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- Author: Mcgrath, Anna Fields
Date: 1989
Language: en
Find in a Library: 19509718
Subtitled, "A Pictorial History of Aroostook County, Maine." A celebration of Aroostook County's 150th year. A pictorial regional history consisting of general narrative and more intimate, anecdotal accounts of the place in present-day northern Maine…
- Author: Rulquin, Rev. P.
Date: 1919
Language: fr
Find in a Library: Aucun
Un petit livre qui marque le début de l'année 1919 à la paroisse St. Bruno de Van Buren, Maine. Des explications de la coutumes de l'église catholique romain, des essaies sur la foi, et des autres écrits sur la vie catholique. Produit…
- Author: Baird, Charles Washington
Date: 1885
Volume: 1
Language: en
Find in a Library: 8047731
Find Online: OL7003802W
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Late nineteenth-century historical text on the Huguenot emigration from a France in religious strife to the eastern coast of North America between the middle 16th and middle 18th centuries. According to the author, Volume 1 of this 2-volume text only…
- Author: Perreault, Robert B.
Date: 1976
Language: English
Find in a Library: 3585739
Essay written in 1976, "in the spirit of the [United States'] Bicentennial," recognizing the Franco Americans as a distinct and significant ethnic group in American history. The 38-page piece begins its observations at the 1524 French explorations of…
- Author: Stadig, Rita
Date: 1989
Volume: 4
Language: en
Find in a Library: 20939346
A history of the St. John River Valley, Maine with a large segment dedicated to the town of Wallagrass. Begins with European colonization and the sixteenth century Native Americans, and continues through the establishment and demise of Acadia, and…
- Author: Simoneau, Irene M.
Date: 2008 October
Language: English
Find in a Library: None (full text available here)
Presentation made at St. John's Episcopal Church in Bangor, Maine, by a former Ph. D. candidate in Canadian-American history at the University of Maine, Orono, Maine. The presentation is, as the author calls it, a "spiritual autobiography," exploring…
- Author: Dunwell, Steve
Date: 1978
Language: en
Find in a Library: 4443770
Find Online: OL4743753M
A chronicle of centuries of labor in black and white photographs. Historical and modern perspectives on mills, industrial towns, and workers in New England from the earliest industrialization period to the 1970s. From the inside flap: "The full force…
- Author: Allain, Mathé (editor)
- Author: Brasseaux, Carl A. (editor)
Date: 1982
Volume: 7 of 8
Language: en
Find in a Library: 65236969 (volumes 1 through 6)
Volume 7 of an eight-part series on Franco American history and life. Concerned specifically with "Postbellum Louisiana." Contains the following essays: "The Splendid Mystery of the Civil Code of Louisiana" - Albert Tate, Jr., "Early New Orleans…
- Author: Allain, Mathé (editor)
- Author: Brasseaux, Carl A. (editor)
Date: 1982
Volume: 8 of 8
Language: en; fr
Find in a Library: 6523696 (volumes 1 through 6)
Volume 8 of an eight-part series on Franco American history and life. Concerned specifically with "French Louisiana in the Twentieth Century." Contains the following essays: "Les Acadiens au XXe siecle" - Margeurite Roman, "Acadians and Acadians" -…
- Author: Stratton, Frances Morin Webb
Date: 1985
Language: en
Find in a Library: 24660801
Memoirs of a Northern Maine woman growing up during the Great Depression, with family straddling the rural and agrarian borderland of Maine and New Brunswick. Memories of her great-grandmother and extended family from working on a New Brunswick farm…
- Author: Cyr, Marguerite
Date: 1977
Language: fr
Find in a Library: 18597494
Une histoire culturelle des Acadiens de la Vallée St-Jean dans le Maine, présentée dans les mémoires d'une famille acadienne de Van Buren. Six chapitres racontés avec les photos et les materiaux historiques d'une famille du Maine:…
- Author: Currie, Ron, Jr.
Date: 2007
Language: English
Find in a Library: 7446073
A collection of short stories loosely connected, all based on the premise of the death of God. From Viking Press: "Ron Currie's gutsy, funny book is instantly gripping: If God takes human form and dies, what would become of life as we know it?…
- Author: Belair, Richard L.
Date: 1991
Language: English
Find in a Library: 21195458
Novel about conflict between Irish and French Canadian communities in the Catholic parish of a New England town where the "Fathers" play a particularly important role. From the text, a review by Robert Courmier: "In a New England city teeming with…
- Author: Beaugrand, HonoreÌ
Date: 1878
Language: Français
Find in a Library: 8517304
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Un texte eÌssentiel à la collection de la litteÌrature franco-ameÌricaine du 19e siècle. Un conte d'eÌmigration du Canada à la Nouvelle-Angleterre avant l'anneÌe 1900. Ecrit par l'ancien maire de MontreÌal, et…