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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." -
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." -
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Speeding Across the Rhizome : Deleuze Meets Kerouac On the Road
A reading of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" alongside the literary criticism of Gilles Deleuze and his counterparts. Emphasis on Deleuze and Félix Guattari's notion of the "rhizome" in comparison to the spontaneous routes of cross-country travel taken by characters in Kerouac's novel, and the innovative styles and shapes of his prose. Conversation with Deleuze's own reading of and writings on "On the Road" through the critic's descriptions of what is meant by the term "minor literature" : writing which is characteristically "deterritorializ[ed]" and exhibits a collective, political nature. -
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 Diversity within Catholicism : A Comparative Analysis of Contemporary and Historical Religion
Brief sociological and historical analysis of the convergences and divergences of religion and ethnicity. Sections devoted to Italian, Irish, French Canadian, Mexican, Puerto Rican, Polish, and German Catholic societies. -
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. -
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. -
Ethnic and Social Class Differences in Role Strain and Mechanisms of Adjustment
Dissertation comparing the ways in which working- and lower-class Franco American and Italian American women deal with social and psychological stresses. Comparisons of the interpersonal behaviors of "housewives" within each social group, measured in data collected through survey and personal interview. The effects on individuals of changes in social environment. Brief historical background of the two Rhode Island cities from which data was collected, as well as of the two immigrant, ethnic communities in question. Pays close attention to how differing social status, economic class distinction, educational achievement, family size, religious affiliation, etc., factor into personal behaviors. Contains a brief overview of literature on the sociology of mental health and the influences of class and culture on one's orientation toward communicating stress or mental illness. From the author: "This study is concerned with the mental health of selected subgroups, namely ethnic and social class....This study is specifically interested in the amount and kinds of role strain reportedly felt by the members of these two subgroups..." (3).Tags Community: Customs and Social Life, Education, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Gender and Sexuality, Health and Wellness, Italian Americans, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Psychology, Nonfiction -- Social Sciences, Nonfiction -- Sociology, Providence RI, Religion, Rhode Island, Woonsocket RI -
The New England League: A Baseball History, 1885-1949 (review)
Review of Charlie Bevis' 2008 history of the New England League - a minor baseball league that entertained the US Northeast for decades around the turn of the century. -
St. John Valley Bilingual Education Program Records
This collection contains records from attempts to create bilingual education programs (now called immersion programs) in a handful of schools in the St. John Valley, including examples of bilingual schools in Canada and other states following the Bilingual Education Act of 1968. The majority of this collection consists of manuscript documents and booklets. The books in question are paperbound and held together by staples rather than the traditional bound books that many people may think of. Many of the manuscripts are held together by accordion-style covers that have a metal clip holding the pages together. -
As Luck Would Have It
The autobiography of a northern Maine native. Begins with his early life in Aroostook County and continues through his many years of service in the United States Army, bringing him and his family throughout the world - Ethiopia, Iran, and elsewhere - for most of his adult life. -
Madawaska Centennial, 1869-1969
Softcover community publication written in celebration of the town of Madawaska, Maine's centennial year - 1969. Contains historical vignettes, local pictures, advertisements, poetry, stories, customs, definitions of local words, and more, from the town's 1869 incorporation. An acknowledgement of the town's French Acadian heritage. -
The Trade Union Woman
Essay addressing the ways in which the Women's Movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s failed to address working class women. An appeal to combat stereotypes of working women. Emphasis on clerical workers. 1970s labor organizing and unionization efforts of women workers, particularly in the publishing industries of Boston, Chicago, and New York. Written by a labor organizer of Distributive Workers of America. Paper from the proceedings of "The Challenge of the Women's Movement: American Diversity" - a 1976 conference held in New York City by the American Jewish Committee's Institute on Pluralism and Group Identity. -
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 -
Chansons de Chez-Nous
Music and lyrics for 31 French-language songs of French, French-Canadian, and Acadian origins. Designed for the language-learning classroom. Text is divided into three sections for appropriate audiences: children 5-7 years old; 8-9 years old; 10 and older. Accompanied by two cassette tapes with recordings of each song. La musique et les paroles de 31 chansons d'origine française, canadienne-française, et acadienne. Conçu pour la classe d'apprentissage de la langue française. Le texte est divisé en trois sections: pour les enfants 5-7 ans; 8-9 ans; 10 ans et plus. Accompagné de deux cassettes contenant des enregistrements de chaque chanson. Les chansons suivantes: DE CINQ A SEPT ANS: C'est la poulette grise Mon beau sapin Ah! Vous dirai-je, Maman La cabane à sucre Berceuse slave Les cloches du hameau Evangéline DE HUIT A NEUF ANS: Bonhomme, Bonhomme! Meunier tu dors Au fond des campagnes Le carillonneur V'la l'bon vent Mon merle Sur la route de Berthier Trois jeunes tambours Le Corbeau et le Renard La Cigale et la Fourmi DE DIX A ONZE ANS: Vive le vent Un Canadien errant Michaud est tombe Berceuse Vive la Canadienne Sainte nuit Quand j'étais chez mon pere A la volette Fringue, fringue, sur la riviere Partons, la mer est belle Le moulin A Saint-Malo, beau port de mer Derriere chez-nous Mon pere, j'voudrais m'marier -
The History of Madawaska : Based on the Historical Research of Patrick Therriault and the Manuscript Notes of Prudent L. Mercure (Histoire du Madawaska d'apreès les recherches historiques de Patrick Theriault et les notes manuscrites de Prudent L. Mercure)
Translation of 1920 history text on Madawaska, Maine, and its neighboring towns. Republished through the efforts of the Madawaska Historical Society. From the preface: "We believe that Father Thomas Albert's book, 'L'Histoire du Madawaska,' is far more than a history book. It is indeed a piece of history itself. Its pages contain the spirit and pride that are the seeds of Madawaskan heritage, which, for two hundred years, have been nurtured by an undying Acadian tradition still highly visible in the St. John Valley today." From the translated text: "It is but a first sketch, the first stuttering effort in our language at least, to relate the history of our historic Valley."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 -- History -- Local, Religion, Riviere Verte ME, Wallagrass ME -
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 -
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 : 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 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 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 -
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. -
Migration Fields of French Canadian Immigrants to Southern Maine
Article on the migrations of French Canadians in Central and Southern Maine to their precise places of departure in Québec. Includes maps that illustrate migration fields and indicate concentrations of Maine Franco Americans. From the author: "Birthplaces of French Canadian immigrants to six Maine cities during the period 1890-1925 were mapped from information in biographical summaries and naturalization documents....This study suggests that migration fields tend to persist through time, sometimes despite transportation changes, that the areal extent of fields is related to the size and rapidity of immigration rather than to the age of fields, and that fields are probably best identified by county rather than by community units."Tags Auburn ME, Augusta ME, Biddeford ME, Brunswick ME, Chaudiere River Valley, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, Geography, Kennebec River Valley, La Beauce QC, Labor History, Lewiston ME, Madawaska ME, Maine, Meriden CT, Mills and Mill Work, Montréal QC, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Geography, Penobscot River Valley, Portland ME, Québec, Saco ME, Sanford ME, Skowhegan ME, St. John River Valley, St. Lawrence River Valley, Waterville ME, Westbrook ME, Woonsocket RI -
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 -
Catholics in Maine : A Social Geography
Dissertation on areal patterns and geographic trends espoused by Roman Catholics in the state of Maine, with a focus on population distribution and respective voting patterns.Tags Acadians, Augusta ME, Biddeford ME, Brunswick ME, Caribou ME, Demography, Dexter ME, Emigration and Immigration, Geography, Kennebec River Valley, La Beauce QC, Labor History, Language and Linguistics, Lewiston ME, Millinocket ME, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Demography, Nonfiction -- Geography, Nonfiction -- History -- Religion, Old Town ME, Orono ME, Québec, Religion, Rumford ME, Sanford ME, Skowhegan ME, St. John River Valley, Waterville ME, Westbrook ME, Winn ME -
Working Late : As surely as the sun rises and sets, John Martin runs the House
Cover article subtitled, "Speaker of the House : To understand John Martin, it helps to know about the Canadian connection." Profile of Maine State Representative, John Martin (D - Eagle Lake), the multifaceted role he has played as an advocate for his district in the St. John River Valley, and his political power as a long time elected official at the state level. A brief look at his constituency and the northern part of the state from which he hails.Tags Acadians, Ashland ME, Auburn ME, Biddeford ME, Business and Economics, Eagle Lake ME, Emigration and Immigration, Forestry, Fort Kent ME, Government and Politics, Lewiston ME, Madawaska ME, Maine, New Brunswick, Portage Lake ME, Presque Isle ME, Religion, Saco ME, St. John River Valley, Van Buren ME -
Working Late : As surely as the sun rises and sets, John Martin runs the House
Cover article subtitled, "Speaker of the House : To understand John Martin, it helps to know about the Canadian connection." Profile of Maine State Representative, John Martin (D - Eagle Lake), the multifaceted role he has played as an advocate for his district in the St. John River Valley, and his political power as a long time elected official at the state level. A brief look at his constituency and the northern part of the state from which he hails.Tags Acadians, Ashland ME, Auburn ME, Biddeford ME, Business and Economics, Eagle Lake ME, Emigration and Immigration, Forestry, Fort Kent ME, Government and Politics, Lewiston ME, Madawaska ME, Maine, New Brunswick, Portage Lake ME, Presque Isle ME, Religion, Saco ME, St. John River Valley, Van Buren ME -
No Praise, No Blame, Just So
Radio documentary piece on the violent invasion of the Waterville, Maine, convent of the Servants of the Blessed Sacrament in 1996. The death of two nuns, the recollections of surviving sisters, and how their community has chosen to live and express its forgiveness for the man at fault. This recording is a student project of the SALT Institute in Portland, Maine. Aired by National Public Radio on November 17, 2008, and now available at npr.org. -
Your Heritage; or, New England Threatened
Book length essay on assimilating French Canadian immigrants to Protestant New England, and an argument for their religious conversion. An expansion of Amaron's earlier pamphlet, "The evangelization of the French Canadians of New England." -
The Evangelization of the French Canadians of New England
Pamphlet published by Massachusetts Protestant evangelist, Calvin Elijah Amaron, toward the assimilation of French Canadian immigrants through conversion from Catholicism. Later developed and published in book form: "Your Heritage; or, New England Threatened." -
Je me souviens la cuisine de la grandmère : Treasured Recipes
Cookbook of traditional Franco-American recipes handed down through multiple generations of family cooks. A collective production of members and contributors to the American-French Genealogical Society of Woonsocket, Rhode Island. <br /> -
Dictionnaire national des Canadiens français, 1608-1760
Un livre qui contient des infos sur mariages et naissances canadiens français entre 1608 et 1760. Avec des surnoms. Un ressource important pour la généalogiste. Souvent dit "the red Drouin books." -
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 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!" -
L'identité de l'immigrant québécois en Nouvelle-Angleterre : le rapport Wright de 1882
Un portrait historique de la réponse publique au rapport infâme écrit par Carrol Wright et du Bureau of Labor Statistics du Massachusetts, 1881, dans le contexte de l'immigration canadienne-française classe ouvrière, 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 19ème siècle. 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 -
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. -
A Franco-American Bibliography: New England
1979 annotated bibliography of materials relevant to Franco American studies. Lists resources (books, etc.) with their corresponding physical locations in one or more New England libraries. -
Bibliographie commentée sur les Franco-Américains de la Nouvelle-Angleterre
Une bibliographie annoté qui est composée de 23 textes historiques, biographiques, et littéraires dans la tradition écrite franco-américaine. -
Aspects of Class Ideology in a New England Ethnic Minority : The Franco-Americans of Woonsocket, Rhode Island (1865-1929)
Dissertation on class development and distinction through North American industrialization, immigration, and urbanization in Rhode Island. The particularity of this history as shaped in the Franco American community's experience of Woonsocket, Rhode Island. Emphasis on Catholicism. Anctil's work is cited in American social historian Gary Gerstle's famous text, "Working-Class Americanism."Tags Business and Economics, Central Falls RI, Danielson CT, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Holyoke MA, Labor History, Merrimack River Valley, Mills and Mill Work, Moosup CT, Natick RI, New Bedford MA, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, North Brookfield MA, North Easton CT, Pawtucket RI, Pawtuxet River Valley, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Plainfield CT, Providence RI, Quinebaug River Valley, Religion, Social History, Springfield MA, St. Lawrence River Valley, West Warwick RI, Woonsocket RI -
"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. -
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 -
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. -
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 -
We Americans : A Study of Cleavage in an American City
Book-length 1937 demographic study of Burlington, Vermont - as a New England hub, as an American city in itself, and as a microcosm of American democracy. This book was a product of Vermont's 1930s Eugenics Survey that studied local demographics, and considered the use of concepts of race and class in their relationship to democratic society.The single largest immigrant group in Burlington at this time (1930s) was of French Canadian origin. From the text: "The promise of American democracy is resident in the life of local communities....We must learn more about the character of life in local American communities."Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Burlington VT, Community: Customs and Social Life, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Geography, Government and Politics, Labor History, Language and Linguistics, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Demography, Religion, Sports and Leisure, United States, Vermont, Winooski VT -
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 -
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. -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Worcester's Union Station : The Monument and the Memories
History of Worcester, Massachusett's Union Station. Its various shapes and transformations from its initial construction in 1875 and reconstruction in 1911, through its closure in 1964, to its 1999 restoration. The place of the station in French Canadian immigration, in the travels of World Wars I & II, and through the author's memoirs. How Union Station figures into the memories of other New Englanders, as presented in their own stories and writings. Statements from the staff of Preservation Worcester and the Worcester Redevelopment Authority. Illustrated heavily in black and white photograph, with one chapter devoted entirely to a pictorial history of Union Station.Tags Art and Architecture, Auburn MA, Bedford NH, Blackstone River Valley, Emigration and Immigration, Massachusetts, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Local, Nonfiction -- Immigration, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Photography, Rhode Island, Travel and Movement, United States, War, Worcester MA -
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 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. -
A French-Canadian Cookbook
Culturally specific cookbook from a Vermont writer. Franco American cuisine in French Canadian heritage. -
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. -
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. -
NH tourism division offers Franco-American tour
Brief article on a Manchester, New Hampshire, self-guided Franco-American Heritage Tour that introduces city visitors to certain aspects of the history and culture of that industrial New Hampshire city. -
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." -
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. -
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. -
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. -
NH tourism division offers Franco-American tour
Brief article on a Manchester, New Hampshire, self-guided Franco-American Heritage Tour that introduces city visitors to certain aspects of the history and culture of that industrial New Hampshire city. -
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." -
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. -
Two Hundred Years of Freedom
USA bicentennial commemorative edition (2.2) of the official quarterly publication of l'Association Canado-Americaine, a fraternal and cultural organization based in Manchester, New Hampshire. Includes an editorial, an essay, a longer historical piece, and two songs transcribed. Contains the following pieces: "Salut aux Etats-Unis d'Amerique" par le redacteur "We shall continue" by Theodore J. Cusson "Nous continuerons" par Rosaire A. Ouellet "One Piece in the Great American Mosaic" by Robert B. Perreault "O Canada" and "La Marseillaise" -
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 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. -
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. -
Canuck, nomade franco-américaine : persistence et transformation de l'imaginaire canadien-français
Une étude sur le roman feuilleton "Canuck," par Camille Lessard-Bissonnette, comme example de la continuité des thèmes littéraires - et d'une imagination - canadiens-français dans la littérature aux États-Unis. Des transformations subtiles de ces thèmes dans un nouveau milieu américain. Une discussion d'un nouveau "nomadisme" nord-américain dans le texte : un histoire d'une famille émigrante à Lowell, Massachusetts. -
Canuck, nomade franco-américaine : persistence et transformation de l'imaginaire canadien-français
Une étude sur le roman feuilleton "Canuck," par Camille Lessard-Bissonnette, comme example de la continuité des thèmes littéraires - et d'une imagination - canadiens-français dans la littérature aux États-Unis. Des transformations subtiles de ces thèmes dans un nouveau milieu américain. Une discussion d'un nouveau "nomadisme" nord-américain dans le texte : un histoire d'une famille émigrante à Lowell, Massachusetts. -
The French in Rhode Island : A History
A brief selection related to French exploration in North America, French Canadian immigration to the United States, and Franco American histories in Rhode Island. A small chapbook-sized resource that includes segments dedicated to culture and the arts as well as a section of brief biographies on notable Rhode Islanders. Part of the prologue reads, "It is with a growing sense of urgency, however, that we must note how the viable French communities of the past are in a period of profound change. Whether this group continues unchanged as an ethnocentric entity or simply becomes part of the nebulous mainstream of American society is a phenomenon which is of concern to those of us who are active in Franco-American endeavors."Tags Albion RI, Ashton RI, Blackstone River Valley, Business and Economics, Central Falls RI, Clubs and Societies, Community: Customs and Social Life, Emigration and Immigration, Esmond RI, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Exploration and Colonization, France, Georgiaville RI, Government and Politics, Labor History, Maine, Manville RI, Mills and Mill Work, Natick RI, New Hampshire, New York, Newport RI, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- French in North America, Nonfiction -- History -- Local, Pawtucket RI, Pawtuxet River Valley, Poetry, Providence RI, Québec, Religion, Rhode Island, Slatersville RI, Smithfield RI, Vermont, War, Warren RI, West Warwick RI, Woonasquatucket River Valley, Woonsocket RI -
Roger AuClair : First fishery biologist for Moosehead Lake Region
Profile of the former lead fishery biologist for the State of Maine, Roger AuClair, of Rockwood, Maine. His statewide impact on wildlife conservation, and his lifelong relationship with the Maine outdoors. -
Roger AuClair : First fishery biologist for Moosehead Lake Region
Profile of the former lead fishery biologist for the State of Maine, Roger AuClair, of Rockwood, Maine. His statewide impact on wildlife conservation, and his lifelong relationship with the Maine outdoors. -
The Old Town Canoe Company : Our First Hundred Years
A history of Old Town Canoe Company contextualized. From the place of Old Town at the time of European explorations on the North American continent, to the logging booms of the early nineteenth century, to the prevalence of the bateau, the mass production of canoes, and the growth of the company through the twentieth century. Old Town Canoe situated in a twentieth-century boating industry, and in a certain realm of American sport, as evidenced by a chronicling of the company's local developments in marketing and design over a century's time. An emphasis on the company's Penobscot influence and local prominence. Illustrated with photos and advertisements. Intermittently narrated with lengthy quotes from Old Town Canoe enthusiasts from across the United States. -
Maine Watch with Jennifer Rooks: Franco-Americans in Photos
Maine Public Broadcasting Network television show focusing on news, events, and people important to the state of Maine. Here, part two of a three-part episode. "Franco-Americans in Photos" is an interview with journalist Dyke Hendrickson, author of the book "Quiet Presence" (1980), on his more recent publication entitled "Franco-Americans of Maine," a cultural photo history.
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French in Maine
Essay concerning the American Association of Teachers of French (AATF) 1954 conference named, "French in Maine." Tries to address the specific role of French language teachers in Maine given the state's particular linguistic and ethnic characteristics.Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Biddeford ME, Brunswick ME, Education, Fort Kent ME, Frenchville ME, Grand Isle ME, Labor History, Language and Linguistics, Lewiston ME, Madawaska ME, Maine, New Brunswick, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Journalism, Nonfiction -- Language and Linguistics, Nova Scotia, St. John River Valley, Van Buren ME, Waterville ME -
"Accidents of terrain" : The native and foreign worlds of David Plante
From the author: "David Plante, an American writer born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1940, examines the inextricable connection between space and time, place and identity in his most important work, a series of semi-autobiographical novels and short stories about the Francoeur family. This study follows Daniel Francoeur, Plante's principal recurring character and fictional counterpart, on a journey of self-discovery in five novels that are representative of the three decades of Plante's career and illustrative of experiences located in both the native and foreign environments of his fictional world. In these five novels: The Family, The Woods, The Country, The Foreigner, and The Accident, Plante maps a terrain that extends in time and space from the insular French Canadian, Catholic parish in Providence where Daniel Francoeur grows up to the cities of Europe where he spends his late adolescence." -
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. -
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. -
Attitudes linguistiques et transfert à l'Anglais dans une communauté franco-américaine non homogiène : le cas de Bristol, Connecticut
De Bagate, Lemery, et Martin: "Dans cet article, nous essayons de décrire le processus de transfert linguistique à Bristol. Nous présentons d'abord un bref historique de cette communauté francophone ainsi que des données démographiques puisées dans plusieurs recensements du United States Census Bureau. Ensuite, nous analysons des commentaires provenant d'une trentaine d'entretiens réalisés aupriès des Franco-Américains de Bristol au cours de l'été 2002 et comparons l'origine, l'appartenance à la premiière, deuxiième ou troisiième génération d'immigrants, le type de mariage (exogame, endogame), l'usage et la transmission de la langue ainsi que les attitudes linguistiques des locuteurs interviewés."Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Bristol CT, Connecticut, Demography, East Hartford CT, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Hartford CT, Language and Linguistics, Lewiston ME, Lowell MA, Maine, Massachusetts, Meriden CT, New Britain CT, New Brunswick, New England, New Hampshire, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Language and Linguistics, Rhode Island, Van Buren ME, Vermont, Waterbury CT, Waterville ME, West Hartford CT, Woonsocket RI -
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 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. -
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 -
An Elaborate History and Genealogy of the Ballous in America
Subtitled: "Carefully Compiled and Edited by Adin Ballou; with Numerous Artistic Illustrations." Massive family history of the Ballou family of Rhode Island. Written at the end of the 19th century. -
The Oldest and Most Resistant Section of the Border
Article describing the historical and cultural conditions of the North American border between United States and Canada, particularly its shapes between the United States and the province of Québec. The author's argument that the Canada-US border persists precisely because of the distinctiveness of Québec culture and politics. Québec's relationship with the United States in terms of 18th and 19th century political disputes; migration; industrialization; trade; Québec's movement toward sovereignty; cultural affairs; and party politics dynamics in the 20th century. How popular attitudes toward the United States compare between Québecers and other Canadians; how international borders compare to interprovincial borders.Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Business and Economics, Canada, Emigration and Immigration, Film and Television, Government and Politics, Great Britain, Language and Linguistics, New England, New York, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, North America, Ontario, Québec, United States, Vermont -
The Oldest and Most Resistant Section of the Border
Article describing the historical and cultural conditions of the North American border between United States and Canada, particularly its shapes between the United States and the province of Québec. The author's argument that the Canada-US border persists precisely because of the distinctiveness of Québec culture and politics. Québec's relationship with the United States in terms of 18th and 19th century political disputes; migration; industrialization; trade; Québec's movement toward sovereignty; cultural affairs; and party politics dynamics in the 20th century. How popular attitudes toward the United States compare between Québecers and other Canadians; how international borders compare to interprovincial borders.Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Business and Economics, Canada, Emigration and Immigration, Film and Television, Government and Politics, Great Britain, Language and Linguistics, New England, New York, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, North America, Ontario, Québec, United States, Vermont -
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 -
Teaching Strategies for Ethnic Studies
From publisher's website: "Divided into five parts, 'Teaching Strategies for Ethnic Studies' emphasizes that the main goal of the multicultural curriculum should be to help students develop the ability to make reflective decisions so that they can, through thoughtful action, influence their personal, social, and civic worlds and help make them more democratic and just." -
The Angel on the Roof
Collection of previously published and some uncollected short stories, from 1975 to 2000. From the New England-native author of several novels including "Cloudsplitter" and "Continental Drift." Accounts of breaking laws in Katonga, playing hockey in Catamount, moving furniture in Florida hotels, dodging family matters over the telephone, and accidental death. Many stories set in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. -
Continental Drift
Novel following Bob Dubois, a New Hampshire oil burner repairman, and his attempted escape from discontent to a "fresh start" in Florida with his family. Entwined with the story of Vanise, a Haitian emigrant, and the severities she endures with her family along the sea route northward to Florida. -
Continental Drift
Novel following Bob Dubois, a New Hampshire oil burner repairman, and his attempted escape from discontent to a "fresh start" in Florida with his family. Entwined with the story of Vanise, a Haitian emigrant, and the severities she endures with her family along the sea route northward to Florida. -
The Angel on the Roof
Collection of previously published and some uncollected short stories, from 1975 to 2000. From the New England-native author of several novels including "Cloudsplitter" and "Continental Drift." Accounts of breaking laws in Katonga, playing hockey in Catamount, moving furniture in Florida hotels, dodging family matters over the telephone, and accidental death. Many stories set in New Hampshire and Massachusetts. -
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 -
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. -
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. -
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 : 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 -
The Fragrance of Rose : The Cult of Woonsocket's 'Saint' Endures Despite Official Doubt
Report on famed Woonsocket, Rhode Island woman of Catholic piety, Marie Rose Ferron, and the faith community that developed around her during her short life and after her death in 1936. The alleged stigmatist whose shrines continue to exist; whose cult of believers lingers after she was denied sainthood, and still long after evidence has been amounted against the legitimacy of her healing powers and stigmatic wounds. -
The Fragrance of Rose : The Cult of Woonsocket's 'Saint' Endures Despite Official Doubt
Report on famed Woonsocket, Rhode Island woman of Catholic piety, Marie Rose Ferron, and the faith community that developed around her during her short life and after her death in 1936. The alleged stigmatist whose shrines continue to exist; whose cult of believers lingers after she was denied sainthood, and still long after evidence has been amounted against the legitimacy of her healing powers and stigmatic wounds. -
The Fragrance of Rose : The Cult of Woonsocket's 'Saint' Endures Despite Official Doubt
Report on famed Woonsocket, Rhode Island woman of Catholic piety, Marie Rose Ferron, and the faith community that developed around her during her short life and after her death in 1936. The alleged stigmatist whose shrines continue to exist; whose cult of believers lingers after she was denied sainthood, and still long after evidence has been amounted against the legitimacy of her healing powers and stigmatic wounds. -
Three French family favorites
Subtitled, "How to make tourtiière, creton and ploy, the old-fashioned way." Recipes for four meals traditional to "French American" New England - tourtiière, creton, ployes, and chicken stew. Introduced with a brief note on what these recipes mean, historically, for the author and her Maine family. -
Three French family favorites
Subtitled, "How to make tourtiière, creton and ploy, the old-fashioned way." Recipes for four meals traditional to "French American" New England - tourtiière, creton, ployes, and chicken stew. Introduced with a brief note on what these recipes mean, historically, for the author and her Maine family. -
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. -
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. -
The Collection of Folk-Song
Short article imploring American folklorists to begin recording the non-English songs and stories of immigrant communities in the United States. Contains music excerpts from three French Canadian songs recorded in New England: "La belle Canadienne" (Marlboro, Massachusetts), "Old Canadian French Song" (Westminster, Massachusetts), and "La fille blonde" (Beecher Falls, Vermont). -
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 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? 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." -
Migrants and Millworkers : The French Canadian Population of Burlington and Colchester, 1860-1870
Article describing the growth of the French Canadian population in Vermont around the time of the American Civil War, and the differences of Canadian immigrant labor, property ownership, and political activity in select Vermont cities, as well as between those of other New England textile centers of the same time period. Steady growth of unskilled laborers and relative decline of economic conditions among Vermont's growing French Canadian population between 1850 and 1870. Separate social, economic, and political developments of Burlington, Winooski Falls, and greater Colchester that can be traced to Burlington's incorporation in the 1860s. Research on variances in property ownership among French Canadian immigrants in these locations, as well as their rates of naturalization, English fluency, and relevant voting laws. Includes tables with figures on occupational status, childbirths, and youth labor. Subtitled, "The high level of political activity of Colchester's French Canadians contrasted sharply to that of Burlington émigrés." -
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. -
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. -
Migrants and Millworkers : The French Canadian Population of Burlington and Colchester, 1860-1870
Article describing the growth of the French Canadian population in Vermont around the time of the American Civil War, and the differences of Canadian immigrant labor, property ownership, and political activity in select Vermont cities, as well as between those of other New England textile centers of the same time period. Steady growth of unskilled laborers and relative decline of economic conditions among Vermont's growing French Canadian population between 1850 and 1870. Separate social, economic, and political developments of Burlington, Winooski Falls, and greater Colchester that can be traced to Burlington's incorporation in the 1860s. Research on variances in property ownership among French Canadian immigrants in these locations, as well as their rates of naturalization, English fluency, and relevant voting laws. Includes tables with figures on occupational status, childbirths, and youth labor. Subtitled, "The high level of political activity of Colchester's French Canadians contrasted sharply to that of Burlington émigrés." -
Everything I Own
From Guernica Editions: "Songwriter Michel Laflamme is stuck in traffic on Montreal's Jacques Cartier Bridge. While waiting for police to try to talk down a potential suicide, Michel turns on the radio and hears his wife, Bijou, founding member of Beaupré, the seminal Quebec folk-rock group. The music takes Michel across a 30-year span of memory, through the emotional and political upheavals of his own life and that of his Belle Province."
"Jack Kerouac meets Beau Dommage! This novel of a coming-of-age in the Montreal music scene of the Seventies is a Québécois blues, wise, pungent, and funny." -- Peter Behrens, Governor-General's Award winning author of The Law of Dreams -
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 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 -
Mantle of Blue : a half century of Marist apostolate, history of the Boston province, Society of Mary, United States of America, 1924-1974
A 50-year history of the Roman Catholic Society of Mary and Marist priests in Boston, Massachusetts. -
The Berlin Dictionary
A dictionary of Berlin, New Hampshire, colloquial terms. Equal parts Franco American euphemism, persistent French vernacular in the English language, and words for things and places particular to the community of Berlin. The author writes: "'The Berlin Dictionary' is a participatory dictionary written by over seventy contributors who submitted their favorite and most memorable 'Berlin Words.' With definitions ranging from the Arena to the Yoko and everything in between, the Berlin Dictionary is a must-have for current and former Berlin residents. Featuring over thirty illustrations." -
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 QC, Saranac River Valley, Swanton VT, United States, Vergennes VT, Vermont, War -
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 -
The Lowell Boott Mills Complex and Its Housing : Material Expressions of Corporate Ideology
Article describing the influence of Lowell, Massachusetts' Boott Mills corporate architectures - physical, economic, occupational - on the lives of millworkers and the citizens of Lowell. Discrepancies between stated corporate commitments to the welfare of workers and the actual daily lives, living conditions, and boarding-house arrangements of mill laborers. Thoughts on "corporate paternalism." The 1835-built Boott Mills as case study in "the affective power of built environment--the total material expression of landscape and land use," including discussions of the formal economic logics behind certain divisions of labor, means of social control, and domestic provisions for workers. Brief operations, commercial, and employment history of the Boott Mills. Descriptions of millsite excavation and construction in the 19th century. -
The Lowell Boott Mills Complex and Its Housing : Material Expressions of Corporate Ideology
Article describing the influence of Lowell, Massachusetts' Boott Mills corporate architectures - physical, economic, occupational - on the lives of millworkers and the citizens of Lowell. Discrepancies between stated corporate commitments to the welfare of workers and the actual daily lives, living conditions, and boarding-house arrangements of mill laborers. Thoughts on "corporate paternalism." The 1835-built Boott Mills as case study in "the affective power of built environment--the total material expression of landscape and land use," including discussions of the formal economic logics behind certain divisions of labor, means of social control, and domestic provisions for workers. Brief operations, commercial, and employment history of the Boott Mills. Descriptions of millsite excavation and construction in the 19th century. -
Jack Kérouac : Essai-Poulet / A Chicken Essay
Un livre comme essai sur les rélations entre la vie et la littérature de Jack Kerouac - son écriture et son héritage - avec des réactions de l'auteur. -
Before All Dignity Is Lost : The Living and Dying of an AIDS Victim
The life of a young man after graduating college, his battle with AIDS, and his friendship with a mentor and former professor, Norman Beaupré, as read through a chronological series of personal letters. From the author's website: "What would you do if you suddenly discovered you had AIDS? What would you think? 'Before All Dignity Is Lost' is the epistolary story of a young man who suffers through the ignominy of AIDS and dies from it at age 34. This is a true story based on real letters." -
Madame Athanase T. Brindamour , raconteuse
Roman composé d'histoires de vie et de la famille à Manchester New Hampshire, tel que racontées par le personnage-titre et son épouse : Marie Solfège Desruisseaux Brindamour et Athanase T. Brindamour. Les voix, personnalités, et communautés de deux raconteurs - femme et homme - franco-americains. Créé par auteur et créateur de "la Souillonne." Comme écrit l'auteur, chacun de ces trois caractères parlent "en dialecte franco-américain." -
Gems of Our Franco Dialect
Some of the author's reflections on his narrative choices - his characters' accents, dialects, and dictions - in his first French language novel, "Le Petit Mangeur de Fleurs." Some thoughts on the relationships and distinctions between continental French, French Canadianisms, and Franco American dialect, and the inspiring phenomena of words with strange translations, or words without traceable origins. Concludes with a list of "some of the gems of the Franco dialect" : terms, Canadianisms, which carry specific cultural weight, and their translations. The author's hope of encouraging discussion about other such gems, though especially those not yet found in dictionaries. -
L'enclume et le couteau : The Life and Work of Adelard Coté, Folk Artist
Biography of Adelard Coté, Southern Maine artist and sculptor of wood. Includes pictures of his art, interviews, and a critical observation of his work as a part of Franco-American folklore. Also includes a brief history of French-Canadian immigration to Biddeford, Maine. -
Barre, Vermont: An Annotated Bibliography
A descriptive bibliography of sources related to the history, politics, and peoples of Barre, Vermont. Divided into the following categories: Historical Sources, Politics and Business, Social Life and Organizations, Poets and Writers, Ethnic Sources, Church History, Schools, Transportation, Genealogy, Oral History, Audio-Visual, and Other. -
Vandal Love
Novel tracing a century of Québec's Hervé family in the United States and Canada, and the genetic conditions that have turned its offspring "alternately [into] brutes or runts" (4). Jude the emigrant boxer in 1960s Georgia and Louisiana, and Isa, his abandoned daughter, into Virginia and Maine. Georgianne and the runt orphaned grandchild, François, from Québec across the Canadian provinces in the middle 20th century; Harvey, his son, and the parental separation that removes one from the other. Harvey's personal spiritual quest across the American Southwest. The tragedy and genealogical loops that unify the characters and their movements through time across North America. -
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. -
Vandal Love
Novel tracing a century of Québec's Hervé family in the United States and Canada, and the genetic conditions that have turned its offspring "alternately [into] brutes or runts" (4). Jude the emigrant boxer in 1960s Georgia and Louisiana, and Isa, his abandoned daughter, into Virginia and Maine. Georgianne and the runt orphaned grandchild, François, from Québec across the Canadian provinces in the middle 20th century; Harvey, his son, and the parental separation that removes one from the other. Harvey's personal spiritual quest across the American Southwest. The tragedy and genealogical loops that unify the characters and their movements through time across North America. -
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. -
Américanité-américanisation des Québécois : quelques éclairages empiriques
Une exploration du terme et du thème "américanité" en tant qu'un point focal d'identité et d'identification du Québécois francophone. Les manières 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. -
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. -
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 -
Prejudice and Pride : Canadian Intellectuals Confront the United States, 1891-1945
From University of Toronto Press: "As a country with enormous economic, military, and cultural power, the United States can seem an overwhelming neighbour - one that demands consideration by politicians, thinkers, and cultural figures. Prejudice and Pride examines and compares how English and French Canadian intellectuals viewed American society from 1891 to 1945. Based on over five hundred texts drawn largely from the era's periodical literature, the study reveals that English and French Canadian intellectuals shared common preoccupations with the United States, though the English tended to emphasize political issues and the French cultural issues.... Significantly, the era's discourse regarding American life and the Canadian-American relationship was less an expression of nationalism or a reaction to US policy than it was about the expression of wider attitudes concerning modernity." -
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." -
L'abbé Lionel Groulx et les conséquences de l'émigration canadienne-française aux États-Unis
Quelques pensées sur l'attitude de Lionel Groulx - écrivain, orateur, pretre - vers l'émigration canadienne-française aux États-Unis, la rélation entre émigration, la ruralisme du Québec, et messianisme. Groulx était un vrai nationaliste, et beaucoup de ses oeuvres réfletent une conception qui assimile l'émigration avec la damnation et la fin de la francophonie canadienne et catholique. -
The French Canadians Outside of Québec
Brief essay from an early twentieth-century Canadian senator on the presence of French Canadians in the United States and the provinces of Canada.Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Biddeford ME, California, Canada, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, Exploration and Colonization, Fall River MA, Geography, Haverhill MA, Holyoke MA, Lawrence MA, Lewiston ME, Louisiana, Lowell MA, Manchester NH, New Bedford MA, New Brunswick, New England, New Mexico, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Nonfiction -- Social Sciences, Ontario, Oregon, Providence RI, Québec, Southbridge MA, Springfield MA, US Midwest, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
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 -
Livre d'or des Franco-Américains de Worcester, Massachusetts
L'histoire d'un siiècle des Franco-Américains à Worcester, Massachusetts, de 1820 a 1920. Un profil de la communauté franco-américaine: ses églises et écoles, ses religieux(-ses), ses organisations, ses chefs publiques, et ses citoyens importants. -
Cooking Yankee with a French Accent
Cookbook with 144 pages of recipes for snacks and meals. Includes both the popular surf dishes of southern Maine and some traditional Franco American selections, among others. In her introduction, long time Ogunquit chef Monique Belisle writes, "when I retire, I'll write a cookbook. And now, I have." -
Our Franco-American heritage
Transcript of a speech given to the mayor and town council of Loudon, France, from Maine attorney Severin Beliveau upon his trade mission there with Maine governor, John Baldacci. The speech addresses the history and breadth of Maine's Franco American communities. -
Our Franco-American heritage
Transcript of a speech given to the mayor and town council of Loudon, France, from Maine attorney Severin Beliveau upon his trade mission there with Maine governor, John Baldacci. The speech addresses the history and breadth of Maine's Franco American communities. -
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. -
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. -
Orateurs canadiens-français aux États-Unis : conferences et discours
Un collection (1908) de discours de locales variés des Etats-Unis, offrés par des francos prominents ou des canadiens français de la gouvernment canadienne.
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Woonsocket Revisited
Arcadia's "Images of America" series revisits the pre- and post-industrial city of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, with pictures that span the period from 1834 to 2000. Transitional American urban and riverbank landscapes across two centuries, through growth and decline, with photographs that capture the city's defining waves of immigration. From the back of the text: "Recall the bygone days of Rhode Island's northernmost city through the vintage images presented in 'Woonsocket Revisited.'" -
The Acadian French and their language
Article on the Acadian people of the Canadian Maritimes and the persistence of their French vernacular. The Acadian presence in North America from the 17th century; to various settlements in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia; to the 18th century expulsion, later return, and the settlements that have remained up to the 20th century. Certain French vocabulary and usage that has historically characterized Acadian speech. Introduces the life and historical, linguistic work of Pascal Poirier, scholar and statesman. Discusses the historical and literary work of author Antonine Maillet. A large section dedicated to a discussion of the etymology and usage of certain Acadian French terms. -
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 -
Long-Scorned in Maine, French Has Renaissance
2006 New York Times article on the particular history of French language in Maine and more recent attempts of many - including the founders of a Freeport elementary school - to revive it after a prolonged suppression. -
Long-Scorned in Maine, French Has Renaissance
2006 New York Times article on the particular history of French language in Maine and more recent attempts of many - including the founders of a Freeport elementary school - to revive it after a prolonged suppression. -
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 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. -
Franco-American and Québec Studies: A selected bibliography of materials held by the Libraries of the State University of New York at Albany
Short bibliography of texts relevant to Franco American and Québec studies to be found at the library of SUNY Albany. Divided into the following categories: Reference Material, General Works, Literature and Criticism, Franco-American Authors and Topics, and Periodicals. -
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 -
Francophonie
Professor Bensmaia's thoughts on "Francophone" as a designator replacing "French" in the world of literary studies, and his participation in the academic opening of the French literature discipline to the contributions of French-speaking peoples outside of the "hexagon" - continental France. -
Black Robe
From the Canadian Film Encyclopedia: "Black Robe is a bleak but majestic film about the diverse cultures of the French settlers and the Algonquin people, and the clashes between them....The hostile wilderness of 17th-century New France is the setting for the story of Father Laforgue (Bluteau), a young, idealistic Jesuit whose ambitious mission is to save the souls of the 'savages' of New France. Upon his arrival from France, Laforgue embarks on a perilous journey by canoe, from Champlain's fort upriver to a desolate Jesuit outpost where it is hoped he will 'reap a harvest of souls.' He travels through the magnificent, nearly overwhelming landscape of the Canadian North with a group of Algonquin Indians as his guides." -
Our Place in Line: A Franco-American Family Odyssey
Our Place in Line is a 20,000-year odyssey of daring, imagination, and endurance offered to those who seek to trace their earliest roots from ancient Gaul to the twenty-first century United States via Feudal France and Colonial Quebec. This is a comprehensive exploration of surname origins with ancestral profiles representing a broad cross-section of Old Regime France. The narration also provides a blueprint for Quebecois descendants to trace their specific ancestral participants in the century-long French and Indian Wars. Witness this personal account of Francophone heritage profiling several families who settled in the manufacturing communities of Lewiston and Auburn, Maine, following the great nineteenth and twentieth century French-Canadian migration to the United States
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Some Social Factors Affecting the French Spoken in Lewiston, Maine
Dissertation on the relationship between the French language and Franco American culture in Lewiston, Maine in the twentieth century. Historical background of Maine French speakers. Theories and methods in the study of French in New England as introduction and comparison to the author's own survey research in Lewiston. Contents and results of a linguistic questionnaire given various French speakers in Lewiston. From the author: "Using a broadly based survey of the French spoken in Lewiston, Maine this thesis treats the question of the levels of Franco-American speech. The relationship of language features to social factors is studied by means of a computer-aided analysis of a representative sample of the French-speaking population" (iii, Abstract). -
A Political History of Lewiston, Maine (1930-39)
Government and politics in the industrial city of Lewiston, Maine, in the midst of the Great Depression. -
The Cajuns : Americanization of a People
A history of twentieth-century Southern Louisiana by way of an exploration of the processes of assimilation experienced its people of French and Acadian heritage. Descripions of the transformations of Louisiana Cajuns and Cajun culture, as well as reactions to these transformations. Chapters devoted to the World War II era, Cold War era,1960s, ethnic revivals in the 1970s, and the cultural productions of the 1980s and 1990s. From University Press of Mississippi: "The past sixty years have shaped and reshaped the group of French-speaking Louisiana people known as the Cajuns. During this period they have become much like other Americans and yet have remained strikingly distinct. 'The Cajuns: Americanization of a People' explores these six decades and analyzes the forces that had an impact on Louisiana's Acadiana."Tags Abbeville LA, Acadiana LA, Acadians, Acculturation and Assimilation, Art and Architecture, Ascension Parish LA, Baton Rouge LA, Calcasieu Parish LA, Canada, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, France, Government and Politics, Lafayette Parish LA, Lake Charles LA, Language and Linguistics, Louisiana, Music, New Orleans LA, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Ethnic Studies, Nova Scotia, Pointe Coupée Parish LA, Religion, St. Landry Parish LA, St. Martin Parish LA, St. Martinville LA, Vermilion Parish LA, Ville Platte LA -
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. -
Labor Study of the Franco-American Community of Waterville, Maine, from 1890 to 1940
Study in labor history of the Franco-Americans in Waterville, Maine up to 1940. Includes author-conducted interviews. From Bernier: "The purpose of this study is not to undermine the importance of [successful Franco-American businessmen and professionals], but it is an attempt to account for the notable achievements of the working class Franco-Americans who contributed their labor, their votes, and their efforts to improve working conditions through striking evevn in the face of discrimination and financial insecurity. This group has been ignored in almost all the written accounts of Waterville, and this error must be rectified. The Franco-Americans--laborers, businessmen, and professionals, all contributed to the character and to the prosperity of Waterville." -
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 -
Sunset Trailer Park
Essay and stories of childhood, family life, class, and community in a New Jersey trailer park in the 1970s. Contains a mother's and son's thoughts on their lives in that time and place, their understandings of some of the outside perceptions of "Sunset Trailer Park," in the city of Bayonne, and of popular perceptions of trailer parks in general. How racial and sexual identities were observed by author in his childhood community. Featured in a collection of critical writings centered around the term "white trash" - its contexts and connotations. Also featured in "Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality : The Big Questions," edited by Naomi Zack, Laurie Shrage, and Crispin Sartwell (Malden MA: Blackwell, 1998). -
A Comparison of Attitudes Among Maine Communities Toward Franco-American Civic Status and Native Language Vitality
From the introduction: "The extent to which cultural diversity in Maine schools is enhanced by appropriate educational programs for Franco-Americans is the focus of this research effort."..."A study of culture-related attitudes of citizens..."..."An investigative study of the distinction between the attitudes of Franco-Americans and non-Franco-Americans in those communities regarding native French language vitality and Franco-American civic status..." -
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." -
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." -
Thank you, Georgette : My 26 Years in the Legislature
Memoirs and selected speeches of a Maine state legislator from the city of Lewiston. Contains commentary on some of the campaigns, issues, actors, and events significant to Bérubé and her career in Maine politics between 1970 and 2000. Some of her accomplishments as the first woman representative of her city, and one of the longest-serving of any Maine legislator. Contains the following chapters: Name's Georgette Remarks to Rotary International and Canadian Visitors 10/29/93 Growing Up In Lewiston Political Campaigns Issues and Programs Partisanship/Personalities Legislation GOVERNMENT Pot Pourri Random Thoughts Remarks On Key IssuesTags Auburn ME, Augusta ME, Business and Economics, Gender and Sexuality, Government and Politics, Greene ME, Leeds ME, Lewiston ME, Lisbon ME, Livermore ME, Maine, Minot ME, Northern Ireland, Orono ME, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Québec, Sabattus ME, South Africa, Turner ME, Wales ME -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
Southside Canadians : A Family Journey
Pictorial account of a family's immigration that begins in Europe and moves through Canada into the United States, ultimately to Chicago, Illinois's Southside in the 20th and 21st centuries. -
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-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. -
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 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. -
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. -
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. -
The New England League: A Baseball History, 1885-1949
A history of the New England minor baseball league around the turn of the century. The league's rise, demise, and its place in the social and economic transitions of that era. The impact of the league on the industrial centers of New England, and vice versa. Perspectives on culture and immigration through the lens of popular athletics. From McFarland Publishing: "This book delves deep into the history of the New England League, whose years of operation spanned six decades during the pivotal early years of minor league baseball. Author Charlie Bevis, an expert on New England's baseball past, explores the complex ties to the regional economy, especially to the textile industry, and discusses the pioneering experiments with playoffs, night baseball, and integration."Tags Boston MA, Business and Economics, Connecticut, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Government and Politics, Haverhill MA, Labor History, Lewiston ME, Lowell MA, Lynn MA, Mills and Mill Work, Nashua NH, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Sports, Pawtucket RI, Portland ME, Religion, Rhode Island, Social History, Sports and Leisure, Springfield MA, United States, War, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
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. -
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. -
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 -
Maine's GOP star burns hot : Fiery governor-elect LePage evokes admiration, worry
Article introducing Maine's 2010 governor-elect, Waterville mayor Paul LePage, as an outspoken newcomer to state politics, and part of the Republican party's wave of success in Maine's 2010 elections. -
Maine's GOP star burns hot : Fiery governor-elect LePage evokes admiration, worry
Article introducing Maine's 2010 governor-elect, Waterville mayor Paul LePage, as an outspoken newcomer to state politics, and part of the Republican party's wave of success in Maine's 2010 elections. -
'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. -
'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. -
Documentation inépuisable de "phénomiène franco-américain" dans les journaux de langue française de la Nouvelle-Angleterre
Présentation sur le journalisme franco-américain et ses rélations à la famille Biron dans la Nouvelle-Angleterre. Des infos généalogiques sur la famille Biron. Comprend un bibliographie et "une liste des journaux franco-américains publiés en Nouvelle-Angleterre sur microfilm à la Boston Public Library." -
From Mills to Millennium : Documenting Social Change Through Oral Histories Among Three Generations of Franco-Americans in Manchester
Dissertation describing the historical development of a Franco American cultural identity through oral history interviews conducted by the author with sixteen Franco American people in the Manchester, New Hampshire region. Includes two parts: video recording of interviews and thesis text with historical background, select transcription, and contextualized analysis of interviews. Interviewees vary in age between 19 to 90. Includes personal historical introduction, historical background on the Franco American community in Manchester, and discussion of broad themes relevant to interview topics as identified by the author: memory, place, and identity as well as "family, education, religion, and discrimination"(iv). Discussion of "assimilation theory" in a Franco American context.Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Community: Customs and Social Life, German Americans, Greek Americans, Irish Americans, Italian Americans, Manchester NH, Merrimack River Valley, Mills and Mill Work, New Hampshire, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Nonfiction -- Social Science: Anthropology and Sociology, Nonfiction -- Social Sciences, Nonfiction -- Sociology, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Polish Americans, Religion, Violence -
From Mills to Millennium: Documenting Social Change through Oral Histories among Three Generations of Franco-Americans in Manchester
The Franco-Americans who emigrated to the New England region did so during the industrial revolution, fleeing the starvation and overpopulation in Canada. Those who settled in Manchester, New Hampshire, also developed a community on the West Side of the city making the transition from Canada to Manchester's little Canada section easier for French immigrants. The West Side held the religious traditions and social and fraternal organizations with which this group was familiar. In addition to the history of Manchester, the researcher drew from sociological theories on assimilation, the interdisciplinary theories on place attachment and identity, and combined these approaches with the oral history of place memory. This dissertation contains the oral histories of sixteen Franco-Americans representing three generations ranging from ages nineteen to ninety. The intent of the collection is to preserve the lived experiences and memories of the Franco-American in Manchester. In order to provide a framework for understanding the oral histories presented here, four major themes were provided: family, education, religion and discrimination. The shifts observed across the generations in terms of the perceived role that the four themes play in their lives are detailed in the narrative portion. There are two components to this study on Manchester's Franco-Americans. The oral histories captured on the accompanying two hour and forty minute film are supplemented in the written document by recorded memories. Excerpts of written narratives also ground the interviews within the historical backdrop of the Franco-American in Manchester. The film is central to the study and provides videoed interviews from individuals with a French Canadian heritage. This study documented how attitudes and traditions changed across three generations of Franco-Americans within the greater Manchester area. The groups were characterized by and uniquely identified through the traditions and rituals of this rich culture. The identity with the Franco-American traditions and culture has lessened through the succeeding generations. In addition, the increased emotional separation from the Roman Catholic Church and geographic mobility away from the West Side is noted with its subsequent impact on identity with Franco traditions. All participants were recorded using state of the art video and audio equipment. The film included here is edited for dissertation purposes. -
Review : Backwoods Consumers and Homespun Capitalists : The Rise of a Market Culture in Eastern Canada
A review of Béatrice Craig's "Backwoods Consumers and Homespun Capitalists: The Rise of a Market Culture in Eastern Canada" (University of Toronto Press, 2007). From Bittermann, provided by Project MUSE: "Backwoods Consumers and Homespun Capitalists examines the history of rural life in the Madawaska region of the Upper Saint John River Valley from early non-Indigenous settlement in the 1780s to the closing years of the third quarter of the nineteenth century. Thus, although the title suggests otherwise, it is a story that unfolds primarily within the history of British North America and the United States rather than the new Canadian nation-state. Although cast in large part as an exploration of questions raised by a literature concerning the presence or absence of capitalism in rural North America, Craig's study offers valuable insights to those who have little patience with the transition debate and who believe that wading into that quagmire simply generates more mud(dle)."Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Business and Economics, Canada, Criticism and Review, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, Farming and Agriculture, Forestry, Fur-trading, Labor History, Maine, Native Americans, New Brunswick, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, St. John River Valley -
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 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 -
'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. -
'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. -
Soldiers from the Farther North : A Research Note on Canadians in the Union Army in the American Civil War
Article describing the participation of French and English Canadians in the United States Civil War. Justifications for participation - economic, political, personal, and otherwise - from primary and secondary source literature. Domestic Canadian and international implications for Canadian activity in US war. Complications of citizenship and participant moral attitudes toward nationalism, slavery, and other issues. Questions directed toward the complexities surrounding wartime immigration, travel, and/or displacement, and suggestions for further research in family and other archival collections. -
Soldiers from the Farther North : A Research Note on Canadians in the Union Army in the American Civil War
Article describing the participation of French and English Canadians in the United States Civil War. Justifications for participation - economic, political, personal, and otherwise - from primary and secondary source literature. Domestic Canadian and international implications for Canadian activity in US war. Complications of citizenship and participant moral attitudes toward nationalism, slavery, and other issues. Questions directed toward the complexities surrounding wartime immigration, travel, and/or displacement, and suggestions for further research in family and other archival collections. -
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Translation
Short fiction piece about a writer who can be either American (Phil Porter) or French Canadian (Philippe Carrier) depending from which side of the border he is travelling, or upon which side he sits. The complexity of a dual identity lived out in a single life - with accounts of his troubled youth in Montréal, his adult life in upstate New York - that seems to surface in his epilepsy. The success of his recent autobiography, "Head Waters," and the connections he makes with familiarity, his past, and his estranged father on a book tour that brings him to Montréal. -
Translation
Short fiction piece about a writer who can be either American (Phil Porter) or French Canadian (Philippe Carrier) depending from which side of the border he is travelling, or upon which side he sits. The complexity of a dual identity lived out in a single life - with accounts of his troubled youth in Montréal, his adult life in upstate New York - that seems to surface in his epilepsy. The success of his recent autobiography, "Head Waters," and the connections he makes with familiarity, his past, and his estranged father on a book tour that brings him to Montréal. -
Man and His World
Book of international short stories rooted in Montréal and the US Northeast. Written in English with a recognizable play of languages, especially French and German. From renowned fiction writer and essayist, Clark Blaise, author of such books as "I Had a Father," "A North American Education," and "Tribal Justice." Blaise is the former director of the International Writing Program at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. -
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). -
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. -
The Border as Fiction
Critical essay on international notions of political borders, and of the psychological borders that often take part in shaping the character of a certain place. The notion of "border" as reflected in North American literatures, with some comparisons between Canadian and American identities generally. Framed by the author's own experiences of mobility and identification with place, especially those from his youth. -
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. -
I Had a Father: A Post-Modern Autobiography
From Library Journal: "This unusual memoir focuses on the author's attempt to understand his dead father. Blaise, a prize-winning novelist and director of the University of Iowa's International Writing Program, combines fragments of memories, mostly concerned with locations, as he circles around the story of his difficult, much-married father, a French Canadian/American traveling salesman." -
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). -
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. -
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 -
Little Canuck : The Adventures of an Immigrant Boy from Québec
Self-published memoir about life in Québec, and life after Québec. From iUniverse: "Michel learns that his father is dying. This news precipitates a nostalgic journey into the past-a childhood spent on a dairy farm in French Québec. As a sensitive boy secluded from the world, Michel wavers between forbidden exploits and heartbreaking tribulations. Catholic school is a culture shock, but it's the huge pumpkin-shaped teacher with a bad temper who terrorizes his brain most. On the farm, his young life abounds with fun and danger-mad bulls, dynamite sticks, runaway darts, lethal ice cubes, and hazardous farm equipment. After struggling with a dismal economy, his family is forced to abandon their home. They desert their isolated farmhouse and move into a cockroach-infested apartment in an English-speaking city one mile from the seductive United States border. There, Michel copes with bullies, Russian spies, and ghosts. 'Little Canuck' recounts the humorous, and at times, heartrending memoirs of a young boy on his journey through a colorful landscape of emotion. Along the way, young Michel uncovers the mysteries of female anatomy, and learns poignant truths about mortality. His most profound lessons are not learned at school.
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A Social History of the French Canadian Community of Suncook, New Hampshire (1870-1920)
Master's thesis on the French Canadian immigrants to the towns of Suncook, Pembroke, and Allentown, New Hampshire at the turn of the century. Emphasis on community and social life. -
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 -
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 -
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. -
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. -
The Transplanted : A History of Immigrants in Urban America
An overview of American immigration and ethnic histories from American cities of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Written by the Director of Oral History Research at the University of Indiana, Bloomington. From Indiana University Press: "A major survey of the immigrant experience between 1830 and 1930, this book has implications for all students and scholars of American social history."Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Austrian Americans, Business and Economics, Community: Customs and Social Life, Croatian Americans, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Farming and Agriculture, Folklore, German Americans, Government and Politics, Hungarian Americans, Irish Americans, Italian Americans, Jewish Americans, Labor History, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Immigration, Polish Americans, Religion, Social History, United States -
[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. -
[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. -
Through a Glass Darkly : Ethnic Semiosis in American Literature
Critical research that questions the concept of "ethnic literature" and explores the phenomenon of ethnicities being written out in American literature. Problematizes designating "ethnic literature" as a thing apart, given the peculiar ethnic and cultural blends that run through American social life and American literature in general. Uses the authors Henry James, William Carlos Williams, and others, as examples. -
Maine : Cross-Border Tourism
Legislative document highlighting the borderland tourism industries of Maine and Canada in the 1980s. -
The Franco-American Presence in America
Interview with Professor of French at Penn State University, Gerard J. Brault. Marks his participation in a Bates College symposium entitled, "The Franco-American Presence in America." Some of his thoughts on research on Franco-Americans, his involvement with Franco-American Institutes on language and culture in the 1960s, and modern language education more generally in relation to federal educational policy. Featured in an alumnus issue of the Bates College Bulletin entitled, "Language Is The Key." -
The Franco-American Presence in America
Interview with Professor of French at Penn State University, Gerard J. Brault. Marks his participation in a Bates College symposium entitled, "The Franco-American Presence in America." Some of his thoughts on research on Franco-Americans, his involvement with Franco-American Institutes on language and culture in the 1960s, and modern language education more generally in relation to federal educational policy. Featured in an alumnus issue of the Bates College Bulletin entitled, "Language Is The Key." -
Basic Conversational French for Health Personnel : A Telecture Program
Franco American language and culture resource guide for healthcare personnel. Glossary of French language terms and phrases, lessons, and an example story of French-English bilingual interaction. Published for a 1979 telecture (long-distance learning) course in nursing, provided by the University of Southern Maine. In addition to course and instructor information, includes the following sections: Historical and Sociological Background (with French in North American timeline) Vocabulary and phrases: Basic Terms; Anatomy; General Hospital Terms and Phrases; Admissions; Physical Therapy; Operating Room; X-Ray; Laboratory Dealing with Feelings -
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. -
The Beginnings of the Franco-American Colony in Woonsocket, Rhode Island
English translation of 1920's "Débuts de la colonie franco-américaine de Woonsocket, Rhode Island." A rich and in-depth portrayal of the birth of one of Rhode Island's largest Franco-American communities. Divided into three parts: town origins, immigration and genealogy, and a contemporary portrait including biographies and modern institutions.Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Blackstone River Valley, Community: Customs and Social Life, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, Essay, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Genealogy, Journalism, Native Americans, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Local, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Religion, Rhode Island, Woonsocket RI -
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 -
UMaine solidifies Franco-American studies path
Article on the hiring of Susan Pinette, a full-time faculty person at the University of Maine at Orono, for the purpose of securing a minor academic concentration in "Franco-American studies." This academic program is one of the few of its kind. -
UMaine solidifies Franco-American studies path
Article on the hiring of Susan Pinette, a full-time faculty person at the University of Maine at Orono, for the purpose of securing a minor academic concentration in "Franco-American studies." This academic program is one of the few of its kind. -
Say No More
Short story that finds Norman Malloy sitting in a kitchen alone. He segregates himself from his wife, Colette, their infant daughter, and Colette's large extended family as they celebrate in two languages a grandmother's birthday in the living room nearby. Norman and Colette's car trip home - in tension and in snowfall - from the Biddeford, Maine gathering back to nearby Scarborough. Featured in Portland Monthly Magazine. From Maine author of short story collections "Too Hot & Other Maine Stories" and "Squatter's Rights." -
Say No More
Short story that finds Norman Malloy sitting in a kitchen alone. He segregates himself from his wife, Colette, their infant daughter, and Colette's large extended family as they celebrate in two languages a grandmother's birthday in the living room nearby. Norman and Colette's car trip home - in tension and in snowfall - from the Biddeford, Maine gathering back to nearby Scarborough. Featured in Portland Monthly Magazine. From Maine author of short story collections "Too Hot & Other Maine Stories" and "Squatter's Rights." -
Language and Culture : Heritage and Horizons
A collection of reports from the working committees of the 1976 Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. An overview of the history and tradition of immigration in the United States, and an introduction to ethnic groups associated with the three most predominantly spoken non-English languages in 1976 America : French, Spanish, and German. A geographic approach to tracing linguistic heritages in the United States. General descriptions of various immigrant groups, their historical geographies of origin, as well as the nature of their American communities and their cultural contributions to the United States in general. Also contains one section devoted to the significance of Classics and classical languages to American languages and literatures. Concludes with practical suggestions for incorporating cultural content into foreign language pedagogy.Tags Acadians, Boston MA, Brunswick ME, Chinese Americans, Cuba, Danielson CT, Demography, Education, Emigration and Immigration, Exploration and Colonization, France, Geography, German Americans, Haiti, Hispanic Americans, Irish Americans, Italian Americans, Jewett City CT, Language and Linguistics, Lewiston ME, Manchester NH, Mexican Americans, Native Americans, New Brunswick, New England, Old Town ME, Puerto Rico, Québec, Russian Americans, Scandinavian Americans, Southbridge MA, Spain, Spanish Americans, Spencer MA, Travel and Movement, United States, Waterville ME, Woonsocket RI -
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." -
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. -
To Mark Feast of St. John Wednesday. L'Union St Jean Baptiste D'Amerique to Meet
Article on the 1925 St-Jean-Baptiste Day Celebration in Greater Boston. -
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." -
National Labor Leaders From New England: No. 8--Oliver Christian, Secretary of the National Loomfixers' Association
Article profiling Oliver Christian: a laborer who earned promotions up to the level of NLA secretary. -
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. -
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. -
Franco-American Citizens
Article on a Massachusetts "national convention of French residents," with discussion held about political party affiliations, support for various candidates, etc. -
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. -
Goes to Worcester
Article on the relocation of Massachusetts' Franco-American Club from Boston to Worcester. -
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. -
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 Republicans Elect
Article on the 1917 meeting and elections of the Massachusetts Franco-American Republican Club. -
Franco-American Parade
Article on a 1911 march of Franco-American foresters in New Bedford, Massachusetts. -
By Penacook
Article on the annual gathering of the New England Franco-American Chamber of Commerce at Concord, New Hampshire, in 1903. -
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." -
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. -
To Mark Feast of St. John Wednesday. L'Union St Jean Baptiste D'Amerique to Meet
Article on the 1925 St-Jean-Baptiste Day Celebration in Greater Boston. -
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." -
National Labor Leaders From New England: No. 8--Oliver Christian, Secretary of the National Loomfixers' Association
Article profiling Oliver Christian: a laborer who earned promotions up to the level of NLA secretary. -
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. -
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. -
Franco-American Citizens
Article on a Massachusetts "national convention of French residents," with discussion held about political party affiliations, support for various candidates, etc. -
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. -
Goes to Worcester
Article on the relocation of Massachusetts' Franco-American Club from Boston to Worcester. -
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. -
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 Republicans Elect
Article on the 1917 meeting and elections of the Massachusetts Franco-American Republican Club. -
Franco-American Parade
Article on a 1911 march of Franco-American foresters in New Bedford, Massachusetts. -
By Penacook
Article on the annual gathering of the New England Franco-American Chamber of Commerce at Concord, New Hampshire, in 1903. -
Luckless, Witless, and Filthy-Footed : A Sociocultural Study and Publishing History Analysis of "The Lazy Boy"
Article on narrative motifs and patterns of historical development in the folkloric story of "The Lazy Boy" : a "male tale" traced internationally over nearly five hundred years of oral and written storytelling, through various iterations of characters and themes, and across linguistic boundaries. Author's critical analysis of "The Lazy Boy" used "to explore...questions in contemporary folk narrative research" (259). Emphasis on the roles of anger, stupidity, sexuality, and class in various of the story's versions; how the story's aspects vary in its telling between one cultural community and another. -
Luckless, Witless, and Filthy-Footed : A Sociocultural Study and Publishing History Analysis of "The Lazy Boy"
Article on narrative motifs and patterns of historical development in the folkloric story of "The Lazy Boy" : a "male tale" traced internationally over nearly five hundred years of oral and written storytelling, through various iterations of characters and themes, and across linguistic boundaries. Author's critical analysis of "The Lazy Boy" used "to explore...questions in contemporary folk narrative research" (259). Emphasis on the roles of anger, stupidity, sexuality, and class in various of the story's versions; how the story's aspects vary in its telling between one cultural community and another. -
A Jewel in the Crown of Maine : The Farrell-Michaud House, Meals and Memories
Book of recipes for meals and dishes served at the Farrell-Michaud House bed-and-breakfast in Van Buren, Maine. Begins with stories and historical descriptions of the Farrell and Michaud families, as well as of the house itself and the cultures of the northern Maine region in which it sits. -
The Franco File : Teacher Guide
A teacher's guide to accompany 10 half-hour episodes of the children's television program, "The Franco File," produced by the Eastern Educational Television Network and New Hampshire Public Television. This program, designed to improve the self-esteem of Franco American children, explores contemporary, intergenerational Franco American life in a northeastern mill town. The teacher's guide introduces the program with summaries of each episode and profiles of each character. The guide contains intended learning objectives for each episode, a brief cultural and historical background for each episode's content, and suggested questions and materials for facilitating classroom discussions. Includes summary and guide for the following episodes: I. Songbook II. The Tutor III. It's a Long Story IV. Adieu, Millville! V. Where the Memories Live, Part VI. Where the Memories Live, Part II VII. Face the Music VIII. Les Voyageurs IX. Le Parrain X. The Election -
Franco Marriages from Goffstown, New Hampshire: 1893-1992
One hundred years of Catholic marriages from the Goffstown, New Hampshire, region. Includes marriages from St. Lawrence and St. Edmond parishes. -
Beginning Franco-American Genealogy
First edition published in 1986. A guide to conducting one's own genealogy, with resources appropriate for those with Franco American and Canadian French ancestry. -
"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. -
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 -
Les stratégies familiales des francophones de la Nouvelle-Angleterre : Perspective diachronique
De Boudreau et Frenette: "Dans cet article, nous examinons l'évolution des stratégies familiales des francophones de la Nouvelle-Angleterre dans la longue durée. En prenant la communauté de Lewiston comme étude de cas, nous nous penchons sur trois périodes : celle de la migration de masse, caractérisée par la primauté de la famille comme unité socio-économique, celle de l'implantation ethnique, qui voit les stratégies se modifier, sous l'impact de facteurs matériels et idéologiques. Apparaît alors uni, démarcation entre les stratégies des Canadiens français originaires du Québec et celles des Franco-Américains nés aux États-Unis, la période d'acculturation rapide, ù la relation famille-individu devient inversée, les stratégies visant désormais le bien-être de l'individu. Toutefois, la famille continue d'être l'agent de socialisation de base, une fonction qui inclut parfois la transmission de l'ethnicité franco-américaine." -
Some Aims and Methods in Teaching French in the Elementary Schools in Louisiana : The Oakdale Elementary School Experiment
A 1938-1939 argument in favor of increasing the number of Louisiana public elementary schools that teach the French language, and some thoughts on best practices in the implementation of educational programs. From the author: "This paper contains a statement of the motives for teaching French in the elementary schools of Louisiana and the goals to be attained - together with a suggested list of projects that have proved helpful and a discussion of classroom procedures as used in the Oakdale Elementary School experiment." -
Horrible Mothers: Representations across Francophone North America
For too long the main narratives of motherhood have been oppressive and exclusionary, frequently ignoring issues of female identity-especially regarding those not conforming to traditional female stereotypes.Horrible Mothers offers a variety of perspectives for analyzing representations of the mother in francophone literature and film at the turn of the twenty-first century in North America, including Québec, Ontario, New England, and California. Contributors reexamine the "horrible mother" paradigm within a broad range of sociocultural contexts from different locations to broaden the understanding of mothering beyond traditional ideology. The selections draw from long-established scholarship in women's studies as well as from new developments in queer studies to make sense of and articulate strategies of representation; to show how contemporary family models are constantly evolving, reshaping, and moving away from heteronormative expectations; and to reposition mothers as subjects occupying the center of their own narrative, rather than as objects. The contributors engage narratives of mothering from myriad perspectives, referencing the works of writers or filmmakers such as Marguerite Andersen, Nelly Arcan, Grégoire Chabot, Xavier Dolan, Nancy Huston, and Lucie Joubert. -
New grist for the mill: An old factory off Lincoln Street in Biddeford comes back to life as an apartment complex
Article on the redevelopment of vacant space in the Riverdam Mill of Biddeford, Maine, on the banks of the Saco River. -
New grist for the mill: An old factory off Lincoln Street in Biddeford comes back to life as an apartment complex
Article on the redevelopment of vacant space in the Riverdam Mill of Biddeford, Maine, on the banks of the Saco River. -
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 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. -
The Spacing of Births Among French-Canadian Families : An Historical Approach
From the author: "This article stresses on two aspects of demography. The first aspect is a historical and geographical analysis of the spacing of births among French-Canadians and the second one is the possibilities of using genealogies as sources of data which can yield demographic information. When official computations are not available, the development of demographic data based on family genealogies may give analysts some indication of past performances within societies. Genealogies thus provide a rich source of information for both Canadian and American historical demographers. When proper methodological techniques are applied to these data, they yield results which then permit one to draw conclusions about demographic behavior. The data for the present article are derived from a longer study dealing with historical demographic changes among French-Canadians between 1650 and 1950. The genealogy of one French-Canadian family is the source of information utilized in this report. The paper is intended to contribute additional information on changing patterns of child spacing over time and space." -
Odyssey of Love
A biography of Westbrook, Maine, native, Sister Marie Ange Larrivee, a nun in the Order of the Presentation of Mary. Stories that take us from her youth in Westbrook, through her Canadian religious education, all the way to her travels in Europe and her experiences of World War II in France. From a Rumford, Maine, author. -
On the ethnics of newspapers
Editorial piece on the derogatory ethnocentricity of certain recent (winter, 1992-1993) newspaper publications and radio broadcasts in central Maine, and a reflection on one Waterville, Maine, mother's reaction to them in specific. -
On the ethnics of newspapers
Editorial piece on the derogatory ethnocentricity of certain recent (winter, 1992-1993) newspaper publications and radio broadcasts in central Maine, and a reflection on one Waterville, Maine, mother's reaction to them in specific. -
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. -
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. -
Officials search for cause of mill fire
Maine state officials discuss efforts to investigate the cause of the Edwards Mill fire in the winter of 1989, on the shore of the Kennebec River in Augusta, Maine. -
Owner had been trying to sell Edwards Mill for 10 months
After the defunct Edwards Mill of Augusta, Maine, is devastated by fire in 1989, it comes to light that its owner had been trying for nearly a year to sell the property. -
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. -
No cause yet for Edwards mill fire
Article recounts burning of Augusta, Maine's Edwards Mill in November and December of 1991. Discusses the melange of firefighting efforts from many parts of Central Maine, as well as the early stages of investigating the fire's cause. -
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. -
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. -
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. -
Officials search for cause of mill fire
Maine state officials discuss efforts to investigate the cause of the Edwards Mill fire in the winter of 1989, on the shore of the Kennebec River in Augusta, Maine. -
Owner had been trying to sell Edwards Mill for 10 months
After the defunct Edwards Mill of Augusta, Maine, is devastated by fire in 1989, it comes to light that its owner had been trying for nearly a year to sell the property. -
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. -
No cause yet for Edwards mill fire
Article recounts burning of Augusta, Maine's Edwards Mill in November and December of 1991. Discusses the melange of firefighting efforts from many parts of Central Maine, as well as the early stages of investigating the fire's cause. -
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. -
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 -
The French Canadian Tay-Sachs Disease Deletion Mutation : Identification of Probable Founders
From Brakeleer et al: "Tay-Sachs disease (TSD) is an inherited neurodegenerative ganglioside storage disorder caused by deficiency of the hexosaminidase A enzyme. A deletion allele (FCD) at the HEXA locus has attained high frequency in the French Canadian population. The distribution of affected probands shows a likely center of diffusion for this mutation located in the Bas-St.-Laurent and Gaspésie regions of the province of Quebec. We have reconstructed the genealogies of 15 obligate carriers of the FCD allele to an average depth of 12 generations identifying 60 ancestors and 80 European founders common to all of them..." -
Roughing the Uppers : The Great Shoe Strike of 1937
From the Lewiston Sun Journal: "The documentary tells the story of a strike that involved thousands of shoe workers and more than a dozen factories in Lewiston and Auburn [Maine]. Seeking higher wages and recognition of their union affiliation with the newly formed Congress of Industrial Organizations, the largely Franco-American workers called for a strike on March 24, 1937, during a mass meeting at Lewiston's city hall." -
The Special NDEA Institute at Bowdoin College for French Teachers of Canadian Descent
Essay on the 1961 French Institute (Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine) held under the terms of the National Defense Education Act that was intended, by the federal government, to tap into and develop the linguistic resource of native Franco-American French speakers. Complicated by the divergence of New England French from standard Parisian French. Brault provides here a paraphrased version of the Institute's curricula, which aimed to standardize spoken French from its dialectical or vernacular forms local to Maine. -
New England French Culture
Arguments for the historical roots of the traits that customarily charge New England French culture, and the common struggles of ethnic immigrant groups in the United States. -
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. -
The French-Canadian Heritage in New England
Comprehensive history of French Canadians and Franco Americans in New England, with an emphasis on the early 20th century. Introduced with a summary of early North American exploration and colonization. Spans in specific an historical period that begins at the time of the American Civil War and ends in the early 1980s. Attempts to touch upon persons and events captured in the news and collective memories of Franco Americans, as well as other historical signposts that teach about the unique persistence of French Canadian heritage and Franco American culture in New England. Contains a sizable bibliography.Tags Acadians, Art and Architecture, Community: Customs and Social Life, Death and Disaster, Demography, Education, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Exploration and Colonization, Farming and Agriculture, Folklore, Food, Forestry, Fur-trading, Government and Politics, Labor History, Language and Linguistics, Mills and Mill Work, Music, Native Americans, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- General, Religion, Social History, Violence -
Livret du professeur de français franco-américaine : considerations sur certains problemes d'ordre linguistique et pedagogique par quelques-uns des participants de l'Institut Franco-Américain de Bowdoin College
Un petit livre de pensées sur l'enseignment de la langue française aux jeunes gens. Des problièmes, méthodes, et concernes linguistiques et culturelles qui sont nécessaires pour les enseignants à considérer dans la salle de classe, et avec les étudiants franco-américains en particulier. -
Sociolinguistics, Politics, and Language Teaching
Brief article on the integration of linguistic theory, language teaching, and sociolinguistics. Thoughts on some of the political and social implications of dialects, and questions about applying certain linguistic theories to the teaching of language. Compares teaching English in African American communities to teaching French in French Canadian, Franco American communities, and discusses issues surrounding language instruction in what the author calls "non-standard dialect." References to the author's Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, conferences for teachers of French held in the early 1960s. -
The Franco-Americans of Maine
Transcript of a presentation to the annual meeting of the Maine Historical Society held at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, on June 24, 1972. An overview of the history of Franco Americans in Maine, and an introduction to what the speaker terms "the Franco-American situation before World War II." Insights into nineteenth- and twentieth-century Québec emigration, industrial labor, Roman Catholic parishes, local French language, and other community attributes. Chiefly uses details from the cities of Brunswick and Lewiston, Maine, though with substantial references to other Maine and New England communities. Published as a Special Edition of the Maine Historical Society Newsletter.Tags Augusta ME, Biddeford ME, Brunswick ME, Death and Disaster, Education, Emigration and Immigration, Fort Kent ME, Language and Linguistics, Lewiston ME, Maine, Manchester NH, Mills and Mill Work, Nashua NH, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- General, Old Town ME, Orono ME, Québec, Religion, Rumford ME, Sabattus ME, Sanford ME, St. John River Valley, Waterville ME, Westbrook ME, Winslow ME, Woonsocket RI -
New England French Vocabulary
Brault's essay is an explanation of the results of language tests taken by nine Franco-American French speakers, his evaluation of their levels of vocabulary, and his observations of their speech habits. The overall conclusion of his study partially reads: "The following partial tabulation of a Preliminary Classification Test administered to all nine informants demonstrates the fact that the two levels in the Franco-American phonetic system normally have a lexical correlation. In other words, if a Franco-American at Level 1 (i.e. that level farthest from standard French) succeeds in raising his speech phonetically to Level 2 (i.e. an intermediate level between Level 1 and standard French), his vocabulary will normally reveal a similar degree of switching to modern French." -
Some Misconceptions about Teaching American Ethnic Children Their Mother Tongue
Essay on language instruction, problems with favoring rote over mother tongue, and some arguments for maintaining linguistic heritages in language education. -
French-Canadian Heritage in New England
Brault has ably managed to weave the dual history of French Canadians -- Acadians and Québécois -- into the fabric of his account of the history and development of Franco-American culture and its contemporary situation. Drawing upon historical works and the literature of the period, the author provides a detailed description of early life in Quebec and Acadia and analyses the forces which led to migration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. -
Les conférences de l'Institut franco-américain de Bowdoin College
Une collection d'essaies sur le sujet de la vie franco-américaine dans la Nouvelle-Angleterre. Compilée des présentations de quelques conférences academiques de Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine. Avec les écrits qui suivent: "L'Institut Franco-Américain de Bowdoin College" - Gerard-J. Brault "Attitudes des Franco-Américains en politique" - Josaphat-T. Benoit "Le Laboratoire linguistique - actif et passif" - Edward-B. Ham "Aspects psychologiques de l'étude d'une deuxiième langue" - Wallace-E. Lambert "Les Franco-Américains de Fall River" - Herve-B. Lemaire "Peut-on enseigner le francais par la télévision?" - William-N. Locke "La Poésie francaise de Nouvelle-Angleterre" - Soeur Marie-Carmel Therriault "La Politique présidentielle des Franco-Américains: quelques observations sommaires" - David-B. Walker -
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 -
The Quebec and Acadian Diaspora in North America
A conference publication consisting of a collection of essays on the titled topic. Contains the following written pieces by their respective authors: "The Acadians: a People in Search of a Country" by Jean Daigle, "Emigration and Colonization: Twin Themes in 19th-Century French Canadian Literature" by David M. Hayne "The Rise and Fall of Felix Albert: Some Reflections on the Aspirations of Habitant Immigrants to Lowell, Massachusetts in the Late Nineteenth Century" by Frances Early "Language and Ethnic Identity in South Louisiana: Implications of Data from Mamou Prairie" by Gerald L. Gold "The Franco-Americans: Occupational Profiles" by Madeleine Giguere "Franco-Americans and Ethnic Studies: Notes on a Mill Town" by Robert F. Harney "The Decline of French as Home Language in the Quebec and Acadian Diaspora of Canada and the United States" by Charles Castonguay "'L'Affaire Forest': Franco-Manitobans in Search of Cultural and Liinguistic Duality" by Gilbert-L. Comeault "Le Patriote de l'Ouest and French Settlement on the Prairies, 1910-1930" by Andre N. Lalonde "Spatial Patterns in Franco-Ontarian Communities" by Donald Cartwright "The Role of the Church in French Ontario" by Robert Choquette "The Franco-Ontarian Collectivity: Material and Symbolic Dimensions of its Minority Status" by Danielle Juteau-Lee "The Franco-Ontarian Experience" by Gaetan VallieresTags Acadians, Acculturation and Assimilation, Creoles, Emigration and Immigration, Essay, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Exploration and Colonization, Fiction and Literature, Labor History, Language and Linguistics, Louisiana, Lowell MA, Manitoba, Mills and Mill Work, Montréal QC, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Québec, Religion, Social History, Travel and Movement, United States -
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 -
Les Francos, ces Américains bien de chez nous
Le douziième chapitre d'un texte historique sur le présence d'héritage français aux États-Unis jusqu'à aujourd'hui. Basé en grande partie sur les voyages des auteurs français aux États-Unis, entretiens et témoignages des états-uniens. Ce chapitre traite des <i>Francos</i> - les Franco-Américains d'héritage canadien-français dans le nord-est des États. Prémiièrement, une discussion historique sur des aspects agricoles et industriels de l'immigration canadienne-française en Nouvelle-Angleterre, et ces vagues de migration marquées par trois guerres américaines: La guerre de Sécession, la Prémiière Guerre mondiale, la Deuxiième Guerre mondiale. Un développement des communautés franco-américaines comme lié à l'autorité de l'Église catholique. L'affaire Flint et le Mouvement Sentinelliste. Deuxiièmement, témoignages des <i>Francos</i> d'aujourd'hui. Des pensées sur l'héritage culturel français - et sa rôle dans la vie quotidienne - dans la Nouvelle-Angleterre. En quelle façon des villes d'héritage franco-américain en Nouvelle-Angleterre ont transformées, et dans le Minnesota. Un accent particulier sur Woonsocket, Rhode Island. Commentaire de: Loriane, Mariette, et Elaine Castonguay; Yvon Labbé; Claire Quintal; Adele St. Pierre; Michael Rainville.Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Emigration and Immigration, Fall River MA, Jay ME, Lowell MA, Maine, Manchester NH, Mills and Mill Work, Minneapolis MN, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Essay, Orono ME, Québec, Religion, St. John River Valley, St. Paul MN, Travel and Movement, War, Woonsocket RI -
Les Franco-Américains et leur héritage québécois
Une sélection de présentations du programme des "Franco-American and Quebec Heritage Series" de l'Université de l'ètat de New York (Albany) entre 1983 et 1985. Imprimé dans un numéro du périodique "Vie Française: Revue trimestrielle," publié par le Conseil de la Vie française an Amérique. Présentations dans le context de l'Amérique du nord sur (political atmospheres à QC and Washington), la langue française; la chanson folklorique; la cuisine; des objets culturelles; les écritures québécois et franco-américains; ainsi qu'un essai biographique sur Jack Kerouac. En quatre parties principales: langue; musique; culture matérielle; littérature. Composé des piièces suivants: Préface, èloise A. Briière "Les Francos au carrefour de deux mutations sociopolitiques," Dean R. Louder LANGUE "La langue française en Amérique du Nord," Joan Newburger Savitt "Langue populaire et religion au Québec : les jurons," Jean-Pierre Pichette MUSIQUE "Musique du Québec : musique en Nouvelle-France," Mireille Gagné "Bref aperçu de la chanson folklorique française en Amérique," Bernard Ouimet CULTURE MATèRIELLE "Le potentiel de l'objet dans le discours," Lise Boily "Les caractéristiques et l'évolution de la cuisine française nord-américaine," Marielle Cormier-Boudreau "La ceinture fléchée," Suzanne Galaise LITTèRATURE "L'autre littérature québécoise," Maurice Poteet "La poésie de langue française aux ètats-Unis : une lecture décontractée," Susan L. Rosenstreich "Littérature et mentalités populaires : le cas des Franco-Américains," èloise A. Briière "Jack Kérouac, Franco-Américain," Richard S. Sorrell -
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. -
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. -
Le F.A.R.O.G. Forum : autopsie d'un journal d'éveil et de combat
Mémoire de récherche qui explore le journal du Centre Franco-Américan de l'Université du Maine - Le F.A.R.O.G. Forum - de 1972 aux années 1980. Situé dans le contexte de journalisme franco-américain, et comme publication francophone aux États-Unis pendant le mouvement québécois pour la souveraineté du Canada. -
The Social Consequences of Writing Louisiana French
The status of French language in Louisiana over time - diversity, amalgamation, decay, revival, and current modes of expression. How the written French word in the context of Louisiana French language revival has taken on special political and social meaning. The written word as a sight for examining the connections between "social and linguistic change" in Louisiana. From the author: "Studies on language shift often refer to the demise of the ousted variety by detailing various stages of language decay and extinction. Problematic for these accounts are well-documented cases of intervening social phenomena, such as language revival movements, which can alter in some way the stages of decline. French Louisiana's situation illustrates language shift interacting with a strong revival movement. In the wake of the revival and in spite of continued shift, another trend is apparent -- the writing of Louisiana French. Whereas shift clearly represents a stage of language decline, the creation of a written code functions as a key ingredient for language maintenance. A sociolinguistic analysis of these forces reveals the complexity and the conflict involved in the choice of the written word." -
Revolution : The Coming of F.A.R.O.G., 1970-1972
From the author: "In 1970 a group of Franco-Americans at the University of Maine, Orono, began meeting to discuss the creation of a new Franco-American ethnic identity. By the end of 1972, the succeeded in establishing a formal Franco-American program. They succeeded for several reasons. Like some Franco-Americans of their time, they felt acutely the loss of their ethnic group's former ties to a proud French-Canadian heritage. They learned from other movements of their own time how to go about redefining their group's identity, and the administration of the University of Maine, Orono, provided some of the material resources that the group needed in order to make it a formally established program."Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Biddeford ME, Burlington VT, Business and Economics, Community: Customs and Social Life, Danielson CT, Demography, Education, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Farming and Agriculture, Farmington ME, Fitchburg MA, Forestry, Fort Kent ME, France, Gender and Sexuality, Gorham ME, Government and Politics, Haverhill MA, Holyoke MA, Labor History, Lowell MA, Manchester NH, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Education, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, North Brookfield MA, Orono ME, Presque Isle ME, Québec, Religion, Southbridge MA, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
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. -
Working People in the Post-Industrial Age, 1961-Present
Article featuring selections of oral history interviews conducted with Rhode Island working people in the 1980s. Reflections on childhood in urban, industrial Rhode Island in the wake of industrial closures, changing demographic landscapes, and their impact on the state's collective identity. Stories of mill work in Pawtucket, the Narragansett Brewery, labor negotiations, the women's movement, and other social reform movements in Rhode Island in the 1960s and 1970s. Featured in Part Two of a Rhode Island History series entitled, "Working Lives: An Oral History of Rhode Island Labor."Tags Albion RI, Blackstone Valley RI, Central Falls RI, Emigration and Immigration, Gender and Sexuality, Government and Politics, Manville RI, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Pawtucket RI, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Rhode Island, Social History, United States, Youth -
Working People in the Post-Industrial Age, 1961-Present
Article featuring selections of oral history interviews conducted with Rhode Island working people in the 1980s. Reflections on childhood in urban, industrial Rhode Island in the wake of industrial closures, changing demographic landscapes, and their impact on the state's collective identity. Stories of mill work in Pawtucket, the Narragansett Brewery, labor negotiations, the women's movement, and other social reform movements in Rhode Island in the 1960s and 1970s. Featured in Part Two of a Rhode Island History series entitled, "Working Lives: An Oral History of Rhode Island Labor."Tags Albion RI, Blackstone Valley RI, Central Falls RI, Emigration and Immigration, Gender and Sexuality, Government and Politics, Manville RI, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Pawtucket RI, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Rhode Island, Social History, United States, Youth -
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 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 and Native North American Marriages, 1600-1800
List of French (Canadian) and Native American Marriages from eastern North America. Respective sources are listed for each documented marriage. -
AFGS Library Holdings
Catalog of books, CDs, microfilm/fiche, etc., contained in the library of the American-French Genealogical Society in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. This is the most recent version of the catalog (April 2007), but many libraries also have earlier versions (January 2000, April 2003, or August 2004, to name a few). -
Parlez-vous francais? Oui, but what do you have to sell?
Cover story on the inception and early troubles of the Lewiston, Maine, office of Forum Francophone des Affaires, the world Francophone Business Forum. The attempts of French-speaking and French-heritage Maine businesspeople, through this office, to connect with buyers and sellers in francophone markets around the globe. The Maine office's early loss of state funding, among other various problems that have arisen while trying to spur the local office and Maine businesses into grand international action. The importance of the French language in Maine to this economic effort. -
Parlez-vous francais? Oui, but what do you have to sell?
Cover story on the inception and early troubles of the Lewiston, Maine, office of Forum Francophone des Affaires, the world Francophone Business Forum. The attempts of French-speaking and French-heritage Maine businesspeople, through this office, to connect with buyers and sellers in francophone markets around the globe. The Maine office's early loss of state funding, among other various problems that have arisen while trying to spur the local office and Maine businesses into grand international action. The importance of the French language in Maine to this economic effort. -
Bonsoir le maiêtre et la maiêtresse: le roêle de la Guiannée dans le maintien des communautés franco-américaines de Sainte-Genevieève et de la Prairie du Rocher
From the author: "This dissertation explores the cultural identity of two Franco-American communities in the Mid-West [United States] to identify traits that continue to persist despite language loss due to prejudice and persecution. In this dissertation, I argue that cultural identity does continue in spite of language loss and that when language loss does occur, other identity traits, such as festivals and traditional celebrations take on a more profound and visible role in order to maintain this cultural identity.
"In 2006 and 2007, I observed the Guiannée (La Guiannée) of Sainte Genevieve, Missouri, and of Prairie du Rocher, Illinois, to understand how these two communities continue to express the culture of their French heritage. The Guiannée became the center of my research into understanding the maintenance of the Franco-American identity. This celebration continues each year on New Year's Eve and it is sung in French by members of the community who do not speak, read, or write in French, except in some cases for identifying places, people, or other celebrations."Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Canada, Community: Customs and Social Life, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Folklore, France, Language and Linguistics, Missouri, Nonfiction -- Anthropology, Nonfiction -- History -- Local, Nonfiction -- Social Sciences, Prairie du Rocher IL, St. Genevieve MO, United States, US Midwest -
Snow Man
A profile of Boston and New York social activist, Urbain Ledoux. Ledoux, known as "Mr. Zero," was an early advocate for the homeless and jobless of the United States. His parents emigrated from Quebec to work in Connecticut and Maine in the 19th century. This biographical, editorial piece sits among others in a volume dedicated to American public figures of the 1920s. -
Older Women Doing Home Care : Exploitation or Ideal Job?
Article exploring the contexts and conditions of older age women as increasingly common personal assistance and home care aides in the twenty-first century. This occupation at the convergence of the growing need for home care workers in American homes, with the financial insecurity of older active adults in need of supplemental income, and who are able to provide social support and physical assistance to elders in need of care-taking. Author asks: "As older women are choosing, or being forced, to work later in life, is personal care work in their best interest?" (300). Article based on mixed-methods research - the Older Worker Study - including interviews with Maine home health workers: discussion of financial status, family status, work history, and attitudes toward age and experience. Written by a Professor of Social Work at the University of Maine. -
Older Women Doing Home Care : Exploitation or Ideal Job?
Article exploring the contexts and conditions of older age women as increasingly common personal assistance and home care aides in the twenty-first century. This occupation at the convergence of the growing need for home care workers in American homes, with the financial insecurity of older active adults in need of supplemental income, and who are able to provide social support and physical assistance to elders in need of care-taking. Author asks: "As older women are choosing, or being forced, to work later in life, is personal care work in their best interest?" (300). Article based on mixed-methods research - the Older Worker Study - including interviews with Maine home health workers: discussion of financial status, family status, work history, and attitudes toward age and experience. Written by a Professor of Social Work at the University of Maine. -
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 -
Minority Women of North America : A Comparison of French-Canadian and Afro-American women
A comparison of the historical situations and social positions of French Canadian and African American women. An examination of their family and community roles, cultural stereotypes, and social and politicals achievement levels. Situates the origins of each population on the North American continent - one in servitude in seventeenth-century New France, the other in forced immigration and slavery in the United States of the same time. Focuses on the phenomenon of a "double-oppression" - or the sum of one's ethnic minority and gender statuses - and what is required for the doubly oppressed to be "liberated." Acknowledgement of gendered differences in the separate gains made by each minority group. Republished in Le FAROG Forum (April 1988), University of Maine. -
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. -
Aroostook Architect : The Life and Times of the Reverend Joseph S. Marcoux
Biographical history of a northern Maine Roman Catholic priest, Rev. Joseph S. Marcoux. Fr. Marcoux was the first pastor at St. Joseph's Parish in the town of Wallagrass, Maine, in Aroostook County. -
The Kennebec Wilderness Awakens
Historical piece on the Kennebec River and its surrounding valley towns, from the end of the American Revolution until the river's final log drive in the second half of the twentieth century. Relationships between early settlers and Native Americans. The river as an economic engine for its Maine region. The rise and transitions of the lumbering industry and the work of loggers past. Railroad life, activity around Moosehead Lake, and the characters who helped build the Kennebec River Valley north of the Maine town of Bingham. Area folklore and the river's place in it. Illustrated with regional maps, advertisements, and photographs taken by the author.Tags Augusta ME, Bingham ME, Caratunk ME, Chesuncook ME, Community: Customs and Social Life, Dead River Valley ME, Emigration and Immigration, Exploration and Colonization, Fairfield ME, Flagstaff ME, Forestry, France, Gardiner ME, Geography, Greenville ME, Holeb ME, Kennebec River Valley, Labor History, Lowelltown ME, Madison ME, Maine, Moose River Valley, Moosehead Lake Region, Native Americans, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Religion, Norridgewock ME, North Anson ME, Oakland ME, Pittston ME, Religion, Rockwood ME, Skowhegan ME, Sports and Leisure, Starks ME, Stratton ME, Travel and Movement, Winslow ME -
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 -
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 -
Radicals of the Worst Sort : Laboring Women in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1860-1912
New England women's labor history text from a professor of American and New England studies at the University of Southern Maine. Focuses on Lawrence, Massachusetts, as a town with a diversity of worker and ethnic experience, and the relationship between this and gender at the beginning of the twentieth century in industrial America. From the publisher's website: "Ardis Cameron focuses on the textile workers' strikes of 1882 and 1912 in this examination of class and gender formation as drawn from the experience and language of the working-class neighborhoods of Lawrence [Mass.]. She shows clearly that the working women who unionized and fought for equality were considered the 'worst sort' because they challenged both economic and sexual hierarchies, providing alternative models for turn-of-the-century women." -
Histoire de ma famille
A blank, illustrated text and family tree (with some commentary) to be filled-in with one's own genealogy. -
New Towns of the Early New England Textile Industry
Article in vernacular architecture describing New England industrial community development in the new textile towns of the early 19th century. Emphasis on textile operations and their accompanying communities and building innovations between 1820 and 1840. An attempt at departing from the employer/employee bifuracted model of community development. Comparisons between characteristics of Providence and Boston/Waltham factory and village models; observations of imitative architectural practices in each model's region. Includes select artistic representations of early industrial towns in New England.Tags Berwick ME, Blackstone River Valley, Boston MA, Central Falls RI, Centreville CT, Chelmsford MA, Chicopee MA, Clayville RI, Concord River Valley, Connecticut, Dover NH, Fiskeville RI, Harris RI, Lowell MA, Maine, Manchester NH, Massachusetts, Merrimack River Valley, Mills and Mill Work, Moosup CT, New England, New Hampshire, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Art and Architecture, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Pawtucket RI, Peterborough NH, Portsmouth NH, Providence RI, Rhode Island, Saco ME, Salmon Falls NH, Somersworth NH, Southbridge MA, Stow MA, Vermont, Waltham MA, Willimantic CT, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
Three Architects of Early New Hampshire Mill Towns
Article describing the architectural history of Nashua, New Hampshire and its surroundings, once thought to belong largely to the work of Asher Benjamin (agent of the Nashua Manufacturing Company) in the nineteenth century. Benjamin's contemporaries - Samuel Shepherd and John D. Kimball - and their little-investigated yet significant impact on landscapes often attributed to Benjamin. The relationships between these three artists and constructors in the nineteenth century, and a call for further research into their specific architectural influences. -
Three Architects of Early New Hampshire Mill Towns
Article describing the architectural history of Nashua, New Hampshire and its surroundings, once thought to belong largely to the work of Asher Benjamin (agent of the Nashua Manufacturing Company) in the nineteenth century. Benjamin's contemporaries - Samuel Shepherd and John D. Kimball - and their little-investigated yet significant impact on landscapes often attributed to Benjamin. The relationships between these three artists and constructors in the nineteenth century, and a call for further research into their specific architectural influences. -
New Towns of the Early New England Textile Industry
Article in vernacular architecture describing New England industrial community development in the new textile towns of the early 19th century. Emphasis on textile operations and their accompanying communities and building innovations between 1820 and 1840. An attempt at departing from the employer/employee bifuracted model of community development. Comparisons between characteristics of Providence and Boston/Waltham factory and village models; observations of imitative architectural practices in each model's region. Includes select artistic representations of early industrial towns in New England.Tags Berwick ME, Blackstone River Valley, Boston MA, Central Falls RI, Centreville CT, Chelmsford MA, Chicopee MA, Clayville RI, Concord River Valley, Connecticut, Dover NH, Fiskeville RI, Harris RI, Lowell MA, Maine, Manchester NH, Massachusetts, Merrimack River Valley, Mills and Mill Work, Moosup CT, New England, New Hampshire, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Art and Architecture, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Pawtucket RI, Peterborough NH, Portsmouth NH, Providence RI, Rhode Island, Saco ME, Salmon Falls NH, Somersworth NH, Southbridge MA, Stow MA, Vermont, Waltham MA, Willimantic CT, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
De l'Ile à la Tortue, à la Nouvelle France, à la Nouvelle-Angleterre : lutte pour une identité vivable
Présentations par des représentatives de l'état et l'Université du Maine sur leurs perceptions de l'identité et l'experience franco-américaine aux États-Unis. Présentée en anglais et français. Un bref historique collectif de la conscientisation franco-américaine dans l'état du Maine au fin du vingtiième siiècle.Tags Acadians, Biddeford ME, Boston MA, Canada, Criticism and Review, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, France, French Island ME, Government and Politics, Language and Linguistics, Louisiana, Lowell MA, Maine, Manitoba, Montréal QC, Native Americans, New England, New Orleans LA, Old Town ME, Orono ME, Québec, Saint John River Valley, Saskatchewan, Texas, Waterville ME -
De l'Ile à la Tortue, à la Nouvelle France, à la Nouvelle-Angleterre : lutte pour une identité vivable
Une table ronde sur la présence franco-américaine dans l'état du Maine, et les efforts culturels mise en place là par des gens qui sont associés avec le Centre franco-américan de l'Université du Maine. Des profils personnels, historiques, littéraire, communautaire, et de la politique. En vedette dans les Actes de Colloque international de la francophonie tenu à Angers de 26 au 29 mai, 1994, et organisé conjointement par les Universités d'Angers (France) de Laval (Québec) et de Massachusetts, Lowell (USA). Un grand ensemble de presentations du colloque, et des papiers presentés là . -
NAME THESE MILL WORKERS
1926 photo taken of workers in the Edwards Mill (weave rooms 33 and 53), Augusta, Maine. The featured caption seeks out newspaper readers who might be able to identify the faces in the picture. -
NAME THESE MILL WORKERS
1926 photo taken of workers in the Edwards Mill (weave rooms 33 and 53), Augusta, Maine. The featured caption seeks out newspaper readers who might be able to identify the faces in the picture. -
Seamless Hosiery Industry of Laconia, New Hampshire
Article describing the state of hosiery mills in Laconia, New Hampshire in the late 1930s: obstacles to effective production, descriptions of economic advantages, suggestions for improvement. Historical background from the origins of the first Laconia hosiery in 1847. Mill closures beginning in 1923: their causes and some of their impacts. Current 1930s industrial competition between Laconia mills and similar producers in Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern states: Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee. Includes black and white photographs.Tags Belmont NH, Binghamton NY, Blackstone River Valley, Franklin NH, Georgia, Hillsboro NH, Laconia NH, Lake Winnipesaukee NH, Merrimack River Valley, New England, New Hampshire, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Geography, Nonfiction -- History, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Tilton NH -
Seamless Hosiery Industry of Laconia, New Hampshire
Article describing the state of hosiery mills in Laconia, New Hampshire in the late 1930s: obstacles to effective production, descriptions of economic advantages, suggestions for improvement. Historical background from the origins of the first Laconia hosiery in 1847. Mill closures beginning in 1923: their causes and some of their impacts. Current 1930s industrial competition between Laconia mills and similar producers in Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern states: Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee. Includes black and white photographs.Tags Belmont NH, Blackstone River Valley, Franklin NH, Georgia, Hillsboro NH, Laconia NH, Lake Winnipesaukee NH, Merrimack River Valley, New England, New Hampshire, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Geography, Nonfiction -- History, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Tilton NH -
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 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. -
Where French Is Not A Foreign Language : Franco-Americans and the State and University of Maine
Rise and decline of French language media and academic programs in the US Northeast, as well as the persistence of discrimination against the North American French, with Maine as the primary context for observation. Includes tables of Maine county and town names with their respective percentage of French heritage population.Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Auburn ME, Bangor ME, Biddeford ME, Education, Emigration and Immigration, Fort Kent ME, France, Language and Linguistics, Lewiston ME, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, New Brunswick, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Language and Linguistics, Nova Scotia, Orono ME, Québec, St. John River Valley, St. Lawrence River Valley, Waterville ME, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
The Origin of Longfellow's "Evangeline" and Hawthorne's Relation to It
1905 letter to the editor on the recent discovery that New England author Nathaniel Hawthorne had supplied fellow New England writer Henry Wadsworth Longfellow with the theme for his famous story in verse, "Evangeline." -
The Origin of Longfellow's "Evangeline" and Hawthorne's Relation to It
1905 letter to the editor on the recent discovery that New England author Nathaniel Hawthorne had supplied fellow New England writer Henry Wadsworth Longfellow with the theme for his famous story in verse, "Evangeline." -
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. -
'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' 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. -
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." -
McAuley recalls the past: AARP's minority affairs person reflects on racism he saw in Augusta
John McAuley recalls his experience of racism while growing up in Augusta, Maine, in the 1930s. -
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. -
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. -
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 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. -
'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. -
'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. -
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. -
'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' 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. -
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." -
McAuley recalls the past: AARP's minority affairs person reflects on racism he saw in Augusta
John McAuley recalls his experience of racism while growing up in Augusta, Maine, in the 1930s. -
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. -
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. -
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 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. -
'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. -
'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. -
Building a Better Life: the French Canadian Experience in Western Massachusetts
This hardcover book from the Republican's Heritage series chronicles the history of French Canadians from their life in Canada and the mass migration of more than a million, many of whom ended up in Massachusetts. Many of these migrants did build a better life not just for themselves but for others who benefited from their skills as carpenters and builders responsible for thousands of homes in Western Massachusetts. Follow along as the French Canadian population morphs into Franco Americans and becomes a major force in all walks of life in their adopted country -
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 -
Une Amérique française
Un exploration québécois des contributions historiques des gens français et canadiens-français à la vie quotidienne et la culture des Etats-Unis. Du texte: "Quand on parle de l'apport français à l'histoire des États-Unis, on songe immédiatement à La Fayette, surtout en cette période du bicentenaire de l'Indépendance. On est peut-être porté à oublier que la plus grande partie du territoire américain a d'abord été française : découverte, cartographiée, colonisée à partir de Montréal et de Québec. Ouvrage destiné au grand public, aux étudiants, aux éleves, 'Une Amérique française' est une vase fresque illustrant la contribution que, depuis plus de 350 ans, des millions de coureurs de bois, voyageurs, missionaires, colons, commercants, ouvriers, intellectuels, venus, de France ou du Canada, ont apportée et apportent encore, par leurs qualités françaises, à la civilisation des États-Unis. L'auteur, Jacques-Donat Casanova, est français, mais il a vécu longtemps au Québec et parcouru l'Amérique du nord. Il a déja publié avec Raymond Douville, 'La vie quotidienne en Nouvelle France' et 'La vie quotidienne des Indiens au Canada.'"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, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA, Québec, South Carolina, St. Louis MO, United States, War, Wisconsin -
Was it sex discrimination?
Letter to the editor that asks whether discrimination based on gender is different from discrimination based on ethnicity, and if Le Club Calumet, a Franco-American social club in Augusta, Maine, is not allowed by its private status to limit its membership based on both sex and ethnicity. -
Was it sex discrimination?
Letter to the editor that asks whether discrimination based on gender is different from discrimination based on ethnicity, and if Le Club Calumet, a Franco-American social club in Augusta, Maine, is not allowed by its private status to limit its membership based on both sex and ethnicity. -
Dictionary of American Regional English
Dictionary of American vernacular English as pronounced and heard in various segments of the United States. Now in 4 volumes. From Belknap Press: "'The Dictionary of Regional English (DARE)" is a multi-volume reference work that documents words, phrases, and pronunciations that vary from one place to another across the United States. DARE is based on face-to-face interviews carried out in all 50 states between 1965 and 1970 and on a comprehensive collection of written materials (diaries, letters, novels, newspapers, histories, biographies, government documents, etc.) that cover our history from the colonial period to the present. The entries in DARE include regional pronunciations, variant forms, some etymologies, and regional and social distributions of the words and phrases."
from Volume I of the text:
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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. -
La langue française au défi de la diversité, par l'expérience de la minorité : le français, langue régionale de Louisiane
De l'auteur: "Ce texte porte sur la langue française telle qu'elle se parle en Louisiane depuis priès de quatre siiècles. Apriès un bref rappel de ses sources (français hexagonal, créole, acadien, etc), l'auteur s'intéresse aux efforts de revitalisation de la langue française à partir des années 1960. Depuis une cinquantaine d'années, l'école a pris le relais de la famille comme principal lieu de transmission de la langue française, ce qui n'est pas sans représenter un certain nombre de défis en ce qui a trait à la nature du français à enseigner." -
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 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. -
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. -
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. -
Notre-Dame-des-Canadiens et les Canadiens aux États-Unis
Une histoire des débuts d'une paroisse nationale catholique franco-américain de Worcester, Massachusetts, dans le cadre de tous les Canadiens francophones aux États-Unis de la seconde moitié du dix-neuviième siiècle. Pensées sur le phénomiène d'immigration. Une liste des sousscripteurs de l'église de Notre-Dame-des-Canadiens. -
Some Repatriement Dilemmas
Article on the idea of repatriation as integral to the history of French Canadian community building in the United States. Certain struggles and losses accompanying Canadian repatriation from the United States in the late 19th century, after extended periods of American settlement. Examples of repatriation as considered in two different contexts: New England and the US Midwest. In Worcester, Massachusetts, journalist Ferdinand Gagnon functioning in the French Canadian press as an agent of repatration for Quebec government in 1875; the eventual shift in his political position, a rearticulation of his understandings of cultural allegiance, and his eventual American naturalization. In Michigan, Telesphore St-Pierre as journalist advocate for la survivance during a period of growth of French community and society there. The difficulties of appealing to Canadian repatriation after extended settlement. St-Pierre's eventual appeal for American nationalism and Catholic loyalty as means of retaining heritage. Transformations in the Franco American concept of "la survivance."Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Bay City MI, Boston MA, Cohoes NY, Community: Customs and Social Life, Concord NH, Detroit MI, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Great Lakes Region, Journalism, Lake Linden MI, Michigan, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Immigration, Québec, Religion, Sault Sainte Marie MI, St. Ignace MI, United States, Worcester MA -
The First French Canadians: Pioneers in the St. Lawrence Valley
From University of Delaware Press: "This book is the culmination of an enormous project aimed at the identification of the original French migrants to Québec and their descendants in the form of a computerized population register." -
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. -
Treasured Family Recipes : Past and Present
A cookbook both traditional and modern. A collection of recipes from three generations of French Canadian and Acadian cooks. Includes an introduction by the author. Written in Madawaska, Maine, and shared with the Upper St. John Valley. Printed by the fundraising publisher Morris Press, with a portion of cookbook sales dedicated to the Edgar J. (Guy) Paradis Cancer Fund. -
La Bêche (The Spade), ou, les Assimilateurs en action : Album de dessins gais
Sous-titrée, "Dédié aux Franco-Américains de la Nouvelle Angleterre."
Une collection de dessins politiques qui soulèvent des questions sur le traitement des Franco-Américaines par leur clergé catholique dans la Nouvelle-Angleterre, ou plus précisément, dans le Maine. Commentaire artistique québécois sur la relation entre l'Église catholique - principalement, les évêques catholiques - et l'assimilation franco-américaine aux États-Unis au début du 20e siècle. Représentations sévères fictifs de la hiérarchie catholique et les Irlando-Américains de la Nouvelle-Angleterre.
De l'éditeur: "Cet album ne surprendra pas ceux qui, depuis vingt ou vingt-cinq ans, s'intéressent au sort de nos compatriotes établis aux Etats-Unis, ou - pour parler avec plus d'exactitude - de nos compatriotes établis en dehors de la province de Québec....Les dessins qui y sont groupés ne font pas autre chose que fixer quelques traits principaux de la vie catholique aux Etats-Unis." -
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. -
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. -
Kerouac: A Biography
Seminal biography of native of Lowell, Massachusetts, Franco American, novelist, and poet, Jack Kerouac. Republished in 1994. Written by Ann Charters, who worked with Kerouac during the final three years of his life. In her writing of this book, Charters was assisted by Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, and other contemporary artists close to Kerouac and essential to the Beat Movement in art, literature, and broader Americana. -
Franco-American Literature Today
Brief review of some resources in Franco-American literature available at the beginning of the 1980s. Specifically mentions collections, works, and writers in Maine, Massachusetts, and Louisiana. -
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-Canadian Literature: An Introductory Bibliography
From Chartier: "The following bibliography is a personal response to a growing number of demands from colleagues wishing to become acquainted with the rapidly expanding field of French-Canadian literature. This bibliography lays no claim whatever to completeness...only a multi-volumed effort could make such a claim, given the vastness of the subject-matter. The items listed here represent only a fraction of the very best work published in the fairly recent past. The general works are the most reliable source for readers interested in the literature of the earlier period." -
A Selective and Thematic Checklist of Publications Relating to Franco-Americans: Ethnic Heritage Studies Program of Rhode Island, Appendices F and G
Republished as article in Contemporary French Civilization, Volume 2, Number 3, Spring 1978.
From ERIC: "An annotated bibliography of publications relating to Franco-Americans is presented. The publication was designed for secondary school teachers of French or social studies who wish to know more about Franco Americans before initiating mini-courses on this ethnic group. Journal articles, books, and papers presented at professional meetings are included. Most of the items deal with the French in New England, but a few entries concern the French presence in other parts of the United States. In addition to reference works and bibliographies, the following topics are covered: culture, education, history, linguistics, poetry, prose fiction, mother-country materials, religion, and sociology. A partial listing of research projects completed at Rhode Island College and a brief list of periodicals are appended." -
The French in Rhode Island : Historical Overview
A brief history, unpublished, of the French presence in the Rhode Island area - from France's exploration in the 16th century, to the Huguenot communities of the 17th century, French soldiers of the late 18th in the American Revolution, and the French Canadian immigrants of the most recent two hundred years. The continuing Franco American presence in Rhode Island, the cities in which French heritage is vibrant, and the institutions that have sustained certain elements of French culture. Profiles of certain prominent Rhode Islanders.Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Albion RI, Arctic RI, Art and Architecture, Ashton RI, Business and Economics, Central Falls RI, Community: Customs and Social Life, East Greenwich RI, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Exploration and Colonization, Frenchtown RI, Government and Politics, Lippitsville RI, Manville RI, Natick RI, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Local, Pawtucket RI, Phenix RI, Providence RI, Religion, Rhode Island, Slatersville RI, Violence, War, Warren RI, West Warwick RI, Woonsocket RI -
Legacy : A Biography of Rev. Armand "Spike" Morissette, O.M.I.
The life of Father Armand Morissette - better known as Father Spike - Catholic priest of Lowell, Massachusetts. Father Spike was widely known for his compassion and ease of friendship, as well as for his community activism and ahead-of-the-curve political and theological views. Stories and memories of the Lowell native from his birth in 1910 to the book's publication in 1985. Includes his schooling, service as chaplain to the French Navy, his relationship with Jack Kerouac, and the breadth of his participation in public life. Appended with interviews with Father Spike, as well as a selection of several of his speeches. -
Dirt
Storied reflections on the familial inheritance of an author's personal relationship with dirt. Cleaning habits, life lessons, and attitudes of the author's matriarchs toward the cleanliness of one's home and the neat order of oneself. How her confrontations and reminiscences over dirt appear at turning points in the author's life, and what these events have taught her about herself and her family. -
That Other Yankee, The Franco American
Historical essay arguing against a lack of knowledge about French and Franco American agents in the history of the United States, and the harmful cultural and political effects such a lack of knowledge may have in this country's citizens. Touches base on many of the major French persons significant in the history of North America previous to 1776. -
That Other Yankee, The Franco American
Historical essay arguing against a lack of knowledge about French and Franco American agents in the history of the United States, and the harmful cultural and political effects such a lack of knowledge may have in this country's citizens. Touches base on many of the major French persons significant in the history of North America previous to 1776. -
Reunion Families' Favorite Recipes
Collection of recipes shared by families who celebrated reunions in Madawaska, Maine between 1980 and 1992. The reunion banquet being a keystone event, the Madawaska Historical Society collected a book's worth of family foods from the following clans whose gatherings took place in the following order:
1980 - Daigle
1981 - Cyr
1982 - Hébert
1983 - Dufour
1984 - Thibodeau
1985 - Ayotte, Duperré, Fournier, Mercure, Potier, Sanfaçon
1986 - Pelletier
1987 - Plourde
1988 - Ouellette
1989 - Paradis
1990 - Bouchard
1991 - Sirois
1992 - Côté
The recipe book is divided into chapter by year and family. Each section is introduced with a family crest, a brief genealogical description of a family name, and a list of the recipes that follow alphabetized by the first name of their presenter. Original Acadian recipes are denoted by asterisk. Contains an index of all included recipes. -
Les belles histoires de Fort Kent, Maine USA
A collection of stories and memories collected from the residents of Fort Kent, Maine published by the Fort Kent Historical society -
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 -
Rhode Island's Franco-Americans in Our Pluralistic Society
Brief essay presentation summarizing much of the history of the French presence in Rhode Island. Acknowledges certain Rhode Island events, as well as political and religious figures, beginning with French explorations of North America in the 16th century, and moving into the twentieth century. Composed as a response to what the author calls the "melting pot theory," and as an argument against the author's notion of cultural assimilation. Transcript of a speech given to Le Foyer - a social organization in Pawtucket, Rhode Island - on March 21, 1973.Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Central Falls RI, Coventry RI, Cumberland RI, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Exploration and Colonization, Government and Politics, Manville RI, Narragansett RI, Newport RI, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Local, Pawtucket RI, Religion, Rhode Island, West Warwick RI, Woonsocket RI -
Marriages of St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Old Town, Maine (1860-1960): Including 1836-1892 Franco-American marriages recorded in the civil registers of Bangor, Bradley, Brewer, Old Town, and Orono
A list of marriages from 1836 to 1892, a list of priests, marriages, and marriage extracts from 1862 to 1960, a necrology from 1880-1946, a list of Anglicized French surnames in the Old Town area, and a list of the earliest French-Canadian families in Old Town. -
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. -
Talking Acadian : Communication, Work, and Culture
A case study in intercultural communication, with linguistic and psychological insight into the dynamics of an American Acadian community in Gardner, Massachusetts. Large emphasis on the communal value of work, or how ideas about work are situated in the grammar of Acadian American dialogue. From YBK Publishers: " 'Talking Acadian: Communication, Work and Culture' provides a look into the lives of the French-speaking American Acadians, and particularly those who left eastern Canada to settle in Masschusetts in the 1960s. This book captures their stories about family life and their values, mores and morals. It also traces the ways that they use communication to develop and maintain their culture.What the reader learns is that to talk about Acadians you must talk about work. This group gives us new insights into the world of work - a central feature of living for the Acadians and crucial to their self-definition."Tags Acadians, Community: Customs and Social Life, Criticism and Review, Family, Folklore, France, Gardner MA, Labor History, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New Brunswick, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Anthropology, Nonfiction -- Language and Linguistics, Nonfiction -- Performance Studies, Nonfiction -- Psychology, Nonfiction -- Social Sciences, Nova Scotia, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Religion, Salem MA, Sports and Leisure -
The Role of French National Societies in the Socio-Cultural Evolution of the Franco-Americans of New England from 1860 to the Present : An Analytical Macro-Sociological Case Study in Ethnic Integration Based on Current Social System Models
Dissertation on the histories of Franco American national societies and fraternal organizations in New England. Their significance to French Canadian and Franco American communities there from 1860 to 1960. How these organizations were involved in the socialization of francophone Canadian immigrants in the United States. An argument that these processes of socialization are better described as "integration" rather than "assimilation." Observations on "the socio-cultural evolution of the Franco-American ethnic group in New England" (1). A case study in macrosociology. Contains various observations of Franco American national societies and parishes throughout the Northeast.Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Albany NY, Anoka MN, Aurora IL, Biddeford ME, Business and Economics, Canada, Chicago IL, Community: Customs and Social Life, Concord NH, Connecticut, Detroit MI, Education, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Fitchburg MA, Glens Falls NY, Government and Politics, Holyoke MA, Irish Americans, Lewiston ME, Lowell MA, Maine, Manchester NH, Massachusetts, Mendota MN, Millbury MA, Minneapolis MN, Nashua NH, New England, New Hampshire, New York NY, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Social Sciences, Nonfiction -- Sociology, Polish Americans, Providence RI, Religion, Rhode Island, Salem MA, Southbridge MA, St. Paul MN, Troy NY, Vermont, Wayne County MI, Webster MA, Westborough MA, Willimantic CT, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
Le Grand Jack
Part-fiction documentary on the life and works of Jack Kerouac, a writer from Lowell, Massachusetts, most famous for his Beat Generation novel, "On the Road." Pris de l'ONF: "Docufiction sur Jack Kerouac, un des membres les plus importants du mouvement de la Beat Generation. Sur la route , une de ses œuvres les plus connues a rendu l'écrivain et poiète américain célièbre apriès sa mort en 1969. Ses textes ont grandement contribué à la révolution culturelle, sexuelle et sociale des années 1960. Archives, photos, entrevues et reconstitution d'époque, servent de trame au réalisateur pour décortiquer le mythe du héros." -
The Spice of Popery : Converging Christianities on an Early American Frontier
Exploration of Maine's religious culture and various religious identities in the 17th and early 18th centuries. A study of religious eclecticism in the New England/New France borderland that complicates conventional notions of Christian orthodoxy, or of various Protestant and Catholic peoples and ways of living, in a corner of North America during the Colonial Period. The region's interactions between European Protestant settlers, Wabanaki, and French Catholics; the interplay of their various powers and religious varieties; the birth of hybrid borderland cultures; the solidification of religious identities. Particular emphasis on Catholic/Protestant conflicts in this time period and region. Illustrated with maps, portraits, and black and white photographs. Based on the 2006 dissertation of a similar title. -
The Spice of Popery : Converging Christianities on an Early American Frontier
Exploration of Maine's religious culture and various religious identities in the 17th and early 18th centuries. A study of religious eclecticism in the New England/New France borderland that complicates conventional notions of Christian orthodoxy, or of various Protestant and Catholic peoples and ways of living, in a corner of North America during the Colonial Period. The region's interactions between European Protestant settlers, Wabanaki, and French Catholics; the interplay of their various powers and religious varieties; the birth of hybrid borderland cultures; the solidification of religious identities. Particular emphasis on Catholic/Protestant conflicts in this time period and region. Illustrated with maps, portraits, and black and white photographs. Based on the 2006 dissertation of a similar title. -
Quebec and the American Dream
An examination of various and historical connections between Quebec and the United States. Beginning in the attitudes shaped during eighteenth-century struggles between France and Britain over the Canadian landmass, then moving through the American Revolution, the Great Migration period, the United States assimilation measures of the early twentieth century, and the Quebec nationalist movement, the authors reflect on the meaning of the United States for Quebec - and vice versa. From the Between the Lines Publishing: "Chodos and Hamovitch weave a blend of anecdote, quotation, and scholarship to provide an incisive historical account of the interaction between French Canada and the political economy of the United States."Tags Acadians, Boston MA, Business and Economics, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Farming and Agriculture, Florida, Forestry, France, Government and Politics, Great Britain, Language and Linguistics, Lawrence MA, Louisiana, Madawaska ME, Massachusetts, Mills and Mill Work, Montréal QC, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Old Orchard Beach ME, Québec, Religion, United States, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
Kind Ness
Dramatic piece that follows five young people of different sociocultural backgrounds - and one Rwandan gorilla - interacting with one another at various stages of their lives in the suburban United States, all under the apparent study of the narrator. First performed in 1986; published in a 1988 collection of new American plays. -
Kind Ness
Dramatic piece that follows five young people of different sociocultural backgrounds - and one Rwandan gorilla - interacting with one another at various stages of their lives in the suburban United States, all under the apparent study of the narrator. First performed in 1986; published in a 1988 collection of new American plays. -
Under Canadian Skies : A French-Canadian Historical Romance
Novel of historical fiction depicting the Rebellion of 1837 in Canada. Philippe Champagne and Edouard Dumas are two young attorneys whose advocacy on behalf of Lower Canada carries them from Montréal to the Québec countryside, and from the Champagne family and their friends to some of the most notable political figures of the period. The spy, Mireau, who unsettles Lower Canada and threatens its rebellion. Shots fired and swordplay between peasant militia and advancing soldiers. Depictions of animosity between English and French Canadians. Written by a Rhode Island author, and introduced with a brief discussion of New England French speakers. -
Under Canadian Skies : A French-Canadian Historical Romance
Novel of historical fiction depicting the Rebellion of 1837 in Canada. Philippe Champagne and Edouard Dumas are two young attorneys whose advocacy on behalf of Lower Canada carries them from Montréal to the Québec countryside, and from the Champagne family and their friends to some of the most notable political figures of the period. The spy, Mireau, who unsettles Lower Canada and threatens its rebellion. Shots fired and swordplay between peasant militia and advancing soldiers. Depictions of animosity between English and French Canadians. Written by a Rhode Island author, and introduced with a brief discussion of New England French speakers. -
We Too Are Sons of Liberty : Franco-American Ethnic Advocacy in Joseph P. Choquet's Under Canadian Skies, a Historical Novel of the Rebellion of 1837
Article describing the early twentieth-century English-language novel, "Under Canadian Skies," as unique to the canon of francophone Franco American novels of the same historical period. How author Joseph Choquet's form of literary ethnic advocacy differs from a more popular notion of "la survivance" apparent in the works of writers Jules Verne and Ernest D. Choquette. Thoughts on the novel's depiction of the Canadian Rebellion of 1837. -
We Too Are Sons of Liberty : Franco-American Ethnic Advocacy in Joseph P. Choquet's Under Canadian Skies, a Historical Novel of the Rebellion of 1837
Article describing the early twentieth-century English-language novel, "Under Canadian Skies," as unique to the canon of francophone Franco American novels of the same historical period. How author Joseph Choquet's form of literary ethnic advocacy differs from a more popular notion of "la survivance" apparent in the works of writers Jules Verne and Ernest D. Choquette. Thoughts on the novel's depiction of the Canadian Rebellion of 1837. -
Review : Backwoods Consumers and Homespun Capitalists : The Rise of a Market Culture in Eastern Canada
A business review of Beatrice Craig's "Backwoods Consumers and Homespun Capitalists: The Rise of a Market Culture in Eastern Canada." The reviewer, Leslie Choquette, author of "Frenchmen into Peasants: Modernity and Tradition in the Peopling of French Canada" (Harvard University Press, 1997), is the Director of Assumption College's French Institute.Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Business and Economics, Canada, Criticism and Review, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, Farming and Agriculture, Forestry, Fur-trading, Labor History, New Brunswick, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, St. John River Valley -
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."
from Belknap Press of HUP:
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Parlez-vous Canadien?
Article on the comparisons made between French language varieties in Canada, France, and elsewhere in the Francophone world. -
Vermont Plans Bilingual Signs For Highways
Article on French-English roadsigns planned for Vermont highways in the 1950s. -
Big Liquor Seizures in Bennington, Vermont
Article on multiple criminal alcohol seizures from a number of Vermont social clubs in the 1910s. -
New Cotton Mill for Manville, R.I.
Article on the plans for a new cotton mill - owned entirely by French-Canadians - to be built in Manville, Rhode Island. -
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 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. -
Republican Clubs Formed in Towns of Essex County
Article on the creation of Republican political clubs in Essex County, Massachusetts, which includes the towns of Salem, Lawrence, Lynn, Merrimac, Methuen, and others. -
Vast Crowd at Plattsburg
Article on the celebration of Franco-American Day at Lake Champlain (New York and Vermont) in 1909. -
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 Foresters Meet
An article on the meeting of the Franco American Order of Foresters held in Manchester, New Hampshire, in 1909. -
Parlez-vous Canadien?
Article on the comparisons made between French language varieties in Canada, France, and elsewhere in the Francophone world. -
Vermont Plans Bilingual Signs For Highways
Article on French-English roadsigns planned for Vermont highways in the 1950s. -
Big Liquor Seizures in Bennington, Vermont
Article on multiple criminal alcohol seizures from a number of Vermont social clubs in the 1910s. -
New Cotton Mill for Manville, R.I.
Article on the plans for a new cotton mill - owned entirely by French-Canadians - to be built in Manville, Rhode Island. -
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 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. -
Republican Clubs Formed in Towns of Essex County
Article on the creation of Republican political clubs in Essex County, Massachusetts, which includes the towns of Salem, Lawrence, Lynn, Merrimac, Methuen, and others. -
Vast Crowd at Plattsburg
Article on the celebration of Franco-American Day at Lake Champlain (New York and Vermont) in 1909. -
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 Foresters Meet
An article on the meeting of the Franco American Order of Foresters held in Manchester, New Hampshire, in 1909. -
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?" -
Souvenir du 50ieème anniversaire de la paroisse St. Jean Baptiste, Brunswick, Maine 1877-1927
50th anniversary tribute to the Church of St. John the Baptist, serving the Catholic communities of Brunswick and Bath, Maine. Contains photos, advertisements, and some information on St. John School (L'École Saint-Jean-Baptiste). -
Letourneau's Used Auto Parts
The second in a collection of novels by this North Parsonsfield, Maine author. Set in the fictional, rural Maine town of Egypt. A series of vignettes centered around Big Lucien Letourneau, his family, and the other hardscrabble characters in their rural community. Letourneau's auto parts business and all the quirks, love, and violence between the people in his salvage yard/shantytown known as "Miracle City." -
Miracle at St. Joseph's
A compassionate recounting of the 1993 occupation of Worcester, Massachusetts' St. Joseph Church. The 13-month, around-the-clock vigil held at St. Joseph's by many of its parishioners - those refusing the orders of the Roman Catholic bishop that the church be shut down and boarded up on account of his evaluation of its structural disrepair. The parishioners' drawn-out battle, the growth of their public and economic support, the time leading up to their eventual eviction, and their final day in protest. The growth of the St. Joseph's faith community in spite of the closure of its physical place. Commentary from participants in the protest vigil, among others, as well as an interview with the responsible bishop, The Most Reverend Timothy J. Harrington. -
Miracle at St. Joseph's
A compassionate recounting of the 1993 occupation of Worcester, Massachusetts' St. Joseph Church. The 13-month, around-the-clock vigil held at St. Joseph's by many of its parishioners - those refusing the orders of the Roman Catholic bishop that the church be shut down and boarded up on account of his evaluation of its structural disrepair. The parishioners' drawn-out battle, the growth of their public and economic support, the time leading up to their eventual eviction, and their final day in protest. The growth of the St. Joseph's faith community in spite of the closure of its physical place. Commentary from participants in the protest vigil, among others, as well as an interview with the responsible bishop, The Most Reverend Timothy J. Harrington. -
Paul Bunyan
Walt Disney cartoon rendition of the American folklore tale about a woodsman from the Northeast and Midwest named Paul Bunyan. This cartoon also incorporates another piece of folklore from French Canada - the character of Joseph Montferrand (or Joe Muffaw) - who rivals Paul, and whose history as a woodcutter in eastern Canada developed into tales that were passed down as folklore through French Canadian immigration to New England and the Middle West. See George Monteiro's article in #287 of the Journal of American Folklore, "Histoire de Montferrand: L'Athlete Canadien and Joe Mufraw." -
Manchester.
Subtitled, "A brief record of its past and a picture of its present, including an account of its settlement and of its growth as a town and city a history of its schools, churches, societies, banks." 1875 history of Manchester, New Hampshire. Begins with settlement, and includes a brief account of immigrant presence up to that time. -
Thrust and Counterthrust : The Genesis of the Canada-United States Boundary
History of borderlands and border disputes between the United States and Canada. Chapter 1 is dedicated to the early-nineteenth-century St. John River Valley border dispute and the Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842) that solidified the division between present day New Brunswick and Maine. -
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 -
Saintly Delights : St. Augustine Parish, Augusta, Maine
Collection of recipes gathered from the families and parishioners of St. Augustine Roman Catholic Parish in Augusta, Maine. Divided into section by food type, all recipes are printed with the name of their contributor(s). Book contains printed advertisements from local businesses and an index of the included recipes, ordered by page number. -
Franco-American Writers
A WERU FM community radio broadcast of readings by two Maine writers, Rhea Côté Robbins and Trudy Chambers Price. Côté Robbins, who introduces her readings with a short talk on violence at home and in the workplace, shares from a work-in-progress entitled, "down the Plains." Chambers Price shares two chapters from her memoir, "The Cows Are Out!: Two Decades on a Maine Dairy Farm" (chapter 12, "A Real Farmer's Tan," and chapter 10, "The Cows Are Out!"). Readings are followed by a discussion with both writers about their lives, their work, and the stories that they and other Franco American women hold. -
Men should do it all
Letter to the editor calling for gender equality in cutural organizations. This comes in support of Nancy Albert Ellis, whose bid to join the Calumet Club in Augusta, Maine, was rejected, and ultimately denied in a decision by the Maine Supreme Court. -
Men should do it all
Letter to the editor calling for gender equality in cutural organizations. This comes in support of Nancy Albert Ellis, whose bid to join the Calumet Club in Augusta, Maine, was rejected, and ultimately denied in a decision by the Maine Supreme Court. -
Phonological Correspondences Between Modern French and the Lewiston-Auburn Dialect of French, and Between the English Spoken in Lewiston-Auburn and the Lewiston-Auburn Dialect of French
Comparison of phonological traits in the English and the French languages spoken in the twin cities of Lewiston and Auburn, Maine. Observations of idiosyncratic French language characteristics in Lewiston. An introductory history of Franco Americans in Lewiston and Auburn, Maine - their European and Canadian backgrounds, and their Maine community establishments. Charts that measure specific linguistic properties of Lewiston-Auburn French speakers. From the introduction: "My goal, in writing this essay, was to make a phonetic transcription of the sounds which bilingual Franco-Americans of Lewiston-Auburn, Maine employ when they speak what they call 'French,' and then to show how these sounds correspond to the sounds of Modern French; and what happens to the sounds of English words when they are borrowed by these people when they are speaking the LA dialect. The analysis is strictly descriptive, and phonetic, and it was carried out only on the word level." (1) -
Souvenirs de Chasses...dans le Maine
La publication des écrits personnels d'Annette Cogels, de son voyage 1929 du Belgique, au Canada, dans le Maine, pour chasser le chevreuil dans les bois du nord du Maine. Son temps dans la forêt du Maine qui est associé souvent avec le bûcheron et homme d'affaires beauceron, Edouard Lacroix. Illustrée dans des photos noir et blanc, et avec des commentaires du rédacteur. -
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 -
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 -
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. -
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. -
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. -
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." -
Pour Résoudre la Crise de l'Enseignement du français dans nos Ecoles Paroissiales
Sous-titrée, "Actes du IXe Congreès des Franco-américains tenu aè Providence, Rhode Island, les 11 et 12 novembre 1966." Des actes d'un congreès de 1966 dont le but principal était une discussion sur l'état de la langue française dans les écoles paroissiales de Nouvelle-Angleterre: la rareté croissante de la langue parmi les jeunes étudiants, et quelques suggestions pour son avenir. Des orateurs (religieuses, académiques, etc.) utilisent quelques examples des enseignants, étudiants, écoles, et paroisses dans le New Hampshire et Rhode Island. Le livre est divisé en sections: Avant-Propos Proclamation du IXe Congreès des Franco-Américains Programme du IXe Congreès Bienvenue au IXE Congreès des Franco-Américains, par M. Henri-A. Melançon, président du Comité Franco-Américain du Rhode Island "Le Comité de Vie Franco-Américaine et la grande résolution du VIIIe Congreès des Franco-Américains" par M. Louis-I. Martel, président du Comité de Vie Franco-Américaine "Pour resoudre la crise de l'enseignement du francais dans nos écoles paroissiales" par M. le docteur Robert A. Beaudoin Questionnaire destiné a servir de guide aux délibérations des commissions d'études du IXe Congreès Voeux et Résolutions du IXe Congreès des Franco-americains Discours de Son Excellence Mgr Russell J. McVinney, éveque du diocese de Providence, an Banquet du IXe Congreès Remise des insignes de l'Ordre du Mérite Franco-Américain à Soeur Raymond de Jesus, F.S.E., par Antonio Prince, chancelier de l'OrdreTags Boston MA, Bridgeport CT, Burlington VT, Chicopee MA, Clubs and Societies, Community: Customs and Social Life, Connecticut, Education, Fall River MA, Gorham NH, Hartford CT, Jaffrey NH, Language and Linguistics, Leominster MA, Lowell MA, Maine, Manchester NH, Massachusetts, New England, New Hampshire, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Education, Norwich CT, Petersham MA, Portland ME, Providence RI, Putnam CT, Religion, Rhode Island, Springfield MA, Tupper Lake NY, Vermont, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
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 -
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. -
Acadian Home Cooking : At Mom's Apron Strings
Oral interview with the owner of Café de le Place in Madawaska, Maine. The role of food in his family life and historically in the lives of the Acadians of the St. John River Valley. Some descriptions of famous Acadian dishes. Recorded in the Story Bank mobile recording studio at the 2009 American Folk Festival in Bangor, Maine. Presented in video montage form: interview audio with pictures of the interviewee, his family, and his work. -
Prairie Roses : La Petite Soeur Tells About Her Family
Memoirs spanning the period from 1901 to 1945, focusing on stories of the author's family throughout the midwestern United States during that period. -
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... -
Up from Maple Street
Memoirs of a Vermont teacher. The story of his French Canadian family living in St. Johnsbury, Vermont in the middle twentieth century. From Ecko House Publishing: "This book tells of a French Canadian family rising out of poverty and achieving the American Dream. The setting is St. Johnsbury, Vermont. Felix, the Dad, is a hot dog vendor on the hilly streets while Mom is a stay at home mom raising eight children. The American Dream is reached through hard work, perseverance and especially education. Part of the book deals with interesting anecdotes at various schools in Vermont in which the author spent 36 years as a teacher and school administrator." -
As I Live and Dream
Autobiographical collection of essays that chronicle a Franco American's family life in western Maine in the first half of the twentieth century. Includes one chapter on the history of Rumford, Maine. -
The Handbook of French Place Names in the U.S.A.
Geography and etymology of places in the United States with names of French origin. Mostly concerned with California, Louisiana, and the U.S. Midwest. -
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." -
Quebec : A Historical Geography
From UBC Press: "In this richly documented work, Serge Courville tells the geographical history of Quebec, from the appearance of the first human groups through to the present day. This detailed and erudite book maps the major stages of Quebec's collective development, providing a geographical record of the many social relationships that over time created a sense of place. Landscape, Courville shows, is the keeper of memory, the record of successive changes, and a witness to the genesis of the new. Places that were once agricultural, then left to waste and ruin, are today revivified by tourism. Areas that now house office buildings were long ago open playgrounds where children ruled. Drawing on vast research, Courville shows how, in spite of the turbulence Quebec often endures or perhaps because of it the land itself may be seen as an important participant in the history of its peoples." -
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 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. -
What's next?
Observations on the 2010 Maine gubernatorial and mid-term elections, and predictions for the near future of the state's political make-up. Also, a clarification on Paul LePage being the first "elected Franco governor" of the state. -
Maine's first Franco-American governor sounds bit like second : Both Alonzo Garcelon, Paul LePage spoke of thrift, bipartisanship
Article describing the similarities of Alonzo Garcelon, a late nineteenth-century Maine governor, and the state's most recently elected governor, Paul LePage. While recent news has debated the term "Franco American" as a descriptor for both governors - the first of French American heritage, the second with French Canadian American lineage - this article aims instead at pointing out similarities in their politics and political contexts. -
What's next?
Observations on the 2010 Maine gubernatorial and mid-term elections, and predictions for the near future of the state's political make-up. Also, a clarification on Paul LePage being the first "elected Franco governor" of the state. -
Maine's first Franco-American governor sounds bit like second : Both Alonzo Garcelon, Paul LePage spoke of thrift, bipartisanship
Article describing the similarities of Alonzo Garcelon, a late nineteenth-century Maine governor, and the state's most recently elected governor, Paul LePage. While recent news has debated the term "Franco American" as a descriptor for both governors - the first of French American heritage, the second with French Canadian American lineage - this article aims instead at pointing out similarities in their politics and political contexts. -
The French-Canadian Ethnic Factor in Maine Politics
Study of links between French ethnicity and voting in Maine in the 20th century. Franco American voting patterns, and the recent history of the Franco American voting bloc in Maine state politics. -
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. -
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. -
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 -
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. -
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." -
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. -
Early French Migrations to Northern Maine, 1785-1850
Essay attempting to dispel inaccuracies of the Acadian tradition in the Madawaska area, and to reckon the historical record with popular historical perceptions about that region that have developed over time by those who claim to be descendent from that region. Brief history of the birth of Madawaska. From an issue of the Maine Historical Society Quarterly entitled, "Franco-Americans in Maine." -
Immigrants in a Frontier Community : Madawaska 1785-1850
Essay on the effects of immigrants from French Canada on the demography, economy, and social landscape of the Upper St. John Valley, Maine, around the turn of the nineteenth century. Explores an argued distinction between "French Canadian" and "Acadian."Tags Acadians, Acculturation and Assimilation, Business and Economics, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, Farming and Agriculture, Forestry, Geography, Government and Politics, Labor History, Madawaska ME, Maine, New Brunswick, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Immigration, Québec, Religion, St. John River Valley -
Family, Kinship and Community Formation on the Canadian-American Border : Madawaska, 1785-1842
From the author: "The Madawaska settlement, on the Upper St. John Valley in Northern Maine and North West New Brunswick was started in 1785 by a group of Acadian and French-Canadian families for New Brunswick, and a group of French Canadians from the St. Lawrence Valley. They were subsequently joined by other migrants from French Canada. The settlers lived off subsistence farming till 1824, when lumbercamps opened in the region. They were isolated as no road connected the Upper St. John Valley with other settled region until the 1830s. The only means of communication between Madawaska and the outside world was through the St. John and Madawaska Rivers and through portages to the St. Lawrence. This study examines the interaction between family, kinship networks and the process of community formation over the first sixty years of this settlement. It is based primarily on quantitative sources: parish registers, censuses, land records, but also uses existing traditional evidence. Consequently, it extensively uses quantitative and demographic techniques."Tags Acadians, Community: Customs and Social Life, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Farming and Agriculture, Geography, Labor History, Language and Linguistics, Madawaska ME, Native Americans, New Brunswick, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- French in North America, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Religion, Social History, St. John River Valley -
The Land In Between: The Upper St. John Valley, Prehistory to World War I
Tags Acadians, Canada, Community: Customs and Social Life, Education, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Farming and Agriculture, France, Geography, Government and Politics, Great Britain, Madawaska ME, Maine, Native Americans, New Brunswick, New England, Religion, St. John River Valley, St. Lawrence River Valley -
Name-Changing Patterns among French Canadians in Waterville, Maine
Brief history of French-Canadian immigration to Waterville, Maine, followed by an exploration of the reasons behind a strong pattern of surname-translation and -changing in the same town. Includes a short list of original surnames and their corresponding anglicizations. -
The Erasure of Grace : Reconnecting Peyton Place to its Author
Critical article on the connection between the public reception of the 1950s breakout novel, "Peyton Place," and the attitudes and public persona of its author, Grace Metalious. How Metalious' life might be read in the depictions and trials of her novel's female characters. How the fictional town of Peyton Place - based on Metalious' New Hampshire home - resonated with readers across the United States. -
The Erasure of Grace : Reconnecting Peyton Place to its Author
Critical article on the connection between the public reception of the 1950s breakout novel, "Peyton Place," and the attitudes and public persona of its author, Grace Metalious. How Metalious' life might be read in the depictions and trials of her novel's female characters. How the fictional town of Peyton Place - based on Metalious' New Hampshire home - resonated with readers across the United States. -
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 -
Two Nations : An Essay on the Culture and Politics of Canada and Quebec in a World of American Pre-Eminence
Book-length essay by two Canadian scholars on altering and asserting the political, social, and economic strengths of Canada and Quebec, respectively, amidst "American Pre-eminence" in the late 20th century. Suggestions on efforts to reshape Canadian popular culture in a rejection of American imperial dominance. -
The Pattern of Cultural Groups in Worcester
Local geographic landscapes and social conditions of various ethnic groups in Worcester, Massachusetts. Author's 1955 article in the journal Economic Geography, "Mapping Cultural Groups in an American Industrial City," is based on the research conducted for this dissertation.Tags Community: Customs and Social Life, Demography, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Geography, Labor History, Massachusetts, Nonfiction -- Anthropology, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Nonfiction -- History -- Local, Nonfiction -- Social Sciences, Religion, Social History, Worcester MA -
Mapping Cultural Groups in an American Industrial City
Brief description of a sociological method used to "investigat[e] the pattern of cultural groups" in Worcester, Massachusetts. Based on the research conducted from Creveling's doctoral dissertation, "The pattern of cultural groups in Worcester" (Clark University, 1951). Includes a copy of Creveling's ethno-map produced out of local interviews, as well as a map that designates the location of Catholic churches in Worcester and their primary ethnic make-up. -
The Establishment of Catholic Churches in New England
Exhuastive lists of New England state dioceses, parishes, churches, and their years of establishment up to 1977. Some churches listed are associated either with the nationality/ethnicity most represented in its community, or with the population group responsible for a church's founding. -
Mariages de Sainte-Rosaire de Rochester, NH, 1883-1976
Un répertoire (des noms familles) des mariages performé dans la paroisse catholique de Sainte-Rosaire de Rochester, New Hampshire. Un de beaucoup de livres généalogiques franco-américains écrits par Croteau. -
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 respondents compare themselves generally to people in the United States. -
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. -
Continuity and Disruption : Working-Class Community in Lynn and Fall River, Massachusetts, 1880-1950
From a review of by Donald H. Stewart, SUNY Cortland, on the later text based on this dissertation's research: "Cumbler concentrates on two Massachusetts cities - Lynn, a late-nineteenth century shoe manufacturing center, and Fall River, a leading textile producer. Contradicting historians who argue that upward mobility and ethnic competition prevented American coherent class solidarity, he finds much of it in both municipalities."Tags Boston MA, Bowenville MA, Business and Economics, Community: Customs and Social Life, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Government and Politics, Labor History, Lynn MA, Massachusetts, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Quequechan River Valley, Social History -
Working-Class Community in Industrial America : Work, Leisure, and Struggle in Two Industrial Cities, 1880-1930
Based on the research for Cumbler's 1974 dissertation, "Continuity and Disruption," this text is a narrower (twenty years fewer), illustrated exploration of ethnicity woven through the working-class communities of Lynn and Fall River, Massachusetts. A local labor history of two New England mill towns. From a review of by Donald H. Stewart, SUNY Cortland: "Cumbler concentrates on two Massachusetts cities - Lynn, a late-nineteenth century shoe manufacturing center, and Fall River, a leading textile producer. Contradicting historians who argue that upward mobility and ethnic competition prevented American coherent class solidarity, he finds much of it in both municipalities."Tags Boston MA, Bowenville MA, Business and Economics, Community: Customs and Social Life, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Government and Politics, Labor History, Lynn MA, Massachusetts, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Social History, Sports and Leisure -
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. -
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 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." -
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). -
The Captain
Short fiction piece that finds a retired navy captain long after World War II, and his housekeeper, far from the sea. From the author of "God is Dead," "Everything Matters!" and "Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles." Appears in the online literary magazine, SmokeLong Quarterly -
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. -
The Captain
Short fiction piece that finds a retired navy captain long after World War II, and his housekeeper, far from the sea. From the author of "God is Dead," "Everything Matters!" and "Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles." Appears in the online literary magazine, SmokeLong Quarterly -
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. -
Things I Learned While Writing
Short essay by a writer from Waterville, Maine, in support of his recent novel, "Everything Matters!" The topic of this piece, reflected in its title, lends to the sharing of a few personal anecdotes that relate some of his experiences with family, miracles, and death, and what these things have revealed to him in writing. -
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. -
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). -
My Brother the Murderer
Online feature entitled "What happens when the world finds out that God is dead?: Ron Currie, Jr. reads from his novel." The feature is a link to the author's reading of the chapter "My Brother the Murderer" from his novel titled "God is Dead" (2007). In this piece, a man faces public and private alienation for the abominable actions of his brother now locked away in an Augusta, Maine mental hospital. -
Things I Learned While Writing
Short essay by a writer from Waterville, Maine, in support of his recent novel, "Everything Matters!" The topic of this piece, reflected in its title, lends to the sharing of a few personal anecdotes that relate some of his experiences with family, miracles, and death, and what these things have revealed to him in writing. -
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. -
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). -
Chére Ma-Ma
Remembrances of a French Canadian family in New Hampshire, or the biography of a Canadian immigrant mother as written by her American daughter. Family life, work, and prayer in rural New England. Presented as if in flashback, with the story beginning as the daughter attempts to communicate with her aged and ill mother in a nursing home. Constructed in short vignettes pertinent to the mother's life as mother, each section set out with a descriptive header. Includes some poems from the author. From the book jacket: " 'Chére Ma-Ma' (Dear Mom) is a true story which tells of the determination and perseverance of a French Canadian woman, Mathilda (Bourassa) Charest, who raised a family of twelve children, and how she survived the everyday circumstances of truth in poverty, especially so, during the country's Depression; and her love of God through the Catholic faith." -
Mémoires d'une famille acadienne de Van Buren, Maine
Une histoire culturelle des Acadiens de la Vallée St-Jean dans le Maine, présentée dans les mémoires d'une famille acadienne de Van Buren. Six chapitres racontés avec les photos et les materiaux historiques d'une famille du Maine: l'émigration à l'Amérique du nord de la France; les gens acadiens et la vie agricole en Acadie; la paroisse Catholique St-Bruno de la Vallée St-Jean; la cuisine locale de Van Buren; les jeux et le folklore. -
Notre Album Culturel
Un affichage artistique de la culture acadienne quotidien dans la Vallée St-Jean du Maine. De l'auteur de, "Mémoires d'une famille Acadienne de Van Buren, Maine" Du texte: "Cet album est une collection de 'dits' et de 'faits' recueillis dans une famille acadienne." -
Once in a Lifetime : Tribute to a Friend and Companion in a World War II Experience
Illustrated brief memoir of northern Maine women religious moving about France during World War II. The events leading up to, and the sequence of, a five-day journey from their Paris convent to a safe haven in St. Etienne. Written soon after the death of Sr. Josephine Theriault, by her friend, in honor of her and the war experience they shared together with Sr. Geraldine Violette. -
The Women of Survivance : A Case Study of Ethnic Persistence Among the Members of Franco-American Women's Groups in New England, 1950-Present
Thesis in sociology highlighting Franco American women in the preservation of ethnic heritage and language. Based on a variety of case studies conducted by the author in 1980s New England. From the author: "The primary purpose of this dissertation was to explore questions related to the processes of ethnic persistence and, secondarily, to understand the role of women in these processes. The procedure for this investigation was to conduct a case study of an ethnic women's organization, La Federation Feminine Franco-Americaine (Fede). This case study of the Fede utilized field work techniques, in-depth interviews and the analysis of archival materials. The objectives of this case study were in brief: (1) to delineate the maintenance activities involved in ethnic persistence; (2) to determine the importance of ethnicity to ethnic group members actively involved in its maintenance; (3) to assess the role of ethnic women in these processes, in order to develop a grounded theory of ethnic persistence." -
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 -
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. -
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. -
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 -
L'abîme hospitalier
Présentation de douze poèmes écrites par Louis Dantin. Précédée d'un essai critique et biographique de Dantin - sa vie et ses oeuvres au Canada, en Europe, et à Boston aux États-Unis dans la première moitié du XXe siècle. -
L'abîme hospitalier
Présentation de douze poèmes écrites par Louis Dantin. Précédée d'un essai critique et biographique de Dantin - sa vie et ses oeuvres au Canada, en Europe, et à Boston aux États-Unis dans la première moitié du XXe siècle. -
Au seuil du crepuscule
Livre de poèsie et de chansons. Écrites au Québec; en Ontario; dans plusieurs villes de la Nouvelle-Angleterre. -
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.