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- Author: Gosselin, Henri
Date: 2001
Language: English
Find in a Library: 47671730
Fictional account of a French missionary to the Huron people in colonial New France on the eastern half of modern-day Canada. From the back of the text: "A historical novel based on the true story of Eustache Lambert's heroic service as a devoted…
- Author: Genest, Eloise
Date: 2001
Language: English
Find in a Library: 49396582
A 21st-century novel about Louisiana's colonial period, and the demise of French power on the North American continent before the end of the 1700s.. From Amazon.com: " It is the period of the Enlightenment in France and Europe, and early French…
- Author: Field, Rachel
Date: 1931
Language: English
Find in a Library: 4411669
Young adult novel about a French girl orphaned upon her arrival in America. Follows her through the loss of her family, her adaptations to servitude, and her coming-of-age in the New World. Winner of a Newbery Honor Award for youth literature in…
- Author: Cather, Willa
Date: 1931
Language: English
Find in a Library: 167912
Novel set in seventeenth-century Canada - New France - maneuvering between a widower, his family and guests, and the great political figures of the time. Written by Cather out of a brief obsession with Québec and French Canada in the early…
- Author: Cather, Willa
Date: 1927
Language: English
Find in a Library: 346243
The famed Middle-American author of "O Pioneers!" writes a novel about French Catholic priests on a mission to New Mexico in the middle of the nineteenth century. Cather writes out Mexican custom and Roman faith as they merge in the desert at the…
- Author: Jepson, Brenda N. (director)
Date: 2006 (?)
Language: English
Find in a Library: 71009361
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From Crown of Maine Productions: "'The Story of the Acadians' is a tale of discovery, tragedy and determination – of a peace loving people who never give up. Learn how the first French settlers brought with them pre-fabricated homes from…
- Author: Fournier, Claude
Date: 1988
Language: Français
Read: Regarder: BANDE-ANNONCE
Un drame télévisé sur l'émigration canadienne française à la Nouvelle-Angleterre au début de la vingtième siècle, et les travailleurs des usines textiles de l'époque industrielle aux Etats-Unis.
- Author: Beresford, Bruce (director)
Date: 1991 September
Language: English, Latin, Cree, Mohawk, Algonquin
Find in a Library: 228009707
Read: Watch: TRAILER
From the Canadian Film Encyclopedia: "Black Robe is a bleak but majestic film about the diverse cultures of the French settlers and the Algonquin people, and the clashes between them....The hostile wilderness of 17th-century New France is the setting…
- Author: Allain, Mathé (editor)
- Author: Brasseaux, Carl A. (editor)
Date: 1981
Volume: 5 of 8
Language: en; fr
Find in a Library: 6523696
Volume 5 of a eight-part series on Franco American history and life. From ERIC: "Intended to help readers develop an appreciation of the contributions of Franco-Americans to the cultural heritage of the United States, this book, the fifth of six…
- Author: Allain, Mathé (editor)
- Author: Brasseaux, Carl A. (editor)
Date: 1981
Volume: 6 of 8
Language: en
Find in a Library: 6523696
Volume 6 of a eight-part series on Franco American history and life. From ERIC: "Intended to help readers develop an appreciation of the contributions of Franco-Americans to the cultural heritage of the United States, this book, the fourth of six…
- Author: Benoit, Josaphat
Date: 1935
Language: fr
Find in a Library: 458422285
Find Online: OL7655113W
Un livre majeur d'un défenseur très passionné de la survivance franco-américaine, et d'un maire ancien de Manchester, New Hamshire. L'auteur de "Catéchisme d'Histoire Franco-Américaine" et "Rois ou Esclaves de la Machine." De…
- Author: Calvert, Mary R.
Date: 1991
Language: en
Find in a Library: 23707025
Find Online: OL2769965W
Historical piece on early French Jesuits missionizing to Abenaki in Maine's Kennebec River Valley in the 17th century.
- Author: Downs, Jacques M.
Date: 1985
Language: en
Find in a Library: 12419914
Find Online: OL2535469M
A photo-history of the cities of the Saco River Valley in southern Maine. A heavily researched and crafted exhibition of landscapes from colonization to contemporary times, 'The Cities on the Saco' weaves a storytelling tapestry of Saco, Biddeford,…
- 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: Arsenault, Bona
Date: 1978
Language: fr
Find in a Library: 5619093
Find Online: OL4704579W
Gros anthologie en six tomes sur les gens acadiens. La première partie est un histoire des peuples, et les autres parties sont diviseÌes par les sujets et geÌographies suivant: 2) Port-Royal, 3) Beaubassin, Grand-PreÌ, 4) Pisiguit,…