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  • Author: Plante, Chantal
  • Author: Baribeau, Celine

Date: 2010 June 1

Language: English

Find in a Library: 3285 (BCTV)

The third episode of Plante's and Baribeau's public broadcast, "Bonjour," taking its viewers on a trip through Montreal and Quebec City and giving plenty of advice to vacationers-to-be.

  • Author: Fournier, Claude

Date: 1988

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 77099172, 235986817

Read: Regarder: BANDE-ANNONCE

Un drame télévisé sur l'émigration canadienne française à la Nouvelle-Angleterre au début de la vingtième siècle, et les travailleurs des usines textiles de l'époque industrielle aux Etats-Unis.

  • Author: Rosenblum, Nina

Date: 1984

Language: English

Find in a Library: 36332787

Documentary film about twentieth-century photographer and historian Lewis Hine, most famous for exposing poor working conditions and child labor in industrial America. Hine, as seen in this film, was also the photographer commissioned to capture on…

  • 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,…

  • Author: Martin, Jane

Date: 2010 September 7

Language: English and français

Read: Listen: AUDIO

Episode of a CBC broadcast, "C'est la vie," whose feature is Franco American life in southern Maine. Biddeford, the hometown of narrator Jane Martin, is the episode's main setting. Contains interviews with Martin's aunt and parents in Biddeford and…

  • Author: Moran, William (speaker)

Date: 2002 October 26

Language: English

Find in a Library: 174144-1 (C-SPAN Video Library)

A presentation by William Moran on his book, "The Belles of New England," as a portion of the 2002 Concord Festival of Authors, Concord, Massachusetts. From C-SPAN: "Mr. Moran discussed his book 'The Belles of New England: The Women of the Textile…

  • Author: Bélanger, Damien-Claude

Date: 2011

Language: en

Find in a Library: 466659872

Read: Preview

From University of Toronto Press: "As a country with enormous economic, military, and cultural power, the United States can seem an overwhelming neighbour - one that demands consideration by politicians, thinkers, and cultural figures. Prejudice and…

  • Author: Richard, Mark Paul

Date: 2010-12-00

Publication: American Review of Canadian Studies

Volume: 40

Language: en

Find in a Library: 690210682

Read: Full text

From the author: "This article examines a little-known dimension to the Ku Klux Klan movement in the United States during the 1920s. As Anglo-Canadian Protestants supported the KKK to assert control over French-Canadian and other Catholics in the New…

  • Author: Le Magazine OVO
  • Author: OVO Magazine

Date: 1982

Publication: Le Magazine OVO (Ovo Magazine)

Volume: 12

Language: Français et English

Find in a Library: 11474336

Numéro du Magazine OVO de Montréal - une revue de la photographie - dédié aux Franco-américains dans le New Hampshire, et les phénomènes de l'immigration canadienne française et…

  • Author: New York Times

Date: 1889 July 5

Publication: New York Times

Language:

Find in a Library: 1760220

1889 article on the French-Canadian immigration phenomenon in the United States and the need for rapid Americanization. Author argues that French Canadians do not appear to be assimilating as well as they should. Article refers to the political and…

  • Author: Wiggin, P.G.

Date: 1901 October 13

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1760220

1901 supplementary article on French-Canadian communities in New England. According to author, these communities - unlike other immigrants to the United States around the turn of the century - appear to resist cultural assimilation by the insular…

  • Author: New York Times

Date: 1939 July 2

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1760220

A collection of book reviews, including, as the title indicates, a review of Jacques Ducharme's 1939 novel, "The Delusson Family," about a French-Canadian immigrant family in the United States.

  • Author: New York Times

Date: 1881 April 11

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1760220

An article on various minor news topics of the day. Marked for a particular selection, the sixth paragraph of the column, on French-Canadian emigration into the United States. Remarks that the movement of people southward from Québec seems to be…

  • Author: New York Times

Date: 1893 July 1

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1760220

1893 article on the letter of a Fall River, Massachusetts, French-Canadian Congregationalist minister to the governor of South Carolina, requesting information on how he and his protestant community might relocate to South Carolina and escape the…

  • Author: New York Times

Date: 1887 December 21

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1760220

1887 article on "American labor" - particularly in New England - being subsumed by immigrant workers. Contains pejorative descriptions of Irish, French-Canadian, and other working immigrant communities in the industrialized Northeast. A particularly…

  • Author: New York Times

Date: 1889 January 13

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1760220

1889 article in which the author attempts to describe what seem to be Québec's French-Canadian allegiances: neither to England nor to the Dominion of Canada, but to the Roman Catholic Church. Author considers French-Canadian imperial federation…

  • Author: New York Times

Date: 1889 August 22

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1760220

1889 article on the proposal of Canada to recognize English as the country's sole national language, with Québec threatening to counter with its official provincial language as French -- or, as the author tosses out, to propose annexation to the…

  • Author: New York Times

Date: 1900 December 22

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1760220

Christmastime 1900 article predicting the potential mass return of immigrant workers from Maine to French Canada in the coming spring. The author cites the principal reason for relocation as French Canadians being denied Francophone priests in the…

  • Author: Lemay, George

Date: 1900 September 9

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1760220

1900 letter to the New York Times refuting pejorative descriptions leveled on "the French-Canadian of to-day" by a New York Times editorialist who had only spent a short time in Canada. The letter covers the editorialist's attitude toward…

  • Author: Herter, Sara

Date: 1975 July 12

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8814143, 60630676

An article on the mills of the Kennebec River in central Maine, the immigration wave at the turn of the century, and the Franco-American workforce. Featured in the 150th Anniversary edition of the Kennebec Journal.

  • Author: Violette, Maurice

Date: 1975 July 12

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8814143, 60630676

Excerpt from the forthcoming book, "The Franco-Americans," by Augusta, Maine resident, Maurice Violette. Discusses the purported logics behind French-Canadian immigration to New England in the 19th century.

  • Author: Drummond, B.J. Roscoe

Date: 1929 August 22

Publication: The Christian Science Monitor

Language: English

Find in a Library: 10969332, 35351012

Article on French-Canadian immigration as a point of concern for the American Institute of Politics, especially with regard to debt policy in the United States.

  • Author: Christian Science Monitor

Date: 1909 April 20

Publication: The Christian Science Monitor

Language: English

Find in a Library: 10969332, 35351012

Article on the plans for a new cotton mill - owned entirely by French-Canadians - to be built in Manville, Rhode Island.

  • Author: Christian Science Monitor

Date: 1958 August 19

Publication: The Christian Science Monitor

Language: English

Find in a Library: 10969332, 35351012

Article on French-English roadsigns planned for Vermont highways in the 1950s.

  • Author: Ledoux, Denis

Date: 1974 July 9

Publication: The Christian Science Monitor

Language: English

Find in a Library: 10969332, 35351012

Article on the concurrent usages of French and English in 1970s Québec, and opinions as to the future of the province of Québec's language landscape. Special to the CSM written by Lisbon, Maine, author, Denis Ledoux.

  • Author: Boston Daily Globe

Date: 1880 October 7

Publication: Boston Daily Globe

Language: English

Find in a Library: 9497068

Article on a Massachusetts "national convention of French residents," with discussion held about political party affiliations, support for various candidates, etc.

  • Author: L'Heureux, Juliana

Date: 2010 March 10

Publication: Portland Press Herald

Language: English

Find in a Library: 9341113

Article on Dyke Hendrickson's 1980 oral history book, "Quiet Presence," and its perceivable resonance into the present day.

  • 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.

  • Author: Bell, Debra
  • Author: Shaw, Richard

Date: 2008 August 14-15

Publication: Bangor Daily News

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8818350, 44337162

A newspaper supplement to the Bangor Daily News, Morning Sentinel, Kennebec Journal, Lewiston Sun Journal, Portland Press Herald, and York County Coast Star in celebration of Aubuchon Hardware's 100th anniversary. Contains a number of old photos and…

  • Author: Macdonald, William

Date: 1896 October 15

Publication: The Nation

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1643268

Article on the large presence of French-Canadian emigrants in Maine, yet the conspicuous lack of information about them.