franco-américaine. Construction d'un camp de bois dans la colonie d'Estcourt, et le début d'une voie ferrée entre le continent et l'île d'Orléans. Contient courtes transcriptions des correspondances entre des acteurs sur les projets et des fonctionnaires au Québec. -
Le Festival de la Bastille
A supplement to the daily newspaper that includes a history of the Augusta, Maine, celebration, statements of prominent club members, advertisements, as well as a 1987 schedule of events, the parade route, and pieces on popular performers to appear. -
Le Festival de la Bastille, 1986 - July 11th,12th,13th
A supplement to the daily newspaper that includes a history of the Central Maine celebration, statements of prominent club members, advertisements, a song, as well as a 1986 schedule of events, the parade route, and pieces on popular performers to appear. -
Le Foyer Fortieth Anniversary Souvenir Book : 1936-1976
Historical anniversary portrait of Pawtucket and Central Falls, Rhode Island, Franco American fraternal organization, Le Foyer. Includes English transcripts of three significant speeches held at organization events; a section of facts about the group; and brief biographies of all past presidents. Presented in the following sections: Introduction 1939 Reception for French Consul -Speech by R. deBlois LaBrosse 1957 Past Presidents' Night -Speech by Louis H. Paquin 1976 Fortieth Anniversary Mass and Banquet -Speech by Henri Leblond Did You Know? Past Presidents' Biographies -
Le français dans le Connecticut
De brièves descriptions de la situation de la langue française dans les écoles et les communautés - et de l'américanisation des canadiens-français - du Connecticut et de la Nouvelle-Angleterre du XIXe siecle à 1919.Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Clubs and Societies, Community: Customs and Social Life, Connecticut, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Government and Politics, Language and Linguistics, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Education, Nonfiction -- French in North America, Nonfiction -- History -- Local, Nonfiction -- Language and Linguistics, Religion -
Le français dans le New-Hampshire
De brièves descriptions de la situation de la langue française dans les écoles et les communautés - et de l'américanisation des canadiens-français - du New Hampshire et de la Nouvelle-Angleterre du XIXe siecle à 1919.Tags Acadians, Acculturation and Assimilation, Boston MA, Clubs and Societies, Connecticut, Education, Government and Politics, Language and Linguistics, Manchester NH, Montréal QC, Nashua NH, New Hampshire, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Education, Nonfiction -- French in North America, Nonfiction -- History -- Local, Nonfiction -- Language and Linguistics, Religion, Woonsocket RI -
Le français en contact avec l'anglais : analyse des anglicismes dans le français parlé à Cohoes, New York
Un étude sur la présence de mots anglais dans le parole français d'un communauté franco-américain dans l'état de New York. Des données et chiffres qui correspondent aux tendances linguistiques dans ce communauté. L'influence de la langue anglaise sur un peuple américain qui a le français pour langue maternelle. -
Le français en Nouvelle-Angleterre
Bref essai sur la langue et la démographie franco-américaine dans la Nouvelle-Angleterre dans les années 1970. Comparaisons spécifiques entre les traits de la langue française et ses usages en Nouvelle-Angleterre et au Canada, avec de brièves contextes historiques pour leur développement général. Présenté dans un recueil d'écrits sur les francophones hors de France, et avec un sentiment envers la préservation culturelle et linguistique. Suivie par une briève bibliographie.Composé des sections suivantes: Introduction Configurations spatiales du peuplement de la Nouvelle-Angleterre par les Franco-Américains Les étapes de l'histoire franco-américaine Chiffres relatifs a la population franco-américaine contemporaine Traits communs au français canadien et au français de Nouvelle-Angleterre Traits distinctifs du français de Nouvelle-Angleterre Les perspectivesTags Adams MA, Auburn ME, Berlin NH, Biddeford ME, Boston MA, Cambridge MA, Central Falls RI, Chicopee MA, Connecticut, Demography, Dudley MA, Fall River MA, Fitchburg MA, Haverhill MA, Holyoke MA, Killingly CT, Language and Linguistics, Lawrence MA, Lewiston ME, Lowell MA, Maine, Manchester NH, Marlboro MA, Massachusetts, Nashua NH, New Bedford MA, New England, New Hampshire, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Language and Linguistics, North Adams MA, Old Town ME, Pawtucket RI, Providence RI, Québec, Rhode Island, Saco ME, Salem MA, Southbridge MA, Spencer MA, Springfield MA, Taunton MA, Vermont, Ware MA, Warwick RI, Waterbury CT, Waterville ME, Webster MA, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
Le français se meurt au Vermont
Sur la présence franco-américaine au Vermont - son histoire, ses changements linguistiques, et la grande possibilité de sa disparition. Commentaires sur la discrimination raciale et linguistique, aussi que l'éducation et la télévision, comme prenant part au processus de l'assimilation des communautés franco-américaine dans cet état.
Le titre complet est ainsi libellé: "Apriès des années de relations tourmentées avec la culture québécoise, la communauté franco-américaine fait face à l'extinction." -
Le rôle des universités américaines dans la diffusion de la culture francophone en Amérique du Nord
Des pensées sur les défis culturelles, politiques, et scolaires auxquels sont confrontés les études québécoises et les études franco-américaines dans les universités américaines. L'état actuel des cultures francophones comme des sujets universitaires aux Etats-Unis, et certains réflexions pour l'avenir de ce sujet et de la culture qu'il tente de communiquer.Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Albany NY, Burlington VT, Canada, Community: Customs and Social Life, Education, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fiction and Literature, Government and Politics, Language and Linguistics, Massachusetts, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Education, Orono ME, Québec, United States, Worcester MA -
Leaders boost Franco forum
Letter to the editor on the upcoming designation of Maine as "the location for the United States bureau of the Francophone Business Forum." This development comes after separate endeavors in the Bangor and Lewiston, Maine, encouraging that attention be paid to Franco heritage and the French language as viable economic resources. -
LePage elected next governor of Maine
Article on Waterville, Maine native, Paul LePage, a Republican, being elected governor by a slim margin over Independent candidate Eliot Cutler. This article was printed on the Thursday - not Wednesday - following the election of Tuesday, November 2, because the final results of the vote count were not sufficient to make a judgment of victory before the Wednesday newspapers were printed. -
LePage rides rural Maine to Blaine House
Analysis of Maine voting patterns from the 2010 gubernatorial election. This author contends that the Maine vote - largely divided between Paul LePage, the victor, and Eliot Cutler - was not a "north-south split," but a more complex divide better measured by urbanity and economics. The author focuses primarily on Maine county voting fields. -
LePage the first Franco
Letter to the editor on the subject of Paul LePage, Maine's 2010 governor-elect, being the state's first Franco-American governor. Some minor disputes have risen over this point, with historians looking back to the nineteenth century to find one Alonzo Garcelon, a resident of Lewiston and of part French (France) heritage, serving as legislature-elected governor for about 1 year's time. The letter here, and the dispute more largely, seeks to segregate Garcelon's ethnicity from Paul LePage's - the latter containing the historicity of the bulk of Maine's French-Canadian descendents - though both are definably Franco-American. -
LePage's Franco-American heritage depicted in mural
Letter to the editor criticizing Maine governor Paul LePage for his order to remove a mural depicting Maine's labor history from the walls of the Maine Department of Labor. A reference to how Maine's and LePage's Franco American history is largely intertwined with the history of Maine labor. An attack on LePage with reference to distinctions of economic class. -
LePage's win in Lewiston due to several factors, political watchers say
Retrospective analysis of political factors and trends evident in Lewiston, Maine's plurality support for Paul LePage in the 2010 gubernatorial election. -
Les "Chinois" de l'est, ou, la vie quotidienne des Québécois émigrés aux États-Unis de 1840 aè nos jours
Lafleur prends la phrase "les Chinois de l'Est" d'une description pejorative de la franco-américanie et l'utilise aè illustrer la vie et l'histoire franco-américaine. Le texte concerne la Nouvelle-Angleterre en totale, mais sa centre primaire est la ville de Watertown, Connecticut. De son intro et sa conclusion: "Enfin, ce travail est loin d'etre exhaustif et n'a pas la prétention d'un étude scientifique et objective. Il se veut simplement la voix de ceux et celles qu'on a parfois considérés comme des 'traitres aè la patrie.'...Le retour aux sources et la passion de se connaitre font qu plusieurs Franco-Américains se tournent aujourd'hui vers le Québec, berceau du sang francais en Amérique du Nord. Pourquoi leur faire la sourde oreille?"Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Burlington VT, Central Falls RI, Community: Customs and Social Life, Emigration and Immigration, Journalism, Labor History, Laconia NH, Louisiana, Manchester NH, Mills and Mill Work, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- General, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Pittsfield MA, Québec, Religion, Springfield MA, St. Albans VT, Swanton VT, United States, Ware MA, Waterbury CT, Watertown CT, Winooski VT, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
Les "Petits Canadas" de la Nouvelle-Angleterre
De l'auteur: "La communauté franco-américaine de Nouvelle-Angleterre, ou «communauté franco», est relativement méconnue en France. L'action qu'elle conduit pour faire reconnaître son identité au sein de la région qui l'accueille offre pourtant un témoignage remarquable de ses capacités de survivance - son « réveil » actuel atteste en outre de la maturité et de l'ouverture de la société américaine d'aujourd'hui qui, apriès avoir perçu comme une menace la présence franco, l'accepte maintenant avec fierté et reconnaissance. Au XXIe siiècle, il y a un avenir pour le fait français en Nouvelle- Angleterre, il y a une place, nous disent aussi les Américains, pour la diversité culturelle au service de la cohésion nationale."Tags Acadians, Acculturation and Assimilation, Biddeford ME, Boston MA, Brunswick ME, Calais ME, Castine ME, Community: Customs and Social Life, Connecticut River Valley, Demography, Education, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fort Kent ME, Labor History, Language and Linguistics, Lewiston ME, Lowell MA, Manchester NH, Merrimack River Valley, Mills and Mill Work, Montpelier VT, Montréal QC, Mt. Desert Island ME, New Bedford MA, New Brunswick, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- French in North America, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Religion, Saco River Valley, Southbridge MA, St. John River Valley, Violence, Woonsocket RI -
Les 50 ans d'On the Road - Kerouac voulait écrire en français
Du Devoir: "Alors qu'on célièbre le 50e anniversaire de la parution d''On the Road,' la découverte de manuscrits inédits à New York par Le Devoir montre que l'écrivain souhaitait écrire en français et qu'il avait même commencé son roman le plus connu dans sa langue maternelle!" -
Les Acadiens du Madawaska
Article describing the town of Madawaska, Maine, in the St. John River Valley, through the perspectives of three generations of the Hébert family. Introduction to Acadian history in the St. John Valley, the twentieth-century industrialization of Madawaska, the role of language and tradition in local communities. The relationship of each interviewee - Jeanne, son Réal, grandson Duane - to the French language, and their personal thoughts on Madawaska's changing cultural and linguistic shapes. -
Les anglicismes au Québec : Répertoire classifié
Une discussion sur les anglicismes dans le français de Québec - la grammaire, la syntax, la locution, et la vocabulaire. Pris d'un revue du texte: "La premiière édition du répertoire de Gilles Colpron, 'Les anglicismes au Québec,' est à la fois descriptive et normative. Elle est descriptive parce que l'auteur y recense les anglicismes en usage au Québec et en fait la description. Elle est également normative, car d'entrée de jeu, Gilles Colpron constate qu'il y a du travail à faire dans la lutte contre les anglicismes : « Voilà un dossier assez décourageant », affirme-t-il, apriès avoir présenté l'inventaire des anglicismes de son répertoire." -
Les archives des Franco-Américains et des Acadiens de la Nouvelle-Angleterre
Une briève étude sur les archives au Québec, au Nouveau-Brunswick, et dans la Nouvelle-Angleterre qui abritent des matériaux significatives à l'histoire des Franco-Américains et Acadiens dans le nord-est des États-Unis. Descriptions des sociétés, bibliothièques municipales, universités et collièges, services d'archives gouvernementaux, sociétés généalogiques, et des autres référentiels et leurs collections franco-américaines spécifiques. Une liste des principaux organismes et institutions d'archives - et leurs infos, site-ouièbes - au Canada et aux États-Unis qui conservent des matériaux franco-américains.Tags Auburn ME, Biddeford ME, Bridgeport CT, Burlington VT, Central Falls RI, Clubs and Societies, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, Fall River MA, Fitchburg MA, Hartford CT, Holyoke MA, Journalism, Lawrence MA, Lewiston ME, Lowell MA, Manchester NH, Massachusetts, Nashua NH, New Bedford MA, New Brunswick, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- French in North America, Nonfiction -- Historiography, North Brookfield MA, Norwich CT, Pawtucket RI, Providence RI, Québec, Religion, Saco ME, Vermont, Ware MA, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
Les attitudes des Franco-Américains de la Nouvelle-Angleterre envers la langue française
Essai sur changements dans les rélations entre les Franco-Américains et la langue francaise, des débuts des enclaves francos et la survivance en Nouvelle-Angleterre jusqu'aux années 1980. Divisé en partie par les sujets qui suivent: écarts générationnels entre 1900, 1950, et le présent; 3 raisons pour préserver la langue française; 3 causes du déclin du français en Nouvelle-Angleterre; l'état ¹¹de la langue française quotidienne pour les Francos aujourd'hui. Suivie par quelques questions de discussion pour considerer les revendications du texte. Also published in the April 1984 issue of FRENCH REVIEW, volume 57, number 5. -
Les Canadiens français des États-Unis (1860-1900) : dévoyés ou missionaires
Un essai qui explore les changements dans les attitudes publiques au Québec - ceux des fonctionnaires, le clergé, et d'autres - vers les émigrants québécois aux Etats-Unis au 19e siiècle. Comment et de quelle façon diès les critiques négatives de Québec de ceux qui ont quitté pour les États-Unis sont devenus remplacé, apriès les efforts de rapatriement a échoué, par des nouvelles réflexions sur l'émigration comme une mission politique et religieux. La periode qui l'auteur appelle «l'ière du mépris» entre 1860 et 1880, comparativement à ce qui a suivi, «une mission providentielle,» évoluant jusqu'à 1900. Parmi les représentants du Québec, de la rhétorique de «rapatriement» de ses émigrants, à l'un de «reconquête» d'un territoire nord-américain par ses gens mobiles.Tags Biddeford ME, Boston MA, Community: Customs and Social Life, Connecticut, Emigration and Immigration, Fall River MA, Fitchburg MA, Haverhill MA, Irish Americans, Journalism, Labor History, Lawrence MA, Lowell MA, Maine, Massachusetts, New England, New Hampshire, New York, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Immigration, Québec, Religion, Rhode Island, Springfield MA, Taftville CT, Van Buren ME, Vermont, Worcester MA -
Les Canadiens français et leurs voisins du sud
Un livre d'essaies sur les relations politiques et culturelles entre Canada et les ètats-Unis, ou Québec et les ètats-Unis, et une exposition sur l'immigration canadienne francaise aux "états." Du texte: "...il presente pour la premiière fois une analyse soutenne et methodique du role joué par les Français du Canada dans cette grande action collective." Les textes suivants: L'Acadie et la Nouvelle-Angleterre, 1603-1763 - Gustave Lanctoêt Relations anglo-francçaises dans la vallée du Saint-Laurent - Raymond Parent Le Québec et les colonies américaines, 1760-1820 - Gustave Lanctoêt Le roêle des Canadiens francçais dan la traite des fourrures, les explorations et les missions, 1763-1846 - Benoiêt Brouillette Influences américaines sur la politique du Bas-Canada, 1820-1867 - Jean Bruchesi Léxpansion religieuse des Canadiens francçais aux états-Unis - Georges Robitaille Le Québec et les états-Unis, 1867-1937 - Gustave Lanctoêt -
Les Canadiens-français de la Nouvelle-Angleterre
Du texte: "Dans ces pages, l'auteur a cherche: 1er: A? donner une idée exacte de la situation materielle et religieuse des Canadiens établis dans les États-Unis de l'Est. 2me: A? faire connaitre les efforts heureux de ces catholiques, pour conserver leur réligion et leur langue. 3me: Enfin à examiner les chances d'avenir et les resultats probables d'une migration si extraordinaire." Une deuxiième partie du texte est "l'histoire des Paroisses Canadiennes de la Nouvelle-Angleterre, 1851-1890" et un indice d'officiels de la Nouvelle-Angleterre. -
Les Dominicains à Fall River
Un portrait des pières Dominicains qui restent aux paroisses Catholiques à Fall River, Massachusetts. Écrit par des Dominicains canadien-français, et publié dans un série de textes écrit en reconnaissance de membres du clergé canadiens. -
Les droits linguistiques des Franco-Américains aux états-Unis
Une histoire légale moderne sur la langue française à la Louisiane, la Nouvelle Angleterre, le Midwest É.U., et des autres états qui contiennent les grandes populations francophones. -
Les Franco-Américains - Le retour aux sources
Un aperçu général d'une histoire des Canadiens français aux États-Unis - les Franco-Américains - et les changements qui ont eu lieu dans leurs communautés au fil du temps. De leurs débuts migratoires, à la fin de leurs enclaves ethniques, à leur renouvellement moderne dans la recherche généalogique et d'histoire personelle.
Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Bourbonnais IL, Burlington VT, Central Falls RI, Community: Customs and Social Life, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Farming and Agriculture, Illinois, Labor History, Lewiston ME, Louisiana, Lowell MA, Maine, Manchester NH, Marlboro MA, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Bedford MA, New England, New Hampshire, Old Orchard Beach ME, Québec, Rhode Island, Rochester NY, St. Albans VT, United States, US Midwest, Vermont, Wisconsin, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
Les Franco-Américains : 1860-1980
Un bref historique complet sur les Franco-Américains de la Nouvelle-Angleterre jusqu'à 1980. Une étude socielle, culturelle, démographique, et historiographique, basée "sur les travaux historiques existant" états-uniniens sur ce peuple et ses communautés dans le nord-est. Le mouvement, les paroisses et voisinages, les vies et le travail d'un peuple émigrant canadien-français et ses descendants. Des pensées sur le concept de "la survivance." Écrit par un scolaire français. Des illustrations en noir et blanc (photographie; dessins).Tags Albany NY, Auburn ME, Barre VT, Biddeford ME, Boston MA, Burlington VT, Cabotville MA, Central Falls RI, Chicopee Falls MA, Chicopee MA, Clubs and Societies, Cohoes NY, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Greek Americans, Hartford CT, Holyoke MA, Irish Americans, Lawrence MA, Lewiston ME, Lowell MA, Manchester NH, Marlboro MA, Merrimack River Valley, Mills and Mill Work, Nashua NH, New Bedford MA, New England, Nonfiction -- French in North America, Nonfiction -- History, Nonfiction -- History -- French in North America, North Adams MA, Northampton MA, Old Town ME, Pawtucket RI, Portland ME, Providence RI, Québec, Rochester NY, Rutland VT, Salmon Falls NH, Southbridge MA, Spencer MA, Springfield MA, St. Albans VT, Troy NY, Waltham MA, Ware MA, White River Junction VT, Winooski VT, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
Les Franco-Américains : 1860-1980
Un bref historique complet sur les Franco-Américains de la Nouvelle-Angleterre jusqu'à 1980. Une étude socielle, culturelle, démographique, et historiographique, basée "sur les travaux historiques existant" états-uniniens sur ce peuple et ses communautés dans le nord-est. Le mouvement, les paroisses et voisinages, les vies et le travail d'un peuple émigrant canadien-français et ses descendants. Des pensées sur le concept de "la survivance." Écrit par un scolaire français. Des illustrations en noir et blanc (photographie; dessins).Tags Biddeford ME, Boston MA, California, Champlain NY, Chicopee MA, Cohoes NY, Community: Customs and Social Life, Criticism and Review, Demography, Education, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Forestry, Geography, Glens Falls NY, Government and Politics, Hartford CT, Holyoke MA, Labor History, Lawrence MA, Lewiston ME, Lowell MA, Manchester NH, Michigan, Montréal QC, Nashua NH, New Bedford MA, New England, New Haven CT, New York, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- General, Northampton MA, Ogdensburg NY, Portland ME, Providence RI, Québec, Religion, Salem MA, Southbridge MA, Springfield MA, Syracuse NY, Toronto ON, Watertown NY, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
Les Franco-Américains : 1860-1980
Un bref historique complet sur les Franco-Américains de la Nouvelle-Angleterre jusqu'à 1980. Une étude socielle, culturelle, démographique, et historiographique, basée "sur les travaux historiques existant" états-uniniens sur ce peuple et ses communautés dans le nord-est. Le mouvement, les paroisses et voisinages, les vies et le travail d'un peuple émigrant canadien-français et ses descendants. Des pensées sur le concept de "la survivance." Écrit par un scolaire français. Des illustrations en noir et blanc (photographie; dessins).Tags Albany NY, Auburn ME, Barre VT, Biddeford ME, Boston MA, Burlington VT, Cabotville MA, Central Falls RI, Chicopee Falls MA, Chicopee MA, Clubs and Societies, Cohoes NY, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Greek Americans, Hartford CT, Holyoke MA, Irish Americans, Lawrence MA, Lewiston ME, Lowell MA, Manchester NH, Marlboro MA, Merrimack River Valley, Mills and Mill Work, Nashua NH, New Bedford MA, New England, North Adams MA, Northampton MA, Old Town ME, Pawtucket RI, Portland ME, Providence RI, Québec, Rochester NY, Rutland VT, Salmon Falls NH, Southbridge MA, Spencer MA, Springfield MA, St. Albans VT, Troy NY, Waltham MA, Ware MA, White River Junction VT, Winooski VT, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
Les Franco-Américains dans la guerre : patriotisme et survivance
Article journal sur la participation militaire des canadiens-français aux conflits américains: les guerres d'Indépendence et de Sécession, les Guerres mondiales, etc. Quelques descriptions des hommes canadien-français et franco-américains bien-connus pour leur service militaire ou leurs expressions d'une patriotisme américain dans le 20e siiècle. Explorations de la phénomiène de la guerre comme entrée franco-américaine dans la discussion de l'identité culturelle et nationale; des attitudes franco-américains envers le Canada, le Québec, et le France; des négotiations de "l'élite franco-américain" pour un héritage français aux États-Unis par des périodes d'un patriotisme intensifié américain. La guerre américaine en tant que site de la dualité culturelle franco-américain.Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Boston MA, Canada, Clubs and Societies, Cooperville NY, Fall River MA, Lake Champlain VT, Lowell MA, Malone NY, Manchester NH, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Nonfiction -- History -- General, Nonfiction -- Immigration, Oswego NY, Québec, Rouse's Point VT, War, Whitehall NY, Woonsocket RI