Browse Items (31 total)
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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 -
Seamless Hosiery Industry of Laconia, New Hampshire
Article describing the state of hosiery mills in Laconia, New Hampshire in the late 1930s: obstacles to effective production, descriptions of economic advantages, suggestions for improvement. Historical background from the origins of the first Laconia hosiery in 1847. Mill closures beginning in 1923: their causes and some of their impacts. Current 1930s industrial competition between Laconia mills and similar producers in Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern states: Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee. Includes black and white photographs.Tags Belmont NH, Blackstone River Valley, Franklin NH, Georgia, Hillsboro NH, Laconia NH, Lake Winnipesaukee NH, Merrimack River Valley, New England, New Hampshire, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Geography, Nonfiction -- History, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Tilton NH -
Floribec : espace et communauté
Une étude sociogéographique sur le Floribec: les communautés touristiques québécois qui avaient habité en masse - ou passé les vacances - à Hollywood, Florida pendant les mois d'hivers depuis les années 1970. Floribec comme éspace, communauté, phénomiène. Les lieux physiques saillants et l'organisation spatiale/géographique de Floribec; "l'espace d'appartenance" sociale de Floribec; les liens culturels entre Floribec et Québec, entre les "Floribecois" et les Québécois, et au sein de la communauté elle-même. -
Commemorating a Transnational Hero : The 1909 Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Discovery of Lake Champlain
Article describing and comparing American and Canadian commemorations of the 17th century French explorer, Samuel de Champlain, around Lake Champlain in 1908 and 1909. Champlain as a celebrated "transnational" figure, and the imagery associated with his accomplishments from either side of the USA/Canada border. Particular elements of the celebrations and their suggestions for political, social, and memorial climates of the time. Emphasis on understanding a United States claim to Champlain as national historic figure, and the tercentenary celebration as an American and Canadian reconciliation. Local justification for celebration in New York and VermontTags Burlington VT, Canada, Crown Point NY, England, Exploration and Colonization, Fort Ticonderoga NY, France, Iroquois, Isle LaMotte VT, Lake Champlain VT, New York, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Geography, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Nonfiction -- History -- French in North America, Nonfiction -- Travel and Tourism, Plattsburgh NY, Québec, Québec City QC, Saranac River Valley, Swanton VT, United States, Vergennes VT, Vermont, War -
Samuel de Champlain and the Naming of Vermont
Article on the historical origins of the name of "Vermont" as it describes both the New England state and the mountain range of which it is a part. The relationship of some other geographic place names in this region to the explorers and founders of 17th century New France, as well as later historical figures. Cartographic, journalistic, and other evidence locating the 18th century birth of the term "Vermont" as a probable translation of its English predecessor, "Green Mountains." -
Border Culture, the Boundary Between Canada and the United States of America, and the Advancement of Borderlands Theory
Discussion of "border culture" as a product of both the divisions and the transnational cultural and political relationships apparent in societies that share a geopolitical boundary. Exploration of "borderlands theory" as a means for considering the origins, functions, and development of national borders in a globalizing world. Specific focus on the boundary between the United States and Canada, on what the authors call "the multiple layers of border" - political, social, economic, legal, cultural - and how they are woven organically though communities on each side of the dividing boundary. How borders shape and help us to think about human culture. From the authors: "In the process of globalization it is border culture that ultimately sustains linkages, assures continuity and maintains prosperity between bounded states. In this essay we explore how border culture works, and how the conceptualization of border culture advances our understanding of how borders work. Our approach is to establish a place for the consideration of culture in the more extensive debates about border theory through a focus on the Canada-U.S. border, and how this border advances our knowledge of border culture and border theory." -
L'image du Vermont : mythologie américaine et réalité géographique
Un profil de l'État du Vermont des années 1970. Un essai qui compare les perceptions et les mythes sur le Vermont avec les données géographiques et historiques qui ont servi à les inspirer et de les soutenir. Réflexions de l'auteur sur «les tendances américaines» - morales, économiques ou autres - qui ont en partie conduit à la naissance d'un certain image de l'état, et en quelle facon cette image influence la vie réelle dans le Vermont. -
Quebec : A Historical Geography
From UBC Press: "In this richly documented work, Serge Courville tells the geographical history of Quebec, from the appearance of the first human groups through to the present day. This detailed and erudite book maps the major stages of Quebec's collective development, providing a geographical record of the many social relationships that over time created a sense of place. Landscape, Courville shows, is the keeper of memory, the record of successive changes, and a witness to the genesis of the new. Places that were once agricultural, then left to waste and ruin, are today revivified by tourism. Areas that now house office buildings were long ago open playgrounds where children ruled. Drawing on vast research, Courville shows how, in spite of the turbulence Quebec often endures or perhaps because of it the land itself may be seen as an important participant in the history of its peoples." -
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 Handbook of French Place Names in the U.S.A.
Geography and etymology of places in the United States with names of French origin. Mostly concerned with California, Louisiana, and the U.S. Midwest. -
Vermont and the Imaginative Geographies of American Whiteness
From the author: "The U.S. state of Vermont is often portrayed as a place where 'race' is of little significance, yet notions of whiteness are central to how the state has been represented and represents itself. A critical analysis of historical and contemporary economies of representation examines how Vermont has been imagined as one of the last remaining spaces of authentic Yankee whiteness while more recently becoming an imagined homeland for particular brands of white liberal politics and social practice in the United States. Narratives of white Vermont identity have often explicitly drawn on oppositions to other forms of whiteness, particularly those associated with the U.S. South, in constructing an image of a comparatively racially benign Yankee whiteness. Recent right-wing discourses have explicitly attempted to construct Vermont whiteness as outside the American mainstream (not least through its discursive association with gay and lesbian sexualities), suggesting a need for geographical work on the (re)configuration of whiteness to reconsider where 'normal' American whiteness is imagined to reside. The examination of the case of Vermont highlights the need for future geographical research to attend to continuities between various territorialized constructions of whiteness as well as contestations within whiteness." -
Presentation : Robert G. LeBlanc and Franco-America
An introduction to an issue of Québec Studies, the journal of the American Council for Québec Studies. This particular issue is a tribute to a scholar of Franco America, Robert G. LeBlanc, who died in 2001. -
Franco-American Studies in the Footsteps of Robert G. LeBlanc
Article praising the work of scholar Robert LeBlanc. Cites not only the importance of the focus on geography and the treatment of history in his research, but his precision and innovation in Franco-American Studies - his efforts to see ethnic culture as a much more complex thing than the simple reduction of customs or language. -
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 -
L'Archipel : un commentaire personnel sur deux cultures fortes mais marginales
De l'auteur: "Une mission salvatrice à l'a?ge de dix-neuf a amené l'A. à connaître l'Archipel. Cet essai trace son périple personnel, professionnel et intellectuel depuis la région culturelle mormone jusqu'à l'île principale de l'archipel francophone d'Amérique et examine briièvement certains aspects de deux cultures fortes mais marginales, l'une québécoise et l'autre mormone." -
A French-Canadian Education and the Persistence of 'La Franco-Américanie'
From the author: "The migration of one million French Canadians from Québec to the United States between 1840 and 1940 was different from the migrations of other ethnic groups. The proximity of Québec made possible the maintenance of intimate social and cultural relationships between emigrants and their homeland. Thousands of Franco-Americans were educated in the colleges classiques of French Canada, assuring an ideological conformity between elite groups on both sides of the border and delaying the Americanization of Franco-Americans for several decades." -
The Francophone "Conquest" of New England : Geopolitical Conceptions and Imperial Ambition of French-Canadian Nationalists in the Nineteenth Century
From the author:" 'Les Canadiens Français de la Nouvelle-Angleterre' (1891) by the French Jesuit Edouard Hamon is representative of Quebec imperialist thought. Hamon envisioned a peaceful conquest of New England by a surplus French-Canadian population, capable of resisting Americanization, laboring in the mills, and farming the countryside. Hamon suggested bonds between established Quebec churches and churches in northern New England. He favored a sovereign nation formed out of Quebec and Franco-American New England. Hamon's work was warmly received by French Canadians and Franco-Americans, although it awakened nativist suspicion in the United States."Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Criticism and Review, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Government and Politics, Labor History, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- French in North America, Nonfiction -- Geography, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Québec, Religion, United States -
Picking Up The Pieces of a Shattered Dream : Québec and French America
From the authors: "Contrary to the commonly held belief that following the British conquest, French Canadian society limited itself to a clearly defined geopolitical realm conceived as a stronghold into which a defeated people withdrew to build its future, Québécois civilization has been doggedly continental in scale. Events of recent years, including the successes and failures of the Quiet Revolution and the results of the 1980 referendum, lend credence to this view. Today Québec remains both of and apart from the North American continent, home to a web of kin that has been spun to even the most distant corners." -
Franco-Americans and Québécois : Americans Twice Over
From the author: "For the last 25 years, Franco-Americans and Québécois, two branches of the French-Canadian family, have experienced important social and cultural transformations. Although the modernization of Québec society and the redefinition of Franco-American ethnicity contributed initially to the disappearance of relations between the two, a post-Revolution Tranquille perspective brings new possibilities for interaction. Moreover, scrutiny of the experience of French Canadians on this continent opens the door to an understanding of Québec's identity based upon the Americanite of its culture." -
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. -
A? travers les frontiières : Québec and Québec Studies
From the author: "Since the onset of la Revolution Tranquille more than 25 years ago, the province of Québec has established an ever-increasing international presence, alone and in cooperation with the Canadian federal government. Provincial authorities, with assertiveness and confidence, have worked to establish the province as the heartland of the French in North America and also to present the Québécois as representing a distinctive society. This study briefly traces the evolution of the Québécois' adventurous nature and examines the various ways in which the province functions beyond its frontiers, especially within the academic milieu." -
Franco-Americans in Maine : A Geographical Perspective
A study of Franco Americans in Maine with respect to geography: movement, placement, population growth, and cultural stability. From the author: "The major purpose of this paper is to depict the geographic characteristics of Maine's Franco-Americans during the twentieth century and to show what changes have occurred in recent years....A second purpose of the paper is to describe certain changes in culture and social structure which have occurred as Franco-Americans have experienced assimilation to varying degrees in different places."Tags Augusta ME, Biddeford ME, Caribou ME, Demography, Eagle Lake ME, Education, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Farming and Agriculture, Forestry, Frenchville ME, Geography, Labor History, Lewiston ME, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Geography, Religion, St. John River Valley, Van Buren ME, Wallagrass ME, Waterville ME, Winterville ME -
Migration Fields of French Canadian Immigrants to Southern Maine
Article on the migrations of French Canadians in Central and Southern Maine to their precise places of departure in Québec. Includes maps that illustrate migration fields and indicate concentrations of Maine Franco Americans. From the author: "Birthplaces of French Canadian immigrants to six Maine cities during the period 1890-1925 were mapped from information in biographical summaries and naturalization documents....This study suggests that migration fields tend to persist through time, sometimes despite transportation changes, that the areal extent of fields is related to the size and rapidity of immigration rather than to the age of fields, and that fields are probably best identified by county rather than by community units."Tags Auburn ME, Augusta ME, Biddeford ME, Brunswick ME, Chaudiere River Valley, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, Geography, Kennebec River Valley, La Beauce QC, Labor History, Lewiston ME, Madawaska ME, Maine, Meriden CT, Mills and Mill Work, Montréal QC, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Geography, Penobscot River Valley, Portland ME, Québec, Saco ME, Sanford ME, Skowhegan ME, St. John River Valley, St. Lawrence River Valley, Waterville ME, Westbrook ME, Woonsocket RI -
Immigration of French Canadians to New England, 1840-1900 : A Geographical Analysis
Study of French-Canadian emigration into the United States during the nineteenth century. Pivotal research in French Canadian emigration. Includes maps that show migration patterns from specific Canadian regions to specific areas in New England. From the author: "The purpose of this study is to examine geographically the French-Canadian population in New England in terms of the spatial interaction between New England and Québec. It is hoped that the conclusions relating to their experience will have relevance to the general study of immigration."Tags Biddeford ME, Burlington VT, Chicopee MA, Concord NH, Demography, Dover NH, Emigration and Immigration, Farming and Agriculture, Forestry, Geography, Holyoke MA, Illinois, Journalism, Kennebec River Valley, Labor History, Lawrence MA, Lowell MA, Madawaska ME, Manchester NH, Michigan, Mills and Mill Work, Milton VT, Minnesota, Nashua NH, New England, New York, Newport VT, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Geography, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Pawtucket RI, Quinebaug River Valley, Saco ME, Shetucket River Valley, St. Albans VT, St. John River Valley, St. Lawrence River Valley, Waterville ME, Willimantic River Valley, Winooski VT, Wisconsin, Worcester MA -
Le concept de communauté en géographie vu à travers le petit Québec de la Floride
Le résumé de Tremblay: "Dans cette these de doctorat, nous explorons le concept de communauté, lequel appartient à la sociologie mais qui est d'un grand intéret pour les géographes par sa dimension spatiale plutot méconnue. Ce que nous cherchons à mieux connaitre c'est le role des lieux dans la vie quotidienne des membres d'une communauté en banlieue....Dans un premier temps, nous montrons la pertinence d'utliser l'approche sociogéographique pour étudier la communauté. Ensuite, nous traitons de concept de communauté et des multiples mutations qu'il a connues depuis une centaine d'années. Cette partie de la these permet également à constater que, comme le propose le géographe R.J. Johnston (1993), il y a un rapprochement entre le concept d'espace social de la geographe Anne Buttimer et celui de communauté....Dans la seconde moitié de notre these, nous appliquons notre réflexion à une étude de cas, c'est- à -dire l'espace canadien-francais en ballieue de Miami, que nous appelons ici "Floribec". A partir d'observations de terrain, réunies dans un chapitre qui offre une vision de l'extérieur de la géographie de Floribec, nous nous posons les questions suivantes. Quels sont les institutions et les lieux structurants floribécois et quel role jouent-ils dans leur vie quotidienne de cette communauté? Aussi, comment Floribec est-elle organisée spatialement? Par la suite nous devoilons une vision de l'intérieur de la géographie de Floribec et ce, à partir des résultats d'une enquete réalisée aupres de commercants floribécois....Cette étude de cas permet non seulement de révéler l'organisation spatiale de Floribec, mais aussi de suggérer qu'une communauté se structure à partir d'un ensemble de lieux structurants dont certains éloignées, qui lui donnent sa cohérence, et d'ou la communauté tire son identité." -
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 -
Samuel de Champlain and the Naming of Vermont
Article on the historical origins of the name of "Vermont" as it describes both the New England state and the mountain range of which it is a part. The relationship of some other geographic place names in this region to the explorers and founders of 17th century New France, as well as later historical figures. Cartographic, journalistic, and other evidence locating the 18th century birth of the term "Vermont" as a probable translation of its English predecessor, "Green Mountains." -
Commemorating a Transnational Hero : The 1909 Celebration of the Tercentenary of the Discovery of Lake Champlain
Article describing and comparing American and Canadian commemorations of the 17th century French explorer, Samuel de Champlain, around Lake Champlain in 1908 and 1909. Champlain as a celebrated "transnational" figure, and the imagery associated with his accomplishments from either side of the USA/Canada border. Particular elements of the celebrations and their suggestions for political, social, and memorial climates of the time. Emphasis on understanding a United States claim to Champlain as national historic figure, and the tercentenary celebration as an American and Canadian reconciliation. Local justification for celebration in New York and VermontTags Burlington VT, Canada, Crown Point NY, England, Exploration and Colonization, Fort Ticonderoga NY, France, Iroquois, Isle LaMotte VT, Lake Champlain VT, New York, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Geography, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Nonfiction -- History -- French in North America, Nonfiction -- Travel and Tourism, Plattsburgh NY, Québec, Québec QC, Saranac River Valley, Swanton VT, United States, Vergennes VT, Vermont, War -
Floribec : espace et communauté
Une étude sociogéographique sur le Floribec: les communautés touristiques québécois qui avaient habité en masse - ou passé les vacances - à Hollywood, Florida pendant les mois d'hivers depuis les années 1970. Floribec comme éspace, communauté, phénomène. Les lieux physiques saillants et l'organisation spatiale/géographique de Floribec; "l'espace d'appartenance" sociale de Floribec; les liens culturels entre Floribec et Québec, entre les "Floribecois" et les Québécois, et au sein de la communauté elle-même. -
Seamless Hosiery Industry of Laconia, New Hampshire
Article describing the state of hosiery mills in Laconia, New Hampshire in the late 1930s: obstacles to effective production, descriptions of economic advantages, suggestions for improvement. Historical background from the origins of the first Laconia hosiery in 1847. Mill closures beginning in 1923: their causes and some of their impacts. Current 1930s industrial competition between Laconia mills and similar producers in Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern states: Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee. Includes black and white photographs.Tags Belmont NH, Binghamton NY, Blackstone River Valley, Franklin NH, Georgia, Hillsboro NH, Laconia NH, Lake Winnipesaukee NH, Merrimack River Valley, New England, New Hampshire, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Geography, Nonfiction -- History, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Tilton NH