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  • Author: Kellogg, Louise Phelps

Date: 1925

Volume: 1

Language: English

Find in a Library: 633645

Reprinted in 2007 by Heritage Books. A history of the French in North America - particularly what would become the US Midwest - from colonization to the middle 18th century. Contains semi-biographical pieces on explorers from that period. Focuses…

  • Author: Eccles, W.J.

Date: 1998

Language: en

Find in a Library: 39664550

Find Online: OL348461M

Previously published under the title "France in America." From Fitzhenry and Whiteside, publishers: "This vivid account of the crucial role played by the French in the Western Hemisphere chronicles the rise and fall of the French empire on the…

  • 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: Lamarre, Jean

Date: 2003

Language: en

Find in a Library: 51613888

Find Online: OL6026791W

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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: Lawrence, Benjamin

Date: 1912

Language: en

Find in a Library: 246377445

Find Online: OL6557023M

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1912 history of the city of Jay in Franklin County, Maine, situated alongside the Androscoggin River. Gives a brief background sketch of the Native American presence there; historical profile detailed from the town's 1795 incorporation to the turn of…

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

Date: 1986

Language: en

Find in a Library: 12907801

Find Online: OL3321887M (3rd ed.)

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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

Find in a Library: 181602806

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: Calvert, Mary

Date: 1986

Language: en

Find in a Library: 15523085

Find Online: OL2769969W

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: 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: Green, Constance McLaughlin

Date: 1939 (1968)

Language: en

Find in a Library: 1522230

Find Online: OL5601421M

A study of labor and industry in Holyoke, Massachusetts, beginning with the city's agrarian traditions, and establishing later an emphasis on the city's industrialization at the end of the nineteenth century. Published during the Great Depression,…

  • Author: Scontras, Charles A.

Date: 1994

Language: en

Find in a Library: 31188167

A restorative history of the birth and early life of organized labor in Maine in the middle of the nineteenth century, on the rise of the industrial period. From the preface: "The history of organized labor in Maine has been ignored by the State's…

  • Author: Connors-Carlson, Shirlee

Date: 2001

Language: en

Find in a Library: 49045997

A pictorial history of life and logging in St. John, Maine, at the beginning of the twentieth century. Includes some pictures that are featured in the book "Acadian Hard Times" (Stewart Doty, 1991), as well as many others that capture the households…

  • Author: Perreault, Gene N.

Date: 1986

Language: en; fr

Find in a Library: 16989034

Find Online: OL5071919W

From the author: "The following stories represent the folk history of the logging business in northern Maine. They were gathered over the years and the facts may have been changed as the stories were passed on to succeeding generations. However, they…

  • Author: Albert, Gilbert

Date: 1985

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 31682670

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Watch/Listen: http://books.google.com/books?id=rFHFAAAACAAJ&dq=les+champs+et+les+forets&hl=en&ei=rkPlTJbBMYP_8AbAhK2oDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAQ

Un livre pour les jeunes (pour practiquer la langue française) sur le camping, la cabane à sucre, le bord de l'eau, les fraises, et des autres choses amusants de la vie dans le forêt. Contient des histoires, chansons, et des…

  • Author: Cogels, Annette

Date: 2010-00-00

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 769770961

La publication des écrits personnels d'Annette Cogels, de son voyage 1929 du Belgique, au Canada, dans le Maine, pour chasser le chevreuil dans les bois du nord du Maine. Son temps dans la forêt du Maine qui est associé souvent…

  • Author: Geyh, Patricia Keeney
  • Author: Soltis Banachowski, Joyce
  • Author: Boyea, Linda
  • Author: Sarasin Ustine, Patricia
  • Author: Holt Bourbonais, Marilyn
  • Author: Ploenske Labelle, Beverly

Date: 2002

Language:

Find in a Library: 49699352

From Ancestry Publishing: "A six-year collaborative effort of members of the French Canadian/Acadian Genealogical Society, this book provides detailed explanations about the genealogical sources available to those seeking their French-Canadian…

  • Author: Dugas, Donald G.

Date: 1977

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 7293756

Un livre pour les enfants qui contient le journal de Ti-Zoom, le skidoo raconteur d'un homme qui s'appelle Bob. Dessiné pour la salle de classe française. Illustrée par des dessins en noir et blanc. A children's book that holds…

  • Author: Dubay, Guy F.

Date: 1976

Language: Français and English

Find in a Library: 2624099

With Justice For All leads its reader through the drama surrounding the potential 1876 eviction of French families from their homes on disputed land in the St. John River Valley of Aroostook County, Maine. A play in two languages, and a play that…

  • Author: Drummond, William

Date: 1897

Language: English

Find in a Library: 496888673

Late nineteenth-, early twentieth-century Irish-Canadian poetry written in the French-Canadian English vernacular.

  • Author: Asselin, E. Donald

Date: 1954

Language: English

Find in a Library: 13855620

Book of poetry from the Vermont author of "A French-Canadian Cookbook" and many other small books about New England.

  • Author: Robichaud, Gerard

Date: 1965

Language: English and français

Find in a Library: 13791938

Robichaud returns to the Groveton Falls, Maine, town of his most famous novel, "Papa Martel," in the story of an orphaned Michel Dumont - a boy concerned with absolution for a benign theft as he overhears of the coming end of the world. "Apple" is…

  • Author: Proulx, E. Annie

Date: 1996

Language: English

Find in a Library: 34515071

A startlingly inclusive selection of a century's worth of American immigrant vignettes tied together by the movement of a single accordion. For immigration studies, it is a portrayal attentive in sentiment and beckoning in its concern for the new…

  • Author: Vicero, Ralph

Date: 1968

Thesis Type: Ph. D., Geography

Institution: University of Wisconsin

Language: en

Find in a Library: 2934957

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Study of French-Canadian emigration into the United States during the nineteenth century. Pivotal research in French Canadian emigration. Includes maps that show migration patterns from specific Canadian regions to specific areas in New England. From…

  • Author: Lamarre, Jean

Date: 1996

Thesis Type: Ph. D., Histoire

Institution: Université de Montréal

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 46524973

Ce texte a devenu le livre "Le Canadiens français du Michigan" (2000), ou "The French Canadians of Michigan" (2003). Du résumé: "Cette thèse a pour objet la migration des Canadiens français vers le Michigan de 1840 à 1914. Elle…

  • Author: Brown, Michael Serizawa

Date: 1992

Thesis Type: M.A., History

Institution: University of Maine at Orono

Language: en

Find in a Library: 27201223

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From the author: "In 1970 a group of Franco-Americans at the University of Maine, Orono, began meeting to discuss the creation of a new Franco-American ethnic identity. By the end of 1972, the succeeded in establishing a formal Franco-American…

  • Author: Monteiro, George

Date: 1960-01-00

Volume: 73

Language: en

Find in a Library: 482723018

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Observations on the folklore around Joe Montferrand (Muffraw), "[Paul] Bunyan's sometimes cook and occasional opponent," whose famed lumbering strength originated in Québec lore, and whose stories moved - along with French Canadians - to New…