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  • Author: Olivier, Julien

Date: 1981

Language: Français

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  • Author: Podruchny, Carolyn

Date: 2006

Language: English

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  • Author: Rodrigue, Barry Hadfield

Date: 1994

Language: en

Find in a Library: 29427678

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Critical biography of Tom Plant, leader in the shoe industry of New England near the turn of the twentieth century, situated in the Bath, Maine, area. Refutes and diversifies the stereotypical notion of the French Canadian immigrant worker experience…

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  • Author: Forbes, Allan

Date: 1971

Language: English

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  • Author: Schriver, Edward (editor)

Date: 1973

Language: English

Find in a Library: 3187379

Proceedings of a 1972 conference at the University of Maine on the subject of French culture in the northeastern borderlands of Maine and Canada. Contents include transcripts of the following presentations: "The Loyalists and the Acadians" "Le Centre…

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  • Author: Kelly, Richard

Date: 1956

Language: en

Find in a Library: 409348

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A biographical tribute to nine members of the Textile Workers Union of America, represented in mills across the industrial United States. Characterization of conditions at various mills, including those in Fall River, Massachusetts, and Cohoes, New…

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  • Author: Lebel, Gérard
  • Author: Laforest, Thomas J.
  • Author: Saintonge, Jacques

Date: 1983-2000

Language: Français and English

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  • Author: Cyr, Paul Albert

Date: 2005

Language: English

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  • Author: Dublin, Thomas (editor)

Date: 1993

Language: en

Find in a Library: 26636102

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From University of Illinois Press: "In this richly evocative collection ten men and women of European, Latin American, and Asian backgrounds tell of their immigrant experiences. They range from a Shetland Islander who sailed to Virginia as an…

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  • Author: Handlin, Oscar

Date: 1959

Language: en

Find in a Library: 421652

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Varied selections of scholarship, speeches, interviews, and articles that, according to the author, "attempt to illustrate the immigration contribution to American civilization and the forces which brought the movement to a close" (Handlin, intro).…

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  • Author: Perreault, Robert B.

Date: 1981

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 8278566

Une examination du mouvement sentinelliste aÌ€ l'éxterieur de Providence, Rhode Island, dans une autre ville franco-américain: Manchester, New Hampshire. Perreault écrit une nouvelle type de l'histoire sentinelliste telle qu'elle…

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  • Author: Lambert, Adélard

Date: 1918

Language: fr

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Des contes de la mémoire de la jeunesse de Lambert, un émigré canadien-francais aux États-Unis au but du vingtième siècle. L'idée de la survivance reste à l'arriere-plan du texte. Le fin de livre contien des messages…

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  • Author: Dow, Joan

Date: 1976

Language: en

A self-published, self-printed sociology project written for Goddard College. A series of journal entries from July 1976 written on an American's trip through Nova Scotia. Includes conversations, information about historical places, and general…

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  • Author: Plante, David

Date: 2009

Language: English

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  • Author: Moran, William

Date: 2002

Language: en

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A history of New England women during industrialization, and the lifestyle differences among women of different economic classes. From Thomas Dunne Books: "This is a masterful, definitive, and eloquent look at the enormous cultural and economic…

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  • Author: Lambert, Raymond
  • Author: Kowalczyk, Bruno

Date: 2010

Language: Bilingual/bilingue

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Un histoire de la musique québécoise et de l'harmonica. Des techniques de jouer l'harmonica du facon québécois traditionel. Des biographies d'un quatre-vingtaine de musiciens québécois.

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  • Author: Albert, Henry

Date: 1999

Language: English

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The autobiography of a northern Maine native. Begins with his early life in Aroostook County and continues through his many years of service in the United States Army, bringing him and his family throughout the world - Ethiopia, Iran, and elsewhere -…

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  • Author: Thériault, J.R.T.

Date: 2009

Language: Bilingual/bilingue

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From the author: "The book is a biography of Charles Theriault, first francophone settler in 1821-1823 of the lower Madawaska River in present-day St-Jacques. The book presents a brief history of the Acadian migration before the time of…

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  • Author: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Date: 2004

Language: English

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Maine native Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem about "le Grand Dérangement" - the Acadian Expulsion - and one Acadian woman's rampant search for a love lost. This text also includes an introduction, a brief historical sketch of the Acadians,…

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  • Author: Giamo, Benedict

Date: 2000

Language: English

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From Southern Illinois University Press: "Giamo’s primary purpose is to chronicle and clarify Kerouac’s various spiritual quests through close examinations of [his] novels. Kerouac began his quest with 'On the Road,' which also is…

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  • Author: Corey, Eleanor Lemire

Date: 2001

Language: English

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Memoirs spanning the period from 1901 to 1945, focusing on stories of the author's family throughout the midwestern United States during that period.

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  • Author: Arsenault, Bona [Bonaventure]

Date: 1978

Language: en

Find in a Library: 6252812

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Translation of the first volume of Arsenault's original historical collection, "Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens." This volume, "Histoire des Acadiens," attempts a comprehensive history of the Acadian people - their arrival in…

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  • Author: Baird, Charles Washington

Date: 1885

Volume: 1

Language: en

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Late nineteenth-century historical text on the Huguenot emigration from a France in religious strife to the eastern coast of North America between the middle 16th and middle 18th centuries. According to the author, Volume 1 of this 2-volume text only…

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  • Author: Stratton, Frances Morin Webb

Date: 1985

Language: en

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Memoirs of a Northern Maine woman growing up during the Great Depression, with family straddling the rural and agrarian borderland of Maine and New Brunswick. Memories of her great-grandmother and extended family from working on a New Brunswick farm…

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  • Author: Dorson, Richard

Date: 1964

Language: English

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From University of Chicago Press: "Their tales, songs, riddles, proverbs, games, superstitions, and customs provide a wealth of living folklore presented here as it was recorded in the field. And this unvarnished folklore fact retains the spicy…

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  • Author: Cyr, Marguerite

Date: 1977

Language: fr

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Une histoire culturelle des Acadiens de la Vallée St-Jean dans le Maine, présentée dans les mémoires d'une famille acadienne de Van Buren. Six chapitres racontés avec les photos et les materiaux historiques d'une famille du Maine:…

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  • Author: Coté, Gertrude M.

Date: 1953

Language: English

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Autobiographical collection of essays that chronicle a Franco American's family life in western Maine in the first half of the twentieth century. Includes one chapter on the history of Rumford, Maine.

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  • Author: Bonenfant, Joseph
  • Author: Moorhead, Andrea

Date: 1986

Language: fr

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Une collection de lettres echangées entre deux écrivain(e)s et deux pays, Canada et les Etats-Unis, au début des années 1980.

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  • Author: Bonang, Claude B.

Date: 2006

Language: English

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Revised edition of "Memories in Verse" (Bonang, 1996) with some added prose. A literary look at coming of age in a coastal Maine mill town - Brunswick.

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  • Author: Bonang, Claude B.

Date: 1996

Language: English

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Collection of anecdotal verse on growing up in Brunswick, Maine. Illustrations also provided by the author.

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