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  • Author: Senécal, André

Date: 1994

Book Title: Langue, espace, société: Les variétés du français en Amérique du Nord

Volume: 4

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 34478167

Essai qui identifie les plus anciennes des romans québec-américains, et qui explore les façons dont ces écrits reflètent l'expérience québec-américain vers le début du XXe siècle. Comprend les romans suivants: "Jeanne la…

  • Author: Blaise, Clark

Date: 2008

Book Title: Selected Essays

Language: English

Find in a Library: 221160672

Find Online: OL23199903M

Critical essay on international notions of political borders, and of the psychological borders that often take part in shaping the character of a certain place. The notion of "border" as reflected in North American literatures, with some comparisons…

  • Author: Tirone Smith, Mary-Ann

Date: 2006

Language: English

Find in a Library: 61151630

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Memoir of a woman growing up in the immigrant city of Hartford, Connecticut in the 1950s. Her French Canadian and Italian relatives, her childhood, early adulthood, and the processes of recollecting them. Divided into five parts: Mortality; Brain…

  • Author: Mikulski, Barbara

Date: 1976

Book Title: Dialogue on Diversity: A New Agenda for American Women

Language: English

Find in a Library: 2232368

Essay describing the cultural, religious, and political outlooks of Catholic women in the northeastern and midwestern United States within the women's rights framework of the Women's Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Thoughts on women workers and…

  • Author: Hébert, Richard

Date: 1984

Language: English

Find in a Library: 10866546

Novel told in parallel stories of a father and son. An American artist's eventual return to Canada in search of an identity in the place of his father's birth and death; the father's youthful departure from Quebec to New England many years before.…

  • Author: Pullen, Clarence

Date: 1902

Language: en

Find in a Library: 6640470

Find Online: OL14014732M

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Subtitled, "Where Acadia and Scandinavia's Subtle Touch Turned a Wilderness into a Land of Plenty." Travel writings of a journalist's visit to Aroostook County in northern Maine at the beginning of the 20th century. The writer's impressions of…

  • Author: Arsenault, Idamay Michaud

Date: 1999

Language: en

Find in a Library: 43496038

Find Online: OL55423M

History of Worcester, Massachusett's Union Station. Its various shapes and transformations from its initial construction in 1875 and reconstruction in 1911, through its closure in 1964, to its 1999 restoration. The place of the station in French…

  • Author: Pacini, Peggy

Date: 2011 March 28

Publication: E-rea

Volume: 8

Language: English

Find in a Library: Unknown/Inconnu

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Critical reading of Jack Kerouac's most famous novel, "On the Road," through the lens of French mobility in America and Kerouac's Franco American cultural identity. How Kerouac's traveling characters signify and explore the "homelessness" that the…

  • Author: Vicero, Ralph D.

Date: 1971-10

Publication: The Professional Geographer

Volume: 23

Language: en

Find in a Library: 6442093, 1587907

Paper describing the use of United States census material from between the dates of 1850-1880 to understand French Canadian migration and population growth in the counties of Vermont during the period surrounding the USA Civil War.

  • Author: Walkowitz, Daniel

Date: 1978

Language: en

Find in a Library: 4003426

Find Online: OL4730176M

A history of the growth of nineteenth-century labor movements in the neighboring industrial cities of Troy and Cohoes, New York, on the banks of the Hudson River. The labor and market conditions, social contexts, and events specific to each city that…

  • Author: Anctil, Pierre

Date: 1979-04

Publication: Cahiers de géographie du Québec

Volume: 23

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 60627975, 220726882, 60688637

Essai sur certains rélations entre l'émigration québécoise envers les Etats-Unis, la prolétarisation d'une population francophone nord-américaine, et la montée du nationalisme au Quebec à la…

  • Author: Levin, Abbe (director)
  • Author: Mundell, Kathleen (folklorist)
  • Author: Spitzer, Nicholas (narrator)

Date: 2006

Language: English

Find in a Library: 76810555

Subtitled, "An Audio Tour of Route 201 in Maine." A production of short interviews and other recordings that capture the people from each major section of Maine's historic route running north to south along the Kennebec River. Designed to accompany…

  • Author: Sterne, Evelyn Savidge

Date: 2000-04 (spring)

Publication: Social Science History

Volume: 24

Language: en

Find in a Library: 42413348, 2761258

Essay exploring the diverse ways in which the Catholic church in Providence, Rhode Island served its predominantly immigrant, working-class parishioners as a public space from which to express political opinion, and as a mouthpiece for the assertion…

  • Author: Hamelin, Hormisdas

Date: 1930

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 1025371

Collection de lettres ouvertes écrites "à mon ami" par un ancien curé pour les Franco-Américains de la Nouvelle-Angleterre en 1930. Écrits philosophiques et théologiques sur le thème de "la question…

  • Author: Bernard, IreÌ€ne Mailhot

Date: 1982

Thesis Type: Ph.D., French

Institution: The Pennsylvania State University

Language: en; fr

Find in a Library: 10419315

Dissertation on the relationship between the French language and Franco American culture in Lewiston, Maine in the twentieth century. Historical background of Maine French speakers. Theories and methods in the study of French in New England as…

  • Author: LaFlamme, Matthew R.

Date: 1994-12-00

Thesis Type: M.A., History

Institution: University of Maine at Orono

Language: en

Find in a Library: 46579830

Thesis examining the textile workers of Waterville, Maine during the New Deal Era. Descriptions of an observable transition in the Franco American community from an ethnicity-based cohesion to a consciousness and way of life organized by class. An…

  • Author: Violette, Maurice

Date: 1972

Language: en

Find in a Library: 10638841

Find Online: OL5080764M

A history of the Augusta, Maine Franco American social organization, Le Club Calumet, published in honor of its accomplishments and in celebration of the 50th year since its 1922 inception. Presents an introduction to French Canadian immigration to…

  • Author: Paré, Paul

Date: 1972 (reprinted 2003)

Language: en; fr

Find in a Library: Unknown/Inconnu

A condensed history of Franco American journalism - from its birth in 1837, to its downturn and fall in 1972. The emigration of French Canadians to the United States and the correspondingly wide and rapid production of Franco American, French…

  • Author: Plourde, Antonin
  • Author: La Paroisse Saint-Pierre et Saint-Paul

Date: 1971-00

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 18428470, 549279296, 33048870

Album souvenir en deux parties, qui commémore le début de la paroisse catholique romain de Saint-Pierre et Saint-Paul à Lewiston, Maine, et qui marque son centenaire. La partie principale est un texte historique sur les paroisses…

  • Author: Roby, Yves

Date: 1987

Publication: Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française

Volume: 41

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 1764125, 50870163

Un essai qui explore les changements dans les attitudes publiques au Québec - ceux des fonctionnaires, le clergé, et d'autres - vers les émigrants québécois aux Etats-Unis au 19e siècle. Comment et de quelle façon dès les…

  • Author: Frederic, Paul B. (editor)

Date: 1983 April 29-30

Language: English

Find in a Library: 10910811

Transcript of a 1983 conference panel discussion on forest industry and cross-border lumber and timber trade between Quebec, New Brunswick, Maine, and other New England states. Certain perspectives on American wood in the mills of Canada, Canadian…

  • Author: DeCourcy, Sr. Theresa

Date: 1972 (?)

Language: English

Find in a Library: Unknown/Inconnu

Subtitled, "A Unit for Sixth Grade Students in Catholic Schools of the Diocese of Portland." A 9-week elementary school guide for teachers in Maine history, with specific emphasis on cultural content, ethnic groups, and the contributions of the…

  • Author: Sorg, Marcella Harnish

Date: 1979

Thesis Type: Ph. D., Anthropology

Institution: The Ohio State University

Language: en

Find in a Library: 6055167, 11076178, 655165219

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Study in biological anthropology on the immigration and settlement of French Canadians in New England, and the eventual community, then deme - or reproductive/"breeding" group - formation of Franco Americans in Old Town, Maine, through the 19th…

  • Author: Senier, Siobhan

Date: 2002

Publication: The New England Quarterly

Volume: 75

Language: en

Find in a Library: 480610151, 1759778, 50709799, 11168654

Essay exploring the 1930s Federal Writers' Project interview of Indian Island, Maine, resident and canoe maker, Henry Mitchell, transcribed by Old Town native, Robert Grady. Arguments favoring the particularly modern quality of the dually-authored…

  • Author: Senécal, Joseph André

Date: 1996-05

Publication: Facsimile

Volume: 15

Language: en

Find in a Library: 16688223, 212381696

A brief historical essay commenting on the wide and various publication of French language periodicals (dailies and other newspapers) in New England and Quebec during the period of great cross-border migration, between 1860 and 1930. The author's…

  • Author: Sénécal, André

Date: 1981-03-00

Publication: Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française

Volume: 34

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 1764125

Un bref essai sur la persistance de la religion, l'ethnocentrisme, et le nationalisme dans l'attitude des dirigeants du Québec (prêtres, les penseurs du public, et autres), comme dirigés vers les émigrants aux États-Unis au 19ème…

  • Author: Senécal, André

Date: 1995

Book Title: Identité et cultures nationales : l’Amérique française en mutation

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 32091322

Une discussion sur les rôles et formes historiques de ce que l'auteur appelle «la littérature franco-américaine.» D'abord, comme la voix du Québec en exil, comme des expressions de sympathie américaine…

  • Author: Paiste, Denis

Date: 1986 November 30

Publication: New Hampshire Sunday News

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8597236, 24564250

Feature article on the cultural changes occurring among former French Canadian immigrant communities, now Franco American descendant ones, in the cities of New Hampshire. How the occurrence of the French language among New Hampshire Franco Americans…