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  • Author: Brown, Michael Serizawa

Date: 1992

Thesis Type: M.A., History

Institution: University of Maine at Orono

Language: en

Find in a Library: 27201223

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From the author: "In 1970 a group of Franco-Americans at the University of Maine, Orono, began meeting to discuss the creation of a new Franco-American ethnic identity. By the end of 1972, the succeeded in establishing a formal Franco-American…

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  • Author: Bernard, Laureat Odilon

Date: 1949

Thesis Type: M.A., History and Government

Institution: University of Maine

Language: en

Find in a Library: 49798931

Government and politics in the industrial city of Lewiston, Maine, in the midst of the Great Depression.

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  • Author: Anctil, Pierre

Date: 1980

Thesis Type: Ph. D., Political and Social Science

Institution: New School for Social Research

Language: en; fr

Find in a Library: 8613568

Dissertation on class development and distinction through North American industrialization, immigration, and urbanization in Rhode Island. The particularity of this history as shaped in the Franco American community's experience of Woonsocket, Rhode…

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  • Author: Beavin, Daniel
  • Author: Blachly, Alice
  • Author: Hathaway, Richard
  • Author: Sacher, Andrew

Date: 1979

Language:

Find in a Library: 5243727

A descriptive bibliography of sources related to the history, politics, and peoples of Barre, Vermont. Divided into the following categories: Historical Sources, Politics and Business, Social Life and Organizations, Poets and Writers, Ethnic Sources,…

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  • Author: Wickett, S. Morley

Date: 1913-01

Publication: The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volume: 45

Language: en

Find in a Library: 486783228

Brief 1913 review of what the author calls "the great Canadian exodus" - the period from 1850 to 1900 when nearly 1.8 million English and French Canadians emigrated to the United States.

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  • Author: Takai, Yukari

Date: 2001-07

Publication: Journal of Family History

Language: en

Find in a Library: 360452963

From the author: "This study analyzes complex patterns of French Canadian immigrants’ geographic mobility in their process of immigration to Lowell, Massachusetts, from 1900 to 1920. There has been relatively little systematic analysis of…

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  • Author: Takai, Yukari

Date: 2001 spring

Publication: Labour/Le Travail

Language: en

Find in a Library: 361810676

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An analysis of single French-Canadian women workers in Lowell, Massachusetts, Takai's piece attempts to show the contributions of this female population to their households and to the local economy at the beginning of the twentieth century.

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  • Author: Silvia, Philip Thomas, Jr.

Date: 1976 summer

Publication: International Migration Review

Volume: 10

Language: en

Find in a Library: 484990257

Brief essay on the reciprocal impacts of immigration on the textile industry and labor organization in Fall River, Massachusetts, at the beginning of the 20th century. The birth of the immigrant textile labor force. Emphasis on French-Canadian…

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  • Author: Scherzer, Kenneth A.

Date: 1989 February

Publication: Urban Studies

Volume: 26

Language:

Find in a Library: 360758768

Brief essay on the Depression-era local economics of the highly industrialized and densely populated Massachusetts town of Fall River. Governmental maneuverings and business restructuring in response to the great 1930s economic downturn.

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  • Author: Podea, Iris Saunders

Date: 1950-09

Publication: The New England Quarterly

Volume: 23

Language: en

Find in a Library: 480428964

Brief 1950 essay on French-Canadian migration from agriculturally-failing Québec to the New England states during the period of North American industrialization, from the Civil War and after. Also featured in Leonard Dinnerstein's "The Aliens: A…

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  • Author: MacKinnon, Mary
  • Author: Parent, Daniel

Date: 2005-06

Language: en

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From MacKinnon and Parent - Department of Economics, McGill University: "In this paper, we look at the emigration of approximately 1 million French-Canadians who moved to the United States, with the bulk of the migration occurring between the end of…

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  • Author: LeMay, Joseph A.

Date: 1980 Spring

Publication: American Review of Canadian Studies

Volume: 10

Language: en

Find in a Library: 60621291

Essay on hydroelectricity as an international commerce platform, with a specific focus on the relationship between Québec and New York state - the former selling hydroelectric power to the latter. The author considers the environmental and…

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  • Author: Lamphere, Louise

Date: 1986 February

Volume: 13

Language: en

Find in a Library: 482347183

From the author: "The increased participation of women in the paid labor force in the 20th-century United States has been marked by a transition from an era of 'working daughters' to one of 'working mothers.' Using data from a New England industrial…

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  • Author: Kristofferson, Robert B.

Date: 2010

Publication: The American Historical Review

Volume: 115

Language: en

Find in a Library: 611180848

A review of Béatrice Craig's "Backwoods Consumers and Homespun Capitalists: The Rise of a Market Culture in Eastern Canada" (University of Toronto Press, 2009). The reviewer, Robert Kristofferson, is a professor at Wilfrid Laurier University.

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  • Author: Madore, Nelson (editor)
  • Author: Rodrigue, Barry H. (editor)
  • Author: Miller, Corinna (editor)
  • Author: Hébert, Chase (editor)
  • Author: Beaupré, Normand (French language editor)

Date: 2007

Language: en

Find in a Library: 131062883

Celebrated collection of essays, stories, poems, songs, art, and other works on the history of Franco American people and their communities in Maine. Features the following writings by their respective authors, in order of appearance: Foreword by…

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  • Author: Gerstle, Gary

Date: 1978 April

Publication: Radical History Review

Language: en

Find in a Library: 45456839

A period history of a Belgian and Franco-American independent textile union in the mills of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, and the impact of this sort of independent worker organization on the ethnic communities of that city. "What follows," says the…

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  • Author: Early, Frances H.

Date: 1977

Publication: Labour/Le Travail

Volume: 2

Language: en

Find in a Library: 317511047

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Brief essay on quality of working-class life in Lowell, Massachusetts at the end of the nineteenth century, during a period of heavy emigration from French Canada. Includes information on census research concerning French Canadians of that place and…

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  • Author: Davidson, John

Date: 1896-01

Publication: The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volume: 8

Language: en

Find in a Library: 479354506

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French-Canadian population growth in Canada as a model for testing the claims of Malthusian economics.

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  • Author: Crane, Martha
  • Author: Schulhof, Tom

Date: 1970-02

Publication: The French Review

Volume: 43

Language: en

Find in a Library: 481287592

Brief history of French-Canadian immigration to Waterville, Maine, followed by an exploration of the reasons behind a strong pattern of surname-translation and -changing in the same town. Includes a short list of original surnames and their…

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  • Author: Craig, Beatrice

Date: 2007

Publication: Histoire sociale/Social history

Volume: 38

Language: en

Find in a Library: 1586704

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Essay on the effects of immigrants from French Canada on the demography, economy, and social landscape of the Upper St. John Valley, Maine, around the turn of the nineteenth century. Explores an argued distinction between "French Canadian" and…

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  • Author: Craig, Beatrice

Date: 1988

Publication: Journal of Forest History

Volume: 32

Language: en

Find in a Library: 483437383, 80917200

Essay on the interconnection of agriculture and forestry, the farming and lumbering industries, their effects on one another, and their implications on population through the nineteenth century in the St. John River Valley in Maine and New Brunswick.

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  • Author: Christie, Nancy

Date: 2002 Fall

Publication: Labour/Le Travail

Volume: 50

Language: en

Find in a Library: 317511047

Article exploring how feminist historiography impacts interpretations of the rise of labour in the US and Canada, recognizing the divisions of gender that are fixed along the North American process of industrialization. From the text: "It is the…

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  • Author: Choquette, Leslie

Date: 2010 Spring

Publication: Business History Review

Volume: 84

Language: en

Find in a Library: 615119645

A business review of Beatrice Craig's "Backwoods Consumers and Homespun Capitalists: The Rise of a Market Culture in Eastern Canada." The reviewer, Leslie Choquette, author of "Frenchmen into Peasants: Modernity and Tradition in the Peopling of…

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  • Author: Caldwell, Gary

Date: 1976 Autumn

Publication: American Review of Canadian Studies

Volume: 6

Language: en

Find in a Library: 60621291

An evaluation of reactions to, condemnations of, and opinions relative to Québec's 1974 passage of Bill 22 - making law the preference and predominance of the French language in that province. Much of the hubbub surrounding this bill was created…

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  • Author: Bitterman, Rusty

Date: 2010 May

Publication: The Canadian Historical Review

Volume: 91

Language: en

Find in a Library: 636583523

A review of Béatrice Craig's "Backwoods Consumers and Homespun Capitalists: The Rise of a Market Culture in Eastern Canada" (University of Toronto Press, 2007). From Bittermann, provided by Project MUSE: "Backwoods Consumers and Homespun…

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