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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: Cameron, Ardis

Date: 1995

Language: en

Find in a Library: 26932573

Find Online: OL9368720M

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New England women's labor history text from a professor of American and New England studies at the University of Southern Maine. Focuses on Lawrence, Massachusetts, as a town with a diversity of worker and ethnic experience, and the relationship…

  • Author: Dubois, Émile

Date: 1920

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 3032072

Find Online: OL11300900W

De l'intro, "aux Lecteurs," écrit par Emile Dubois: "Au cours des vacances de 1918, en compagnie de M. l'abbe Edmond Lacroix, je faisais un séjour d'un mois au pays d'Evangeline. Au jour le jour, a mesure que je visitais les endroits…

  • Author: Allaire, Jean Baptiste Arthur

Date: 1905

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 11700111

Find Online: OL24399522M

Une histoire complète d'une paroisse catholique québécoise, de la Vallée-du-Richelieu, jusqu'en 1905.

  • 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 divisées par les sujets et géographies suivant: 2) Port-Royal, 3) Beaubassin, Grand-Pré, 4) Pisiguit,…

  • Author: Hudson, Susan Pearman

Date: 2006

Language: en

Find in a Library: 62741377

Find Online: OL5842684W

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From Routledge: "The book recognizes the achievements by a nineteenth-century community of women religious, the Grey Nuns of Lewiston, Maine. The founding of their hospital was significant in its time as the first hospital in that factory city, and…

  • Author: Levasseur, Raymond Luc

Date: 2002

Language: en

Find in a Library: 55030481

Ray Luc Levasseur's statements from the 1989 criminal trial where he represented himself against accusations of racketeering. He places himself and a working-class Franco (Sanford, Maine) upbringing in the course of an American class struggle,…

  • Author: Mahaffie, Charles

Date: 1995

Language: en

Find in a Library: 32432345

Find Online: OL8232342M

From Down East Books: " 'A Land of Discord Always' is the history of Acadia up to the time of the grand derangement. It tells how a unique society grew and prospered in an obscure corner of North America only to be crushed in a contest between…

  • Author: Bellerose, Robert

Date: 2004

Language: en

Find in a Library: 57494168

Find Online: OL1656749W

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Arcadia's "Images of America" series revisits the pre- and post-industrial city of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, with pictures that span the period from 1834 to 2000. Transitional American urban and riverbank landscapes across two centuries, through…

  • Author: Belliveau, Pierre

Date: 1972

Language: English

Find Online: 2736058

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  • Author: Lockerby, Earle

Date: 2008

Language: English

Find Online: 192053072

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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,…

  • Author: Plante, David

Date: 2009

Language: English

Find Online: 299712233

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  • Author: Poland, Alex
  • Author: Adams, Erin

Date: 2003

Language: English

Find in a Library: None

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Outline of Franco American history, traditional practices, cultural norms. Culminates in suggestions to healthcare providers for communicating with Franco Americans. Published online by the Child Welfare Training Institute, Muskie School of Public…

  • Author: Woolfson, Peter

Date: 1983

Publication: The French in Vermont: Some Current Views

Language: en

Find in a Library: 10565367

Paper on Franco American values and cultural patterns as visible in the people of Vermont. The importance of recognizing such patterns and morals for health and social service providers. Included in Occasional Paper Number Six, in a series produced…

  • Author: Lévesque, Aurore Nadeau

Date: 1984

Language: Français

Find Online: 16048962

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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.…

  • Author: Cole, Donald

Date: 2002 (1963)

Language: en

Find in a Library: 475026

Find Online: OL7972822M

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A history of the city of Lawrence, Massachusetts, as a site of mass industrialization, diverse immigration, and unique dynamics of class and ethnicity around the turn of the 20th century. From UNC Press: "The violence and radicalism connected with…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Author: Ross, Sally
  • Author: Deveau, Alphonse

Date: 1992

Language: English

Find in a Library: 25713218

From Nimbus Publishing: "The first work devoted exclusively to the Acadians of Nova Scotia, this book presents a thorough study of Acadian history from the earliest days of French settlement to present-day Acadian communities. Ross and Deveau draw on…

  • Author: Allain, Mathé (editor)
  • Author: Brasseaux, Carl A. (editor)

Date: 1982

Volume: 7 of 8

Language: en

Find in a Library: 65236969 (volumes 1 through 6)

Volume 7 of an eight-part series on Franco American history and life. Concerned specifically with "Postbellum Louisiana." Contains the following essays: "The Splendid Mystery of the Civil Code of Louisiana" - Albert Tate, Jr., "Early New Orleans…