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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 Quintal

Tags 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
The Franco-Americans of New England : Dreams and Realities

English translation of Yves Roby's "Les Franco-Américains de la Nouvelle-Angleterre: Reêves et réalités" - a comprehensive historical text on French Canada's immigrants to New England and their development of a Franco American identity. Covers the period from 1840 (or near the beginning of en masse Canadian emigration) to 1976. One of the most exhaustive texts on Franco Americans to date, Roby's work focuses its attention largely on "la survivance" and the prevailing, evolving attitudes toward it in New England. Roby writes, "This work will attempt to describe the conceptions that the French-Canadian emigrants in New England and their descendants have of themselves." From McGill-Queen's University Press: "Between 1840 and 1930, approximately 900,000 people left Quebec for the United States, with the number of French-Canadian colonies in New England's industrial cities growing rapidly. The first generation of immigrants, who considered themselves French Canadians living in the United States, lived outside of American society as much as possible and sought to recreate their lost motherland. Their children's situation was different, however, since they did not see themselves as a community creating a distinct society on American soil.... What became of these millions of immigrant descendants?... Roby seeks to explain the genesis and evolution of this group and raises insightful questions regarding not only the Franco-Americans but also the integration of ethnocultural groups into Canadian society and the future of North American Francophonies."

Tags Adams MA, Bedford NH, Berlin NH, Beverly MA, Boston MA, Bristol CT, Burlington VT, Business and Economics, Cambridge MA, Central Falls RI, Champlain NY, Chelsea MA, Chicopee MA, Community: Customs and Social Life, Criticism and Review, Danielson CT, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Farming and Agriculture, Forestry, Gardner MA, Gloucester MA, Haverhill MA, Language and Linguistics, Ludlow MA, Lynn MA, Maine, Massachusetts, Meriden CT, Nashua NH, New England, New Hampshire, Newton MA, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- General, North Adams MA, North Brookfield MA, Ogdensburg NY, Pittsfield MA, Plattsburgh NY, Portland ME, Prince Edward Island, Providence RI, Putnam CT, Québec, Religion, Rhode Island, Salem MA, Southbridge MA, Spencer MA, Springfield MA, St. Albans VT, Suncook NH, Vermont, Waltham MA, Ware MA, Warwick RI, Waterbury CT, Westerly RI, Willimantic CT
Les Franco-Américains : 1860-1980

Un bref historique complet sur les Franco-Américains de la Nouvelle-Angleterre jusqu'à 1980. Une étude socielle, culturelle, démographique, et historiographique, basée "sur les travaux historiques existant" états-uniniens sur ce peuple et ses communautés dans le nord-est. Le mouvement, les paroisses et voisinages, les vies et le travail d'un peuple émigrant canadien-français et ses descendants. Des pensées sur le concept de "la survivance." Écrit par un scolaire français. Des illustrations en noir et blanc (photographie; dessins).

Tags Biddeford ME, Boston MA, California, Champlain NY, Chicopee MA, Cohoes NY, Community: Customs and Social Life, Criticism and Review, Demography, Education, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Forestry, Geography, Glens Falls NY, Government and Politics, Hartford CT, Holyoke MA, Labor History, Lawrence MA, Lewiston ME, Lowell MA, Manchester NH, Michigan, Montréal QC, Nashua NH, New Bedford MA, New England, New Haven CT, New York, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- General, Northampton MA, Ogdensburg NY, Portland ME, Providence RI, Québec, Religion, Salem MA, Southbridge MA, Springfield MA, Syracuse NY, Toronto ON, Watertown NY, Woonsocket RI, Worcester MA
Marie-Rose, Stigmatisée de Woonsocket' : The Construction of a Franco-American Saint Cult, 1930-1955

From a publication of the Canadian Catholic Historical Association. Essay that situates the early-twentieth-century "mystic stigmatic" figure of Marie-Rose Ferron in a Franco American religious history. Using Ferron's biography as measure, Kaell sees the fringe cult around her, as well as her failed canonization, in contrast with the popular saintly tradition of the Canadian Thérièse of Lisieux. Kaell teases out this and other comparisons between Franco and Québécois religiosity and nationalism using Ferron's life and history. From the author: "First, this paper is an examination of how a hagiographer, Onésime Boyer, worked to create a saint cult that ultimately ended in failure. Second, and more importantly, this paper uses Boyer's construction of Rose's cult to provide a window into Franco-American Catholic culture that was incorporating wider trends, like 'victimhood,' and anchoring itself firmly in an American milieu. Finally, this paper raises a number of questions for further study, urging more comprehensive analyses of Franco-American history and religion."

Tags Acculturation and Assimilation, Criticism and Review, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Gender and Sexuality, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Religion, Ogdensburg NY, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Québec, Religion, Social History, War, Woonsocket RI
The Hidden Heritage (L'héritage caché) : The French Folk Culture of Northern New York

A professor of folklore offers here a study of the Franco Americans in northern New York state. He explores the themes of religion, family, work, and language, and interrogates their symbols in the folklore and folk art of Malone, New York and a number its neighboring border communities.

Tags Art and Architecture, Brasher Falls NY, Canton NY, Churubusco NY, Community: Customs and Social Life, Conifer NY, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Farming and Agriculture, Folklore, French Hill NY, Labor History, Language and Linguistics, Lawrenceville NY, Malone NY, Massena NY, Mills and Mill Work, Native Americans, New Paltz NY, New York, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Local, Ogdensburg NY, Plattsburgh NY, Québec, Religion, St. Regis Falls NY, Tupper Lake NY, Upper Saranac Lake NY, Winthrop NY
Les Franco-Américains de la Nouvelle-Angleterre : reêves et réalités

Un texte historique complet sur les immigrants canadiens français dans la Nouvelle Angleterre, et la développement d'un indentité franco-américain aux ètats-Unis. Reportage de la période entre 1840 et 1980. Un des textes le plus bien connu, aussi que le plus exhaustif, sur ce sujet jusqu'à aujourd'hui. Pour Roby, l'idée le plus important qui est souligné dans son étude entier, c'est la question de "la survivance" vers le siiècle dernier. De Septentrion: "Yves Roby a consacré 30 ans de recherche et de réflexion à ce sujet et nous trace un portrait éclairant sur le processus d'évolution de l'identité de ces émigrés et de leurs familles en sol américain.En effet, si les premiières vagues ont maintenu tant bien que mal leur héritage, s'identifiant comme Canadiens français vivant aux ètats-Unis, il faut se demander ce qu'il en est devenu des millions de leurs descendants aujourd'hui appelés Franco-Américains ? Décrire les représentations que ces Québécois émigrés en Nouvelle-Angleterre et leur descendance se font d'eux-mêmes, tel est l'objet de cet ouvrage."

Tags Adams MA, Bedford NH, Berlin NH, Beverly MA, Boston MA, Bristol CT, Burlington VT, Business and Economics, Cambridge MA, Central Falls RI, Champlain NY, Chelsea MA, Chicopee MA, Community: Customs and Social Life, Criticism and Review, Danielson CT, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Farming and Agriculture, Forestry, Gardner MA, Gloucester MA, Haverhill MA, Language and Linguistics, Ludlow MA, Lynn MA, Meriden CT, Nashua NH, New England, Newton MA, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- General, North Adams MA, North Brookfield MA, Ogdensburg NY, Pittsfield MA, Plattsburgh NY, Portland ME, Prince Edward Island, Providence RI, Putnam CT, Québec, Religion, Salem MA, Southbridge MA, Spencer MA, Springfield MA, St. Albans VT, Suncook NH, Waltham MA, Ware MA, Warwick RI, Waterbury CT, Westerly RI, Willimantic CT