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  • Author: Bernier, Margaret

Date: 1981

Thesis Type: B.A., Sociology (Senior Scholar paper)

Institution: Colby College

Language: en

Find in a Library: 19834728

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Study in labor history of the Franco-Americans in Waterville, Maine up to 1940. Includes author-conducted interviews. From Bernier: "The purpose of this study is not to undermine the importance of [successful Franco-American businessmen and…

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  • Author: Anctil, Pierre

Date: 1980

Thesis Type: Ph. D., Political and Social Science

Institution: New School for Social Research

Language: en; fr

Find in a Library: 8613568

Dissertation on class development and distinction through North American industrialization, immigration, and urbanization in Rhode Island. The particularity of this history as shaped in the Franco American community's experience of Woonsocket, Rhode…

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  • Author: Charbonneau, Hubert
  • Author: Desjardins, Bertrand
  • Author: Guillemette, André
  • Author: Landry, Yves
  • Author: Légaré, Jacques
  • Author: Nault, Francois

Date: 1993

Language:

Find in a Library: 27108728

From University of Delaware Press: "This book is the culmination of an enormous project aimed at the identification of the original French migrants to Québec and their descendants in the form of a computerized population register."

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  • Author: Weisman, Adam Paul

Date: 1995-fall

Publication: The Massachusetts Review

Volume: 36

Language: en

Find in a Library: 482967897

From the author:"This thesis introduces the concept of imaginative colonization in postcolonial literary and cultural studies, which has a particular relevance to the literatures of North America. It argues that the postcolonial experiences of the…

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  • Author: Wickett, S. Morley

Date: 1913-01

Publication: The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volume: 45

Language: en

Find in a Library: 486783228

Brief 1913 review of what the author calls "the great Canadian exodus" - the period from 1850 to 1900 when nearly 1.8 million English and French Canadians emigrated to the United States.

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  • Author: Weil, François

Date: 1993-10

Publication: Archives de sciences sociales des religions

Volume: 38

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 290783907

De Weil: "À travers le cas mal connu des Franco-Américains, ces Canadiens français catholiques qui quittèrent le Québec pour la Nouvelle-Angleterre à partir des années 1860, l'Auteur entend montrer la place de la religion dans…

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  • Author: Waldron, FlorenceMae

Date: 2005

Publication: Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies

Volume: 26

Language: en

Find in a Library: 480449413

Waldron explores the impacts of immigration on French Canadian norms of gender, labor, and social practice. She uses the examples of Lewiston, Maine, and Worcester, Massachusetts, and the different economies therein to ultimately observe the impact…

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  • Author: Waldron, FlorenceMae

Date: 2005 winter

Publication: Journal of American Ethnic History

Volume: 24

Language: en

Find in a Library: 366000054

Essay on women's labor in French Canadian immigrant communities in New England. Explores and qualifies the idea that, for women, migration could be equated with social and economic liberation. From the text: "The ways in which these women and girls…

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  • Author: VIcero, Ralph

Date: 1971

Publication: Recherches sociographiques

Volume: 12

Language:

Find in a Library: 12180837

Un essai qui examine le matériel historique et scolaire qui est disponible sur les canadiens français qui ont voyagé aux Etats-Unis avant 1900. Le deuxieme partie, "Le recensement," est une examination d'un de ceux matériels specifiques…

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  • Author: Veltman, Calvin J.

Date: 1976 Autumn

Publication: American Review of Canadian Studies

Volume: 6

Language:

Find in a Library: 60621291

Analysis of the population, migration, and marriage patterns of Rawdon, Québec, as they relate to a growing percentage of predominantly French speakers in that region. From the author: "This paper is an empirical examination of the processes by…

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  • Author: Tétreault, Martin

Date: 1993-07-00

Publication: Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française

Volume: 47

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 1764125

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De Consortium Érudit: "Le présent texte est consacré à l'étude de la mortalité infantile ainsi qu'aux difficultés de survivre dans une ville industrielle de la Nouvelle-Angleterre durant la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle.…

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  • Author: Tessier, Jules

Date: 1992

Publication: Francophonies d'Amérique

Language:

Find in a Library: 629273530

Un revue d'un texte historique sur le sujet des franco-américains. Le livre qui l'objet du revue a été écrit après ceux textes similaires de Roby et Weil.

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  • Author: Takai, Yukari

Date: 2010

Publication: The Canadian Historical Review

Volume: 91

Language: en

Find in a Library: 636583583

Review of two 2008 history texts on French America: "Franco-Amérique," by Dean Louder and Eric Waddell, and "Loyal but French: The Negotiation of Identity by French-Canadian Descendants in the United States," by Mark Paul Richard.

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  • Author: Takai, Yukari

Date: 2001-07

Publication: Journal of Family History

Language: en

Find in a Library: 360452963

From the author: "This study analyzes complex patterns of French Canadian immigrants’ geographic mobility in their process of immigration to Lowell, Massachusetts, from 1900 to 1920. There has been relatively little systematic analysis of…

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  • Author: Szelezak, Edith

Date: 2007-01

Publication: Glottopol: Revue de sociolinguistique en ligne

Volume: 9

Language: en; fr

Find in a Library: 163640790

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Essay on linguistic phenomena -- "code-switching," "tag-switching," or other culturally indicative lingual breaks -- in Franco-American bilingual speech patterns found in Massachusetts. Includes a discussion of some common speech characteristics of…

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  • Author: Stewart, Philip

Date: 1976 May

Publication: The French Review

Volume: 49

Language:

Find in a Library: 481390284

Un revue critique du texte "Une Amérique française" - une histoire de l'heritage française à l'Amérique du Nord de la période de la guerre d'Indépendance jusqu'au présent.

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  • Author: Silvia, Philip Thomas, Jr.

Date: 1976 summer

Publication: International Migration Review

Volume: 10

Language: en

Find in a Library: 484990257

Brief essay on the reciprocal impacts of immigration on the textile industry and labor organization in Fall River, Massachusetts, at the beginning of the 20th century. The birth of the immigrant textile labor force. Emphasis on French-Canadian…

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  • Author: Senécal, Joseph-André

Date: 1992

Publication: Francophonies d'Amérique

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 629273530

Un bref essai sur le dèbut du titre "Franco-américain" aux Etats-Unis, et le développement là d'un nouveau culture américain comme mode de vie sur un modèle des réalités québécoises.

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  • Author: Schwartzwald, Robert

Date: 1987 spring

Publication: The Massachusetts Review

Volume: 28

Language: en

Find in a Library: 482941102

An essay on how photographer Ulrich Bourgeois captured the French Canadian ways of living that persisted and developed individually in early 20th-century Franco America. How Bourgeois, knowingly or not, worked to preserve a period of Franco American…

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  • Author: Sarkonak, Ralph

Date: 1983

Publication: Yale French Studies

Volume: 65

Language: en

Find in a Library: 482388574

A timeline of important political and cultural events in the history of French Canada and Québec up to 1982, introduced with a short reflection by the author.

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  • Author: Sarkonak, Ralph

Date: 1983

Publication: Yale French Studies

Language:

Find in a Library: 1770272

A preface to this issue of Yale French Studies that focuses upon the idea of "writing in Québec(ois)." Sarkonak traces the North American transition from français, to Canayen, to French Canadian, to québécois, and asks how language and…

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  • Author: Rosello, Mireille

Date: 2003

Publication: Yale French Studies

Language:

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Professor Rosello writes on Francophone Studies "as a discipline...that can be imagined as a type of unhomeliness," characterized by a variety of conversant cultural or political forms. She argues what Francophone studies is, fluidly - cultural…

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  • Author: Ramirez, Bruno
  • Author: Lamarre, Jean

Date: 1985-11 (winter)

Publication: Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française

Volume: 38

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 1764125

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Des notes de recherche sur l'immigrant "non seulement comme historique se heurtant aux exigences de la société d'accueil au moment de son insertion, mais aussi comme individu qui quitte un lieu précis en réponse a des besoins particuliers…

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  • Author: Ramirez, Bruno

Date: 1992 September

Publication: Journal of American History

Volume: 79

Language: en

Find in a Library: 483420594

Brief essay on the discipline of United States history in Canada, the influence of American perspectives on Canadian historiography of the US, and how attitudes toward cross-boundary historiography change over time. Ramirez takes a semi-biographical…

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  • Author: Ramirez, Bruno

Date: 1983-03 (spring)

Publication: Labor/Le Travail

Volume: 11

Language: en

Find in a Library: 317511047

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Introduction to an analysis of the French Canadian emigration/immigration period from 1900 to 1929 that, according to Ramirez, suffers from a lack of attention paid to it. Ramirez conducts his exploration through the lens of the New England cotton…

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  • Author: Podea, Iris Saunders

Date: 1950-09

Publication: The New England Quarterly

Volume: 23

Language: en

Find in a Library: 480428964

Brief 1950 essay on French-Canadian migration from agriculturally-failing Québec to the New England states during the period of North American industrialization, from the Civil War and after. Also featured in Leonard Dinnerstein's "The Aliens: A…

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  • Author: Pinette, Susan

Date: 2002 Spring/Summer

Publication: Québec Studies

Volume: 33

Language:

Find in a Library: 60628349

Article praising the work of scholar Robert LeBlanc. Cites not only the importance of the focus on geography and the treatment of history in his research, but his precision and innovation in Franco-American Studies - his efforts to see ethnic culture…

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  • Author: Paquet, Gilles

Date: 1964

Publication: Recherches sociographiques

Volume: 5

Language:

Find in a Library: 61571987, 797018918

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Du texte: "Combien de Canadiens français ont émigré vers la Nouvelle-Angleterre? À quel moment et suivant quel rythme? Voilà la question de départ. Nous n'avons pas l'illusion d'apporter une réponse définitive à cette…

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  • Author: Pacini, Peggy

Date: 2007 janvier

Publication: Glottopol: Revue de sociolinguistique en ligne

Volume: 9

Language:

Find in a Library: 643755913

Pris de Glottopol, la revue de sociolinguistique en ligne: "Présence invisible dans le champ des littératures francophone et ethnique américaines, la littérature franco-américaine de la Nouvelle-Angleterre, qu'elle s'exprime en…

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  • Author: Pacini, Peggy

Date: 2006 September

Publication: Comparative American Studies

Volume: 4

Language:

Find in a Library: 441582875

From the author: "An issue lying at the core of analyses of ethnic writing is the way that the question of identity often generates a dialogue between writing and being. American literature in languages other than English engages with this dialogue,…

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