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To be French in North America
Critical article exploring the author's notion of a "fundamental unity" among French heritage peoples in North America: a consciousness unified in historical defeat and nostalgic glorification. The ways in which North American political, artistic, and literary figures engage this idea in their French- and English-language works, both successfully and unsuccessfully. Refers to Jack Kerouac, Iry LeJeune, and others. How Québec - as political entity and population - is both an example of and an exception to the author's chosen theme. Featured in a Toronto, Ontario magazine of arts and literature. -
Les Acadiens du Madawaska
Article describing the town of Madawaska, Maine, in the St. John River Valley, through the perspectives of three generations of the Hébert family. Introduction to Acadian history in the St. John Valley, the twentieth-century industrialization of Madawaska, the role of language and tradition in local communities. The relationship of each interviewee - Jeanne, son Réal, grandson Duane - to the French language, and their personal thoughts on Madawaska's changing cultural and linguistic shapes. -
The Language of Reconciliation
Article on past prohibitions against French language usage in the schools of northern Maine's St. John River Valley, the lasting impacts of these prohibitions, and recent unique efforts to nurture and strengthen bilingualism in that region. Emphasis on the 1996-1997 program begun in the elementary schools of Madawaska, Maine. How this case is situated in the nationwide conversation on language and culture in US public education, in the context of national advances made in bilingual education in the 1960s and 1970s. Comments from the program's director, and reactions to the program from families in other towns in the St. John Valley. Subtitled, "Once, French-speaking students on the Canadian border were prohibited from speaking French at school. Today, an experiment at two of those schools is trying to bridge the French/English divide." -
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. -
Along the St. John Valley
Feature article on the towns and people of the St. John River Valley in Aroostook County, Maine. Photos of farm, church, and family, in illustration of the descriptions of rural life along Maine's north and northeastern Canadian border. Interviews with a priest, town manager, and other Valley residents.Tags Acadians, Acculturation and Assimilation, Allagash ME, Dickey ME, English Americans, Farming and Agriculture, Forestry, Fort Kent ME, Frenchville ME, Hamlin ME, Irish Americans, Keegan ME, Language and Linguistics, Lille ME, Madawaska ME, Maine, Notre Dame ME, Scottish Americans, St. David ME, St. Francis ME, St. John ME, St. John River Valley, Van Buren ME -
Franco-Americans gather for forum : French-speaking participants recall how their language drew ridicule
Article on a French-language forum about cultural heritage and viability in the St. John River Valley, northern Maine. The talk, sponsored by the Maine Humanities Council, was led by advocates for the Acadian and Quebecois heritages prevalent in Frenchville, Fort Kent, Grand Isle, and many other communities throughout northern Aroostook County and the state of Maine. -
The Talk of Madawaska : English Spoken Ici
Article subtitled, "Maine's northernmost community is a lively world apart." A profile of the northern Maine town of Madawaska, situated in Aroostook County on the St. John River Valley. The Acadian people who predominantly inhabit the town, their history, and the changing shape of their community and its industry. Interviews with some residents, and an optimism for the town's economic and cultural futures. -
The Perception and the Reality : French is not a foreign language in Maine, so why is it taught like one?
Article on the teaching of the French language in various parts of the state of Maine. A brief explanation of the different ways by which French is conceived - its dialects, its geographies, its socioculture. Differing opinions relative to these stated varieties on how French should be taught to Maine's native speakers. The place of certain Maine dialects of the French language in schools that opt to teach Parisian locution and diction. How language diversity is faring in Maine schools, and the hopes of many public commentators for its vitality. Newspaper cover reads, "Who says Maine French isn't real French?" -
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 -
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. -
Madawaska : Down East With a French Accent
Expository, journalistic piece on the people of the Upper St. John River Valley, cradle of the political border between northeastern Maine and New Brunswick. The predominance of French Acadian culture there and an integrative overview of its elements more obvious to the journalist visitor: language, family, religion, food. Farming and logging as both international businesses and the economic support systems of rural communities in a North American borderland. Contains various character profiles from short personal interviews, as well as a segment on the Scotch-Irish community of Aroostook County. Grounded in historical context, oriented toward the projected impacts of industrial development and subtle acculturation on these agricultural communities in late twentieth-century America. Illustrated in vibrant photo.Tags Acadians, Allagash ME, Allagash River Valley, Canada, Community: Customs and Social Life, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Farming and Agriculture, Forestry, Fort Kent ME, Frenchville ME, Geography, Grand Isle ME, Language and Linguistics, Lille ME, Madawaska ME, Maine, Mills and Mill Work, New Brunswick, St. Agatha ME, St. David ME, St. John River Valley, Van Buren ME -
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. -
New England's Franco-Americans : Vive la difference?
Article on the plight of Franco American cultural activists in New England. The variety of the troubles confronting them, and their energy in relation to the seeming decline of the historically supportive Franco cultural establishments as seen in churches, schools, and large families. Contains an historical overview, demographic figures from the 1970 US census, and the considerations of Francos in the public sphere across New England. Tagline below the article title reads, "Some say the fight to preserve French identity in New England is being lost without a struggle. But that's only one side of the story..." Article featured in the United States bicentennial issue of Yankee magazine.Tags Acadians, Acculturation and Assimilation, Biddeford ME, Burlington VT, Connecticut, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Government and Politics, Greenville NH, Lewiston ME, Lowell MA, Maine, Manchester NH, Manville RI, Massachusetts, New England, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, South Fitchburg MA, Vermont, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
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. -
Can this heritage be saved?
Feature article on the present (1977) cultural situation of Franco Americans in Maine. Discussion of their minority demographics, as well as local, academic, and federal intiatives to bolster bilingual educational support, community solidarity, and public recognition. Looks specifically to the Acadians of the St. John Valley and the Francos of the lower half of the state, especially in Lewiston, and the differences between their communities and histories. Written in light of pending federal legislation to recognize Franco-Americans as an official and distinct minority group, thereby making available more federal money for culturally relevant programs. -
'Quiet Presence' still resonates with cultural awareness
Article on Dyke Hendrickson's 1980 oral history book, "Quiet Presence," and its perceivable resonance into the present day. -
Franco-Americans include five cultures
Article about the focus on Franco-American cultures during Appreciating Diversity Day at Falmouth Middle School in southern Maine. -
'Evangeline' and bias
Short response to a question submitted to the monthly newspaper of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford regarding First Amendment politics, the Acadians, and the history of anti-Catholic prejudice in Connecticut. -
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 -
La Bonne Aventure
French-English bilingual educational television series for children. Designed "to expose the Franco American child to simple elements of his/her culture" (MPBN). Created in 1974 by Project FACTS (Franco-American Children's Television Series); produced by Maine Public Broadcasting Network and the University of Maine. Includes puppets, animation, and live-action video footage. Accompanied by Teacher Guides with thematic overview and synopsis of each episode, comments on cultural elements in each episode, suggested additional resources materials for teachers, and suggested activities for students. Description of episodes (20): Episode 1: Nouveaux amis / New Friends Introduction to series character children - Lise, Claude, Tit-Guy, Julie. The magical arrival of Dorik and Dondaine, two lutins of Franco American folklore. Features video footage of Augusta, Biddeford, Fort Kent, Lewiston, Madawaska, and Van Buren, Maine. Episode 2: Chez-nous / Our Place Finding themselves at the center of the children's attention, Dorik and Dondaine search for a place to be alone. Episode 3: Le rire / Laughter Dorik and Dondaine contemplate cultural difference as they encounter different perceptions of their English accent. Episode 4: La bonne aventure / The Good Adventure With the help of her friends, Julie confronts her fear of meeting new people and ventures out to create a film. Episode includes French Canadian fables. Features video footage of Augusta, Biddeford, Lewiston, the St. John Valley, and Waterville, Maine. Episode 5: Le travail / Work Lise and Tit-Guy help Dorik take pride and find value in his art work. Video footage and montage of different forms of work. Episode 6: L'horloge / The Clock The discovery of a giftbox with a clock set for 7:00PM opens up a discussion about "le Bonhomme Sept-heures" of Franco American folklore. Characters work to confront their fears. Episode 7: Le bazaar / The Bazaar Claude struggles to finish a series of collages he is supposed to bring to the next day's church bazaar. Characters learn about some of the differences between working independently and asking others for help.
Episode 8: Le réveillon / Christmas Eve CelebrationThe children celebrate Christmas Eve together with their families, but Dorik and Dondaine are missing. Includes a discussion of Franco American foods. Episode 9: La legende / The Legend A trip to the shipyard with Claude, Lise, Dorik, and Dondaine turns adventurous when the four become trapped in an old ship. In the hopes of calming them, Dorik shares a legend with the children. Features video footage from Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine. Episode 10: Les explorateurs / The Explorers Claude and Lise venture into the attic to explore through a trunk filled with their pépière's old belongings. After the children uncover stories from their Québec heritage, Tit-Guy explains his mémière's Acadian roots. Features video footage of Rhode Island Governor, Philip Noel, and a photo montage of St.-Jean-Baptiste Day celebrations. Episode 11: La déportation / The Deportation Playing hide-and-seek after talking about her Acadian heritage with Tit-Guy, Julie's cardboard box hiding spot is magically moved out of the house. Julie and Dondaine search for a way home. Information on the Acadian Deportation. Features video footage of Augusta, Biddeford, Lewiston, the St. John Valley, and Waterville, Maine, as well as footage from Manchester and Nashua, New Hampshire; Lowell, Fall River, and western Massachusetts; and Woonsocket, Rhode Island. Episode 12: Achale moé pas / A Problem of Feelings As Julie tries to draw a bowl of fruit, she is interrupted and upset in multiple ways by her friends. How she deals with anger and impatience. Episode 13: La bêtise / The Mistake Before a trip to the sugar shack, Lise accidentally unravels a scarf knitted for her by her mémière. Features video footage of "la tire sur la neige," or taffy on the snow, at a sugar shack during the maple sugar harvest. Episode 14: Le prix / The Prize Sibling tensions arise as Claude resents Lise's spelling bee victory trophy and the attention she receives. Features video footage of a community bean supper. Episode 15: La quête / The Quest After Julie falls asleep reading about French-speaking people in the history of America, the time-machine she had been tinkering disappears Dorik to parts unknown. Julie travels through American history - to colonial Boston, Philadelphia, and elsewhere - on a search for her friend. Features Robert de la Salle, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and other figures in American history. Episode 16: L'annonce / The Commercial Tit-Guy recites a poem he has prepared for a television station. His friends offer advice and critique his style in various ways, and he must choose the best way to perform. Features video footage from Franco American communities outside of Maine. Episode 17: Les plans / The Plans After Lise is informed she cannot go to the zoo, that her parents have other plans for her, she imagines running away from home. Discussion of Franco American fairs. Features video footage of Benson's Animal Farm in Hudson, New Hampshire. Episode 18: L'invention / The Invention As Julie tinkers with her malfunctioning new invention, a thought-reflection-projector box, she is confronted with gender stereotypes from her friends. Features video footage of a community beano game and the mayor of Lewiston, Maine. Episode 19: La trouvaille / The Lucky Find Tit-Guy finds a precious object and claims it his own as Dondaine realizes her rose bénite, the same object, is missing. Episode 20: Au Revoir is Not Goodbye Claude, Lise, Tit-Guy, and Julie reminisce on their happy times with Dorik and Dondaine. The children prepare a party before les lutins must depart.Tags Acadians, Augusta ME, Biddeford ME, Boston MA, Community: Customs and Social Life, Education, Fall River MA, Family, Film and Television, Folklore, Language and Linguistics, Lewiston ME, Lowell MA, Madawaska ME, Maine, Manchester NH, Nashua NH, New England, Philadelphia PA, Québec, Religion, St. John River Valley, Van Buren ME, Waterville ME, Woonsocket RI, Youth -
Chantons--Let's Sing [in French & English] : Traditional French Songs
Audio recording of 14 French songs performed in both French and English and accompanied by fiddle. Partnered with a song book containing sheet music, lyrics, lyric translations, and storied introductions to each song. Book concludes with some suggestions for incorporating its music into school lessons, in particular a curriculum designed for use under the provisions of the Maine Learning Results. -
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. -
Acadian Festival: Celebrate the St. John Valley's French Acadian Heritage
From Crown of Maine Productions: "'Acadian Festival' is a lively, one-hour show that features the French of the St John Valley, Maine, celebrating their Acadian history from a re-enactment of the arrival of the Acadians in 1785 to fascinating demonstrations of Acadian traditions that could be taken straight from the pages of 'Evangeline.'...Music, dance, food, spinning, weaving, basket and snowshoe making are just a few of the Treasures of the Valley featured in this film." -
The Story of the Acadians: A Tale of Discovery, Tragedy, and Determination
From Crown of Maine Productions: "'The Story of the Acadians' is a tale of discovery, tragedy and determination of a peace loving people who never give up. Learn how the first French settlers brought with them pre-fabricated homes from France to North America in 1604, hear about their strong relations with the native people whose alliances helped to save their lives, witness the innovative designs of the French in the construction of the unique fortresses they built, as well as the intricate system of dykes they introduced into North America....Most of all, learn how the French became Acadians with a culture of their own a culture of family values, of hard work and of a determination never to be destroyed despite numerous attacks by the British assaults which culminated in one of the worst human tragedies of all time the Deportation from Nova Scotia." -
Greetings from Aroostook: Postcard DVD
From Crown of Maine Productions: "'Greetings From Aroostook' is a seventeen minute DVD featuring spectacular scenery, people and wildlife of The County set to music. The DVD includes scenes throughout the area from the Million Dollar View south of Houlton to Ramsey Ledge in The Allagash. It's narrated by Layne Longfellow, relative of the poet. It includes activities from different seasons of the year from skiing and snowmobiling to hiking and kayaking. Various cultural events are included from the Acadian Festival in The Valley to the Midsommar Festival in New Sweden, and, of course, Fort Fairfield's Potato Blossom Festival. It even has a scene of youngsters picking potatoes at harvest time. It's a wonderful reminder of life in The County - 'The Way Maine Used To Be,' as some say. And it's a great gift idea for friends and family who live outside the area to give them a taste of home, or to entice them to visit." -
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. -
Destination Madawaska : Biographie de Charles Terrieau, pionnier acadien
From the author: "The book is a biography of Charles Theriault, first francophone settler in 1821-1823 of the lower Madawaska River in present-day St-Jacques. The book presents a brief history of the Acadian migration before the time of Charles' trail-blazing in the wilderness of the Madawaska territory. The territory at that time was a no-man's land' that included much of northern Maine from Houlton and all of Madawaska county and parts of Victoria and Restigouche counties of northwestern New Brunswick. At that time, the territory was claimed by the United States as being part of the new state of Maine and was also claimed by England as being part of the new colony of New Brunswick. The dispute was settled by the Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842 which chose the St-John River as the international boundary separating the United States and New Brunswick. The book presents the genealogy of the greater Thériault family in the St-John Valley showing that the population of all Thériaults until 1900 came from three branches of the Acadian family; one which migrated from the lower St-John to St-Basile around 1790 and two branches which had migrated from Acadia to Kamouraska, QC in 1759 and later migrated to the various Madawaska settlements between 1820 and 1860." -
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 -
Le patrimoine folklorique des Franco-Américains
Le sixiième colloque de l'Institut français du Colliège de l'Assomption, Worcester, Massachusetts, 15-16 mars 1985. Imprimé dans un numéro du périodique "Vie Française: Revue trimestrielle," publié par le Conseil de la Vie française en Amérique. Présentations sur le folklore dans les traditions françaises de l'Amérique du Nord, et dans la vie culturelle des Franco-Américains de la Nouvelle-Angleterre et de l'état de New York. Les légendes et les histoires orales; les remièdes traditionnels, les pratiques religieuses populaires, et des autres coutumes; la chanson et la danse. Quelques contributeurs importants au folklore écrite. Une liste de 24 chansons sur le thième de l'émigration du Canada, aussi que des autres chansons populaires. Des brefs profils des auteurs qui ont contribué au colloque.Composé des piièces suivants: Préface, Claire Quintal "Le légendaire francophone en Amérique,"Jean-Claude Dupont "Le printemps dans la tradition France-Amérique," Anne-Marie Desdouits "La naissance du cotillon et du quadrille," Simonne Voyer "Le rêve d'une vie meilleurs dans les chansons acadienne de départ vers les ètats-Unis," Donald Deschênes avec la collaboration de Charlotte Cormier La survivance par la chanson et la danse: -"L'èglise catholique et la danse," Barbara LeBlanc -"Chéticamp et Waltham," Laura Sandowsky "Trois témoins du folklore franco-américain: Honoré Beaugrand, Adélard Lambert, Roméo Berthiaume," Brigitte-M. Lane "Tout de long de la riviière: la survivance de la chanson canadienne-française de tradition folklorique à Woonsocket, Rhode Island," Deborah-A. Waldman "'Pour guérir tous maux' - la médecine populaire," Roger Paradis "Le femme aux grands rêves: Anna Morin Dubé," Julien Olivier "Histoires de vie des Franco-Américains du sud-est du Massachusetts, racontées par celle qui les a enregistrées," Joséphine Perreault "Une présence invisible - les Franco-Américains de Keene, New Hampshire," Margaret Langford "A? la recherche de l'histoire orale des Américains d'ascendance française dans l'ètat de New York," Peter van Lent Notices biographiques, Claire QuintalTags Acadians, Albion RI, Art and Architecture, Canton NY, Emigration and Immigration, Fall River MA, Folklore, France, Hartford CT, Jaffrey NH, Keene NH, Madawaska ME, Manchester NH, Marlborough NH, Music, Native Americans, New Bedford MA, New England, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Nonfiction -- Sports, Nova Scotia, Ogdensburg NY, Performing Arts, Putnam CT, Québec, Religion, Roxbury NH, Sanford ME, Somersworth NH, Southbridge MA, Sports and Leisure, St. John River Valley, Troy NH, Waltham MA, Winchester NH, Woonsocket RI -
L'émigrant acadien vers les États-Unis, 1842-1950
Le cinquiième colloque de l'Institut français du Colliège de l'Assomption, Worcester, Massachusetts, 16-17 mars 1984. Imprimé dans un numéro du périodique "Vie Française: Revue trimestrielle," publié par le Conseil de la Vie française en Amérique. Présentations sur les Acadiens et Acadiennes apriès le Grand Dérangement, principalement en Acadie et dans les états de la Nouvelle-Angleterre. L'émigration et ses causes; la langue française; des thièmes littéraires acadiennes; la musique; et certains communautés historiques franco-américaines dans la Nouvelle-Angleterre. Des brefs profils des auteurs qui ont contribué au colloque.Composé des piièces suivants: Préface, Claire Quintal "La Survivance acadienne en Nouvelle-Angleterre," R.P. Clarence-J. d'Entremont "Les Acadiens d'hier et d'aujourd'hui," Mason Wade "L'Emigration et les Acadiens," Fernand Arsenault "L'Emigration dans la littérature acadienne (1867-1958)," Marguerite Maillet "Les particularités du français acadien néo-écossais," Moshé Starets "L'Emigrant acadien et sa culture populaire," Lauraine Léger "Chanter son Acadie," Georges Arsenault "Economie, société et migrations: le cas de la vallée du Saint-Jean au 19e siiècle," Béatrice Chevalier Craig "La Formation d'une communauté à Old Town, Maine, 1835-1930: endogamie et origines natales parmi les Acadiens," Marcella Harnish Sorg "Perspectives sur Old Town, Maine, dans les années 30: témoignages tirés des récits de vie d'Acadiens et de Franco-Américains, recueillis dans le cadre du Federal Writers' Project," C. Stewart Doty "De la ferme à l'usine: les Acadiens dans Fitchburg, Massachusetts (1880-1910)," Paul-D. LeBlanc Notices biographiques des auteurs, Michelle-M. CotnoirTags Acadians, Acculturation and Assimilation, Amesbury MA, Augusta ME, Bangor ME, Belfast ME, Berlin NH, Beverly MA, Biddeford ME, Boston MA, Bradley ME, Braintree MA, Brewer ME, Bridgeport CT, Brockton MA, Brownville ME, Business and Economics, Cambridge MA, Cape Cod MA, Caribou ME, Chelsea MA, Chicopee MA, Cleghorn MA, Clubs and Societies, Cromwell CT, Demography, Dorchester MA, Dover NH, Emigration and Immigration, Everett MA, Fairfield ME, Fall River MA, Fiction and Literature, Fisherville MA, Fitchburg MA, Forestry, French Island ME, Frenchville ME, Gardner MA, Gloucester MA, Greenville ME, Hartford CT, Holyoke MA, Ipswich MA, Language and Linguistics, Lawrence MA, Leominster MA, Lewiston ME, Louisiana, Lowell MA, Lynn MA, Madawaska ME, Maine, Malden MA, Massachusetts, Melrose MA, Milford ME, Music, New Bedford MA, New Brunswick, New England, New Hampshire, Newton MA, Norwich CT, Nova Scotia, Old Town ME, Orono ME, Pawtucket RI, Portsmouth NH, Prince Edward Island, Reading MA, Saint John River Valley, Salem MA, Sanford MA, Saugus (Mass.), Skowhegan ME, Springfield MA, St. David ME, Stoneham MA, Taunton MA, United States, Van Buren ME, Wakefield MA, Waltham MA, Waterville ME, Wilmington MA, Winn ME, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
A Critical Survey of Recent Geographical Research on la Franco-Américanie
Conference presentation outlining the major contributions of geographers to Franco-American studies in the 1980s and early 1990s. Critical comments on efforts in Canadian, American, and francophone cartography; local-level demographic studies; research on landscape and material culture preservation; Cajun studies; and a spatial/temporal model of the development of French North America, in progress at Laval University. Hypotheses for the future of Franco American studies, based on cultural and historical trends.Tags Acadians, Acculturation and Assimilation, Alburg VT, Art and Architecture, Cajuns, Chicago IL, Demography, Detroit MI, Emigration and Immigration, Farming and Agriculture, Folklore, Geography, Louisiana, Madawaska ME, Mills and Mill Work, Minneapolis MN, New Brunswick, New England, New York NY, St. John River Valley, Texas, US Midwest, Vermont -
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 -
The 20th-Century Franco-American
A collection of papers from a 1974 New Hampshire conference on Franco American life in the twentieth century. Published as a bilingual text, a dual collection, with papers printed in both English and French. Full English title reads: "A translation of the studies presented at the 11th Congress of the Franco-Americans of New England, held at Bedford, New Hampshire, September 27, 28, and 29, 1974 and published by the 'Comite de Vie Franco-Americaine,' September 1st, 1976." Un recueil bilingue d'articles d'un conférence New Hampshire sur la vie franco-américaine au XXe siiècle. Le titre complet en français: "Etudes présentées au XIe congriès des Franco-Américains de la Nouvelle-Angleterre tenu a Bedford, New Hampshire, les 27, 28 et 29 septembre 1974 et publiées par le Comité de Vie Franco-Américaine le 1er septembre 1976." "Proclamation du Onziième Congriès des Franco-Américains," François-J. Martineau, Ph.D. "The Accomplishments" ou ""Les Accomplissements," Msgr. Adrien Verrette, Ph.D. "Radio, Television, and Cable TV" or "Radio, Télévision, et Cablovision," Paul Blanchette "Youth and the Franco-Americans" ou "Les Jeunes et le Groupe Franco-Américain," Richard Santerre "The Consolidation of the Franco-American Group" ou ""La Consolidation du Group Franco-Américain," Bernard-G. Théroux "Franco-Americans and American Political Life" ou "Les Franco-Américains et la Vie Politique Américaine," Louis-Israel Martel "Franco-Americans and American Economics" ou "Les Franco-Américains et la Vie Economique Américaine," Euclide Gilbert "Franco-Americans and American History" ou "Les Franco-Américains et l'Histoire Américaine," Dr. Robert-A. Beaudoin "Franco-Americans and American Culture Integration of French-Canadian Emigrants" ou "Les Franco-Américains et la Culture Américaine Intégration des Emigres Canadiens-Français," Sister Marie Thérièse, P.M. "The Present State of Relations Between Franco-Americans and French Canada" ou "Situation Présente des Rapports entre Franco-Américains et le Canada Français dans son Ensemble," W. Donald Moisan "The Franco-Americans and French Canada (Québec)" ou "Les Franco-Américains et le Canada Français (Québec)," Robert Couturier "The Franco-Americans and Louisiana" ou "Les Franco-Américains et la Louisiane," Rev. Clarence J. d'Entremont "Franco-Americans, France, and La Francophonie" ou "Les Franco-Américains et la France ainsi que la Francophonie," Elphiège RoyTags Acadians, Amesbury MA, Attleboro MA, Bristol CT, Brockton MA, Business and Economics, Cambridge MA, Canada, Central Falls RI, Chelsea MA, Community: Customs and Social Life, Connecticut, Coventry RI, Demography, Dracut MA, Education, Emigration and Immigration, Essay, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Everett MA, Fall River MA, Hartford CT, Haverhill MA, Ipswich MA, Journalism, Language and Linguistics, Lawrence MA, Louisiana, Lowell MA, Lynn MA, Manchester NH, Marlboro MA, Meriden CT, New Bedford MA, New England, North Attleborough MA, Pawtucket RI, Providence RI, Québec, Religion, Salem MA, US Midwest, Waltham MA, Warren RI, Waterbury CT, West Haven CT, West Warwick RI, Willimantic CT, Woonsocket RI, Youth -
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 -
The French in New England, Acadia, and Quebec : Proceedings of a Conference sponsored by the New England-Atlantic Provinces-Quebec Center at the University of Maine, Orono, May 1 and 2, 1972.
Proceedings of a 1972 conference at the University of Maine on the subject of French culture in the northeastern borderlands of Maine and Canada. Contents include transcripts of the following presentations: "The Loyalists and the Acadians" "Le Centre d'Etudes Acadiennes de l'Universite de Moncton" "Acadian Research and the Public Archives of Canada" "Acadian Research in New England Archives and Libraries: A Student Viewpoint - the 17th Century" "Acadian Research in New England Archives and Libraries: A Student Viewpoint - the Acadians in Massachusetts" "The French Fact in the Atlantic Area" "The French Migration from Quebec to New England" "Quebec Society and the American Proximity in the Twentieth Century" "Oral Tradition: New England and French Canada" "Massachusetts American and Canadian French Exchange Commission" "The Franco-American Institute - Saint Francis College, Biddeford, Maine" "Franco-American Student Affairs at the University of Maine at Orono" "The Franco-American To-day: The St. John Valley" "Bilingual Education Programs" -
C'est de même qu'ont parle par che' nous
Dictionary of French terms and their English translations, compiled from the "patois, metaphors, and dictions" of the towns of the St. John River Valley in northern Maine. Contains common French words and phrases that persist locally in both French and English dialogue. The second of two collections of idioms written by Don Levesque. Dictionnaire des termes français et leurs traductions en anglais, compilées à partir des «patois, les métaphores et dictions» des villes de la vallée de la riviière Saint-Jean dans le nord du Maine. Contient des mots et des phrases français qui persistent localement dans les deux dialogues en français et en anglais. Ce livre est la seconde des deux collections d'idiomes écrit par Don Levesque. -
Souches et racines : une introduction aè la généalogie pour les jeunes Franco-Américains
Un guide généalogique conçu pour les jeunes franco-américain(e)s et canadien(ne)s francais. Avec des ressources d'étudier les arbres de famille dans la region de la Nouvelle-Angleterre. -
The Acadian Miracle
Book on Acadian genealogy written by a former Louisiana state senator. Primarily a draft of his family tree. -
French Canadian Sources: A Guide for Genealogists
From Ancestry Publishing: "A six-year collaborative effort of members of the French Canadian/Acadian Genealogical Society, this book provides detailed explanations about the genealogical sources available to those seeking their French-Canadian ancestors." -
Madawaska, Maine: Family Reunion Trees
A chronicling of the living monuments planted in honor of local families in Madawaska, Maine, during the town's annual Acadian Festival and Family Reunion celebrations. Beginning in 1980, a tree was planted and a stone engraved each year in commemoration of the persistence of a different Acadian or French-Canadian family descended from Madawaska's original settlers. -
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. -
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." -
Review: "Franco-Amérique," and "Loyal but French: The Negotiation of Identity by French-Canadian Descendants in the United States"
Review of two 2008 history texts on French America: "Franco-Amérique," by Dean Louder and Eric Waddell, and "Loyal but French: The Negotiation of Identity by French-Canadian Descendants in the United States," by Mark Paul Richard.Tags Acadians, Acculturation and Assimilation, Alberta, Criticism and Review, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Exploration and Colonization, Florida, Government and Politics, Illinois, Lewiston ME, Louisiana, Maine, Manitoba, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Native Americans, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- French in North America, Nonfiction -- Geography, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, North Dakota, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Québec -
Recherches en cours sur le français franco-américain
De Glottopol, la revue de sociolinguistique en ligne: "Jane Smith et Cynthia Fox font le point sur les analyses qu'elles ont déjà produites jusqu'ici, notamment la situation du franco-américain à l'heure actuelle, l'implantation des dialectes franco-canadiens et acadiens et le maintien ou la perte de leurs traits d'origine ; les conséquences linguistiques du contact avec l'anglais et de l'emploi réduit du français ; et enfin le franco-américain à l'intérieur du dynamisme du français nord-américain."Tags Acadians, Acculturation and Assimilation, Berlin NH, Biddeford ME, Bristol CT, Demography, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Gardner MA, Gender and Sexuality, Language and Linguistics, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Language and Linguistics, Southbridge MA, Van Buren ME, Waterville ME, Woonsocket RI -
The Growth of the French Canadian Race in America
French-Canadian population growth in Canada as a model for testing the claims of Malthusian economics. -
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 -
Don Roy, Fiddle Music, and Social Sustenance in Franco New England
Profile of the life, training, and works of expert Maine-based fiddler, Don Roy. The musical traditions in which he seats himself, and the attention he has brought to contemporary fiddle playing through public performance. The author's critique of models of cultural sustainability, cultural preservation industry, and other institutions through the example of Roy's pursuits, his community music project, "Fiddle-icious," and through his "inherited sense of music as a participatory activity" (36). Summary history of Franco American immigration and subsequent communities in southern Maine. Contains segments of interviews with Don Roy and Cindy Roy, among others. -
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. -
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. -
Writing an Ethnic Identity between Worlds : Claiming and Maintaining a Franco-American Self
Historical trends, social dynamics, family systems, and psychological traits characteristic of Franco Americans and their communities. Examples from the author's life and family history; relevant psychological research; scholarship in Franco American studies. Observations of the psychosocial implications of the cultural notion of "la survivance," New England Franco Americans' dense communities, and their proximity to Canadian places of ancestry in Québec and Acadia. Includes descriptive content from interviews with several Franco American poets and writers: Beverly Matherne, Darrell Bourque, Jim Bishop, Rhea Côté Robbins, Denise Duhamel, Christine Gelineau, Chad Parenteau, David Surette, and Paul Marion.Tags Acadians, Acculturation and Assimilation, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Gender and Sexuality, Irish Americans, Italian Americans, Language and Linguistics, Leominster MA, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New Brunswick, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Essay, Nonfiction -- Ethnic Studies, Nonfiction -- Psychology, Nonfiction -- Social Sciences, Poetry, Québec, Religion, Webster MA, Worcester MA -
Surviving : An Acadian Chronicle
A history of the Morin family of Island Falls, Maine, situated in an historical account of the lifespan of Acadia - from the prehistoric, to French colonization and expulsion, to the twentieth century. Book one describes prehistory in the Northeastern borderlands, and provides historical accounts and descriptions of Wabanaki, Acadia, New France, and the British in Canada before 1800. Building from Book one, Book two describes Maine's border with Canada in the context of Acadia; Aroostook County; and the St. John River Valley; and traces a family history of the Morins into their twentieth century home at Island Falls, Maine. -
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. -
Franco-American Folklore : A Cornucopia of Culture
Paper on the folklore of the Acadian and Malecite people of the St. John River Valley in New Brunswick and northern Maine. Types of Franco American folklore, processes of its retrieval and study, and what it teaches about the history of the communities from which it comes. Written by a folklorist and professor of history at the University of Maine at Fort Kent. Compiled from four summer seminar lectures at the University of Maine: Franco-American Folklore; Folklore and History; Folklore and Language; Stock-taking. Includes an index of names of people from Maine and New Brunswick whose folklore resources and idiomatic terms were included in the text of the paper. Reprinted in "Vers l'évolution d'un culture," by Céleste Roberge. -
Franco-American History Projects in the State of Maine : Oral History, Historic Photographs, and Archival Surprises
Paper describing some of Doty's scholarship on Franco Americans in the state of Maine, with a handful of specific suggestions for how material variety on Maine Franco Americans and the richness of certain historical archives could form the basis for more research and scholarship. Relates examples from Farm Security Administration activity in the St. John Valley in the 1930s, the life and works of musician Rudy Vallée of Westbrook, and the writings of priests and other Franco American elite in the first half of the twentieth century. -
In Fair Aroostook
Subtitled, "Where Acadia and Scandinavia's Subtle Touch Turned a Wilderness into a Land of Plenty." Travel writings of a journalist's visit to Aroostook County in northern Maine at the beginning of the 20th century. The writer's impressions of landscapes, industries, and peoples there, and his perception of Scandinavian and French Acadian heritage in that region. Illustrated with photographs. Reprinted in 1973 by the Madawaska Historical Society. Full text available @ Google Books. Contains the following chapters: Frontispiece - Grand Falls on the St. John Chapter 1 - The Entrance into Maine's Great Game and Garden County Chapter 2 - Ashland and its Great Saw-mill - The Impounding of a Moose Chapter 3 - Fish River Waters - Portage Lake and Camp Iverson Chapter 4 - Into Maine's Acadia -The Fish of the Eagle Lake Chapter 5 - Fort Kent - Its Blockhouse and Training School - The Aroostook War Chapter 6 - More of the Acadians - The Girls of the Training School - "Madawaska" - The Story of the Acadians Chapter 7 - From Over the Sea - New Sweden - The Fruitage of a Great Colonization Idea Chapter 8 - Agriculture - The Backbone of Aroostook Prosperity - Coming Towns of the County - L'envoiTags Acadians, Ashland ME, Business and Economics, Education, Emigration and Immigration, Farming and Agriculture, Fishing, Forestry, Fort Fairfield ME, Fort Kent ME, Frenchville ME, Grand Isle ME, Hunting, Italian Americans, Limestone ME, Madawaska ME, Maine, Mills and Mill Work, New Brunswick, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Local, Nova Scotia, Portage Lake ME, Presque Isle ME, St. David ME, St. John River Valley, Stockholm ME, Swedish Americans, Travel and Movement, Van Buren ME, Violence, Westmanland ME -
Le Citoyen
ècrits théologiques et philosophiques sur "l'homme" et "le citoyen" en soi, et ses relations à la société, la patrie et son Dieu, dans la perspective d'un prêtre aux ètats-Unis au début du XXe siiècle. Des réflexions sur le citoyen chrétien et francophone du Canada ainsi que des Etats-Unis - le canadien-français et le franco-américain dans son contexte historique. Contient les chapitres suivants: L'homme La société La patrie (La terre; la race; le culte des anciètres; la Constitution) Le citoyen chrétien (La subordination; le dévouement) Conclusion Table des matiières -
To be French in North America
Critical article exploring the author's notion of a "fundamental unity" among French heritage peoples in North America: a consciousness unified in historical defeat and nostalgic glorification. The ways in which North American political, artistic, and literary figures engage this idea in their French- and English-language works, both successfully and unsuccessfully. Refers to Jack Kerouac, Iry LeJeune, and others. How Québec - as political entity and population - is both an example of and an exception to the author's chosen theme. Featured in a Toronto, Ontario magazine of arts and literature. -
Les Acadiens du Madawaska
Article describing the town of Madawaska, Maine, in the St. John River Valley, through the perspectives of three generations of the Hébert family. Introduction to Acadian history in the St. John Valley, the twentieth-century industrialization of Madawaska, the role of language and tradition in local communities. The relationship of each interviewee - Jeanne, son Réal, grandson Duane - to the French language, and their personal thoughts on Madawaska's changing cultural and linguistic shapes. -
The Language of Reconciliation
Article on past prohibitions against French language usage in the schools of northern Maine's St. John River Valley, the lasting impacts of these prohibitions, and recent unique efforts to nurture and strengthen bilingualism in that region. Emphasis on the 1996-1997 program begun in the elementary schools of Madawaska, Maine. How this case is situated in the nationwide conversation on language and culture in US public education, in the context of national advances made in bilingual education in the 1960s and 1970s. Comments from the program's director, and reactions to the program from families in other towns in the St. John Valley. Subtitled, "Once, French-speaking students on the Canadian border were prohibited from speaking French at school. Today, an experiment at two of those schools is trying to bridge the French/English divide." -
The Alliance Française, Empire and America
An essay describing France's Alliance Francaise, an internationally established cultural institution dedicated to promoting the French language and fostering dialogue with, about, and around French culture throughout the world. A history of the Alliance in the United States, with particular emphasis on its early 20th-century iterations, and on both the "colonial" and "republican" qualities its mission once embodied (229, 233). The Alliance's engagement with different Franco American communities, especially those in New England. From the author: "By giving voice to different constituencies within the French diasporic family, and by creating spaces for cultural exchange, the Alliance has helped to define the contours of New World Francophone identities" (abstract). Includes the segments, "French republicanism at work," "The Alliance Francaise and Franco-America," and "The Alliance Francaise and la francophonie." From the author: "The Alliance Française is in many respects an intermediary between French America's past and present" (240).Tags Acadians, Acculturation and Assimilation, Africa, Biddeford ME, Boston MA, Connecticut, Creoles, Demography, Detroit MI, Education, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Exploration and Colonization, Fall River MA, France, Great Lakes Region, Hanover NH, Hartford CT, Lafayette IN, Lafayette LA, Lake Champlain VT, Language and Linguistics, Lawrence MA, Lewiston ME, Louisiana, Lowell MA, Lynn MA, Maine, Manchester NH, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Orleans LA, New York NY, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Nonfiction -- History -- Clubs and Societies, Northampton MA, Pawtucket RI, Portland ME, Providence RI, Québec, Religion, Rhode Island, Salem MA, St. Lawrence River Valley, US Midwest, Vermont, War, Waterville ME, Wellesley MA, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
Paul Claudel : Ambassador of French Culture
Essay describing a three-day visit of the French ambassador to the United States, Paul Claudel, to Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1929. Claudel as a unique diplomat being better known for his specialties in literature. Captures the thrust of Claudel's remarks at a number of the city's colleges (College of the Holy Cross, Assumption College, Clark University, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute). The ambassador's trips to other Worcester schools and social service institutions. Notes his comments on the topics of culture, engineering, and international affairs and diplomacy following World War I. His efforts at "representing France to the American people, especially those of French descent" in a Massachusetts industrial city. -
The Cultural and Religious History of Maine : The Catholic Contribution
Subtitled, "A Unit for Sixth Grade Students in Catholic Schools of the Diocese of Portland." A 9-week elementary school guide for teachers in Maine history, with specific emphasis on cultural content, ethnic groups, and the contributions of the Catholic Church from 1603 to 1971. Includes distinct lessons for each of nine weeks, where each lesson follows in a geographic and historical progression congruent with studies in the general history of Maine. Concludes with a timeline of historical events in the Maine Roman Catholic communities, a selected biliography of source materials, and resource write-ups for each lesson's content. Contains in the appendix a Maine map of the churches in the Diocese of Portland.Tags Acadians, Auburn ME, Augusta ME, Bangor ME, Benedicta ME, Biddeford ME, Education, Ellsworth ME, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Exploration and Colonization, Fort Kent ME, Frenchville ME, Geography, Irish Americans, Italian Americans, Lewiston ME, Lille ME, Lithuanian Americans, Madawaska ME, Maine, Native Americans, New Brunswick, Newcastle ME, Nova Scotia, Old Town ME, Polish Americans, Portland ME, Portuguese Americans, Religion, Saco ME, Skowhegan ME, St. John River Valley, Syrian Americans, Waterville ME, Whitefield ME -
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. -
Along the St. John Valley
Feature article on the towns and people of the St. John River Valley in Aroostook County, Maine. Photos of farm, church, and family, in illustration of the descriptions of rural life along Maine's north and northeastern Canadian border. Interviews with a priest, town manager, and other Valley residents.Tags Acadians, Acculturation and Assimilation, Allagash ME, Dickey ME, English Americans, Farming and Agriculture, Forestry, Fort Kent ME, Frenchville ME, Hamlin ME, Irish Americans, Keegan ME, Language and Linguistics, Lille ME, Madawaska ME, Maine, Notre Dame ME, Scottish Americans, St. David ME, St. Francis ME, St. John ME, St. John River Valley, Van Buren ME -
Ethnicité, pêche et petrole : les Cadjins du bayou Lafourche en Louisiane francophone
Une étude de la relation entre l'industrie, l'économie, et les formes de l'ethnicité en Louisiane. Utilisant le population et des établissements de la village de Golden Meadow comme étude de cas, ce profil socioéconomique interpriète la croissance économique et industrielle en relation avec les concepts d'identité, la culture et l'assimilation dans un milieu rural et majoritairement francophone de la Louisiane. Des changements entre les établissements culturels - linguistiques, communautaires, les entreprises, la famille - qui ont pris effet aux côtés de certaines modernisations technologiques et économiques, en particulier dans la pêche et les industries pétroliières. Monographie numéro un dans une série de trois. ècrit prémiièrement pour une thièse maîtrise à York University, 1980. Du texte: "Le pierre angulaire de notre etude est donc sans contredit, le phenomene de l'industrialisation et de la modernisation d'une petite communaute rurale, mis en parallele avec le phenomene de l'ethnicite" (11).Tags Acadians, Acculturation and Assimilation, Business and Economics, Cajuns, Demography, Education, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Farming and Agriculture, Fishing, Forestry, Geography, Golden Meadow LA, Government and Politics, Lafourche Parish LA, Language and Linguistics, Louisiana, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Anthropology, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Nonfiction -- Social Sciences, Petroleum -
Franco-Americans gather for forum : French-speaking participants recall how their language drew ridicule
Article on a French-language forum about cultural heritage and viability in the St. John River Valley, northern Maine. The talk, sponsored by the Maine Humanities Council, was led by advocates for the Acadian and Quebecois heritages prevalent in Frenchville, Fort Kent, Grand Isle, and many other communities throughout northern Aroostook County and the state of Maine. -
The Talk of Madawaska : English Spoken Ici
Article subtitled, "Maine's northernmost community is a lively world apart." A profile of the northern Maine town of Madawaska, situated in Aroostook County on the St. John River Valley. The Acadian people who predominantly inhabit the town, their history, and the changing shape of their community and its industry. Interviews with some residents, and an optimism for the town's economic and cultural futures. -
The Perception and the Reality : French is not a foreign language in Maine, so why is it taught like one?
Article on the teaching of the French language in various parts of the state of Maine. A brief explanation of the different ways by which French is conceived - its dialects, its geographies, its socioculture. Differing opinions relative to these stated varieties on how French should be taught to Maine's native speakers. The place of certain Maine dialects of the French language in schools that opt to teach Parisian locution and diction. How language diversity is faring in Maine schools, and the hopes of many public commentators for its vitality. Newspaper cover reads, "Who says Maine French isn't real French?" -
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 -
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. -
Madawaska : Down East With a French Accent
Expository, journalistic piece on the people of the Upper St. John River Valley, cradle of the political border between northeastern Maine and New Brunswick. The predominance of French Acadian culture there and an integrative overview of its elements more obvious to the journalist visitor: language, family, religion, food. Farming and logging as both international businesses and the economic support systems of rural communities in a North American borderland. Contains various character profiles from short personal interviews, as well as a segment on the Scotch-Irish community of Aroostook County. Grounded in historical context, oriented toward the projected impacts of industrial development and subtle acculturation on these agricultural communities in late twentieth-century America. Illustrated in vibrant photo.Tags Acadians, Allagash ME, Allagash River Valley, Canada, Community: Customs and Social Life, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Farming and Agriculture, Forestry, Fort Kent ME, Frenchville ME, Geography, Grand Isle ME, Language and Linguistics, Lille ME, Madawaska ME, Maine, Mills and Mill Work, New Brunswick, St. Agatha ME, St. David ME, St. John River Valley, Van Buren ME -
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. -
New England's Franco-Americans : Vive la difference?
Article on the plight of Franco American cultural activists in New England. The variety of the troubles confronting them, and their energy in relation to the seeming decline of the historically supportive Franco cultural establishments as seen in churches, schools, and large families. Contains an historical overview, demographic figures from the 1970 US census, and the considerations of Francos in the public sphere across New England. Tagline below the article title reads, "Some say the fight to preserve French identity in New England is being lost without a struggle. But that's only one side of the story..." Article featured in the United States bicentennial issue of Yankee magazine.Tags Acadians, Acculturation and Assimilation, Biddeford ME, Burlington VT, Connecticut, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Government and Politics, Greenville NH, Lewiston ME, Lowell MA, Maine, Manchester NH, Manville RI, Massachusetts, New England, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, South Fitchburg MA, Vermont, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
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. -
Vieux articles et vieux ouvrages : Le Rev. M. Bédard, curé de Fall River (1886) Suite. [no. 2]
Troisiième partie d'une piièce biographique sur un prêtre canadien-français aux Etats-Unis. Les communications avec son évêque, et ses efforts à développer une paroisse nationale à Fall River, au Massachusetts. Quelques commentaires sur les efforts de ce prêtre à la lutte contre la maltraitance des canadiens-français catholiques et les travailleurs de la Nouvelle-Angleterre. Sa maladie et sa mort éventuelle. Une réimpression de l'article sur son cérémonies funéraires comme présenté dans le périodique canadien, "Castor." Une transcription de son "testament de feu."Tags Acadians, Bowenville MA, Community: Customs and Social Life, Death and Disaster, East Douglas MA, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Flint Village MA, Ireland, Irish Americans, Marlboro MA, Massachusetts, Millbury MA, Mills and Mill Work, Nashua NH, New Bedford MA, New England, Nonfiction -- History -- Religion, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Providence RI, Québec, Quequechan River Valley, Religion, Rhode Island, Taunton MA, Tiverton RI, Westport MA, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
Can this heritage be saved?
Feature article on the present (1977) cultural situation of Franco Americans in Maine. Discussion of their minority demographics, as well as local, academic, and federal intiatives to bolster bilingual educational support, community solidarity, and public recognition. Looks specifically to the Acadians of the St. John Valley and the Francos of the lower half of the state, especially in Lewiston, and the differences between their communities and histories. Written in light of pending federal legislation to recognize Franco-Americans as an official and distinct minority group, thereby making available more federal money for culturally relevant programs. -
Crossing the 49th Parallel : Migration from Canada to the United States, 1900-1930
A chronicling of movement from English and French Canada to the United States in the first thirty years of the twentieth century. Focused less on American community building than on patterns and means of human migration visible in government records from across the length of the Canadian-American border. An attempt at integrating the often-overlooked Anglo Canadian migration with that of French Canadians, and measuring Canadian emigration both within and beyond boundaries of ethnicity. Observations on instances of "remigration" - the movement to the United States of recent immigrants to Canada - in the time period of concern. From the book jacket: " 'Crossing the 49th Parallel' is the first book to encompass that entire, continent-wide population shift, bringing Canadian migration to the center of both Canadian and U.S. history." "Bruno Ramirez researches the contents of previously unused border records to bring to light the wide variety of local contexts and historical circumstances that led Canadian men, women, and children to cross the border and become key actors in the U.S. economy and society."Tags Acadians, Berlin NH, British Columbia, Buffalo NY, Business and Economics, Canada, Central Falls RI, Cohoes NY, Demography, Detroit MI, Eastport ME, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Farming and Agriculture, Goffstown NH, Haverhill MA, Holyoke MA, Illinois, Jackman ME, Labor History, Lawrence MA, Lowell MA, Lynn MA, Manchester NH, Manitoba, Massena NY, Michigan, Mills and Mill Work, Montana, Montréal QC, Nashua NH, New Bedford MA, New Brunswick, New England, New York, Niagara Falls NY, North Dakota, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Providence RI, Québec, Salem MA, Sault Sainte Marie MI, St. Lawrence River Valley, Toronto ON, Watertown NY, Waterville ME, Wisconsin, Woonsocket RI -
The Roman Catholic Diocese Boundary and American Madawaska, 1842-1870
Article discussing the impact of the 1842 Webster-Ashburton Treaty on the remapping of Roman Catholic diocesan boundaries in the New Brunswick and northern Maine border region. How Maine and Canadian political geography figured into the organization of Catholic space in the 19th century, and the question of whether diocesan boundaries should be figured according to political border or ethnicity. Other factors playing into Catholic Church decisions on the organization of border dioceses. -
La femme franco-américaine
Un recueil d'essais sur la femme franco-américaine tant qu'individuelle ainsi qu'un partie d'une collectivité sociale - de la France vers le Canada, du Québec vers les États-Unis. Certains expériences de femmes franco-américaines, et l'examen des situations historiques particuliières des femmes dans la culture franco-américaine. Du texte : "La femme franco-américaine a toujours vécu dans l'ombre: dans l'ombre du clocher, dans l'ombre de la salle de classe, dans l'ombre de la salle de travail à l'usine, dans l'ombre de curé, dans l'ombre de son mari. Le moment était arrivé, nous semble-t-il, de l'en sortir pour étaler au grand jour son apport indispensable à la vie et à la survie de la Franco-Américanie" (iii).Tags Acadians, Canada, Central Falls RI, Education, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Family, Fitchburg MA, France, Gender and Sexuality, Labor History, Leominster MA, Lewiston ME, Lowell MA, Manchester NH, Massachusetts, Montréal QC, Nashua NH, New England, New Hampshire, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Anthology, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Québec, Religion, Rhode Island, Social History, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
Québec - Boston : Celebrating New England - Nouvelle France : 350 years of Partnership in Shaping North America
Un livre bilingue - un demi en anglais, un demi en français - qui célièbre la grande histoire de Boston et de Québec, de la Nouvelle Angleterre et de la Nouvelle France, et leurs intersections. Du dix-septiième siiècle jusqu'a 1980. La premiière partie est composé d'essais historiques sur la vie au Québec avant de la naissance des Etats-Unis comme pays nord-américain. This first half of the text, in French, shows the Quebec-Boston relationship from the perspective of New France and Canada. The second half, in English, contains essays about Boston in the 18th and 19th century is it likely concerned its Canadian neighbors. Both sections, written by a separate author, seem to take a complementary perspective of the Quebec-Boston relationship. Contains one essay entitled, "French-Canadians in New England: Franco-Americans." Prefaced with a letter written by René Lévesque. -
Identité et cultures nationales : l'Amérique française en mutation
Une collection d'essais sur l'évolution du fait français en Amérique du Nord. La langue, les histoires, et les cultures de communautés francophones au Canada et aux ètats-Unis. Origines des expressions culturelles à l'époque actuelle. Articles divisés en texte par géographie: le Canada français, l'Acadie, la communauté franco-ontarienne, la communauté franco-américaine, et le Québec.
Les titres suivants:
Remerciements - Simon Langlois
Présentation - Simon Langlois
Un cas typique de mutation de la référence nationale : le Canada français - Simon Langlois
Lâ'ethnographie au secours de la nation. Mobilisation de la culture populaire par les lettrés canadiens-français (1850-1900) - Gérard Bouchard
Le Québec et le Canada français : histoire dâ'une déchirure - Fernand Harvey
Naissance, déploiement et crise de lâ'idéologie nationale acadienne - J. Yvon Thériault
Lâ'historiographie et lâ'identité acadienne aux XIXe et XXe siiècles - Jean Daigle
Des racontars des vieux à lâ'autobiographie postmoderne : une prise de parole identitaire acadienne - Lise Ouellet
La langue française en Acadie du Nouveau-Brunswick, symbole dâ'appartenance, mais pas seulement… - Annette Broudreau
Lâ'historiographie et la construction de lâ'identité ontaroise - Jean Lapointe
Les Franco-Ontariens ont-ils droit au discours identitaire ? - François Paré
Les Franco-Ontariens vus à travers leur littérature - Jules Tessier
De Canadiens français des Etats-Unis à Franco-Américains : une analyse des discours de lâ'élite franco-américaine - Yves Roby
Historiographie et identité collective en Amérique française : le cas des élites francophones de la Nouvelle-Angleterre, 1872-1991 - Sylvie Beaudreau et Yves Frenette
La littérature et la construction de lâ'identité nationale : la Franco-Américanie - J.-André Senécal
La double identité de Jack Kérouac - Catherine Wells
Les Franco-Américains, la langue française et la construction de lâ'identité nationale - Gérard J. Brault
En québécois : langue de traduction, discours de lâ'identité - Annie Brisset
Identité et pluralisme libéral au Québec - Guy Laforest
Bibliographie sélective commentée sur lâ'identité et la nation dans lâ'Amérique française - Jean LamarreTags Acadians, Burlington VT, Canada, Connecticut, Danielson CT, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Fiction and Literature, Holyoke MA, Journalism, Language and Linguistics, Lowell MA, Manchester NH, Nashua NH, New Brunswick, New England, New Hampshire, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Anthology, North Brookfield MA, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Québec, Religion, Rhode Island, Southbridge MA, Spencer MA, Suncook NH, United States, Vermont, Violence, Winooski VT, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
The Cajunization of French Louisiana : Forging a Regional Identity
Historical transformation of the term "Cajun" in Louisiana - its meaning, scope, and usage, as well as its blurring of the state's diversity of French lineages. Influence of the term "Cajun" on the cultural awareness of the Louisiana French, and the impact of Louisiana French cultures on the region's geography. State case-study exploration that provides definitional and territorial figures regarding the term "Cajun," and the changes in these figures and their geography over time. From the author: "French Louisiana is the only remnant of France's vast Mississippi Valley empire and its only effectively settled region in the eighteenth century. It remains today one of the most distinctive culture regions of the United States. However, perception of French Louisiana does not reflect its reality. The French population of Louisiana is very diversified in terms of its origins. Despite this diversity, French Louisiana is now usually associated exclusively with Cajuns, a word which until recently was considered derogatory. The beautification of the Cajun identity began to take place in the late 1960s. It was followed by a gradual Cajunization of the white French Louisiana identities and of the regional ethnic territory. However, this process of Cajunization remains incomplete because black Creoles and French-speaking Indians remain unintegrated. Hence, the apparent ethnic homogeneity of French Louisiana, viewed from the outside, contrasts sharply with the cultural variety of its communities."Tags Acadians, Atchafalaya River Valley, Baton Rouge LA, Creoles, Demography, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Geography, Lafayette LA, Lafourche Parish LA, Language and Linguistics, Louisiana, Marksville LA, Mississippi River Valley, Native Americans, New Orleans LA, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Ethnic Studies, Terrebonne Parish LA, Westwego LA -
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." -
From "Acadien" to "Cajun" to "Cadien" : Ethnic Labelization and Construction of Identity
An essay on the origins and historical transformation of the term "Cajun" in the context of French Louisiana. An historical etymology of "Cajun" and an analysis of its usage from its 17th century iterations to those of the present day. An attempt at framing the historical context for a definition of Cajun ethnicity. The linguistic development and social impact of an ethnic label. -
Teaching Franco-Americans of the Northeast
An essay on including Franco Americans and Franco American literature in the rubric of French studies. How such inclusions impact this rubric historically, theoretically, and in terms of content. How a recognition of "la Francophonie" outside of France complicates Francophone curricula and calls for a restructuring of the academic field. What studying Franco Americans in particular offers to scholarship in both French and American studies. Includes a brief, annotated bibliography of Franco American key texts. -
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 -
A Century of Acadian Culture : The Development of a Cajun Community : Erath (1899-1999)
History of the community of Erath, Louisiana, in the twentieth century. Introduced by a brief account of the Acadian exile in 1755. Contains snapshots of the town's economic and political development; the social life, religion, and education of its largely Cajun community; and the cultural presence and state of the town at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Erath as an historical and continuing center of Acadian and Cajun heritage in Louisiana. Contains 12 appendices regarding local officials, cultural advocacy, and Erath's Acadian Museum - from which this text was helped produced. Illustrated with photographs in black and white. -
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." -
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. -
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 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 -
'Quiet Presence' still resonates with cultural awareness
Article on Dyke Hendrickson's 1980 oral history book, "Quiet Presence," and its perceivable resonance into the present day. -
Franco-Americans include five cultures
Article about the focus on Franco-American cultures during Appreciating Diversity Day at Falmouth Middle School in southern Maine. -
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 -
'Evangeline' and bias
Short response to a question submitted to the monthly newspaper of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford regarding First Amendment politics, the Acadians, and the history of anti-Catholic prejudice in Connecticut. -
The First Franco-Americans : New England Life Histories from the Federal Writers' Project, 1938-1939
Selective reprinting of Franco American oral interviews from the late 1930s' Federal Writers' Project. Brief historical introductions to Manchester NH, Old Town ME, Woonsocket RI, and Barre VT, followed by the interviews with workers that took place in those cities. Rare voices from Franco American communities of this time period, in the aftermath of the Great Depression. A publication in the social and oral history traditions of Ann Banks's "First-Person America" and Studs Terkel's "Hard Work."Tags Acadians, Acculturation and Assimilation, Alcohol and Drugs, Barre VT, Community: Customs and Social Life, Death and Disaster, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Folklore, Forestry, Gender and Sexuality, Government and Politics, Illness, Labor History, Language and Linguistics, Manchester NH, Mills and Mill Work, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Nonfiction -- Immigration, Old Town ME, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Religion, Social History, Sports and Leisure, Stonecutting, Woonsocket RI -
Acadian Hard Times : The Farm Security Administration in Maine's St. John Valley, 1940-1943
Collection of photos of farmers, farm families, and landscapes in the St. John Valley, Maine, taken by the federal Farm Security Administration in the early 1940s. Doty gives historical context and new captions to the photos. The book concludes with new photos from a 1980s return to the people and places visited decades earlier by the FSA.Tags Acadians, Business and Economics, Caribou ME, Community: Customs and Social Life, Family, Farming and Agriculture, Food, Fort Kent ME, Frenchville ME, Government and Politics, Grand Isle ME, Keegan ME, Labor History, Lewiston ME, Lille ME, Maine, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Nonfiction -- History -- Local, Nonfiction -- History -- Pictorial, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Québec, Sinclair ME, Soldier Pond ME, St. Agatha ME, St. David ME, St. John River Valley, Van Buren ME, Wallagrass ME, Youth -
Franco-American Viewpoints
Illustrations of Massachusetts' Franco American cultural landscape in personal photos, personal interviews, and historical context. A local pictorial history in short form, singular in its use of quotations.Tags Acadians, Albany NY, Chicopee MA, Community: Customs and Social Life, Connecticut River Valley, Easthampton MA, Education, Emigration and Immigration, Fall River MA, Family, Fitchburg MA, Gardner MA, Holyoke MA, Labor History, Lawrence MA, Lewiston ME, Lowell MA, Maine, Massachusetts, New Bedford MA, New England, New York, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Local, Nonfiction -- History -- Pictorial, Northampton MA, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Québec, Religion, Springfield MA, Vermont, Waltham MA, Worcester MA -
Flight from Certainty : The Dilemma of Identity and Exile
Collection of essays in cultural criticism, with specific emphases on national, ethnic, and linguistic identities in transit. Divided in the text by the geographies to which each essay pertains. From the introduction: "The authors [in 'Flight from Certainty'] have attempted to combine scholarship, personal experience, wit, and irony in dealing with questions which so far have gone unanswered: 'How far is identity modelled by the country in which people grow up and believe they have their roots? What happens to the concept of identity when a person abandons one country to live in another?'"Tags Acadians, Acculturation and Assimilation, Africa, Australia, Criticism and Review, Emigration and Immigration, England, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, India, Ireland, Italy, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Louisiana, New England, New Zealand, Québec, Sanford ME, South Africa, South Asia, Sri Lanka, Violence -
More Than Petticoats : Remarkable Maine Women
A collection of biographical sketches of Maine women with unique accomplishments, and of those who have made significant contributions to their communities and to the state at large. One of the many books in the "More than Petticoats" series, the collection of which is comprised of books particular to each state in the USA. From Pequot Press: "This book recreates the life-and-times of thirteen inspiring and independent women in fascinating, brief biographies. Meet Marguerite "Tante Blanche" Thibodeau Cyr, the "mother of Madawaska," whose bravery and kindness during one brutal winter saved her frontier settlement; botanist-artist Kate Furbish, who tramped Maine's wilderness, collecting, classifying, and painting all of its flowering plants; and Florence Nicolar Shay, a Penobscot basketmaker who demanded and succeeded in gaining rights for her people."Tags Acadians, Brunswick ME, Community: Customs and Social Life, Eagle Island ME, Family, Farmington ME, Gender and Sexuality, Madawaska ME, Maine, Native Americans, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Portland ME, Religion, Rockland ME, Skowhegan ME, South Berwick ME -
Louisiana Francophones : Origins and Evolution since 1673
Changing face of the francophone presence in Louisiana - from French colonial rule beginning in the 17h century, to the Acadian migrations of the 18th century, through Spanish and eventual American rule, and meshed into the assimilative forces of contemporary anglophone America.Tags Acadians, Alabama, Emigration and Immigration, Exploration and Colonization, Farming and Agriculture, Fishing, France, Germany, Government and Politics, Haiti, Ireland, Louisiana, Mississippi River Valley, Mobile AL, New Orleans LA, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- French in North America, Nonfiction -- History -- General, Nonfiction -- Language and Linguistics, Spain, United States -
French America : Mobility, Identity, and Minority Experience Across the Continent
Translation and expansion of "Du continent perdu..." by Dean Louder. A collection of historiographical, geographical, anthropological, and theoretical essays on francophone cultures in North America - from Québec, to New England and the US Northeast, to Louisiana, and back across the breadth of Canada. Contains the following writings: The "ungovernable" people : French-Canadian mobility and identity - Christian Morissonneau The Franco-Americans of New England - Pierre Anctil Ontarois and Québécois as distinct collectivities - Danielle Juteau When a majority becomes a minority : the French-speaking Métis in the Canadian West - Gilles Martel The French Canadians of the West : hope, tragedy, uncertainty - André Lalonde French-Canadian communities in the upper midwest during the nineteenth century - D. Aidan McQuillan Lead mining and the survival and demise of French in rural Missouri - Gerald L. Gold Maillardville : all quiet on the western front - Paul Y. Villeneuve The Acadian migrations - Robert G. Leblanc Space and sense of place : the example of the Acadians in New Brunswick - Jean-Claude Vernex The Newfoundland French : an endangered minority? - Eric Waddell, Claire Doran French Louisiana : an outpost of l'Amérique française or another country and another culture? - Eric Waddell The linguistic geography of Acadiana - Roland J.-L. Breton, Dean R. Louder The Cajuns of Canal Yankee : problems of cultural identity in Lafourche Parish - Alain Larouche The Cajuns of East Texas - Dean R. Louder, Michael Leblanc Redressing the linguistic situation : a critical analysis of Les Héritiers de Lord Durham and Deux poids, deux mesures - René-Jean Ravault An America that knows no name : postscript to a quincentenary celebration - Jean Morisset The search for home in America : an afterword - Eric Waddell, Dean R. LouderTags Acadians, British Columbia, Emigration and Immigration, Essay, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Geography, Language and Linguistics, Louisiana, Missouri, Native Americans, New Brunswick, New England, Newfoundland, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Anthology, Ontario, Québec, Texas, Travel and Movement, US Midwest -
Steeples and Smokestacks : A Collection of Essays on the Franco-American Experience in New England
Essay collection on the diverse aspects of Franco American community and life in New England. Emphases on French Canadian immigration to New England; religion, education, and community life; and Franco American literature. Includes a wide range of materials from writers and scholars throughout the region. Contents: Claire Quintal - Introduction I. Emigration Yves Roby - "The Economic Evolution of Quebec and the Emigrant (1850-1929)" Mason Wade - "The Acadian Background" Fernand Arsenault - "Acadians and Emigration" Neil Boucher - "The Case of the Acadians of Southwest Nova Scotia" II. Franco-American Communities Gerard J. Brault - "An Overview of Studies Relating to Franco-American Communities in New England" Frances H. Early - "The Settling-In Process: The Beginnings of the Little Canada in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the Late Nineteenth Century" Marcella Harnish Sorg - "Community Formation in Old Town, Maine, 1835-1930: Endogamy and Natal Origins Among the Acadians" Michael J. Guignard - "The Franco-Americans of Biddeford, Maine" Philip T. Silvia, Jr. - "Neighbors from the North: French-Canadian Immigrants vs. Trade Unionism in Fall River, Massachusetts" Charles W. Estus and Kenneth J Moynihan - "Beyond Textiles: Industrial Diversity and the Franco-American Experience in Worcester, Massachusetts" Paul D. LeBlanc - "From Farm to Factory: Acadians in Fitchburg, Massachusetts (1880-1910)" III. Religion Michael J. Guignard - "The Corporation Sole Controversy" Yves Roby - "Franco-Americans and the Catholic Hierarchy" Jacquelyn Alix, P.F.M - "The Foundation of the Little Franciscans of Mary in Worcester, Massachusetts" Yves Garon, A.A. - "The Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Joan of Arc: A Franco-American Foundation" Pierre E. Lanchance, O.P. - "Saint Anne's Shrine, Fall River, Massachusetts" IV. Education Armand B. Chartier - "The Spiritual and Intellectual Foundations of the Schooling of Franco-Americans" Gerard J. Brault - "The Achievement of the Teaching Orders in New England: The Franco-American Parochial Schools" V. Literature, Journalism, and Folklore Armand B. Chartier - "Toward a History of Franco-American Literature: Some Considerations" Robert B. Perreault - "The Franco-American Press: An Historical Overview" Richard S. Sorrell - "La Sentinelle and La Tribune: The Role of Woonsocket's French Language Newspapers in the Sentinelle Affair of the 1920s" Richard S. Sorrell - "'History as a Novel, the Novel as History': Ethnicity and the Franco-American English-Language Novel" Béatrice Belisle MacQueen - "Corinne Rocheleau-Rouleau (1881-1963): Advocate for the Handicapped" Janet L. Shideler - "Camille Lessard-Bissonnette (1883-1970): Immigrant Author and Itinerant Journalist" Michel Lapierre - "Rosaire DIon-Lévesque (1900-1974): Poet and Translator of Walt Whitman" Brigitte Lane - "Three Major Witnesses of Franco-American Folklore in New England: Honoré Beaugrand, Adélard Lambert, and Roméo Berthiaume" Donald Deschênes - "The Dream of a Better Life in the Songs of Departure for the United States" VI. The Franco-American Woman Charlotte Borders LeBlanc - "History and Mission of the Fédération Féminine Franco-Américaine (1951-1991)" Marcelle Chenard - "A Franco-American Lay Missionary, Iriène Farley (1893-1961" Yves Roby - "A Portrait of the Femal Franco-American Worker (1865-1930)" VII. Franco-Americans Today Madeleine D. Giguière - "New England's Francophone Population Based Upon the 1990 Census" Clarence J. d'Entremont - "Acadian Survivance in New England" Yves Roby - "From Franco-Americans to Americans of French-Canadian Origin or Franco-Americanism, Past and Present" VIII. The View From Within Claude Milot - "Arthur Milot's Memoirs: Childhood Memories" Lucien A. Aubé - "From the Parochial School to and American University: Reflections on Cultural Fragmentation" David Plante - "Tsi Gars" John Dufresne - "Telling Stories in Mémière's Kitchen" Claire Quintal - ContributorsTags Acadians, Acculturation and Assimilation, Bibliography, Biddeford ME, Business and Economics, Community: Customs and Social Life, Connecticut, Death and Disaster, Demography, Education, Emigration and Immigration, Essay, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Farming and Agriculture, Fiction and Literature, Fitchburg MA, Folklore, Forestry, Gender and Sexuality, Journalism, Labor History, Language and Linguistics, Lewiston ME, Lowell MA, Lynn MA, Madawaska ME, Maine, Manchester NH, Massachusetts, Merrimack River Valley, Mills and Mill Work, Montréal QC, Music, New Brunswick, New England, New Hampshire, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Anthology, Nova Scotia, Old Town ME, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Poetry, Québec, Religion, Rhode Island, Vermont, Violence, Waltham MA, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
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 -
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 -
A Franco-American Overview : New England, part 1 of 2
Volume 3 of an eight-part series on Franco American history and life. From ERIC: "Intended to help readers develop an appreciation of the contributions of Franco-Americans to the cultural heritage of the United States, this book, the third of six volumes, presents 17 readings representing many perspectives--from the historical to the sociological--illustrating the thinking and feelings of those in the forefront of Franco-American studies. This volume focuses on Franco-Americans in New England. The French-Canadians in New England' (William MacDonald); 'French Catholics in the United States' (J. K. L. LaFlamme, David E. Lavigne, and J. Arthur Favreau); 'French and French-Canadians in the United States' (Mason Wade); 'The Acadian Migrations' (Robert LeBlanc); 'The Loyalists and the Acadians' (Mason Wade); 'The Franco-Americans in Maine: A Geographical Perspective' (James P. Allen); 'Quebec to 'Little Canada': The Coming of the French-Canadians to New England in the Nineteenth Century' (Iris Saunders Podea); 'The French Colony at Brunswick, Maine: A Historical Sketch' (William N. Locke); 'The Franco-Americans of New England' (George F. Theriault); 'The Laborers of Manchester, New Hampshire 1912-1922: The Role of Family and Ethnicity in Adjustment to Industrial Life' (Tamara K. Hareven); 'The Franco-American Working-Class Family' (Laurence French); 'Traditional French-Canadian Family Life Patterns and Their Implications for Social Services in Vermont' (Peter Woolfson); 'The Presidential Politics of Franco-Americans' (David B. Walker); 'A Profile of Franco-American Political Attitudes in New England' (Norman Sepenuk); 'The French Parish and 'Survivance' in 19th Century New England' (Mason Wade); 'The Shadows of the Trees: Religion and Language' (Jacques Ducharme); and 'French National Societies in New England' (Edward Billings Ham)."Tags Acadians, Acculturation and Assimilation, Brunswick ME, Community: Customs and Social Life, Demography, Education, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Exploration and Colonization, Family, Geography, Government and Politics, Journalism, Labor History, Maine, Manchester NH, Mills and Mill Work, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Anthology, Religion, Social History, United States, Vermont -
A Franco-American Overview : Louisiana, part 1 of 4
Volume 5 of a eight-part series on Franco American history and life. From ERIC: "Intended to help readers develop an appreciation of the contributions of Franco-Americans to the cultural heritage of the United States, this book, the fifth of six volumes, presents 18 chapters representing many perspectives--from the historical to the sociological--illustrating the thinking and feelings of those in the forefront of Franco-American studies. This volume focuses on Franco-Americans in Louisiana. The following readings are presented: 'France and the Mississippi Valley: A Resume' (Louise Phelps Kellogg); 'France and Louisiana in the Early Eighteenth Century' (Marcel Giraud); 'Bienville's First Administration' (Charles Edward O'Neill); 'Private Enterprise vs. Mercantilism: The Cadillac-Duclos Affair' (Carl A. Brasseaux); 'The Superior Council in Colonial Louisiana' (James D. Hardy, Jr.); 'The Development of Industries in Louisiana During the French Regime, 1673-1763' (Nancy M. Miller Surrey); 'An Adventurous Voyage to French Colonial Louisiana: The Narrative of Mother Tranchepain, 1727' (Marion Ware); 'The Establishment of a Colonist' (Antoine-Simon Le Page Du Pratz); 'From African Captivity to American Slavery: The Introduction of Black Laborers to Colonial Louisiana' (Daniel H. Usner, Jr.); 'The French and the Natchez Indians in Louisiana: 1700-1731' (Patricia D. Woods); 'La Louisiane avant Vaudreuil' ('Louisiana before Vaudreuil,' Guy Fregault) 'New Orleans under French Rule' (Sarah Searight); 'Les problemes d'installation des Acadiens en Louisiane au XVIIIe siecle' ('Settlement Problems of the Acadians in Louisiana in the 18th Century,' Jacqueline Voorhies); 'The New Orleans Revolution of 1768: A Reappraisal' (Richard Ira Matthews); 'Some Eighteenth-Century French Views on Louisiana' (Pierre H. Boulle); 'Louisiana as a Factor in French Diplomacy from 1762 to 1800' (Mildred Stahl Fletcher); 'The World Aspects of the Louisiana Purchase' (William M. Sloane); and 'The Transfer' (Pierre-Clement de Laussat)."Tags Acadians, Acculturation and Assimilation, Business and Economics, Death and Disaster, Education, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Exploration and Colonization, France, Government and Politics, Journalism, Labor History, Louisiana, Mills and Mill Work, Mississippi River Valley, New Orleans LA, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Anthology, Social History, United States, War -
A Franco-American Overview : Louisiana, part 2 of 4
Volume 6 of a eight-part series on Franco American history and life. From ERIC: "Intended to help readers develop an appreciation of the contributions of Franco-Americans to the cultural heritage of the United States, this book, the fourth of six volumes, presents 15 chapters representing many perspectives--from the historical to the sociological--illustrating the thinking and feelings of those in the forefront of Franco-American studies. This volume focuses on Franco-Americans in New England. The following readings are presented: 'New England French Culture' (Gerard J. Brault); 'Public or Parish: A Study of Differences in Acculturation of Franco-American Schoolchildren' (Peter Woolfson); 'An Ethnic Survey of Woonsocket, Rhode Island' (Bessie Bloom Wessel); 'Franco-American Efforts on Behalf of the French Language in New England' (Herve Lemaire); 'Sports and Franco-Americans in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, 1870-1930' (Richard S. Sorrell); 'U. S. Journal--Biddeford, Maine: Ou se trouve la plage?' (Calvin Trillin); 'Ethnic Stratification in the Community' (Elin Anderson); 'Race, Ethnicity and the Achievement Syndrome' (Bernard C. Rosen); 'Living Space and the Advancement of the Generations' (W. Lloyd Warner, J. O. Low, Paul S. Lunt, and Leo Srole); 'The Socio-Economic Status of the French-Canadians in the United States' (Leon F. Bouvier); 'A Genealogical Approach to the Study of French-Canadian Fertility 1650-1950' (Leon F. Bouvier); 'Language Usage in the United States: July, 1975' (U. S. Bureau of the Census); 'Social and Economic Profile of French and English Mother-Tongue Persons: Maine, 1970' (Madeleine Giguere); 'French-Canadian Settlement in Vermont Prior to the Civil War' (Ralph D. Vicero), and 'Sentinelle Affair (1924-1929): Religious and Militant 'Survivance' in Woonsocket, Rhode Island' (Richard S. Sorrell). Appendices providing a map, research notes, and an annotated bibliography conclude the document."Tags Acadians, Business and Economics, Death and Disaster, Education, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Exploration and Colonization, Farming and Agriculture, France, Government and Politics, Journalism, Lafayette Parish LA, Louisiana, New Orleans LA, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Anthology, Social History, United States -
A Franco-American Overview
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 -
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 -
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 -
Frenchmen into Peasants: Modernity and Tradition in the Peopling of French Canada
History text on the later migrations of the French to Atlantic Canada, written by the Director of the French Institute at Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts. From Harvard University Press: "In unprecedented detail, Leslie Choquette narrates the peopling of French Canada across the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the lesser known colonial phase of French migration. Drawing on French and Canadian archives, she carefully traces the precise origins of individual immigrants, describing them by gender, class, occupation, region, religion, age, and date of departure. Her archival work is impressive: of the more than 30,000 emigrants who embarked for Quebec and the Maritimes during the French Regime, nearly 16,000 are chronicled here....In considering the pattern of emigration in the context of migration history, Choquette shows that, in many ways, the movement toward Canada occurred as a by-product of other, perennial movements, such as the rural exodus or interurban labor migrations. Overall, emigrants to Canada belonged to an outwardly turned and mobile sector of French society, and their migration took place during a phase of vigorous Atlantic expansion. They crossed the ocean to establish a subsistence economy and peasant society, traces of which lingered on into the twentieth century. Because Choquette looks at the entire history of French migration to Canada--its social and economic aspects as well as its place in the larger history of migration--her work makes a remarkable contribution in the field of immigration history."
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Chez nos freères les Acadiens : Notes d'histoire et impressions de voyage
De l'intro, "aux Lecteurs," écrit par Emile Dubois: "Au cours des vacances de 1918, en compagnie de M. l'abbe Edmond Lacroix, je faisais un séjour d'un mois au pays d'Evangeline. Au jour le jour, a mesure que je visitais les endroits illustrés par le colon francais, et que, grace aux historiens Rameau et Casgrain, se déroulaient sous mes yeux l'histoire du peuple martyr, je jetais sur le papier des notes et des impressions. Les pages qui suivent sont le fruit de ces lectures et de ce voyage." -
The French in North America, 1500-1783
Previously published under the title "France in America." From Fitzhenry and Whiteside, publishers: "This vivid account of the crucial role played by the French in the Western Hemisphere chronicles the rise and fall of the French empire on the mainland of North America and the West Indies, from the arrival of the Breton, Norman and Basque fishermen on the Grand Banks around 1500 to the sale of Louisiana to the United States in 1803. Professor Eccles depicts the establishment of Baroque civilization and the attempt of the establishment of industries and commerce from the slave plantations of the south to the fur trade posts of the far northwest, and discusses the colonists of other European powers. "Tags Acadians, Albany NY, Canada, Exploration and Colonization, Farming and Agriculture, Forestry, France, Fur-trading, Great Britain, Haiti, Hudson Bay, Illinois, La Beauce QC, Louisiana, Montréal QC, Native Americans, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- French in North America, Nonfiction -- History -- General, Nova Scotia, Ottawa ON, Québec, Religion, St. Lawrence River Valley, Toronto ON, War -
An Acadian Heritage from the St. John River Valley
Collection of newspaper articles, essays, and images in an illustration of Acadian cultural heritage at the US-Canada border. From the Madawaska Historical Society in the St. John River Valley of northern Maine. -
How the Acadians Came to Maine
Chronological history of the Acadian people and their eventual settlement of communities in Maine. Begins in the early 1600s and chronicles events and migrations up to the early 20th century. -
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 -
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 -
Franco-Americans of Maine
An "Images of America" pictorial history that illustrates parts of the Franco-American experience in Maine, Maine's people, and the things and places that occupied their lives. Chapters run as follows: 1)Work, 2)Family, 3)Religious Life, 4)Community, 5)Sports and Recreation, 6)Arts and Entertainment, 7)Education, 8)Franco-American Pride, 9)The Acadians. This is Dyke Hendrickson's second book on Franco-Americans, the first being "Quiet Presence: Dramatic, First-Person Accounts: The True Stories of Franco-Americans in New England" (1980)Tags Acadians, Allagash ME, Auburn ME, Augusta ME, Biddeford ME, Community: Customs and Social Life, Eagle Lake ME, Education, Family, Farming and Agriculture, Forestry, Fort Kent ME, Frenchville ME, Grand Isle ME, Journalism, Labor History, Lewiston ME, Lille ME, Madawaska ME, Mills and Mill Work, New Auburn ME, New Brunswick, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Pictorial, Sanford ME, Sinclair ME, Sports and Leisure, St. Agatha ME, St. David ME, St. John River Valley, Van Buren ME, Wallagrass ME, Westbrook ME, Youth -
Les Canadiens français et leurs voisins du sud
Un livre d'essaies sur les relations politiques et culturelles entre Canada et les ètats-Unis, ou Québec et les ètats-Unis, et une exposition sur l'immigration canadienne francaise aux "états." Du texte: "...il presente pour la premiière fois une analyse soutenne et methodique du role joué par les Français du Canada dans cette grande action collective." Les textes suivants: L'Acadie et la Nouvelle-Angleterre, 1603-1763 - Gustave Lanctoêt Relations anglo-francçaises dans la vallée du Saint-Laurent - Raymond Parent Le Québec et les colonies américaines, 1760-1820 - Gustave Lanctoêt Le roêle des Canadiens francçais dan la traite des fourrures, les explorations et les missions, 1763-1846 - Benoiêt Brouillette Influences américaines sur la politique du Bas-Canada, 1820-1867 - Jean Bruchesi Léxpansion religieuse des Canadiens francçais aux états-Unis - Georges Robitaille Le Québec et les états-Unis, 1867-1937 - Gustave Lanctoêt -
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. -
Notes on North America : Agricultural, Economical, and Social, Volume 2
A British scholar's notes on life in New Brunswick, New England, New York, and the Upper Midwestern U.S., based on extensive travel in those regions in the middle 19th century. Volume 2 of 2. -
A Land of Discord Always : Acadia from Its Beginning to the Expulsion of Its People, 1604-1755
From Down East Books: " 'A Land of Discord Always' is the history of Acadia up to the time of the grand derangement. It tells how a unique society grew and prospered in an obscure corner of North America only to be crushed in a contest between eighteenth-century imperial superpowers. Peopled with memorable men and women whose exploits make fascinating reading, it is a narrative filled with the bravery and cowardice, the foresight and foolishness, and the design and happenstance that determined Acadia's turbulent history." -
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. -
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 -
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 -
From Evangeline to Papa, or How to Acquire a Past : A Sociological/Historical Perspective on French/Canadian Americans
A self-published, self-printed sociology project written for Goddard College. A series of journal entries from July 1976 written on an American's trip through Nova Scotia. Includes conversations, information about historical places, and general reflections on the French Acadian heritage of the region.Tags Acadians, Biddeford ME, Brunswick ME, Emigration and Immigration, Language and Linguistics, Lewiston ME, Maine, New Brunswick, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Social Sciences, Nonfiction -- Sociology, Nonfiction -- Travel and Tourism, Nova Scotia, Old Town ME, Orono ME, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Sanford ME, Waterville ME -
Franco-Americans
Outline of Franco American history, traditional practices, cultural norms. Culminates in suggestions to healthcare providers for communicating with Franco Americans. Published online by the Child Welfare Training Institute, Muskie School of Public Education, University of Southern MaineTags Acadians, Auburn ME, Augusta ME, Bangor ME, Biddeford ME, Caribou ME, Death and Disaster, Demography, Education, Emigration and Immigration, Exploration and Colonization, Family, Food, Health and Wellness, Language and Linguistics, Lewiston ME, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Essay, Nova Scotia, Québec, Religion, Sports and Leisure -
Franco-Amérique
Tags Acadians, Alberta, Canada, Criticism and Review, Emigration and Immigration, Essay, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Exploration and Colonization, Florida, Government and Politics, Haiti, Illinois, Language and Linguistics, Louisiana, Maine, Manitoba, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Native Americans, New England, North Dakota, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Oregon, Québec, United States -
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 -
I Am Franco-American and Proud of It : An Anthology of Writings of Franco-American Women
A selection of women's writings - fiction, poetry, essay, journalism - that have appeared in the University of Maine Franco-American Centre's publication, "Le FAROG Forum." Le Forum is a periodical dedicated to issues related to the Franco American in the state of Maine and elsewhere. The writings in this collection span in time from the Forum's birth in the early 1970s to the time of the compilation's completion, around 1995.Tags Acadians, Albany NY, Art and Architecture, Bangor ME, Barre VT, Biddeford ME, Blue Hill ME, Bradley ME, Brewer ME, Caribou ME, Chicago IL, Criticism and Review, Crown Point IN, Eagle Lake ME, Emigration and Immigration, Essay, Fairfield ME, Food, Fort Kent ME, French Island ME, Frenchville ME, Gender and Sexuality, Gorham ME, Government and Politics, Haiti, Indianapolis IN, Journalism, Laconia NH, Ledyard CT, Lewiston ME, Manchester ME, Mexico ME, Montréal QC, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Anthology, Old Orchard Beach ME, Old Town ME, Performing Arts, Portland ME, Religion, Rumford ME, Saco ME, Sand Hill ME, Scarborough ME, St. Albans VT, St. John River Valley, Van Buren ME, Vermont, War, Waterville ME, Westbrook ME -
Memories Grow on Trees
From the author: "The following stories represent the folk history of the logging business in northern Maine. They were gathered over the years and the facts may have been changed as the stories were passed on to succeeding generations. However, they do capture the essence of life in the lumber camps and how it changed over the years. They are memories that should be shared." -
Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie
Maine native Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem about "le Grand Dérangement" - the Acadian Expulsion - and one Acadian woman's rampant search for a love lost. This text also includes an introduction, a brief historical sketch of the Acadians, and a short biography of Longfellow. From the editor: "This is a special commemorative edition of the great poem to honor the Acadians as they celebrate the 400 year anniversary, in 2004, of the first Acadian settlement; remember the 250 year anniversary of the deportation in 2005; and accept the Queen's "acknowledgement of the facts of the deportation" and her proclamation of July 28 of every year as "A Day of Commemoration of the Great Upheaval," starting on July 28, 2005."Tags Acadians, Art and Architecture, Connecticut, Death and Disaster, England, Exploration and Colonization, France, Georgia, Language and Linguistics, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Native Americans, New Brunswick, New York, Nova Scotia, Pennsylvania, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Poetry, Prince Edward Island, Québec, South Carolina, St. David ME, St. John River Valley, United States, Van Buren ME -
Van Buren History : A Folkloric History of Van Buren Settlers
A history of the people of Van Buren, Maine, with a heavy emphasis on local folklore. Includes a large collection of images of town buildings both past and present, historic documents, family trees, local advertisements, and local maps.Tags Acadians, Art and Architecture, Business and Economics, Community: Customs and Social Life, Education, Folklore, Food, Genealogy, Grand Isle ME, Hamlin ME, Keegan ME, Labor History, Madawaska ME, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Local, Religion, St. John River Valley, Van Buren ME -
Tableaux synoptiques de l'histoire de l'Acadie
Une briève histoire de l'Acadie entre 1412 et 1800 (entre colonisation, le Grand Dérangement, et repopulation). Certaines descriptions d'événements significatives dans la courte durée de vie des premiières communatés Acadiennes de la Nouvelle-Ecosse. Deuxiième édition.Tags Acadians, Brazil, Business and Economics, Connecticut, Death and Disaster, Emigration and Immigration, England, Exploration and Colonization, Farming and Agriculture, France, Government and Politics, Labor History, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Mills and Mill Work, Native Americans, New Brunswick, New England, New Hampshire, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Portugal, Québec, Religion, Rhode Island, Spain, St. John River Valley, Vermont -
The County : Land of Promise
Subtitled, "A Pictorial History of Aroostook County, Maine." A celebration of Aroostook County's 150th year. A pictorial regional history consisting of general narrative and more intimate, anecdotal accounts of the place in present-day northern Maine known widely as "the County." Illustrated with photographic and other artistic representations. From the inside flap: "Through more than four hundred photographs, drawings, paintings, and maps, the authors have brought to life the County's people in their work and play, in war and peace, in good times and bad."Tags Acadians, Allagash ME, Androscoggin River Valley, Art and Architecture, Ashland ME, Blaine ME, Caribou ME, Death and Disaster, Education, Farming and Agriculture, Fort Fairfield ME, Fort Kent ME, Geography, Grand Isle ME, Hamlin ME, Houlton ME, Island Falls ME, Kennebec River Valley, Lille ME, Limestone ME, Madawaska ME, Maine, Mapleton ME, Mars Hill ME, Music, Native Americans, New Brunswick, New Sweden ME, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Local, Nonfiction -- History -- Pictorial, Nova Scotia, Penobscot River Valley, Performing Arts, Presque Isle ME, Religion, Sports and Leisure, St. Agatha ME, St. David ME, St. John River Valley, Stockholm ME, Van Buren ME, War, Washburn ME, Westfield ME -
History of the Acadians
Translation of the first volume of Arsenault's original historical collection, "Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens." This volume, "Histoire des Acadiens," attempts a comprehensive history of the Acadian people - their arrival in sixteenth-century North America, the developments of their communities in modern day Nova Scotia, and their historical persistence through expulsion and dispersion. This volume sets the context for the more intimately local and pointedly genealogical approaches to the subject of the Acadians undertaken in the subsequent volumes of Arsenault's collection.Tags Acadians, Community: Customs and Social Life, Death and Disaster, Emigration and Immigration, Exploration and Colonization, Family, Farming and Agriculture, France, Genealogy, Government and Politics, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi River Valley, Native Americans, New Brunswick, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- General, Nova Scotia, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Prince Edward Island, Québec, St. Lawrence River Valley, Violence -
History of the 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 -
The St. John Valley Story and the Wallagrass Story
A history of the St. John River Valley, Maine with a large segment dedicated to the town of Wallagrass. Begins with European colonization and the sixteenth century Native Americans, and continues through the establishment and demise of Acadia, and the birth of communities in the Upper St. John River Valley. A large collection of pictures from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A number of entries on specific persons important to Wallagrass and its surrounding towns. Written and compiled by a resident of Soldier Pond, Aroostook County, Maine. Volume 4 in a series on Maine history created by this author.Tags Acadians, Allagash ME, Ashland ME, Caribou ME, Community: Customs and Social Life, Daigle ME, Death and Disaster, Eagle Lake ME, Exploration and Colonization, Farming and Agriculture, Fort Kent ME, France, Frenchville ME, Grand Isle ME, Hamlin ME, Keegan ME, Madawaska ME, Native Americans, New Brunswick, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Local, Nova Scotia, Presque Isle ME, Religion, Soldier Pond ME, St. Agatha ME, St. Francis ME, St. John River Valley, Van Buren ME, Wallagrass ME, War -
The Acadians of Nova Scotia : Past and Present
From Nimbus Publishing: "The first work devoted exclusively to the Acadians of Nova Scotia, this book presents a thorough study of Acadian history from the earliest days of French settlement to present-day Acadian communities. Ross and Deveau draw on original seventeenth century texts, as well as up-to-date sources. The examine the history of the expulsion - the Grand Derangement - that began in 1755, and trace the return of the Acadians and their resettlement in seven areas of the province. The authors highlight the distinct features that have developed within these different regions of Nova Scotia, and discuss the choices and challenges faced by Acadians today: linguistic assimilation and preservation of a distinct culture against pressures from the mainstream culture." -
A Franco-American Overview : Louisiana, part 3 of 4
Volume 7 of an eight-part series on Franco American history and life. Concerned specifically with "Postbellum Louisiana." Contains the following essays: "The Splendid Mystery of the Civil Code of Louisiana" - Albert Tate, Jr., "Early New Orleans Society: A Reappraisal" - Joseph G. Tregle, Jr., "Impact of Epidemic Yellow Fever on Life in Louisiana" - Jo Ann Carrigan, "The New Orleans Sabbath" - Lester R. Shippe (Ed.), "Mardi Gras in New Orleans" - A.L.S., "The Old-Time Mardi Gras" - Charles Lyell, "Dancing Belles and Beaux of Old New Orleans" - Mary Grace Swift, "The Golden Age of Opera, Theater, and the Performing Arts" - Leonard V. Huber, "The French Opera House" and "Opera in New Orleans in Days of Yore" - André Lafargue, "The Crescent City's Charismatic Celebrity: Louis Moreau Gottschalk's New Orleans Concerts" - Wille Prophit, "The French Literature of Louisiana" - Alcée Fortier, "Charles Gayarré and the Philosophy of Progress" - Herbert H. Lang, "A Voodoo Dance" - Charles Dudley Warner, "Voodoo in New Orleans" - Blake Touchstone, "The Opelousas Riot of 1868" - Claude F. Oubre, "The Brazil Exiles: A Forgotten Chapter in the History of St. Landry Parish" - Carl A. Brasseaux, "A Proposed Exhibition of Human Ferocity" and "Vive la France! Bastille Day at New Iberia, 1900" and "Alexandre Mouton and the Sugar Industry" - George A. Stearns, "A Late Nineteenth-Century View of Acadiana: Charles Dudley Warner's 'The Acadian Land'" - James H. Dormon (Ed.), "The Outdoor Oven in Louisiana" - Fred Kniffen, "Louisiana Acadian Domestic Architecture" - R. Warren Robison, "The Pieux Fence" - Mary Alice Fontenot, "Some Southwest Louisiana Toys of the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries" - Penny Baird, "Acadians and Anglo-American Education" and "The Acadians of Louisiana" - Robert L. Daniels.Tags Acadians, Art and Architecture, Brazil, Business and Economics, Caribbean, Community: Customs and Social Life, Death and Disaster, Education, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Exploration and Colonization, Fiction and Literature, France, Government and Politics, Journalism, Lafayette Parish LA, Language and Linguistics, Louisiana, New Orleans LA, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Anthology, Performing Arts, Religion, Social History, United States -
A Franco-American Overview : Louisiana, part 4 of 4
Volume 8 of an eight-part series on Franco American history and life. Concerned specifically with "French Louisiana in the Twentieth Century." Contains the following essays: "Les Acadiens au XXe siecle" - Margeurite Roman, "Acadians and Acadians" - W.C. Gaynor, " Some Population Characteristics of a Negro Village in the French Section of Louisiana" - Vernon J. Parenton, "Social Isolation of the French-Speaking People of Rural Louisiana" - Harlan W. Gilmore, "Notes on the Social Organization of a French Village in South Louisiana" - Vernon J. Parenton, "Family-Capitalism in a Community of Rural Louisiana" - Harlan W. Gilmore, "French-Speaking Farmers of Southern Louisiana" - Walter M. Kollmorgen and Robert W. Harrison, "The Country Butchery: A Cooperative Institution" - T. Lynn Smith and Lauren C. Post, "Les courses de chevaux: un sport de la campagne" - Sandra Hebert, "Naked Hell Cockfights in Acadiana" - Kenneth Paul Stewart, "Socio-Psychological Integration in a Rural French-Speaking Section of Louisiana" - Vernon J. Parenton, "Acculturation Among the Lousiana French" - T. Lynn Smith and Vernon J. Parenton, "Yesterday, Today, and Maybe Tomorrow: Pictographs in Southwest Louisiana" - Anna M. Boudreaux, "Acadian Fiddler Dennis McGee and Acadian Dances" - Brenda Daigle, "Acculturation in Cajun Folk Music" - Harry Oster, "The Influence of English on Louisiana 'Cajun' French in Evangeline Parish" - Harley Smith and Hosea Phillips, "Louisiana Creole French, Black or White?" - William J. Thomas, "Historique du journalisme d'expression française en Louisiane" - Larbi Oukada, "An Ethno-Telephonic Survey of French Louisiana" - Peveril Meigs III, "The Louisiana French" - Jerah Johnson, "The Acadian Family: Anachronism or Paradigm?" - Sarah Brabant, "The Edwards Victory" - Charles E. Grenier and Perry H. Howard.Tags Acadians, Acculturation and Assimilation, Art and Architecture, Business and Economics, Community: Customs and Social Life, Demography, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fiction and Literature, Folklore, France, Geography, Government and Politics, Journalism, Lafayette Parish LA, Language and Linguistics, Louisiana, New Orleans LA, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Anthology, Religion, Social History, Sports and Leisure, United States -
Franco-American Ethnic Identity in Maine : Mémoire de Maiêtrise
Book-length study based on demographic research and personal observations on Franco Americans in Maine. Begins with a brief exploration of the diversity of Franco American history in New England and moves into the theoretical particularities often used to talk about the common Franco-American minority experience. Ends with case-studies of Franco Americans from Brunswick, Turner, Portland, Waterville, Lewiston, and Augusta, Maine. Attempts to trace the transformation of Franco American attitudes toward their heritage. From the author: "This paper is the outcome of a nine-month observation. From September 1989 until May 1990, the observer was a French Teaching Fellow at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine...."Tags Acadians, Acculturation and Assimilation, Auburn ME, Augusta ME, Biddeford ME, Brunswick ME, Community: Customs and Social Life, Cumberland ME, Demography, Eagle Lake ME, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Labor History, Language and Linguistics, Lewiston ME, Maine, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Ethnic Studies, Nonfiction -- Social Sciences, Québec, Religion, Saco ME, St. John River Valley, Waterville ME -
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. -
Review : Béatrice Craig, 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, 2009). The reviewer, Robert Kristofferson, is a professor at Wilfrid Laurier University.Tags Acadians, 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 -
Voyages : A Maine Franco-American Reader
Celebrated collection of essays, stories, poems, songs, art, and other works on the history of Franco American people and their communities in Maine. Features the following writings by their respective authors, in order of appearance:
Foreword by Nelson Madore Appreciation by the Editors Preface by Michael Michaud Introduction by Barry Rodrigue and Others Gentility on the Frontiers of Acadia, 1635-1674: An Archaeological Perspective, by Alaric Faulkner Eastern Abenaki Autonomy and French Frustrations, 1745-1760, by David Ghere An Album in the Attic: The Forgotten Frontier of the Quebec-Maine Borderlands During the Revolutionary War, by Barry Rodrigue Life on the Farm and Recipes, by Luella and Eva Ashland Roderick Immigrants in a Frontier Community: Madawaska, 1785-1850, by Béatrice Craig An Acadian Odyssey, by Don Cyr Soldiers, Spuds, and Spruce: Maine's Military Roads to the Maritimes, by Barry Rodrigue Understanding the French Canadians of Lewiston, 1860-1900, by Yves Frenette Immigrant Dream - I, by Susann Pelletier Growing Up in Brunswick in the 1930s and 1940s, by Raymond Duval Petit Bois, by Claude Bonang with Katie Camiré Into the Heart of Maine: A Look at Dexter's Franco-American Community, by Dorothy Blanchard Sawdust in My Ear, by Roland Lapointe Franco-American and Lebanese Textile Workers in Waterville: La survivance economique, by Matthew Laflamme "Je ne regrette rien:" Franco-American Women in Maine: Survival, Resiliency, and Community, by Céleste DeRoche A La Mémoire de nos Ancetres (To the Memory of Our Ancestors), by Mercedes Gastonguay The French Catholics in Maine, by Clement Thibodeau Negotiating Ethnic Identity: St. Jean-Baptiste Day Celebrations in Francophone Lewiston, Maine, by Mark Paul Richard Donat Labbé - Woods Cook, by Yvon Labbé The Jackman and Moose River Mission: From France to America with the Sisters of St. Joseph of Lyons, 1904-1932, by Gérard Forgue A New Home, by Paul Caron A Childhood Memory: Midnight Mass at St. Peter's and St. Paul's, by Helen Lévesque Maine's Corporation Sole Controversy, by Michael Guignard The Summer I Was Thirteen, by Denis Ledoux An Introduction to "Life in the Mills" from Canuck, a Novel by Camille Lessard-Bissonnette, by Linda Pervier "Life in the Mills," Excerpt from Canuck, by Camille Lessard-Bissonnette and Linda Pervier An Introduction to Canuck and Camille Lessard-Bissonnette: Why Read It Now?, by Sylvie Charron and Rhea Côté Robbins Franco-Americans and the International Paper Company Strike of 1910, by Anders Larson An Excerpt from Papa Martel, by Gérard Robichaud J'Aimais (I Used to Love), by Jean-Paul Poulain Passing the Flame, by Cindy Larock French-Canadian Genealogical Research, by Bob Chenard Down the Plains, an Excerpt, by Rhea Côté Robbins Calice, by Greg Chabot The Lane Road, 1958, by Susann Pelletier What We Gather in November, by Susann Pelletier How Many Frenchmen Does It Take to..., by C. Stewart Doty The Lessons of Living in a Francophobic World, by Pat LaMarche French Jokes, Anonymous When Funny Might Not Be..., by Ernie Gagné One of Frenchie's Stories: In Heat, by Ernie Gagné La Graine Pousse (The Seed Sprout), by Normand Dubé Everything's Just Finophobia, by Greg Chabot Research Note: Maine "Jim Crow"? The Forgotten Maine Constitutional Amendment of 1891, by Rebecca Dirnfeld A Short Biography for My Daughter, by Raymond Luc Lavasseur Under Wintery Constellation, by Susann Pelletier A ceux qui m'ont offensé (For Those Who Have Offended Me), by Jean-Paul Poulain Franco-American Identity at the University of Maine, by Michael Serizawa Brown Beau Frog, by Peter Archambault Out of the Shadows, by Yvon Labbé Photo-Documentary: Franco-American Work Traditions, by Jere DeWaters A Québec Soldier in Maine, by Barry Rodrigue The Silent Playground, by Ross and Judy Paradis Mémere (Grandmother), by Raymond Luc Lavasseur Tourtiière (Meat Pie), by Philomiène Létourneau Simard and Diane Simard McKenney Voicing Mémière, by Kristin Langellier On Becoming a Franco-American, by Richard Pattenaude She Appears, by Jim Bishop Livres (Books), by Maureen Perry My Writing of La Souillonne (The Filthy Woman), by Normand Beaupré "Qui Chus" (Who I Am), Excerpt from La Souillonne, by Normand Beaupré Franco-Americans and a Century of Political Elections, 1892-1992, by Madeleine Giguière Ad Astra per Aspera - To the Heavens through Hardship: The Franco-American Rise to Political Power in Maine, by Christian Potholm First Campaigns, Georgette Bérubé Maine Franco-Americans in Politics, by John Martin Singing the Vernacular, Excerpts, by Paul Paré Brunswick: A Bridge and Its History, by Julianna L'Heureux Les Non Non Blues (The No No Blues), by Josée Vachon Acadian Ployes, by Emily Clavet Ouellette Martin and Sandra Dionne Croft The Neighborhood, by Michelle Morgan Why Bother? by Michael ParentTags Acadians, Acculturation and Assimilation, Art and Architecture, Business and Economics, Community: Customs and Social Life, Death and Disaster, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, Essay, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Exploration and Colonization, Family, Farming and Agriculture, Fiction and Literature, Folklore, Food, Forestry, Gender and Sexuality, Genealogy, Geography, Government and Politics, Labor History, Language and Linguistics, Maine, Mills and Mill Work, Music, Native Americans, New Brunswick, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Anthology, Nova Scotia, Performing Arts, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Poetry, Québec, Religion, Social History, Sports and Leisure, Violence, War -
Languages in Conflict : Canada, 1976
An explanation of 1970s Canadian census figures specifically regarding language, birth rates, and geography. From the author: "Canada is an ideal country in which to study the progress of language transfer and other factors affecting minority survival, because the decennial census includes three questions on language and one on ethnic origin. From census data, it will be shown that two-thirds of Canada's population live in English dominated regions, within which minorities of all other languages are dwindling through assimilation, but that there is also a French Canada, within which it is the use of the English language that is declining. The two languages co-exist only within a narrow bilingual belt." -
Kill the Devil or Marry an American : Descent and Consent among the Cajuns
Article exploring the development of Cajun ethnic identity through its iterations in modern theatrical performance in Louisiana, in a period of apparent ethnic revival. How Cajun theatre and its use of the French language function in terms of shaping and defining Cajun identity in Louisiana, abroad, and in the dramatic arts. -
French National Societies in New England
Article on the early-twentieth-century establishment of Franco American social organizations, and their implications for cultural heritage preservation, or the idea of "la survivance." Refers to already-established social organizations in Québec as developmental models for emigrant French Canadian and Franco American communities in New England.Tags Acadians, Acculturation and Assimilation, Boston MA, Community: Customs and Social Life, Fitchburg MA, Holyoke MA, Illinois, Maine, Malone NY, Manchester NH, Michigan, Montréal QC, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New York, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Clubs and Societies, Nova Scotia, Religion, Springfield MA, Vermont, Waltham MA, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
Les "Petits Canadas" de la Nouvelle-Angleterre
De l'auteur: "La communauté franco-américaine de Nouvelle-Angleterre, ou «communauté franco», est relativement méconnue en France. L'action qu'elle conduit pour faire reconnaître son identité au sein de la région qui l'accueille offre pourtant un témoignage remarquable de ses capacités de survivance - son « réveil » actuel atteste en outre de la maturité et de l'ouverture de la société américaine d'aujourd'hui qui, apriès avoir perçu comme une menace la présence franco, l'accepte maintenant avec fierté et reconnaissance. Au XXIe siiècle, il y a un avenir pour le fait français en Nouvelle- Angleterre, il y a une place, nous disent aussi les Américains, pour la diversité culturelle au service de la cohésion nationale."Tags Acadians, Acculturation and Assimilation, Biddeford ME, Boston MA, Brunswick ME, Calais ME, Castine ME, Community: Customs and Social Life, Connecticut River Valley, Demography, Education, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fort Kent ME, Labor History, Language and Linguistics, Lewiston ME, Lowell MA, Manchester NH, Merrimack River Valley, Mills and Mill Work, Montpelier VT, Montréal QC, Mt. Desert Island ME, New Bedford MA, New Brunswick, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- French in North America, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Religion, Saco River Valley, Southbridge MA, St. John River Valley, Violence, Woonsocket RI -
Robert G. LeBlanc, 1930-2001
Short piece honoring geographer and historian Robert G. LeBlanc, and introducing his two major pieces of scholarship: one on the Acadian migrations, the other on the Québec ties of the New England Franco-American elite. -
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. -
L'identité des Acadiens de la vallée du Saint-Jean
Étude sur l'identité ethnique et sa transformation dans les Acadiens de la vallée de la riviière Saint-Jean au nord de l'état du Maine dans les années 1990; analyse basée sur des recherches historiques et des données locales et multi-générationnelles acquises par un questionnaire distribué à Fort Kent, Madawaska, Ste. Agathe, et Van Buren; information sur la langue, la famille, la géographie, et la conscience ethnique; introduction historique aux Acadiens de l'Amerique du Nord; une copie du questionnaire en annexeTags Acadians, Acculturation and Assimilation, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Fort Kent ME, France, Great Britain, Language and Linguistics, Madawaska ME, Maine, Native Americans, New Brunswick, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Language and Linguistics, Nova Scotia, Religion, St. Agatha ME, St. John River Valley, Travel and Movement, Van Buren ME, Violence -
The Design of a Franco-American Restaurant as a Community Education Device
Master's thesis proposing a restaurant whose design and theme aim toward public education about Franco American culture. How this project is situated in a larger, national discussion about "the value of ethnic identity" (1). A demographic background on Franco Americans, and how cultural information about them might be used in a public history program. Sketches of the restaurant's physical structure. How the building's layout and contents relate to experiential learning: about traditional French Canadian architectures and histories, Franco American foodways, and modern Franco American life. -
Folkways of Pre-Expulsion Acadians in Selected French, British, and American Writers : A Comparative Analysis of Similarities and Differences in Expressed Thought
Historiography of Acadia up to 1755. Analysis of writings on the Acadian people as they were thought to have lived in Atlantic Canada before their 18th-century expulsion. Presentation of pre-expulsion Acadian customs, behaviors, and social life as described by French, British, and American writers. Comparisons of these descriptions, and arguments on the religious and political biases evident in them. An attempt at relating the historical origins of these biases and descriptive trends in order to clarify a presentation of the pre-expulsion Acadian population.Tags Acadians, Canada, Community: Customs and Social Life, Death and Disaster, Education, England, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Exploration and Colonization, Farming and Agriculture, Fiction and Literature, Folklore, France, Government and Politics, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Anthropology, Nonfiction -- Folklore, Nonfiction -- Social Sciences, North America, Nova Scotia, Religion, Violence -
Madawaska : A Chapter in Maine-New Brunswick Relations
History of the Madawaska border region of the Upper Saint John River Valley as a meeting point of New Brunswick and the state of Maine. Madawaska as an area of political negotiation, a borderland infused with geographic and political meaning in the middle of the twentieth century. From a review in George Findlen's "Genealogist's Handbook for Upper Saint John Valley Research" : "Although much of her work deals with the big picture of the frontier and of the relationship between Maine and New Brunswick, she still gives a lot of space to the mostly Acadian population caught in between." Republished by the Madawaska Historical Society in 1975.Tags Acadians, Canada, Community: Customs and Social Life, Emigration and Immigration, Exploration and Colonization, France, Geography, Government and Politics, Madawaska ME, Maine, Native Americans, New Brunswick, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- French in North America, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Nonfiction -- History -- Local, Religion, St. John River Valley, United States -
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 -
La littérature française de Nouvelle-Angleterre
Un oeuvre qui explore le phénomiène de la littérature langue française écrit et lit dans la Nouvelle-Angleterre, jusqu'à 1945. Réédité en 1946 par Fides, les Publications de l'Université Laval (http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/5198661).Tags Acadians, Boston MA, Canada, Community: Customs and Social Life, Criticism and Review, Fall River MA, Fiction and Literature, Fitchburg MA, Government and Politics, Holyoke MA, Journalism, Language and Linguistics, Lewiston ME, Literary Works, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Lowell MA, Manchester NH, Montréal QC, New England, New York, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Poetry, Religion, United States, Vermont, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA -
Morphosyntactic Variation and Language Shift in Two Franco-American Communities
From the author: "Although the originally French speaking Franco-American communities of Southbridge, Massachusetts, and Woonsocket, Rhode Island, have much in common historically, language shift toward English has advanced to differing degrees in the two locations. In this dissertation, I explore morphosyntactic variation and the advance of language shift in the two locations using historical documentation, U.S. census figures and sociolinguistic interviews conducted with sixty-nine informants....After comparing and contrasting the sociolinguistic profiles of the two communities, I describe some of the linguistic consequences of the shift from French to English in these traditional Franco-American centers through a quantitative variationist analysis of two morphosyntactic variables. These are auxiliary variation in the passé composé and variation between use of the synthetic and analytic futures. Findings from Southbridge and Woonsocket provide new insight for understanding linguistic change during situations of language decline..."Tags Acadians, Acculturation and Assimilation, Community: Customs and Social Life, Connecticut, Demography, Education, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Language and Linguistics, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, New England, New Hampshire, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Language and Linguistics, Ontario, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Québec, Southbridge MA, Vermont, Woonsocket RI -
The Status of French Among Youth in a Bilingual American-Canadian Border Community : The Case of Madawaska, Maine
From Price: "This study examines the status of the French language among young residents of Madawaska, Maine, a US-Canadian border community with a long history of bilingualism and contact with French speakers. This study views language status as having two distinct yet interrelated components: (1) code role, or characteristics associated with the use of a given language or variety, such as attitudes of speakers toward the variety and its use, the proficiency level of speakers, language use patterns, and so forth, and (2) code nature, or the state of the variety in question in terms of syntax, phonology and lexicon. The data, collected by means of four interview tasks, targeted both code role and code nature and sought to determine the general status of French among the younger residents of this community. In addition to the younger subject population, a small adult baseline population was also included in order to compare data across generations, so as to identify not just possible differences in code role, but also in code nature, including the possibility of language loss....The data suggested several trends. First, in terms of code role, young subjects generally reported lower levels of language use, proficiency and exposure to French than did adults. Secondly, not only did high-proficiency young subjects generally report higher scores in these areas than did lower-proficiency subjects, but males tended to score higher than females in this regard. This would suggest that exposure to French, context, language proficiency and gender correlate with language use among this population. Conversely, attitudes do not generally appear to be a salient factor motivating French language use. With regard to code nature, the study found that even the most proficient young speakers demonstrated some important gaps in their grammatical competence, and that the young subject population as a whole exhibited features in their production consistent with language loss. The study concludes that although there are still many individuals with ability in French, the differences between younger and older speakers in terms of both code role and code nature suggest that local French will be lost unless further action is taken to reverse the progress of French language loss among young bilinguals in the community."Tags Acadians, Acculturation and Assimilation, Community: Customs and Social Life, Demography, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Fort Kent ME, Frenchville ME, Gender and Sexuality, Geography, Language and Linguistics, Madawaska ME, New Brunswick, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Language and Linguistics, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Québec, St. John River Valley -
Following the Evangeline Trail : Acadian Identity Performance Across Borders
From the author: "The poem 'Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow published in 1847, has had an impact on people for generations. The success of the poem was felt not only by its readership but also by the Acadian culture that the poem, and its heroine, came to represent. Evangeline, as character and poem, has evolved in meaning and popularity over the centuries and still plays a role in the cultural performance of contemporary Acadians....This study of Acadian cultural identity utilizes a performance approach that looks at cultural identity as a performative accomplishment in daily life. The analysis first enacts a performance historiography of the Acadian Deportation in 1755, Longfellow's poetic representation of this historical event, and the contemporary context of performing Evangeline in the Acadian diaspora. Next it examines the storytelling performances of narrative interviews with five Acadians. Three of these Acadians still live in the land of Evangeline, in Grand-Pre, Nova Scotia, and the other two live in Maine. Retellings of the story of Evangeline and reflections on the poem and character by each of the participants were analyzed for meanings which form and inform contemporary performances of Acadian cultural identity. The performance methodology allows for meanings to emerge from the embodied Acadian storytelling and to contextualize them in cultural and political spheres...." -
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 -
L'influence de la frontieère canado-américaine sur la population de Grande-Rivieère Madawaska
De l'auteur: "Le territoire d'étude de ce mémoire est situé dans le comté du Madawaska, au nord-ouest du Nouveau-Brunswick et dans la partie nord du comte d'Aroostook Maine, c'est-à -dire dans la vallée supérieure de la riviière Saint-Jean. La présente recherche concerne partculiièrement l'ancien territoire de la communauté de Grande-Riviière devenu le territoire actuel des villes de Van Buren (ME) et de Saint-Léonard (N.B.) depuis l'établissement de la frontiière canado-américaine entre le Nouveau-Brunswick et l'Etat du Maine par le Traité Ashburton-Webster, le 9 août 1842. Apriès 1842, la population de Grande-Riviière établie sur la rive sud de la riviière Saint-Jean devient americaine et celle etablie sur la rive nord reste britannique et plus tard deviendra canadienne....La moitié de cette population acado-canadienne, culturellement homogiène, unie sur le plan politique, administratif ete économique et évoluant avant 1842, autour d'une meme paroisse civile et religieuse, celle de Saint-Bruno, est maintenant rattachée aux structures américaines. Elle a depuis évolué sur les plans administratif, juridique, éducationnel et ecclésiastique selon les stalismes américains. Les deux populations, de Van Burne et de Saint-Léonard, soit américaine ou soit canadienne, ont été intégrées dans des institutions aux idéologies statales quelque peu différentes. Par ce fait, les populations des deux villes doivent avoir aujourd'hui des habitudes de vie et des comportements différents, un sens des valeurs particulier et appartenir à un monde symbolique distinct."Tags Acadians, Business and Economics, Canada, Education, Exploration and Colonization, Fort Kent ME, France, Frenchville ME, Geography, Government and Politics, Houlton ME, Language and Linguistics, Madawaska ME, Maine, Native Americans, New Brunswick, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Geography, Nova Scotia, Religion, St. John River Valley, Van Buren ME -
Linguistic and Cultural Heritage of the Acadians in Maine and New Brunswick
Historical observations of language usage in the St. John River Valley in Maine and New Brunswick, focusing on the social, cultural, and linguistic traits maintained by the area's Acadian population. From the author: "This thesis proposes to show how and why the Acadians, particularly those of the Upper St. John River Valley, speak French with distinctive variations. To do so it will be necessary to present first a geographical outlay of locations involved in the development of the French language as well as the locations involved in the historical events of the Acadian chronicles."Tags Acadians, Canada, Community: Customs and Social Life, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, France, Geography, Language and Linguistics, Madawaska ME, Native Americans, New Brunswick, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Local, Nonfiction -- Language and Linguistics, Nova Scotia, Québec, St. John River Valley -
Oak Island : An Acadian Tale
Historical novel driven by a love story, with a search for treasures extending from the 11th-century Crusades and the Knights of Templar, to the Acadians and Mi'kmaq of 17th-century Atlantic Canada, to colonial Boston. Includes illustrations, maps, ancestry charts of historical characters, depictions of settings in 18th-century Boston and Nova Scotia. -
Never Back Down
Novel set in Keene, New Hampshire between the 1950s and early 2000s. Young baseball prospect Jack Landry comes of age with the Catholic sensibility and working-class ethos of his upbringing. Landry confronts stereotype, forbidden love's trials, and the perils of his personal success under the looming ethereal presences of an ancient event and his tragically killed Memere. A man's life between New England and New Orleans, configured through the guiding motto of his youth: "Never back down, never instigate."Tags Acadians, Cajuns, Death and Disaster, Family, Fiction and Literature, Florida, Gender and Sexuality, Irish Americans, Keene NH, Literary Works, Literary Works -- Fiction, Mexico ME, Mills and Mill Work, Mississippi, Native Americans, New Hampshire, New Orleans LA, Religion, Rumford ME, Sports and Leisure, White River Junction (Vt.), Youth -
Young Gentlemen's School : New and Collected Poems
Book of poems from a Malden, Massachusetts native, containing new poems alongside work from three of his earlier chapbooks. From the author of the more recent, "Easy to Keep, Hard to Keep In" (2007) and "The Immaculate Conception Mothers' Club" (2010). -
Les interprètes du beau
Un ensemble de brèves présentations littéraires et d'études sur les vies et les ouevres de plusieurs écrivain(e)s - locales et internationales, anglophones et francohpones - qui ont eu un influence sur l'auteur. Des réactions à la traduction de "Evangeline" par l'auteur, Maurice Trottier, écrits par ses lecteurs. Composé en trois segments, sur ou par les personnes qui suivent:
Poètes versificateurs: Alice Lemieux Lévesque; Rosaire Dion-Lévesque, Louis Dantin; Emilie-Jeanne Sorson, Anny Ticx, Roger Erre, Henriette Brondani, Roger Forst, Alfred Jarry; Alfred Tennyson, William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Poètes prosateurs: Antoine de Saint-Exupery; Henri d'Arles; Saint François de Sales
Interpretateurs: Rosaire Dion Lévesque; L'Illettré; Séraphin Marion; Rodolphe Laplante; Antoine Goulet; Pierre Courtines; René Herval -
Maine's Acadia : Young Writers Celebrate a Heritage
A collection of student writings in celebration of the 200th year of the Acadian settlement at St. David, Maine, in the northern St. John River Valley. Created during a 1985 Madawaska, Maine summer program for gifted and talented students - MEGA Magnified - under the direction of Gloria Hutchinson.
Includes the following pieces:
Introduction, Gloria Hutchinson
"The Acadians," by Msgr. Gilman Chalout
Sneak Previews
"The Sanctuary," by Robert P. Cyr
"The Time for When to Go," by Carol Dufour Baker
"Oui, Je Me Souviens," by Carol Dufour Baker
"Give Me a Spot in Northern Maine," by Jane Martin
"Growing Up on the Border," by Kim Geraghty
"Two Languages Are Better Than One," by Janet Hebert
"Daigle-Boone: A Game Behaviorist," by Christian Cyr
"Yesterday Came Suddenly," by Mary Marin
"Are Acadians Becoming Americanized?" by Joey Keller
Student Pictures
"The Accursed," by Gina Miranda
"Raindrops from the East," by Lori Ann Albert
"The Vengeance of Three-Fingered Willie," by Shawn Guerrette
"A Pair of Star-Cross'd Lovers," by Tina Chasse
"Crossing the Threshold," by Gary Albert
"In the Name of Honor," by Jenny Albert
"Notes from a Terrorist," by T. Mark Kelly
"Valley Images" (Selected Poems), by T. Chasse, R. P. Cyr, C. Baker, G. M. Miranda, G. Hutchinson
"In Memoriam," by Christian CyrTags Acadians, Acculturation and Assimilation, Allagash ME, Emigration and Immigration, Essay, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fiction and Literature, Folklore, Fort Kent ME, Language and Linguistics, Literary Works -- Anthology, Madawaska ME, Maine, Native Americans, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Poetry, Religion, St. Agatha ME, St. David ME, St. John River Valley, Wallagrass ME -
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. -
Reunion Families' Cookbook
Collection of recipes shared by families who celebrated reunions in Madawaska, Maine between 1993 and 2000. The reunion banquet being a keystone event, a book's worth of family foods were compiled from the following clans whose gatherings took place in the following order:
1993 - Theriault
1994 - Roy
1995 - Chassé
1996 - Levesque
1997 - Dubé
1998 - Nadeau
1999 - Dumont
2000 - Miville-Deschênes
The recipe book is divided into chapter by year and family. Each section is introduced with a family crest and a brief genealogical description of a family name, followed by recipes alphabetized by the first name of their presenter. Original Acadian recipes are denoted by asterisk. Contains an index of all included recipes. -
Biographie d'une ploye
Un petit historique de la ploye telle que racontée par lui-même. Une description de ses ingrédients, sa recette, comment c'est faite, et son importance pour la culture acadienne. -
Rien n'était gaspillé dans la cuisine de ma grand-mère : Nothing Went to Waste in Grandmother's Kitchen
Collection of recipes and folk remedies from the Lausier family of Grand Isle, Maine. Introduced with a brief history of the family and its kitchen habits. Illustrated in black and white photograph. Published in English and French versions. Revised edition published in 1983. -
Evangeline Resource List : A Selected Bibliography, Discography, and Filmography
A list of resources relative to the epic poem "Evangeline" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, compiled by the director of the Acadian Archives at the University of Maine at Fort Kent. Contains listings of different published editions of the poem, criticism and interpretations of it, and other writings or art (sculpture, painting, film, music) informed by the poem and its history. -
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. -
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. -
Young Gentlemen's School : New and Collected Poems
Book of poems from a Malden, Massachusetts native, containing new poems alongside work from three of his earlier chapbooks. From the author of the more recent, "Easy to Keep, Hard to Keep In" (2007) and "The Immaculate Conception Mothers' Club" (2010). -
Never Back Down
Novel set in Keene, New Hampshire between the 1950s and early 2000s. Young baseball prospect Jack Landry comes of age with the Catholic sensibility and working-class ethos of his upbringing. Landry confronts stereotype, forbidden love's trials, and the perils of his personal success under the looming ethereal presences of an ancient event and his tragically killed Memere. A man's life between New England and New Orleans, configured through the guiding motto of his youth: "Never back down, never instigate."Tags Acadians, Cajuns, Death and Disaster, Family, Fiction and Literature, Florida, Gender and Sexuality, Irish Americans, Keene NH, Literary Works, Literary Works -- Fiction, Mexico ME, Mills and Mill Work, Mississippi, Native Americans, New Hampshire, New Orleans LA, Religion, Rumford ME, Sports and Leisure, White River Junction VT, Youth -
Don Roy, Fiddle Music, and Social Sustenance in Franco New England
Profile of the life, training, and works of expert Maine-based fiddler, Don Roy. The musical traditions in which he seats himself, and the attention he has brought to contemporary fiddle playing through public performance. The author's critique of models of cultural sustainability, cultural preservation industry, and other institutions through the example of Roy's pursuits, his community music project, "Fiddle-icious," and through his "inherited sense of music as a participatory activity" (36). Summary history of Franco American immigration and subsequent communities in southern Maine. Contains segments of interviews with Don Roy and Cindy Roy, among others. -
Oak Island : An Acadian Tale
Historical novel driven by a love story, with a search for treasures extending from the 11th-century Crusades and the Knights of Templar, to the Acadians and Mi'kmaq of 17th-century Atlantic Canada, to colonial Boston. Includes illustrations, maps, ancestry charts of historical characters, depictions of settings in 18th-century Boston and Nova Scotia.