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Reference and Guide Book for the Genealogist: Prepared Especially for the Franco-Americans
From the American French Genealogical Society: "AFGS is pleased to offer you this very helpful resource book as a reference and guide book for the genealogist. It is an excellent book for both beginner and experienced researchers in the quest for genealogical information. Mr. Letourneau is a founding member of AFGS and this book offers you the benefit of his many years of research experience. Mr. Letourneau has done a complete review of how to read the various repertoires that you encounter, including Jette, PRDH, and Drouin. He has lists of counties in New England and the province of Quebec, abbreviations that you may encounter, Catholic Parishes of the province of Quebec and New England listed by name and city. Latin terms and what they mean, and lists of names written in Latin, French and English to help you when you are looking through primary source materials. He has included sections on various types of charts, on Genealogy Societies in the U.S., Canada and France, family associations and repositories and archives in the United States....In short, he has made a handbook that is sure to offer something for everyone who is researching a family name." -
Canadians in the United States
Brief 1913 review of what the author calls "the great Canadian exodus" - the period from 1850 to 1900 when nearly 1.8 million English and French Canadians emigrated to the United States.Tags Boston MA, Buffalo NY, Business and Economics, Cambridge MA, Canada, Chicago IL, Cincinnatti OH, Cleveland OH, Demography, Detroit MI, Emigration and Immigration, Fall River MA, Family, Geography, Germany, Great Britain, Holyoke MA, Ireland, Jersey City NJ, Lawrence MA, Louisville KY, Lowell MA, Manchester NH, Milwaukee WI, Minneapolis MN, New Bedford MA, New Haven CT, New Orleans LA, New York NY, Newark NJ, Newfoundland, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Immigration, Paterson NJ, Philadelphia PA, Pittsburgh PA, Providence RI, Rochester NY, San Francisco CA, St. Louis MO, St. Paul MN, United States, Washington DC, Worcester MA -
Linguistic Change in Endangered Dialects : The Case of Alternation Between Avoir and être in Vermont French
Linguistic study from the University of Vermont. From Cambridge University Press: "The present study examines the pattern of the variation of the auxiliary avoir and être in the passé composé tense in Vermont French in 22 adult speakers who migrated from Québec or are first-generation Franco-Americans. The purpose of the study is to determine if the process of replacement of être by avoir in progress in Canadian French is also taking place in Vermont and which linguistic and social constraints influence this linguistic change." -
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 -
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 Acadian Migrations
A concise account of the Acadian migrations between 1750 and 1800, including intercontinental migration routes, community prevalance, and the political context that motivated such a tumultuous half-century in and out of Atlantic Canada.Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Connecticut, Emigration and Immigration, England, Exploration and Colonization, France, Geography, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Newfoundland, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Geography, Nonfiction -- Immigration, Nova Scotia, Pennsylvania, Prince Edward Island, Québec, South Carolina, St. John River Valley, St. Lawrence River Valley, Violence -
The Atlantic Provinces of Canada : Union lists of materials in the larger libraries in Maine
Book-length listing of the materials on New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island, that are to be found in a handful of Maine's largest and most thorough libraries. Compiled by historian and Canadian-American scholar at the University of Maine, Alice Stewart. Includes titles and publication dates of periodicals, newspapers, pamphlets, and books.