Historical Perspective on Waterville's 19th-Century Franco-Americans

Chenard, Robert E.

Website publication. Brief essay on the beginnings of French Canadian migration to Waterville, Maine, in the nineteenth century, and the impact of later, more pervasive chain migrations on that town and its riverside industrialization before World War I. Includes at its conclusion a section entitled "Miscellaneous trivia on the Franco-Americans of Waterville and of Maine," relating bits of history extending from the migration period (1860-1930), through the twentieth century, and into the present.

2010 January

English

1830-2010, Waterville, Maine