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  • Author: Doty, C. Stewart

Date: 1985

Language: en

Find in a Library: 12219281

Find Online: OL8218380M

Selective reprinting of Franco American oral interviews from the late 1930s' Federal Writers' Project. Brief historical introductions to Manchester NH, Old Town ME, Woonsocket RI, and Barre VT, followed by the interviews with workers that took place…

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  • Author: Guignard, Michael J.

Date: 1982

Language: en

Find in a Library: 11210512

Find Online: OL3006097M

Edited and updated book version of a dissertation published five years earlier ("Ethnic survival in a New England Mill Town," Syracuse University, 1977), with a foreword by author and Biddeford resident, Norman Beaupré. A Franco American history…

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  • Author: Petrin, Ronald Arthur

Date: 1990

Language: en

Find in a Library: 20171247

Find Online: OL2066628M

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Based on Petrin's Ph.D thesis entitled "Ethnicity and political pragmatism: The French Canadians in Massachusetts, 1885-1915" (Clark University, 1983). In-depth, statistic-full analysis of the relationship between ethnicity and politics during a…

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  • Author: Richard, Mark Paul

Date: 2008

Language: en

Find in a Library: 225088950

Find Online: OL16796668M

The birth of the French Canadian community in Lewiston, Maine, and the developments of a Franco American identity there. Argues for the reexamination of the social history of French Canadians and their descendants in Lewiston, Maine - that Franco…

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  • Author: Luyat, Anne
  • Author: Tolron, Francine

Date: 2001

Language: English

Find in a Library: 49197560

Collection of essays in cultural criticism, with specific emphases on national, ethnic, and linguistic identities in transit. Divided in the text by the geographies to which each essay pertains. From the introduction: "The authors [in 'Flight from…

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  • Author: Bonier, Marie Louise

Date: 1997

Language: en (translation)

Find in a Library: 38077916

Find Online: OL421124M

English translation of 1920's "Débuts de la colonie franco-américaine de Woonsocket, Rhode Island." A rich and in-depth portrayal of the birth of one of Rhode Island's largest Franco-American communities. Divided into three parts: town…

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  • Author: Rollins, Joan H.

Date: 1981

Language: English

Find in a Library: 7945064

Collection of essays on acculturation, assimilation, and minority ethnic groups otherwise generally overlooked. A majority emphasis on ethnicity in Rhode Island and New England.

Contains the following essays by their respective authors:…

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  • Author: Breton, Raymond (editor)
  • Author: Savard, Pierre (editor)

Date: 1982

Language: English

Find in a Library: 36283800

A conference publication consisting of a collection of essays on the titled topic. Contains the following written pieces by their respective authors: "The Acadians: a People in Search of a Country" by Jean Daigle, "Emigration and Colonization: Twin…

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  • Author: Cort-Desrochers, John

Date: 2008

Language: English

Find in a Library: 268988215

Memoirs of a Vermont teacher. The story of his French Canadian family living in St. Johnsbury, Vermont in the middle twentieth century. From Ecko House Publishing: "This book tells of a French Canadian family rising out of poverty and achieving the…

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  • Author: Verret, Lauretta Morin

Date: 2002

Language: English

Find in a Library: 76944190

Subtitled, "How One Family of French Canadian Descent, Without Compromising Its Heritage, Learned to Live and Cope in the Border Village of Derby Line, Vermont in the First Half of the Twentieth Century." Biography of the Morin family of Derby Line.…

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  • Author: Gassette, Véronique

Date: 1994

Language: English and français

Find in a Library: 32548021

A look into the unique renditions of names of French Canadian families in Vermont, and the recent and transformative linguistic histories of these names in a largely anglophone space.

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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: Burns, Anna Laura

Date: 2009

Thesis Type: Ph. D.

Institution: University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Language: fr; en

Find in a Library: 670816623, 419475617

From the author: "This dissertation explores the cultural identity of two Franco-American communities in the Mid-West [United States] to identify traits that continue to persist despite language loss due to prejudice and persecution. In this…

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  • Author: Thompson, Laura Anne

Date: 2008

Thesis Type: Ph. D., Secondary Education

Institution: University of Alberta

Language: en; fr

Find in a Library: 229425429

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From the author: "In the province of Alberta, the recent phenomenon of French-speaking newcomers, who are multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic and multifaith, is putting into question the concept of a collective Francophone identity in Canada. On…

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  • Author: O'Connor, Daniel Giles

Date: 1969

Thesis Type: Ed. D.

Institution: University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Language: en

Find in a Library: 116818

Argument toward implementing a bilingual education program in the public schools of the state of Vermont. Written in the context of the 1968 United States congressional discussions about funding bilingual education in general, and the scope of…

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  • Author: Paradis, Wilfrid Henry

Date: 1949

Thesis Type: M.A.

Institution: St. Mary's Seminary

Language: en

Find in a Library: 11477573

Master's thesis on the impact of French-Canadian immigration, labor, religion, and community-building in the industrial city of Manchester, New Hampshire, in the nineteenth century. Approaches this community before its more recent periods of growth…

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  • Author: Aylward, Susan L.

Date: 1998

Thesis Type: Ph. D., English

Institution: University of Rhode Island

Language: en

Find in a Library: 40702182

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From the author: "David Plante, an American writer born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1940, examines the inextricable connection between space and time, place and identity in his most important work, a series of semi-autobiographical novels and…

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  • Author: Currie, Ron, Jr.

Date: 2007

Book Title: New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories from America and Beyond

Language: English

Find in a Library: 71800711

Short story about French-Canadian grandparents, the pull of family, and irrevocable realities of class and culture. From the Waterville, Maine author of "God is Dead" and "Everything Matters!"

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  • Author: Potvin, Raymond H.

Date: 2003-06 (summer)

Publication: American Catholic Studies

Volume: 114

Language: en

Find in a Library: 47828739

Essay on the birth of French Canadian Roman Catholic national parishes (churches, schools, communities) in New England - their subsequent growth, decline, and transformation as Franco American communities from the early nineteenth century to the…

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  • Author: Kaell, Hillary

Date: 2007

Publication: Historical Studies

Volume: 73

Language: en

Find in a Library: 12864095

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From a publication of the Canadian Catholic Historical Association. Essay that situates the early-twentieth-century "mystic stigmatic" figure of Marie-Rose Ferron in a Franco American religious history. Using Ferron's biography as measure, Kaell sees…

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  • Author: Richard, Mark Paul

Date: 2002-03 (spring and summer)

Publication: Québec Studies

Volume: 33

Language: en; fr

Find in a Library: 60628349, 9360295

Essay that follows the Roman Catholic Dominican order from its French expatriation to Canada, to its subsequent immigration to New England. Explores how Dominican fathers and other Church leaders impacted the acculturation of French Canadian…

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  • Author: Ramirez, Bruno

Date: 2001-04

Publication: Journal of American Ethnic History

Volume: 20

Language: en

Find in a Library: 49605417, 7845143

Brief historiographical piece that begins with discrepancies between Canadian and American data on Canadian migrants to the United States. Concerning studies of continental migration - both empirical and theoretical, international statistics on…

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  • Author: Whitebrook, Susan

Date: 1994-06

Publication: Onomastica Canadiana

Volume: 76

Language: en

Find in a Library: 2240808

Article in the official journal of the Canadian Society for the Study of Names (formerly "Onomastica"). Features scholarship on name transition and translation, with a particular emphasis on these processes as they work through French Canadian names…

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  • Author: Picard, Marc

Date: 2003-09

Publication: Onoma

Volume: 38

Language: en; fr

Find in a Library: 1645764

From the author:"Although most French-Canadian surnames bear a strong resemblance to those found in France today, many have undergone various types of orthographical and phonological alterations which make them unique in the French-speaking world.…

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  • Author: Picard, Marc

Date: 2007-01

Publication: Glottopol: Revue de sociolinguistique en ligne

Volume: 9

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 163640790

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De l'introduction: "La grande majorité des noms de famille du Québec à l'heure actuelle sont d'origine française, et on en trouve aussi un grand nombre en Acadie. Hormis les Huguenots qui se sont établis ici et là aux Etats-Unis aux…

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  • Author: Cerquiglini, Bernard

Date: 2010-10

Publication: Glottopol: Revue de sociolinguistique en ligne

Volume: 16

Language: fr

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De l'auteur: "Ce texte porte sur la langue française telle qu'elle se parle en Louisiane depuis près de quatre siècles. Après un bref rappel de ses sources (français hexagonal, créole, acadien, etc), l'auteur s'intéresse aux…

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  • Author: Levine, Ben (director)

Date: 2003

Language: English, with some français

Find in a Library: 64637065

Documentary film about Franco American culture and language in New England. Press release from Watching Place Productions: "Explores the struggle for cultural survival among the French-Canadian, Franco-American communities of New England. It reveals…

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  • Author: Chase, Kim

Date: 1998 Summer

Publication: South Road: The Literary Journal of Martha's Vineyard

Volume: 1

Language: English, with some français

Find in a Library: 40561813

Short prose piece that comes out of the distance between a dying mother who loses her ability to speak English, and a searching daughter who, unlike her older siblings, can neither speak nor understand her mother's French.

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  • Author: Shideler, Janet Lee

Date: 1998

Language: English

Find in a Library: 32273493

The published book form of Shideler's 1991 Ph.D. thesis from the University of Massachusetts. A biographical study of a québécoise and first-generation Franco American author and her works - as a means, Shideler writes, "to identify the…

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  • Author: Chabot, Grégoire

Date: 1996

Language: Français and English

Find in a Library: 34983292

Grégoire Chabot’s triple collection sits English and French texts face-to-face in a small variety of dramatics and family humor, where characters carry in tow a heavy load of self-pity, but where comedic endings refuse to resign any one of…

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