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  • Author: Plocher, Stephen

Date: 2007

Language: en

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A brief history of Waterville, Maine, written by a graduate of Waterville's Colby College and published online by the city government of Waterville. Begins with the city's peopling, moving through the town's incorporation apart from Winslow in 1802,…

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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: Louder, Dean
  • Author: Waddell, Eric

Date: 2008

Language: Français

Find Online: 228855988

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  • Author: Casanova, Jacques Donat

Date: 1975

Language: en (translation)

Find in a Library: 4134570

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A brief history of the French presence in North America. English translation of "Une Amérique française." From the text: "When we think of the French contribution to the history of the United States, we immediately think to Lafayette,…

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  • Author: Violette, Maurice

Date: 1976

Language: en

Find in a Library: 2176381

A thorough history of the Franco American presence in the city of Augusta, Maine, up to the 1970s. Histories of mill, church, school, and community, from their migrant inception through sometimes celebratory, sometimes violent, persistence.…

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  • Author: Calvert, Mary

Date: 1983

Language: en

Find in a Library: 10864362

Find Online: OL2769967W

Historical piece on the European explorers of the Kennebec River Valley and the Abenaki people of that Maine region. Highlights the relationships among British, French, and Native American, and their confrontations from the 17th century onward. The…

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  • Author: Calvert, Mary

Date: 1986

Language: en

Find in a Library: 15523085

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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: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Date: 2004

Language: English

Find in a Library: 56903271

Maine native Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem about "le Grand Dérangement" - the Acadian Expulsion - and one Acadian woman's rampant search for a love lost. This text also includes an introduction, a brief historical sketch of the Acadians,…

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  • Author: Van Lent, Peter C.

Date: 1988

Language: en

Find in a Library: 20845209

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A professor of folklore offers here a study of the Franco Americans in northern New York state. He explores the themes of religion, family, work, and language, and interrogates their symbols in the folklore and folk art of Malone, New York and a…

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  • Author: Le Jeune, R.P.L.

Date: 1990 (1918)

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 144748841 (peut être lu au Centre Franco-Américain, Université du Maine, Orono, Maine)

Une brève histoire de l'Acadie entre 1412 et 1800 (entre colonisation, le Grand Dérangement, et repopulation). Certaines descriptions d'événements significatives dans la courte durée de vie des premières communatés Acadiennes de…

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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…

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  • Author: Rathbone-McCuan, Eloise (editor)
  • Author: Havens, Betty (editor)

Date: 1988

Language: English

Find in a Library: 16088935

A study in sociology and gerontology. Comparative Canadian and United States perspectives on aging and the elderly. Observations on the social policies, demographics, geographies, and cultural realities of both countries in the context of family…

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  • Author: Arsenault, Bona [Bonaventure]

Date: 1978

Language: en

Find in a Library: 6252812

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Translation of the first volume of Arsenault's original historical collection, "Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens." This volume, "Histoire des Acadiens," attempts a comprehensive history of the Acadian people - their arrival in…

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  • Author: Baird, Charles Washington

Date: 1885

Volume: 1

Language: en

Find in a Library: 8047731

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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…

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  • 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…

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  • Author: Chute, Robert M.

Date: 1978 (2002)

Language: fr / en / alg

Find in a Library: 50798858

Originally published in 1978. Regional poetry in English, French, and Passamaquoddy. From the back of the 1982 edition: "'Treize Lunes' est un poème basé sur divers documents retracant la vie de Sébastien Rale, jésuite et savant,…

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  • Author: Hebert, Ernest

Date: 1993

Language: English

Find in a Library: 28066130

Second and fourth novels in Hebert's Darby series, with a new essay included. From the University Press of New England: (A Little More Than Kin) "Evicted from the New Hampshire shack he proudly called home, Ollie Jordan--ignorant, ingenious, angry,…

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  • Author: Touchette, Charleen

Date: 2004

Language: English

Find in a Library: 56615738

From Touch Art Books: "This story with its bold contrasts of good and bad, love and hate, inextricably connected, is situated in the context of the bigger history of French Canadian and Indian people amid mainstream American culture from the mid…

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  • Author: Savageau, Cheryl

Date: 1992

Language: English

Find in a Library: 25048200

A book of poetry by an Abenaki/Franco-American writer from New England. From the forward to the text: "'Home Country,' Cheryl Savageau's first book, is a chronicle of returning, returning to a land which never abandoned her, even though as is the…

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  • Author: Savageau, Cheryl

Date: 1995

Language: English

Find in a Library: 31377922

A book of poetry from an Abenaki/Franco-American writer from New England. Nominated for the 1996 Paterson Prize in Poetry, as well as the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Contains many of the poems published in her earlier book, "Home Country."

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  • Author: Rocheleau Rouleau, Corinne
  • Author: Langford, W.F.

Date: 1948

Language: English

Find in a Library: 32991568

From CatholicAuthors.com: "In 1948 Longmans of Toronto published her first novel, 'Laurentian Heritage.' It is a story of the peaceful and picturesque way of life led by the well-to-do French Canadian country folk before the turn of the present…

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  • Author: Provencher Faucher, Doris

Date: 2002

Language: English

Find in a Library: 65165055

A sequel to "The Virgin Forest" (2000), second novel in "Le Québécois" series. From Artenay Press: "Bastien and Marguerite's first Canadian-born descendants face trials and challenges that are quite different from those experienced by…

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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: 1982

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8222606

One of the stories in Plante's New England Franco-American family trilogy, The Francouer Novels. From Atheneum: "As Daniel Francoeur completes his freshman year at college and begins his sophomore year, he recalls his last summer before going to…

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  • Author: Plante, David

Date: 1978

Language: English

Find in a Library: 3729360

The first novel, chronologically, of what are known as Plante's Francouer Novels. A finalist for the 1979 National Book Award in Fiction (hardcover). From Gale Literature: "'The Family' describes the emotional breakdown of Reena Francoeur, Daniel's…

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  • Author: Plante, David

Date: 1981

Language: English

Find in a Library: 7727537

Another of Plante's Francouer Novels. From Beacon Press: "First published in 1981 to wide acclaim, 'The Country' follows the last visits of a son, Daniel Francoeur, to his parents' home before the death of his father. Wanting to understand this…

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  • Author: Marquis, Fr. Alphie

Date: 1980

Language: English

Find in a Library: 22467565

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Memoirs of a priest from the St. John River Valley, Maine and New Brunswick, who was born in the first decade of the 20th century and spent most of his late life preaching in the Roman Catholic parishes of northern Maine.

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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: Silvia, Philip Thomas, Jr.

Date: 1973

Thesis Type: Ph. D., History

Institution: Fordham University

Language: en

Find in a Library: 5661072

The place of Fall River, Massachusetts, in the United States' 19th-century industrial boom, its ensuing period of immigration and cultural diversification, and the birth of the American middle class. A massive and in-depth dissertation that pays…

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  • Author: Larkin, Sr. Mary Teresita

Date: 1934

Thesis Type: M.S., Education

Institution: University of Maine at Orono

Language: en

Find in a Library: 50168005

Historical look at Catholic Education in Maine from the time of the first French explorers and missionaries in the Americas to the author's present - before World War II. Covers elementary though college educations, from the northern tip of the state…

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