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- Author: Hudson, Susan Pearman
Date: 2006
Language: en
Find in a Library: 62741377
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From Routledge: "The book recognizes the achievements by a nineteenth-century community of women religious, the Grey Nuns of Lewiston, Maine. The founding of their hospital was significant in its time as the first hospital in that factory city, and…
- Author: Badeau, Marie
Date: 1996
Language: en
Find in a Library: 37583574
A parish history of SS. Peter and Paul in Lewiston, Maine, up to the year 1996 - before the church's dedication as a basilica. An overview of the building's constructions, the parish's resident priests, and the Franco American community's…
- Author: SS. Peter & Paul Parish
Date: 1946
Language: fr
Find in a Library: 18428495
De l'avant-propos: "Lieu de rencontre du Ciel et de la Terre, temoin de l'effusion des tendresses divines et des accents sinceres du culte chretien, l'eglise paroissiale est l'ame qui fait battre le couer de la population franco-américaine....On…
- Author: Hendrickson, Dyke
Date: 2010
Language: en
Find in a Library: 535495395
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An "Images of America" pictorial history that illustrates parts of the Franco-American experience in Maine, Maine's people, and the things and places that occupied their lives. Chapters run as follows: 1)Work, 2)Family, 3)Religious Life, 4)Community,…
- Author: Daigle, Laurel
Date: 2000
Language: en
Find in a Library: 53966299
A Maine Roman Catholic parish commemorative project. Includes a brief history of the town of Daigle, Maine. Text covers from the late 19th century to the year 2000, when Holy Family Church was closed.
- Author: Santerre, Richard
Date: 1972
Language: en
Find in a Library: 415968
Find Online: OL5336638M
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: Leane, John
- Author: Burns, Elliot E. "Bud"
Date: 2005
Language: en
Find in a Library: 62769140
Comprehensive history of the city of Rumford, Maine. Revised edition of the text that spanned from pre-incorporation to 1972. Updates extend to the year 2000. The Androscoggin River city in western Maine - its people, significant events, the paper…
- Author: Bellerose, Robert
Date: 2004
Language: en
Find in a Library: 57494168
Find Online: OL1656749W
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Arcadia's "Images of America" series revisits the pre- and post-industrial city of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, with pictures that span the period from 1834 to 2000. Transitional American urban and riverbank landscapes across two centuries, through…
- Author: Clarke, Maurice D.
- Author: Clarke, John Badger
Date: 1875
Language: en
Find in a Library: 3898298
Find Online: OL251120W
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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: Handlin, Oscar
Date: 1959
Language: en
Find in a Library: 421652
Find Online: OL1170988W
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: Cumbler, John Taylor, Jr.
Date: 1979
Language: en
Find in a Library: 4492431
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Based on the research for Cumbler's 1974 dissertation, "Continuity and Disruption," this text is a narrower (twenty years fewer), illustrated exploration of ethnicity woven through the working-class communities of Lynn and Fall River, Massachusetts.…
- Author: Lambert, AdeÌlard
Date: 1918
Language: fr
Find in a Library: 23394052
Find Online: OL16350945M
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Des contes de la meÌmoire de la jeunesse de Lambert, un eÌmigreÌ canadien-francais aux États-Unis au but du vingtième siècle. L'ideÌe de la survivance reste à l'arriere-plan du texte. Le fin de livre contien des messages…
- Author: Writers' Program, New Hampshire W.P.A.
Date: 1940
Language: en; fr
Find Online: OL7199146W
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From the introduction: "Today approximately 150,000 Americans of French ancestry, including a few who came directly from France, are living in New Hampshire. Like their grandparents in Quebec, they have preserved many of the traditions of their…
- Author: Albert, Julie
Date: 1969
Language: en; fr
Find in a Library: 7520465
Find Online: OL18252768M
Softcover community publication written in celebration of the town of Madawaska, Maine's centennial year - 1969. Contains historical vignettes, local pictures, advertisements, poetry, stories, customs, definitions of local words, and more, from the…
- Author: La SocieÌteÌ Canadienne Française du Minnesota
Date: 1983
Language: en
Find in a Library: Unknown
Manual for a French Canadian cultural heritage organization based in Minnesota. Contains a narrative of the organization's own brief history, its constitution and by-laws, the function of its head members, and a listing of member contact information.…
- Author: Dublin, Thomas
Date: 1992
Language: en
Find in a Library: 24214090
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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: Roberge, CeÌleste
Date: 1974
Language: en; fr
Find in a Library: 1075370
Collection of 1970s writings on Franco Americans and Franco American culture, compiled and edited by Céleste Roberge. Contains the following sections and selections: Introduction - Céleste Roberge I. Social Sciences A History of…
- Author: Violette, Maurice
Date: 1976
Language: en
Find in a Library: 2176381
A thorough history of the Franco American presence in the city of Augusta, Maine, up to the 1970s. Histories of mill, church, school, and community, from their migrant inception through sometimes celebratory, sometimes violent, persistence.…
- Author: Calvert, Mary
Date: 1983
Language: en
Find in a Library: 10864362
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Historical piece on the European explorers of the Kennebec River Valley and the Abenaki people of that Maine region. Highlights the relationships among British, French, and Native American, and their confrontations from the 17th century onward. The…
- Author: Calvert, Mary
Date: 1986
Language: en
Find in a Library: 15523085
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Historical piece on the Kennebec River and its surrounding valley towns, from the end of the American Revolution until the river's final log drive in the second half of the twentieth century. Relationships between early settlers and Native Americans.…
- Author: Ouelette, Joanne
- Author: New Hampshire Historical Society
Date: 2013
Language: en
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Outline of dates and figures; compilation of facts and notes relevant to the history of French Canadian immigrants in the state of New Hampshire around the beginning of the twentieth century. Designed by the New Hampshire Historical Society for…
- Author: New Hampshire Historical Society
Date: 2013
Language: en; fr
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Short history lesson on French Canadian immigration and community building in New Hampshire, covering the 19th and early 20th centuries. Concludes with discussion questions about the provided information and photographs. Designed by the New Hampshire…
- Author: Samson, Gary
Date: 2000
Language: en
Find in a Library: 46874965
Pictorial history of the communities in and around the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company's mill complex in Manchester, New Hampshire. The rise and fall of Amoskeag, in photos. A volume in the broad-ranging "Images of America" series of books. Previously…