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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: 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: Hamburger, Aaron

Date: 2005 April/May

Publication: Lamba Book Report

Volume: 13

Language: English

Find in a Library: 60637124

Interview with Providence, Rhode Island, native and professor of creative writing at Columbia University, David Plante, whose works of fiction have achieved wide acclaim since the 1970s. Plante answers questions about gay writing, his education,…

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  • Author: Cerquiglini, Bernard

Date: 2010-10

Publication: Glottopol: Revue de sociolinguistique en ligne

Volume: 16

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 163640790

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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: Boudreaux, Elia

Date: 1940 March

Publication: The Modern Language Journal

Volume: 24

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1642244, 41157033

A 1938-1939 argument in favor of increasing the number of Louisiana public elementary schools that teach the French language, and some thoughts on best practices in the implementation of educational programs. From the author: "This paper contains a…

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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: Ducharme, Jacques

Date: 1943

Language: en

Find in a Library: 932931

Find Online: OL6450417M

Book-length reflection on a personal journey through New England to learn about French-Canadian immigration and Franco American identity there. Permeated with personal anecdotes, comments on language, race, and genealogy, and perhaps the first…

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  • Author: Gaudreau, Carmen

Date: 1979

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 9985372

Une histoire pour les enfants de deux petits souris qui apprennent aÌ€ faire le sirop d'érable. Ecrit pour la salle de classe française. Illustrée par des dessins en noir et blanc. A children's story about two mice who learn…

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  • Author: WCAX-TV

Date: 2001

Language: English

Students at North Country Union High School in Newport, Vermont are champions of the 2001 Cyberfair, a worldwide website design competition. Their site, LifeonTheBorder.com (no longer in service), was about their Franco American community's heritage,…

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  • Author: Religieuse de la Présentation de Marie, La (Hudson, New Hampshire)

Date: 1945

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 22844640, 34711965

La biographie de Monseigneur Arthur Décary, dit le Révérend Père Zénon Décary: un prêtre qui a servi les églises catholique romain du Maine. Écrite comme hagiographie moderne, avec…

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  • Author: Fecteau, Edouard

Date: 1941

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 8372494

Pris du texte: "Les Franco-Américains du Greater Lawrence ne se connaissent pas assez. Nous avons donc compilé une liste de nos hommes d'affaires , de nos professionnels, de nos marchands, de nos hommes publics et un court résumé de nos…

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  • Author: Belluck, Pam

Date: 2006 June 4

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

2006 New York Times article on the particular history of French language in Maine and more recent attempts of many - including the founders of a Freeport elementary school - to revive it after a prolonged suppression.

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  • Author: Peterson, Lisa

Date: 2004 May 7

Publication: The Bowdoin Orient

Volume: CXXXIII

Language:

Find in a Library: 54828382

Bowdoin College senior seminar in the French language culminates in a documentary film and a theatrical piece. Students used information learned through over 60 hours of interviews with local Francos.

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  • Author: Dionne, E.J., Jr.

Date: 1979 November 25

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1760220

From a separate article written by Robert C. Carroll: "A recent New York Times article, written by a Franco-American reporter, E. J. Dionne, Jr., cites uncontestable opinion as well as social research testifying to the obvious decline in the use of…

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  • Author: Gross, Sarah Chokla

Date: 1952 September 14

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1760220

A review of the 1952 children's book, "Party for Suzanne," written by Cecile Pepin Edwards and illustrated by Jane Costle. Edwards and Costle attempted to create a book that talks about a French-Canadian child's experience in a New England public…

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  • Author: New York Times

Date: 1893 November 10

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1760220

1893 obituary of historian of French in North America, Francis Parkman. Wrote, among other books, "Pioneers of France in the New World" (1871).

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  • Author: Hale, Karlene K.

Date: 1991 October 23

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8814143, 60630676

Part 3 of 4 of the October, 1991, series entitled, "Against all odds: Life on the 'Hill'" - a close look into Augusta, Maine's Sand Hill (Sandhill) neighborhood. Part 3 is a brief look into St. Augustine School, the educational foundation - alongside…

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  • Author: Kennebec Journal

Date: 2007 June 26

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8814143, 60630676

A special supplement to the daily newspaper on the merging of previously separate Roman Catholic parishes in the central Maine region. Includes brief histories of the parishes, letters from clergy, pictures, and a preview of the new unified Catholic…

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  • Author: Cartwright, Steve

Date: 2007 June 15

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8814143, 60630676

St. Augustine School, the historically Franco Catholic school on Sand Hill in Augusta, Maine, closes at the end of the 2007 school year. It is to be merged with St. Mary's School of Western Avenue, Augusta, and housed at that location, taking the new…

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  • Author: Edwards, Keith

Date: 2010 February 9

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8814143, 60630676

French teachers and Franco advocates plan to speak at upcoming Board of Education meeting. Their comments will come in response to the City of Augusta, Maine, school superintendent, Cornelia Brown, in her presentation of an upcoming school budget…

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  • Author: Edwards, Keith

Date: 2010 February 11

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8814143, 60630676

Supporters of a number of educational programs - including elementary French - threatened by cuts to the Augusta, Maine, city budget make their voices heard at a Board of Education public forum.

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  • Author: Betit, Paul

Date: 1976 September 25

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8814143, 60630676

From a Kennebec Journal special six-part series on local history, this article focuses on Rev. Joseph Casavant of St. Augustin Roman Catholic Church in Augusta, Maine. Fr. Casavant served the parish from 1919 to 1958.

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  • Author: Handy, Mary

Date: 1957 March 7

Publication: The Christian Science Monitor

Language: English

Find in a Library: 10969332, 35351012

Article on a controversy surrounding the city of Augusta, Maine's allowing local private Catholic schools the use of its public buses.

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  • Author: New York Times

Date: 1957 April 3

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1760220

Article on controversy surrounding city of Augusta, Maine's allowing local private Catholic schools the use of public buses. A group of citizens opposing the measure confronts Augusta City Council members.

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  • Author: Lederman, Diane

Date: 2009 November 11

Language: English

Find in a Library: None

Article on Ray Luc Levasseur's suspended invitation to speak at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 2009. Levasseur, a Maine resident, is serving a paroled sentence in that state for his alleged involvement in politically-motivated crimes…

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  • Author: L'Heureux, Juliana

Date: 2010 May 19

Publication: Portland Press Herald

Language: English

Find in a Library: 9341113

Christophe Guilhou, new General Consul (Boston) of France visits Maine, Governor John Baldacci, and Maine's honorary French consular, Severin Beliveau.

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  • Author: L'Heureux, Juliana

Date: 2010 April 21

Publication: Portland Press Herald

Language: English

Find in a Library: 9341113

Article about the focus on Franco-American cultures during Appreciating Diversity Day at Falmouth Middle School in southern Maine.

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  • Author: L'Heureux, Juliana

Date: 2010 October 15

Publication: Portland Press Herald

Language: English

Find in a Library: 9341113

Article on University of Maine at Augusta professor, Chelsea Ray, and her commitment to French language, comparative literature, and the Franco-American communities in which she finds herself immersed as teacher.

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  • Author: Hoey, Dennis

Date: 2010 November 17

Publication: Portland Press Herald

Language: English

Find in a Library: 9341113

Obituary of longtime Old Orchard Beach, Maine, resident and local historian, also a professor of education at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine.

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  • Author: Gagnon, Dawn

Date: 2010 November 19

Publication: Bangor Daily News

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8818350, 44337162

Article on a panel discussion in Bangor, Maine, involving participants from China, Sri Lanka, Colombia, Vietnam, and Russia sharing their observations of culture as immigrants in Maine.

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