French-Canadian Communities in the Upper Midwest during the Nineteenth Century

McQuillan, D. Aidan

Article on French Canadian immigrant and worker communities in the states of Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Illinois in the nineteenth century. How farming, lumbering, and mining communities of this era differed from the fur-trading, French Canadian frontier establishments of the same region in the eighteenth century. Figures on the cultural and linguistic assimilation of French Canadian immigrants in the Upper Midwest US. How economic success or poverty, urbanity or rurality, related to the loss or persistence of the French language and customs in these immigrant communities. Provides maps of the region from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century, with markers for trading posts, area demographics, and migration routes.

1979 avril

English

Journal Article

60627975;220726882;60688637

19th century; US Upper Midwest

58

Cahiers de géographie du Québec

1708-8968

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