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  • Author: Lothian, Mona

Date: 2009 November 12

Language: English

Find in a Library: Unknown

Oral interview with a woman recalling her youth and family in Lewiston, Maine. Her memories of the pervasiveness of French language and culture in the first half of the twentieth century, and her thoughts on the decline of French language and…

  • Author: Green, Susan

Date: 2011 April 3

Publication: Burlington Free Press

Language: English

Find in a Library: 9390458, 661313450

Article in recognition of Burlington, Vermont's 2011 French Friendship Day - a gathering together of local and international francophiles and francophones to celebrate the presence of French Canadian and Franco American culture in Vermont. Contains…

  • Author: Pipyn, Michel

Date: 1976

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 7294264

Une histoire qui nous présente à Antoine le jeune et à "des choses" qu'il fait et qu'il rencontre au cours de sa journée. Les différentes façons dans lequel il décrit ces choses - ses rêves,…

  • Author: Dugas, Rene L., Sr.

Date: 2001

Language: en

Find in a Library: 51287773

Find Online: OL11733717M

A 125-year history of a Connecticut town fundamentally shaped by the New England textile industry. French Canadian community surrounding the Ponemah Cotton Mills on the Shetucket River in Taftville, Connecticut. Images of the mill and its workers,…

  • Author: Mitchell, Paige (editor)

Date: 2010

Language: English

Find in a Library: None

A collection of writings in a cultural studies reader, introduced with an essay from the instructor. Compiled for a University of Maine course in English composition. Available at the Franco-American Centre, Orono, Maine.

  • Author: Mitchell, Paige (editor)

Date: 2009

Language: English

Find in a Library: None

A collection of writings in cultural studies, compiled for a University of Maine course in English composition. Available at the Franco-American Centre, Orono, Maine.

  • Author: Gauthier, Joseph Delphis

Date: 1948

Thesis Type: Ph. D., Littérature américaine

Institution: Université Laval

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 7962637, 299563561, 77405512

Les rélations culturelles entre le Québec, les canadiens français, et la littérature américaine tel qu'ils apparaissent dans le roman américain. Les impressions américaines populaires de ces romans sur des perceptions du…

  • Author: Lalande, Jean-Guy

Date: 1971

Thesis Type: M.A., Histoire

Institution: Université Laval

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 77266349

Une theÌ€se maitrise sur le mouvement Sentinelliste: une grande réaction journalistique aux droits linguistiques et réligieuses d'une dioceÌ€se catholique dans le Rhode Island, et dans les églises du sud de la Nouvelle-Angleterre au…

  • Author: Bernard, Shane

Date: 2003

Language: English

Find in a Library: 49618900

Find Online: OL2988647W

A history of twentieth-century Southern Louisiana by way of an exploration of the processes of assimilation experienced its people of French and Acadian heritage. Descripions of the transformations of Louisiana Cajuns and Cajun culture, as well as…

  • Author: Blanchard, Dorothy A.

Date: 1993 Spring

Publication: Maine Historical Society Quarterly

Volume: 33

Language: en

Find in a Library: 2263768, 607696548

The history of French Canadian immigration and Franco American community building in the town of Dexter, Maine. Illustrated with photos and quotes from oral interviews. From the text: "The study of French-Canadian immigration is generally centered…

  • Author: Lavoie, Carlo

Date: 1997

Publication: The River Review / La Revue rivière

Volume: 3

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 33064369

Un éssai sur l'idée de l'histoire comme agent contre l'assimilation - "de quelle facon les faits historiques et sociaux sont utilisés pour éveiller [le] sentiment nécessaire a la survie d'un peuple, d'une ethnie." Une analyse…

  • Author: Santos, Luis Claudio Villafane G.

Date: 2005

Publication: AmeriQuests

Volume: 2

Language: en

Find in a Library: 56906981

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One of two articles in the "From the Culture of Borders to Border Cultures" issue of AmeriQuests journal. From AmeriQuests: "The text discusses the use of the word 'American' when referring to people from, or citizens of, the United States of…

  • Author: Kevra, Susan K.

Date: 2007

Publication: AmeriQuests

Volume: 4

Language: en; fr

Find in a Library: 56906981

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From AmeriQuests: "In her short story 'Le Peuplement de la Terre' ('Be Fruitful and Multiply') Madeleine Ferron reveals the reality of married life for generations of women in Quebec whose lives were a constant cycle of pregnancy, childbirth and…

  • Author: Arceneaux, Jean

Date: 1994

Language: English and Cajun French

Find in a Library: 30610563

Poem under pseudonym from Louisiana writer Barry Ancelet. A history of the Cajun, from Acadia to the American South, in book-length verse. Cajun French text side-by-side with an English translation. The second chapbook in a series featuring Cajun…

  • Author: Green, Rebecca

Date: 2004 Winter

Publication: Colby Magazine

Volume: 93

Language: English

Find in a Library: None

Article on Colby College graduate ('66) and Waterville, Maine native, Gregoire Chabot, whose writings have resonated not only with the Maine Franco American communities who share the heritage that Chabot often explores, but with readers and scholars…

  • Author: Plumer, Chris

Date: 1977 November

Publication: Maine Magazine

Language: English

Find in a Library: 25733085

Feature article on the present (1977) cultural situation of Franco Americans in Maine. Discussion of their minority demographics, as well as local, academic, and federal intiatives to bolster bilingual educational support, community solidarity, and…

  • Author: Plante, David

Date: 1997

Book Title: Littérature et dialogue interculturel : culture française d'Amérique

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 37491176

Un essai par l'auteur des romans "The Family" et "The Country," et aussi les mémoires, "American Ghosts." Il viens de Providence, Rhode Island. Partie d'une collection sur la culture française d'Amérique. Au début du texte, Plante se…

  • Author: Brault, Gerard J.

Date: 1986

Language: en

Find in a Library: 12665191

Find Online: OL2541215M

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Comprehensive history of French Canadians and Franco Americans in New England, with an emphasis on the early 20th century. Introduced with a summary of early North American exploration and colonization. Spans in specific an historical period that…

  • Author: Chodos, Robert
  • Author: Hamovitch, Eric

Date: 1991

Language: en

Find in a Library: 28181742

Find Online: OL1357139M

An examination of various and historical connections between Quebec and the United States. Beginning in the attitudes shaped during eighteenth-century struggles between France and Britain over the Canadian landmass, then moving through the American…

  • Author: Wade, Mason

Date: 1946

Language: en

Find in a Library: 512297

Find Online: OL6505203M

Historical survey of French Canada and its people from the 16th century to the end of World War II. Wade illustrates political and military history, emphasizing the conflicts within a singular French-and-British Canada and ending his text, in the…

  • 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…

  • Author: Pelletier, Fran

Date: 2003

Language: English

Find in a Library: 52819582

Memoirs of Fran Pelletier. His family and his youth in rural Maine. Growing up in small town America. From the back cover: "Fran Pelletier is a rare and wonderful storyteller. He Grew up in Milford, Maine, in the 1930s....Pelletier remembers all the…

  • Author: Brault, Gerard J.

Date: 1960

Language: fr; en

Find in a Library: 424870272, 27098491

A documentation of results from language tests given to Franco Americans in the late 1950s. Considers local vocabulary and phonetics. From the document's abstract: "The interviews were designed to illustrate the chief features of the French spoken by…

  • 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…

  • Author: Langellier, Regis
  • Author: Langellier, Pamela

Date: 2005 (1996)

Book Title: Ethnicity and Family Therapy

Language: en

Find in a Library: 437246591, 34547132

Publication in psychotherapy on the historical backgrounds and cultural registers of a variety of ethnic subcultures in the United States. One essay on communicating with Franco Americans, acknowledging traditional familial roles, and understanding…

  • Author: Piotrowski, Tadeusz

Date: 1974

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1102740

Brief essay trying to identify - historically, culturally, nationally - the Franco Americans of the largest city in northern New England, New Hampshire's industrial center, and the one-time home to the largest mill complex in the world. Also featured…