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  • Author: Mosher, Howard Frank

Date: 1999

Language: English

Find in a Library: 41488621

An intimate look at rural community life in the American-Canadian borderlands, centered around a Franco American priest, his stories, and his 3000+ page written history of the town in which the novel is set. Recent novel from the creator of the…

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  • Author: Bevis, Charlie

Date: 2008

Language: en

Find in a Library: 183162151

Find Online: OL1856361W

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A history of the New England minor baseball league around the turn of the century. The league's rise, demise, and its place in the social and economic transitions of that era. The impact of the league on the industrial centers of New England, and…

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  • Author: History Committee of Saint Joseph Parish

Date: 1988

Language: en

Find in a Library: 18726883, 21119721

Find Online: OL8667782W

157 year history of one of the multiple Roman Catholic parishes in the city of Burlington, Vermont. St. Joseph Parish recognizes itself as "the oldest national parish in New England." From the parish website: "The story of St. Joseph's is, from the…

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  • Author: Brault, Gerard J. (rédacteur)

Date: 1961

Language: Français and English

Find in a Library: 4591169

Une collection d'essaies sur le sujet de la vie franco-américaine dans la Nouvelle-Angleterre. Compilée des présentations de quelques conférences academiques de Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine. Avec les écrits qui suivent:…

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  • Author: Gagnon, Richard

Date: 1993

Language: English

Find in a Library: 31620163

Centennial history of the Holy Name of Jesus Roman Catholic Parish in South Worcester, Massachusetts.

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  • Author: Melvin, Charlotte Maxine Lenentine

Date: 1955

Thesis Type: M.A., History

Institution: University of New Brunswick

Language: en

Find in a Library: 433902080

History of the Madawaska border region of the Upper Saint John River Valley as a meeting point of New Brunswick and the state of Maine. Madawaska as an area of political negotiation, a borderland infused with geographic and political meaning in the…

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  • Author: Craig, Béatrice (Chevalier)

Date: 1983

Thesis Type: Ph. D., History

Institution: University of Maine at Orono

Language: en

Find in a Library: 52377703

From the author: "The Madawaska settlement, on the Upper St. John Valley in Northern Maine and North West New Brunswick was started in 1785 by a group of Acadian and French-Canadian families for New Brunswick, and a group of French Canadians from the…

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  • Author: Thompson, Laura Anne

Date: 2008

Thesis Type: Ph. D., Secondary Education

Institution: University of Alberta

Language: en; fr

Find in a Library: 229425429

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From the author: "In the province of Alberta, the recent phenomenon of French-speaking newcomers, who are multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic and multifaith, is putting into question the concept of a collective Francophone identity in Canada. On…

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  • Author: Guillet, Ernest Bernard

Date: 1978

Thesis Type: Ph. D., French

Institution: University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Language: en

Find in a Library: 7436222, 49091666

Find Online: OL12362900W

From the author: "This study examines the French literary and cultural life of French Canadians in New England with emphasis on Holyoke, Massachusetts, between 1869 and 1940. At the turn of the century French Canadians became known as…

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  • Author: Jaffee, Susan E.

Date: 1974

Thesis Type: Ph. D., American Civilization

Institution: Brown University

Language: en

Find in a Library: 549720898

Dissertation on ethnicity and working-class life in early-twentieth-century Rhode Island. Particular emphasis on the causes and effects of a violent 1922 strike at B.B. and R. Knight Mills on the banks of the Pawtuxet River in Natick, Rhode Island.…

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  • Author: Pearson, Timothy G.

Date: 2008

Thesis Type: Ph. D., History

Institution: McGill University

Language: en

Find in a Library: 316104083, 286063547

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From the author: "In this dissertation, I analyze how local religious figures became holy and the social functions they played, in order to better understand the connections between religion and colonialism and the shaping of faith communities over…

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  • Author: Paradis, Wilfrid Henry

Date: 1949

Thesis Type: M.A.

Institution: St. Mary's Seminary

Language: en

Find in a Library: 11477573

Master's thesis on the impact of French-Canadian immigration, labor, religion, and community-building in the industrial city of Manchester, New Hampshire, in the nineteenth century. Approaches this community before its more recent periods of growth…

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  • Author: Marceau, Albert J.

Date: 2009

Thesis Type: M.A., History

Institution: Central Connecticut State University

Language: en

Find in a Library: 558840837

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From the author: "The thesis is an examination of the role of Fr. Jean-Baptiste Proulx as an intermediary for the French-Canadian laity at St. James’ Church in Danielson, Connecticut in the parish discord known as the Danielson Affair, and as…

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  • Author: Plante, David

Date: 1994 Summer

Publication: The South Atlantic Quarterly

Volume: 93

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1642494, 42413446

Short autobiographical essay from writer David Plante on his youth in a Franco American, Roman Catholic parish of twentieth-century Providence RI. Considers some influences on, and tendencies in, his writing. Republished, along with other articles in…

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  • Author: Potvin, Raymond H.

Date: 2003-06 (summer)

Publication: American Catholic Studies

Volume: 114

Language: en

Find in a Library: 47828739

Essay on the birth of French Canadian Roman Catholic national parishes (churches, schools, communities) in New England - their subsequent growth, decline, and transformation as Franco American communities from the early nineteenth century to the…

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  • Author: Kaell, Hillary

Date: 2007

Publication: Historical Studies

Volume: 73

Language: en

Find in a Library: 12864095

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From a publication of the Canadian Catholic Historical Association. Essay that situates the early-twentieth-century "mystic stigmatic" figure of Marie-Rose Ferron in a Franco American religious history. Using Ferron's biography as measure, Kaell sees…

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  • Author: Richard, Mark Paul

Date: 2002-03 (spring and summer)

Publication: Québec Studies

Volume: 33

Language: en; fr

Find in a Library: 60628349, 9360295

Essay that follows the Roman Catholic Dominican order from its French expatriation to Canada, to its subsequent immigration to New England. Explores how Dominican fathers and other Church leaders impacted the acculturation of French Canadian…

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  • Author: Rice-DeFosse, Mary

Date: 1999

Publication: The River Review / La Revue rivière

Volume: 5

Language: English and français

Find in a Library: 33064369

Critical essay on Waterville, Maine writer Rhea CoÌ‚té Robbins' 1997 memoir, "Wednesday's Child." Explores Robbins' work as it speaks newly to concepts of gender, cultural difference, and the specificity of a Franco American's experiences of…

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  • Author: Hamburger, Aaron

Date: 2005 April/May

Publication: Lamba Book Report

Volume: 13

Language: English

Find in a Library: 60637124

Interview with Providence, Rhode Island, native and professor of creative writing at Columbia University, David Plante, whose works of fiction have achieved wide acclaim since the 1970s. Plante answers questions about gay writing, his education,…

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  • Author: Levine, Ben (director)

Date: 2003

Language: English, with some français

Find in a Library: 64637065

Documentary film about Franco American culture and language in New England. Press release from Watching Place Productions: "Explores the struggle for cultural survival among the French-Canadian, Franco-American communities of New England. It reveals…

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  • Author: Choquette, Leslie

Date: 2002 Spring/Summer

Publication: Québec Studies

Volume: 33

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 60628349

"Par le mythe de la Nouvelle-France," Choquette écrit, "je veux dire la persistance...d'un vision nostalgique du Québec." Alors, elle commence à décrire en quelle façon les écritures de Camille Lessard et Honoré Beaugrand - deux…

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  • Author: DeRoche, Celeste

Date: 1996 December

Publication: The Oral History Review

Volume: 23

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1793844, 45954894

Historiographical essay on the dearth and fragmentation of source material relevant to working class Franco Americans - especially Franco American women. Considers the published reality that is "la survivance" in relation to the lived realities of…

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  • Author: Ducharme, Jacques

Date: 1943

Language: en

Find in a Library: 932931

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Book-length reflection on a personal journey through New England to learn about French-Canadian immigration and Franco American identity there. Permeated with personal anecdotes, comments on language, race, and genealogy, and perhaps the first…

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  • Author: Shideler, Janet Lee

Date: 1998

Language: English

Find in a Library: 32273493

The published book form of Shideler's 1991 Ph.D. thesis from the University of Massachusetts. A biographical study of a québécoise and first-generation Franco American author and her works - as a means, Shideler writes, "to identify the…

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  • Author: Manseau, Peter

Date: 2005

Language: English

Find in a Library: 60373489

The biography of a Catholic nun and a Catholic priest in Boston, Massachusetts - their work and their faith, their marriage and their family - written by their son. Moves through the author's youth and his own unique relationship with faith and…

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  • Author: Guillet, Ernest

Date: 1981

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 8528395

Une histoire de théâtre - ses peuples et ses spectacles - franco-américain à Holyoke, Massachusetts, et dans la Nouvelle-Angleterre. Met un accent sur la période entre 1900 et 1940.

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  • Author: Gosselin, Henri

Date: 2001

Language: English

Find in a Library: 47671730

Fictional account of a French missionary to the Huron people in colonial New France on the eastern half of modern-day Canada. From the back of the text: "A historical novel based on the true story of Eustache Lambert's heroic service as a devoted…

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  • Author: Gosselin, Henri

Date: 1998

Language: English (traduction en français disponible)

Find in a Library: 42249878

Historical fiction piece about a French Canadian spy participating in the American Revolution and risking, from the threats of his Canadian bishop, excommunication from the Catholic Church. Based on actual events.

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  • Author: Fillion, Maurice C.

Date: 2006

Language: English

Find in a Library: 72521692

Autobiography of a New Hampshire man and his "search for personal identity" through ethnicity and religion, in and out of the lifestyle of a Roman Catholic Priest. From the back cover: "Maurice Fillion was five when his father died. Singled out by…

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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…

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