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  • Author: Desrosiers-Lauzon, Godefroy

Date: 2008

Thesis Type: Ph. D., History

Institution: University of Ottawa

Language: en

Find in a Library: 658153238

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From the author: "This thesis explains and analyzes the phenomenon of seasonal, long-term winter travel to Florida, travelers that South Floridians have called 'snowbirds.' It demonstrates what pushed and pulled [Canadian and American] snowbirds to…

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  • Author: Proulx, E. Annie

Date: 1993-1994 Winter

Publication: Hungry Mind Review

Volume: 28

Language: English

Find in a Library: 13291726

Review of "I Had a Father: A Post-Modern Biography" by Clark Blaise. According to Proulx - author of such titles as "Postcards," "The Shipping News," and "Brokeback Mountain" - the book captures fragments of the life of Blaise's itinerant and…

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  • Author: New York Times

Date: 1893 July 1

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1760220

1893 article on the letter of a Fall River, Massachusetts, French-Canadian Congregationalist minister to the governor of South Carolina, requesting information on how he and his protestant community might relocate to South Carolina and escape the…

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  • Author: Christian Science Monitor

Date: 1958 August 19

Publication: The Christian Science Monitor

Language: English

Find in a Library: 10969332, 35351012

Article on French-English roadsigns planned for Vermont highways in the 1950s.

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  • Author: Sambides, Nick, Jr.

Date: 2010 November 9

Publication: Bangor Daily News

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8818350, 44337162

Dispute over rail access between Canadian National Railway Co. and Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway, the latter ostensibly blocking CN from reaching a Madawaska, Maine, paper plant.

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  • Author: Louder, Dean R. (editor)
  • Author: Waddell, Eric (editor)

Date: 1993

Language: en

Find in a Library: 25412445

Find Online: OL7945499M

Translation and expansion of "Du continent perdu..." by Dean Louder. A collection of historiographical, geographical, anthropological, and theoretical essays on francophone cultures in North America - from Québec, to New England and the US…

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  • Author: Boisvert, Donat

Date: 1983

Language: en

Find in a Library: 778587898

Legislative document highlighting the borderland tourism industries of Maine and Canada in the 1980s.

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  • Author: Thoreau, Henry David

Date: 1892

Language: en

Find in a Library: 634112362

Find Online: OL55715W

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Compilation of travelogue and political writings of American essayist and public thinker, Henry David Thoreau. Part one describes brief travels by train from Thoreau's Concord, Massachusetts home, through New Hampshire and Vermont, and into the…

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  • Author: Atwood, Rhea Hollis

Date: 2004

Language: en

Find in a Library: 55473494

Find Online: OL5711128W

Travel guide to the city of Boston, Massachusetts, centered around local sites with significant French history. An effort in French archaelogical tourism. Includes brief histories of all large-scale migrations to the United States from the…

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  • Author: Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of Maine

Date: 1937

Language: en

Find in a Library: 255008

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State guidebook produced by the Maine Works Progress Administration's Federal Writers' Project in the 1930s. Installment in the American Guide Series: a collection of state travel guides and coffee tables books. Includes extensive descriptions of…

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  • Author: Dublin, Thomas

Date: 1992

Language: en

Find in a Library: 24214090

Find Online: OL1549242M

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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…

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  • 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.…

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  • Author: BrieÌ€re, Eloise

Date: 1986

Language: en; fr

Find in a Library: 34578272

French heritage travel and resource guide to New York state, divided by region and described by town and city. From the foreword to the text: "Continuing the tradition begun in the 17th century, French and Canadian ties flourish in New York which…

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  • Author: Kent, Timothy J.

Date: 2009

Language: en

Find in a Library: 466744451

From the author: "When Kevin and Ben Kent were ages seven and five, their parents conceived an exciting, enriching, and educational project for the family. As a team, they began paddling the 3,000 mile length of the mainline fur trade canoe route…

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  • 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…

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  • Author: Blaise, Clark

Date: 1993

Language: English

Find in a Library: 26398865

From Library Journal: "This unusual memoir focuses on the author's attempt to understand his dead father. Blaise, a prize-winning novelist and director of the University of Iowa's International Writing Program, combines fragments of memories, mostly…

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  • Author: Jarvis, Charles E.

Date: 1973

Language: English

Find in a Library: 2737349

Biography of Jack Kerouac published in his hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts.

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  • Author: Hebert-Leiter, Maria

Date: 2009

Language: English

Find in a Library: 463256338

From LSU Press: "From antebellum times, Louisiana’s unique multipartite society included a legal and social space for intermediary racial groups such as Acadians, Creoles, and Creoles of Color. In 'Becoming Cajun, Becoming American,' Maria…

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  • Author: Poulin, Jacques

Date: 1984

Language: English (traduction du français)

Find in a Library: 48670997

1984 best-selling Québec novel about two new-found friends traveling across the roads of Canada and the United States - from Gaspé to San Francisco - in search of one's brother. Infused with histories of Native Americans, French colonization,…

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  • Author: Plante, David

Date: 1983

Publication: Prize Stories 1983: The O. Henry Awards

Language: English

Find in a Library: 9409280

Short story about an American and his lover vacationing in Italy, entering in a meaningful way into the lives of their Italian neighbors through work. Originally published in the September 21, 1981, edition of The New Yorker. Recognized by the 1983…

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  • Author: Plante, David

Date: 1984

Language: English

Find in a Library: 10696788

A later novel from a finalist for the 1979 National Book Award. From Atheneum: "In 1959, a young American journeys to Europe to discover how the people live and finds himself forever transformed by two people, Angela and Vincent, who introduce him to…

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  • Author: Plante, David

Date: 2002

Language: English

Find in a Library: 48500345

Short autobibliographical essay published in "The Pushcart Prize XXVI" (2002), an anthology of fiction and essays from various small presses. From the author of "The Family," "ABC," and the trilogy known as the Francouer Novels. This selection would…

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  • Author: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Date: 1897 (1847)

Language: en

Find in a Library: 27193052

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Maine native Longfellow's epic poem about "le Grand Dérangement" - the Acadian Expulsion - and one Acadian woman's search for her love lost. First published in 1847.

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  • Author: Kerouac, Jack

Date: 1966

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Find in a Library: 401934

In perhaps the culminating text of Kerouac's "Duluoz Legend," Jack goes to France to dig up the roots and bloodlines beneath his family name and cultural identity. From the 1985 edition: "'Satori in Paris' is a rollicking autobiographical account of…

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  • Author: Skinazi, Karen E.H.

Date: 2009

Publication: Canadian Review of American Studies

Volume: 39

Language:

Find in a Library: 630694433

From Skinazi: "This paper will show that, in 'On the Road,' Kerouac reflects on what it is to be a Franco-American man—both American and not....Jack Kerouac believed that his French Canadian roots held the key to his knowledge, despite the…

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  • Author: Deslauriers, Pierre

Date: 2002-spr/sum

Publication: Québec Studies

Volume: 33

Language: en; fr

Find in a Library: 60628349

Essay on the history and persistence of Québécois vacationing in Maine beach towns, and the relative transitions that both Québec tourists and New England beach cultures have made since the beginning of their nearly 150-year relationship in…

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