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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: Joy, Richard J.

Date: 1976 Autumn

Publication: American Review of Canadian Studies

Volume: 6

Language:

Find in a Library: 60621291

An explanation of 1970s Canadian census figures specifically regarding language, birth rates, and geography. From the author: "Canada is an ideal country in which to study the progress of language transfer and other factors affecting minority…

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  • Author: Heylen, Romy

Date: 1994 February

Publication: The French Review

Volume: 67

Language:

Find in a Library: 1238339

Article exploring the development of Cajun ethnic identity through its iterations in modern theatrical performance in Louisiana, in a period of apparent ethnic revival. How Cajun theatre and its use of the French language function in terms of shaping…

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  • Author: Ham, Edward B.

Date: 1939 June

Publication: The New England Quarterly

Volume: 12

Language: en

Find in a Library: 480378034

Article on the early-twentieth-century establishment of Franco American social organizations, and their implications for cultural heritage preservation, or the idea of "la survivance." Refers to already-established social organizations in Québec…

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  • Author: Ham, Edward B.

Date: 1938 March

Publication: The New England Quarterly

Volume: 11

Language: en

Find in a Library: 480371160

Essay on the plight of Franco cultural survivance and the efforts of Franco journalists to survive the French language in New England in the early twentieth century. Written by a Franco and bicultural sympathizer in the late 1930s. Includes brief…

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  • Author: Gill, Robert M.

Date: 1978 Autumn

Publication: American Review of Canadian Studies

Volume: 8

Language:

Find in a Library: 60621291

Gill explores French Canadian societies through the lens of its literatures, particularly those coming from Quebec. He introduces his efforts with a brief illustration of the rise and fall of New France, where he claims that French Canadians have…

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  • Author: Gerstle, Gary

Date: 1997-09

Publication: The Journal of American History

Volume: 84

Language: en

Find in a Library: 35782298

From the author: "In this essay, I test the Crèvecoeurian myth of Americanization against the rich body of work produced by historians and other students of European immigration in the twentieth century. The myth consists of four distinct claims:…

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  • Author: Gauthier, Francois

Date: 2010-07-00

Publication: Revue des deux mondes

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 8797804

De l'auteur: "La communauté franco-américaine de Nouvelle-Angleterre, ou «communauté franco», est relativement méconnue en France. L’action qu’elle conduit pour faire reconnaître son identité au sein de la…

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  • Author: Fox, Cynthia A.
  • Author: Fortin, Geneviève
  • Author: Martin, Véronique
  • Author: Stelling, Louis

Date: 2007-01

Publication: Canadian Review of American Studies

Volume: 37

Language: en; fr

Find in a Library: 365012401

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De Fox, Fortin, Martin, et Stelling: "Le terme «franco-américain » s’emploie pour désigner les immigrants canadiens arrivés au nord-est des États-Unis pendant une période s’étalant de 1840 à 1930.…

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  • Author: Fox, Cynthia A.
  • Author: Smith, Jane S.

Date: 2007-01

Publication: Glottopol: Revue de sociolinguistique en ligne

Volume: 9

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 643755913

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De Glottopol, la revue de sociolinguistique en ligne: "Jane Smith et Cynthia Fox font le point sur les analyses qu'elles ont déjà produites jusqu'ici, notamment la situation du franco-américain à l'heure actuelle, l'implantation des…

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  • Author: Fox, Cynthia A.

Date: 1995-12

Publication: The French Review

Volume: 69

Language: en

Find in a Library: 481676277

From the author: "One third of the population of Cohoes, New York, is descended from French-Canadians who immigrated to the northeastern United States between 1840 and 1930. Since the end of immigration, the close-knit community centered on the…

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  • Author: Fox, Cynthia A.

Date: 1993

Publication: Francophonies d'Amérique

Volume: 3

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 232493413

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Un bref essai sur la persistance au vingtième siècle de la langue et la culture francophone à Cohoes, New York.

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  • Author: Dupuis, Jacinthe

Date: 1997

Publication: Revue québécoise de linguistique

Volume: 25

Language:

Find in a Library: 14190595

De l'auteur: "On entend souvent dire que le français parlé par les Franco-Américains comporte un grand nombre d’anglicismes. L’étude d’un corpus recueilli auprès de 25 locuteurs franco-américains du…

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  • Author: Doty, C. Stewart

Date: 2002 Spring/Summer

Publication: Québec Studies

Volume: 33

Language: en

Find in a Library: 60628349

Short piece honoring geographer and historian Robert G. LeBlanc, and introducing his two major pieces of scholarship: one on the Acadian migrations, the other on the Québec ties of the New England Franco-American elite.

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  • Author: Doty, C. Stewart

Date: 1994

Publication: Canadian Review of American Studies

Volume: 24

Language:

Find in a Library: 44653568

From EBSCOhost: "Provides a critique of Québécois literary figure Louis Dantin's writings. Dantin's perspective on the American scene unlike other intellectuals of the Québec diaspora. Examples of Dantin's writings that demonstrated how his…

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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: Craig, Beatrice

Date: 1986

Publication: Maine Historical Society Quarterly

Volume: 25

Language: en

Find in a Library: 2263768

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Essay attempting to dispel inaccuracies of the Acadian tradition in the Madawaska area, and to reckon the historical record with popular historical perceptions about that region that have developed over time by those who claim to be descendent from…

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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: Carroll, Robert C.

Date: 1980-05

Publication: Association of Departments of Foreign Languages Bulletin

Volume: 11

Language: en

Find in a Library: 3366503

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Rise and decline of French language media and academic programs in the US Northeast, as well as the persistence of discrimination against the North American French, with Maine as the primary context for observation. Includes tables of Maine county…

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  • Author: Brault, Gerard J.

Date: 1964-02

Publication: The Modern Language Journal

Volume: 48

Language: en

Find in a Library: 479190371

Essay on language instruction, problems with favoring rote over mother tongue, and some arguments for maintaining linguistic heritages in language education.

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  • Author: Brault, Gerard J.

Date: 1962 September

Publication: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America

Volume: 77

Language:

Find in a Library: 483007386

Essay on the 1961 French Institute (Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine) held under the terms of the National Defense Education Act that was intended, by the federal government, to tap into and develop the linguistic resource of native Franco-American…

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  • Author: Brault, Gerard J.

Date: 1961-12

Publication: The French Review

Volume: 35

Language: en

Find in a Library: 481209222

Brault's essay is an explanation of the results of language tests taken by nine Franco-American French speakers, his evaluation of their levels of vocabulary, and his observations of their speech habits. The overall conclusion of his study partially…

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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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  • Author: Bérubé, Allan

Date: 1996

Publication: GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies

Volume: 3

Language: en

Find in a Library: 42671765 (full journal)

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Autobiographical essay that attempts to tease out intersections between class, culture, and sexuality. Bérubé recounts his past "in a way that focuses on class, ethnic, and educational migration" out of a homebase in working-class Franco…

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  • Author: Belcourt, S.N.A.

Date: 1923-05-00

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

Volume: 107

Language: en

Find in a Library: 479566389

Brief essay from an early twentieth-century Canadian senator on the presence of French Canadians in the United States and the provinces of Canada.

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  • Author: Bélanger, Damien-Claude

Date: 2002-03 (spring/summer)

Publication: Québec Studies

Volume: 33

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 60628349

Quelques pensées sur l'attitude de Lionel Groulx - écrivain, orateur, pretre - vers l'émigration canadienne-française aux États-Unis, la rélation entre émigration, la ruralisme du Québec, et messianisme. Groulx était un…

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  • Author: Boudreau, Sylvie
  • Author: Frenette, Yves

Date: 1994-04

Publication: Sociologie et sociétés

Volume: 26

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 60639142

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De Boudreau et Frenette: "Dans cet article, nous examinons l'évolution des stratégies familiales des francophones de la Nouvelle-Angleterre dans la longue durée. En prenant la communauté de Lewiston comme étude de cas, nous nous…

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