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  • Author: Chabot, Grégoire

Date: 1996

Language: Français and English

Find in a Library: 34983292

Grégoire Chabot’s triple collection sits English and French texts face-to-face in a small variety of dramatics and family humor, where characters carry in tow a heavy load of self-pity, but where comedic endings refuse to resign any one of…

  • Author: Leprince, Jean-Michel
  • Author: Devroede, Pierre

Date: 2001 septembre 7

Language: Français

Du Radio-Canada: "[Ici] Jean-Michel Leprince et Pierre Devroede ont rencontré des Franco-Américains de la communauté de Waterville, dans le Maine, qui réapprennent à parler français."

  • Author: Levine, Ben (director)

Date: 1980

Language: English and français

Find in a Library: 56624171

A documentary that captures sentiments toward francophone cultures between France, Quebec, and New England in the context of Quebec's 1980 sovereignty referendum. From WorldCat: "Features interviews with French Canadians and Franco-Americans about…

  • Author: Jepson, Brenda N. (director)

Date: 2006 (?)

Language: English

Find in a Library: 71009361

Read: Watch: PREVIEW

From Crown of Maine Productions: "'The Story of the Acadians' is a tale of discovery, tragedy and determination – of a peace loving people who never give up. Learn how the first French settlers brought with them pre-fabricated homes from…

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

Date: 2010 March 18

Language: English, with some français

Find in a Library: 3190 (BCTV)

A public television broadcast out of Bedford, New Hampshire, "Bonjour" features highlights of Quebec and New England for the purpose of re-educating New Hampshire about the breadth of its French heritage, seen across the state in its Franco…

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

Date: 2010 April 30

Language: English, with some français

Find in a Library: 3227 (BCTV)

The second broadcast of Bedford, New Hampshire's "Bonjour." Chantal, Celine, and their special guest, Luci, talk to us while they show how to make and cook la fondue.

  • 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: Plante, Chantal
  • Author: Baribeau, Celine

Date: 2010

Language: English, with some français

Find in a Library: 3338 (BCTV)

The fourth episode of public television's "Bonjour" takes place on site at Manchester, New Hampshire's Franco-American Centre, featuring interviews with some of the staff there and a special feature on the 2010 New Hampshire Franco-American of the…

  • 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: Séguin, Fernand (ressource)

Date: 1967 mars 7

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 576092757, 631883971, 77245890, 428079542

Read: Watch: Part 1 of 2 ; Part 2 of 2

Du ''Sel de la Semaine'' animé par Fernand Séguin à Radio-Canada. Contiens une interview avec Jack Kerouac sur sa vie et ses oeuvres, un métrage de Lowell, Massachusetts des années 1960s, et des interviews publiques avec des hommes…

  • Author: Parent, Michael

Date: 2010

Language: English and français

Recorded at the 2009 Mariposa Storytelling Festival, Mariposa, California. From Parent's website: "In this live CD, Michael performs his original stories 'My Semi-fictional Cousin Artie,' 'The Geno Maneuver,' 'Geriatric Lock Ward,' 'The Garbage…

  • Author: Anctil, Gabriel

Date: 2007 septembre 5

Publication: Le Devoir

Language:

Find in a Library: 18514599

Du Devoir: "Alors qu'on célèbre le 50e anniversaire de la parution d''On the Road,' la découverte de manuscrits inédits à New York par Le Devoir montre que l'écrivain souhaitait écrire en français et qu'il avait même…

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • Author: New York Times

Date: 1892 June 6

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1760220

Another editorial on French-Canadian populations in the United States, their common patterns of community congregation, and what to the author seems to be a resistance to assimilation. From the text: "It is next to impossible to penetrate this mass…

  • Author: New York Times

Date: 1892 September 19

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1760220

1892 article on multilingual political tracts (pamphlets) being handed out by Republicans to Italian and French-Canadian laborers in working-class areas of Connecticut. The tracts at issue in this article were attempting to illustrate the benefits…

  • Author: New York Times

Date: 1890 March 9

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1760220

1890 article accounting for some resistance to French in the Canadian northwest. Also Québec resistance to clerical rule which, says the author, is partly evidenced by the French-Canadian exodus to New England. Moreover, the author predicts the…

  • Author: New York Times

Date: 1874 October 3

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1760220

1874 article remarking on the social conditions of Canada, seemingly split between predominantly French- and English-speaking geographies.

  • 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: 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…

  • Author: Shaw, Elizabeth

Date: 1989 November 28

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8814143, 60630676

Letter to the editor that argues (tongue-in-cheek?) how the gender of the French term "le club" is reason enough for Le Club Calumet of Augusta, Maine, to justify rejecting a woman's application for membership in 1989.

  • Author: Poulain, Jean-Paul

Date: 1991 August 30

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8814143, 60630676

Guest article written by Franco-American performer, Jean-Paul Poulain, on the need to preserve Le Club Calumet as a private organization. This piece comes amidst the controversy surrounding a county court ruling that the Augusta, Maine, Club was…

  • 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…

  • Author: Cartwright, Steve

Date: 1993 December 20

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8814143, 60630676

Ernie Gagne, humorist and Maine talk radio voice of the controversial "Frenchie" character, releases a cassette tape of his ethnically-driven jokes.

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • Author: Thoet, Denis

Date: 2009 December 4

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8814143, 60630676

Humorous opinion piece on Maine as an American outcast state, sharing more in common with its Canadian neighbors than with the people and places of its neighboring American states.

  • Author: Christian Science Monitor

Date: 1919 November 10

Publication: The Christian Science Monitor

Language: English

Find in a Library: 10969332, 35351012

Article reflecting on the work of a Québec social scholar, and exploring the idea that there may or may not exist "a distinct French Canadian patois."

  • Author: Frutig, Judith

Date: 1975 October 17

Publication: The Christian Science Monitor

Language: English

Find in a Library: 10969332, 35351012

Article on the translation of baseball into the cultural registers of French Canada and the vernaculars of the Canadian French language.