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  • Author: Quintal, Claire

Date: 1994

Language: Français and English

Find in a Library: 31382224

Un recueil d'essais sur la femme franco-américaine tant qu'individuelle ainsi qu'un partie d'une collectivité sociale - de la France vers le Canada, du Québec vers les États-Unis. Certains expériences de femmes franco-américaines,…

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  • Author: Rock, Lucille Fournier

Date: 1982

Language: English

Find in a Library: 9381945

Genealogical sketch of a number of French and French Canadian families. Contains information on the following family lines, in the following order: Pontonnier, Gadois, Martin, Besnard, Langlois, Gouin, Baudouin, Perche, Choret, Crevier, Rondeau,…

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  • Author: Duval, André
  • Author: Wade, Mason

Date: 1980

Language: en; fr

Find in a Library: 301288843

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Un livre bilingue - un demi en anglais, un demi en français - qui célèbre la grande histoire de Boston et de Québec, de la Nouvelle Angleterre et de la Nouvelle France, et leurs intersections. Du dix-septième siècle jusqu'a 1980. La…

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  • Author: Melançon, Joseph

Date: 1983

Publication: Yale French Studies

Volume: 65

Language: English (traduction du français)

Find in a Library: 1770272

Essay on Québec literature, the collusion of nation and language, and the impact of determining either of one's own in consideration of its contrast from the model form. The author describes the "nationalization" of literature in Québec as the…

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  • Author: Brown, Becky

Date: 1993-03

Publication: Language in Society

Volume: 22

Language: en; fr

Find in a Library: 484389948

The status of French language in Louisiana over time - diversity, amalgamation, decay, revival, and current modes of expression. How the written French word in the context of Louisiana French language revival has taken on special political and social…

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  • Author: Béliveau, Sévérin

Date: 2005 December 12

Publication: Bangor Daily News

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8818350

Transcript of a speech given to the mayor and town council of Loudon, France, from Maine attorney Severin Beliveau upon his trade mission there with Maine governor, John Baldacci. The speech addresses the history and breadth of Maine's Franco…

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  • Author: Brinkley, Tony

Date: 1996 November 11

Publication: Sun Journal

Language: English

Find in a Library: 26622903

Letter to the editor on the upcoming designation of Maine as "the location for the United States bureau of the Francophone Business Forum." This development comes after separate endeavors in the Bangor and Lewiston, Maine, encouraging that attention…

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  • Author: Pinette, Susan

Date: 2007

Publication: The French Review

Volume: 80

Language: English

Find in a Library: 137573897

An essay on including Franco Americans and Franco American literature in the rubric of French studies. How such inclusions impact this rubric historically, theoretically, and in terms of content. How a recognition of "la Francophonie" outside of…

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  • Author: Green, Susan

Date: 2011 April 3

Publication: Burlington Free Press

Language: English

Find in a Library: 9390458, 661313450

Article in recognition of Burlington, Vermont's 2011 French Friendship Day - a gathering together of local and international francophiles and francophones to celebrate the presence of French Canadian and Franco American culture in Vermont. Contains…

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  • Author: Edington, Steve

Date: 1999

Language: English

Find in a Library: 43208165

A genealogical and literary excavation of the roots of Jack Kerouac's family in Nashua, New Hampshire. Historical and literary scholarship on both Nashua and Kerouac, accompanied by the author's thoughts on family and culture, illustrated with some…

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  • Author: Mitchell, Paige (editor)

Date: 2010

Language: English

Find in a Library: None

A collection of writings in a cultural studies reader, introduced with an essay from the instructor. Compiled for a University of Maine course in English composition. Available at the Franco-American Centre, Orono, Maine.

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  • Author: Bernard, Shane

Date: 2003

Language: English

Find in a Library: 49618900

Find Online: OL2988647W

A history of twentieth-century Southern Louisiana by way of an exploration of the processes of assimilation experienced its people of French and Acadian heritage. Descripions of the transformations of Louisiana Cajuns and Cajun culture, as well as…

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  • Author: Plante, David

Date: 1997

Book Title: Littérature et dialogue interculturel : culture française d'Amérique

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 37491176

Un essai par l'auteur des romans "The Family" et "The Country," et aussi les mémoires, "American Ghosts." Il viens de Providence, Rhode Island. Partie d'une collection sur la culture française d'Amérique. Au début du texte, Plante se…

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  • Author: Krupa, Grazyna

Date: 2004

Language: English and français

Find in a Library: 62329002

Documentary on the birth, development, demise, and renovation of Acadia - from France, to Nova Scotia, to Louisiana, and back again. Includes interviews with historians, archaeologists, and genealogists, as well as dramatic reenactments of 17th…

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  • Author: Chetro-Szivos, John

Date: 2006

Language: en

Find in a Library: 70916480

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A case study in intercultural communication, with linguistic and psychological insight into the dynamics of an American Acadian community in Gardner, Massachusetts. Large emphasis on the communal value of work, or how ideas about work are situated in…

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  • Author: Chodos, Robert
  • Author: Hamovitch, Eric

Date: 1991

Language: en

Find in a Library: 28181742

Find Online: OL1357139M

An examination of various and historical connections between Quebec and the United States. Beginning in the attitudes shaped during eighteenth-century struggles between France and Britain over the Canadian landmass, then moving through the American…

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  • Author: Courville, Serge

Date: 2008

Language: en

Find in a Library: 213525701

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From UBC Press: "In this richly documented work, Serge Courville tells the geographical history of Quebec, from the appearance of the first human groups through to the present day. This detailed and erudite book maps the major stages of…

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  • Author: Wade, Mason

Date: 1946

Language: en

Find in a Library: 512297

Find Online: OL6505203M

Historical survey of French Canada and its people from the 16th century to the end of World War II. Wade illustrates political and military history, emphasizing the conflicts within a singular French-and-British Canada and ending his text, in the…

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  • Author: Green, Nancy L. (editor)
  • Author: Weil, François (editor)

Date: 2007

Language: en (translation)

Find in a Library: 69734523

English translation of "Citoyenneté et émigration: Les politiques du départ" (Éditions de l'École des hautes études en Sciences sociales, 2006). Collection of essays on migration, expatriation, and the perpetuation of…

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  • Author: Beaupré, Norman R.

Date: 2006

Language: English

Find in a Library: 85854514

The life of a young man after graduating college, his battle with AIDS, and his friendship with a mentor and former professor, Norman Beaupré, as read through a chronological series of personal letters. From the author's website: "What would you…

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  • Author: Hartig, Rachel Mildred

Date: 2006

Language: English

Find in a Library: 69104286

An exploration of the lives and texts of three francophone biographers, each struggling in her own way through the difficulties of deafness. Includes a segment on Franco American author Corinne Rocheleau-Rouleau. From Gallaudet University Press:…

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  • Author: Hero, Alfred Olivier, Jr.

Date: 2002-spr/sum

Publication: Québec Studies

Volume: 33

Language: en

Find in a Library: 60628349

Changing face of the francophone presence in Louisiana - from French colonial rule beginning in the 17h century, to the Acadian migrations of the 18th century, through Spanish and eventual American rule, and meshed into the assimilative forces of…

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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: Burns, Anna Laura

Date: 2009

Thesis Type: Ph. D.

Institution: University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Language: fr; en

Find in a Library: 670816623, 419475617

From the author: "This dissertation explores the cultural identity of two Franco-American communities in the Mid-West [United States] to identify traits that continue to persist despite language loss due to prejudice and persecution. In this…

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  • Author: Guyette, George Francis

Date: 1941

Thesis Type: M.A., Education

Institution: University of Maine at Orono

Language: en; fr

Find in a Library: 50013355

Thesis that argues a recognition of the persistence of French language from 17th-century France and New France into 20th-century southern New England. As a research piece in the field of education, this study examined the 1930s state of colloquial…

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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: Myrback, Margrit

Date: 2010 Fall

Publication: American Ancestors

Volume: 11

Language: English

Find in a Library: 517962020, 929.05 bN44a

Article from the New England Historic Genealogical Society periodical. Genealogical research sparked from an interest in a picture displayed in the author's grandmother's Vermont home.

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  • Author: Picard, Marc

Date: 2003-09

Publication: Onoma

Volume: 38

Language: en; fr

Find in a Library: 1645764

From the author:"Although most French-Canadian surnames bear a strong resemblance to those found in France today, many have undergone various types of orthographical and phonological alterations which make them unique in the French-speaking world.…

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  • Author: Picard, Marc

Date: 2007-01

Publication: Glottopol: Revue de sociolinguistique en ligne

Volume: 9

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 163640790

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De l'introduction: "La grande majorité des noms de famille du Québec à l'heure actuelle sont d'origine française, et on en trouve aussi un grand nombre en Acadie. Hormis les Huguenots qui se sont établis ici et là aux Etats-Unis aux…

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  • Author: Cerquiglini, Bernard

Date: 2010-10

Publication: Glottopol: Revue de sociolinguistique en ligne

Volume: 16

Language: fr

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De l'auteur: "Ce texte porte sur la langue française telle qu'elle se parle en Louisiane depuis près de quatre siècles. Après un bref rappel de ses sources (français hexagonal, créole, acadien, etc), l'auteur s'intéresse aux…

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