The 'Flint Affair' : French-Canadian Struggle for 'Survivance'

Silvia, Philip T.

Article on the 1880s Fall River, Massachusetts, dispute between French Canadian immigrant Catholics, Irish American parishioners, and a largely Irish American clergy, commonly known as the "Flint Affair." The prolonged and destructive debate over French Canadian immigrant community preference for a priest of both their heritage and language to service a national parish. The various community crises instigated by both nationalistic parishioners and their resistant bishopric. "Flint village" of the Fall River Flint mills as an example of the communities and parishes borne out of turn-of-the-century emigration to the United States. Ethnic division as a symptom of linguistic barriers in church, disputes concerning the organization of labor, and passions both in favor of and against "la survivance."

1979-07-01 00:00:00

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Journal Article

1553555;45416719

1880s; Fall River, Massachusetts

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The Catholic Historical Review

0008-8080

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