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  • Author: LanctoÌ‚t, Gustave (rédacteur)

Date: 1941

Language: fr

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Un livre d'essaies sur les relations politiques et culturelles entre Canada et les États-Unis, ou Québec et les États-Unis, et une exposition sur l'immigration canadienne francaise aux "états." Du texte: "...il presente…

  • Author: Association Canado-Américaine
  • Author: Cusson, Theodore J.
  • Author: Ouellet, Rosaire A.
  • Author: Perreault, Robert B.

Date: 1976

Publication: Le Canado-Américain

Volume: 2

Language: en, fr

Find in a Library: 2411999

USA bicentennial commemorative edition (2.2) of the official quarterly publication of l'Association Canado-Americaine, a fraternal and cultural organization based in Manchester, New Hampshire. Includes an editorial, an essay, a longer historical…

  • Author: Locke, William

Date: 1946

Language: en

Find in a Library: 26780979

Brief history of early French Canadian immigrant community in the town of Brunswick, Maine, beginning in 1850. Written by a scholar of linguistics and author of "Pronunciation of the French spoken at Brunswick, Maine" (1949).

  • Author: Santerre, Richard

Date: 1972

Language: en

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Brief history of the Franco American people and their Roman Catholic parishes of Lowell, Massachusetts, from early periods of French Canadian immigration up to the 1970s.

  • Author: Rodrigue, Barry Hadfield

Date: 1994

Language: en

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Critical biography of Tom Plant, leader in the shoe industry of New England near the turn of the twentieth century, situated in the Bath, Maine, area. Refutes and diversifies the stereotypical notion of the French Canadian immigrant worker experience…

  • Author: Atwood, Rhea Hollis

Date: 2004

Language: en

Find in a Library: 55473494

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Travel guide to the city of Boston, Massachusetts, centered around local sites with significant French history. An effort in French archaelogical tourism. Includes brief histories of all large-scale migrations to the United States from the…

  • Author: Lee, Anthony W.

Date: 2008

Language: en

Find in a Library: 171048914

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A history of photography, shoemaking, mining, and immigration as they converged on North Adams, Massachusetts, in the 1870s. From the text: "...[this book] is concerned...with the industrialization of a New England craft at one of its key historical…

  • Author: Schriver, Edward (editor)

Date: 1973

Language: English

Find in a Library: 3187379

Proceedings of a 1972 conference at the University of Maine on the subject of French culture in the northeastern borderlands of Maine and Canada. Contents include transcripts of the following presentations: "The Loyalists and the Acadians" "Le Centre…

  • Author: Lamarre, Jean

Date: 2003

Language: en

Find in a Library: 51613888

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From Wayne State University Press: "'The French Canadians of Michigan' looks at the factors behind the French Canadian immigration by providing a statistical profile of the migratory movement as well as analysis of the strategies used by French…

  • Author: Mahaffie, Charles

Date: 1995

Language: en

Find in a Library: 32432345

Find Online: OL8232342M

From Down East Books: " 'A Land of Discord Always' is the history of Acadia up to the time of the grand derangement. It tells how a unique society grew and prospered in an obscure corner of North America only to be crushed in a contest between…

  • Author: Fosdick, Lucian J.

Date: 1973

Language: English

Find Online: 614130

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  • Author: Clarke, Maurice D.
  • Author: Clarke, John Badger

Date: 1875

Language: en

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Subtitled, "A brief record of its past and a picture of its present, including an account of its settlement and of its growth as a town and city a history of its schools, churches, societies, banks." 1875 history of Manchester, New Hampshire. Begins…

  • Author: Lockerby, Earle

Date: 2008

Language: English

Find Online: 192053072

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  • Author: Dublin, Thomas (editor)

Date: 1993

Language: en

Find in a Library: 26636102

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From University of Illinois Press: "In this richly evocative collection ten men and women of European, Latin American, and Asian backgrounds tell of their immigrant experiences. They range from a Shetland Islander who sailed to Virginia as an…

  • Author: Handlin, Oscar

Date: 1959

Language: en

Find in a Library: 421652

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Varied selections of scholarship, speeches, interviews, and articles that, according to the author, "attempt to illustrate the immigration contribution to American civilization and the forces which brought the movement to a close" (Handlin, intro).…

  • Author: Daniels, Roger

Date: 2002

Language: en

Find in a Library: 50930977

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Comprehensive history of immigration to the United States from the 17th to the 21st century. Divided into [ ] parts: Colonial America; The Century of Immigration (1820-1924); and Modern Times.

  • Author: Handlin, Oscar

Date: 1972

Language: en

Find in a Library: 389635

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American immigration history in photos by the author of the award-winning historical piece, "The Uprooted."

  • Author: Heffernan, Nancy Coffey
  • Author: Stecker, Anne Page

Date: 1986

Language: en

Find in a Library: 12907801

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From University Press of New England: "A classic history of New Hampshire’s economic and political development, now updated for the twenty-first century....From fiercely ambitious and independent colonial towns to the media circus of the…

  • Author: Craig, Béatrice

Date: 2009

Language: en

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From University of Toronto Press: "In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a local economy made up of settlers, loggers, and business people from Lower Canada, New Brunswick, and New England was established on the banks of the Upper…

  • Author: Craig, Béatrice
  • Author: Dagenais, Maxime

Date: 2009

Language: English

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  • Author: Plocher, Stephen

Date: 2007

Language: en

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A brief history of Waterville, Maine, written by a graduate of Waterville's Colby College and published online by the city government of Waterville. Begins with the city's peopling, moving through the town's incorporation apart from Winslow in 1802,…

  • Author: Lambert, Adélard

Date: 1918

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 23394052

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Des contes de la mémoire de la jeunesse de Lambert, un émigré canadien-francais aux États-Unis au but du vingtième siècle. L'idée de la survivance reste à l'arriere-plan du texte. Le fin de livre contien des messages…

  • Author: Dow, Joan

Date: 1976

Language: en

A self-published, self-printed sociology project written for Goddard College. A series of journal entries from July 1976 written on an American's trip through Nova Scotia. Includes conversations, information about historical places, and general…

  • Author: Poland, Alex
  • Author: Adams, Erin

Date: 2003

Language: English

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Outline of Franco American history, traditional practices, cultural norms. Culminates in suggestions to healthcare providers for communicating with Franco Americans. Published online by the Child Welfare Training Institute, Muskie School of Public…

  • Author: Dublin, Thomas

Date: 1992

Language: en

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From the inside cover: "Lowell, Massachusetts, was America's first large-scale planned industrial community. After its establishment as a town in 1826, Lowell was celebrated for its innovative textile technology and its unique workforce of young…

  • Author: Léger, Yvon

Date: 1992

Language: Français (English translation available)

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