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  • Author: Eno, Arthur L. Jr.

Date: 1976

Language: en

Find in a Library: 2942452

Find Online: OL8319368M

A collection of 14 essays on the history of Chelmsford and Lowell, Massachusetts, from pre-incorporation to industrialization, into the middle 20th century. As the title suggests, an emphasis on the prevalence of mill work and immigrants cultures…

  • Author: Knowlton, Evelyn H. P.

Date: 1948

Language: en

Find in a Library: 2235222

Find Online: OL9259422W

An organizational, corporate, and industrial history of the Pepperell Manufacturing Company, whose Boston-run mills operated in the coastal city of Biddeford, Maine, and in the other industrial towns of Lewiston, Maine, Laconia, New Hampshire, and…

  • Author: Wright, Carroll Davidson

Date: 1882

Language: en

Find in a Library: 9773740

Find Online: OL18861604M

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Transcription of an 1881 "informal hearing" at the Massachusetts legislature regarding the publication of the annual report of the Massachusetts Labor Statistics Bureau in which the French Canadians are famously referred to as "the Chinese of the…

  • 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…

  • Author: Ménard, Jean-Sébastien

Date: 2007

Thesis Type: Ph. D., French

Institution: McGill University

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 316101393

Du texte: "Cette thèse porte sur l’inscription de la Beat Generation dans la littérature québécoise. J'y analyse non pas la réception de ce mouvement au Québec lors de son émergence dans les années 1950, mais bien sa…

  • Author: Brière, Eloise A.

Date: 2002 Spring/Summer

Publication: Québec Studies

Volume: 33

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 60628349

Un essai qui explore l'étendue de l'imagination culturel des écrivains culturellement hybride en Amérique. De l'auteur: "Dans quelle mesure les Haitiens devenus écrivains Québécois ou les Canadiens-francais devenus écrivains…

  • Author: Ducharme, Jacques

Date: 1943

Language: en

Find in a Library: 932931

Find Online: OL6450417M

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…

  • 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…

  • Author: Banks, Ann

Date: 1980 (1991)

Language: en

Find in a Library: 6448346

Find Online: OL7452912M

Edited and annotated compilation of oral histories from the Federal Writers' Project of the 1930s Works Progress/Projects Administration (WPA) in the United States. These selections come mostly in the form of short passages that aspiring writers…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Author: Chassé, Paul P.

Date: 1977

Language: Français, with some English

Find in a Library: 5280413

Un livre qui raconte les vies de quelques franco-américain(e)s artistiques dans les milieux de l'écrire, le peintre, la poésie, les chansons, etc. Des sélections de leurs ouevres populaires. Présenté avec des…

  • Author: Charters, Ann

Date: 1973

Language: English

Find in a Library: 6065241

Seminal biography of native of Lowell, Massachusetts, Franco American, novelist, and poet, Jack Kerouac. Republished in 1994. Written by Ann Charters, who worked with Kerouac during the final three years of his life. In her writing of this book,…

  • Author: Chiasson, Herménégilde

Date: 1987

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 40932967

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Part-fiction documentary on the life and works of Jack Kerouac, a writer from Lowell, Massachusetts, most famous for his Beat Generation novel, "On the Road." Pris de l'ONF: "Docufiction sur Jack Kerouac, un des membres les plus importants du…

  • Author: Shatwell, Justin

Date: 2009 November 17

Language: English

Short online streaming video produced by Yankee Magazine. A "Web Exclusive" for the magazine's November/December 2009 edition. A brief look into the city of Lowell, Massachusetts and the man - poet Paul Marion - who has dedicated a public literary…

  • Author: Moran, William (speaker)

Date: 2002 October 26

Language: English

Find in a Library: 174144-1 (C-SPAN Video Library)

A presentation by William Moran on his book, "The Belles of New England," as a portion of the 2002 Concord Festival of Authors, Concord, Massachusetts. From C-SPAN: "Mr. Moran discussed his book 'The Belles of New England: The Women of the Textile…

  • 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: Lerner, Richard (director)

Date: 1986

Language: English (with Italian subtitles)

Find in a Library: 52960431

Documentary about Franco American writer Jack Kerouac, the American literary and cultural movement spurred on by what is known as the "Beat Generation, and the countdown of Kerouac's final days. Features support from the following persons: Allen…

  • Author: Richard, Mark Paul

Date: 2010-12-00

Publication: American Review of Canadian Studies

Volume: 40

Language: en

Find in a Library: 690210682

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From the author: "This article examines a little-known dimension to the Ku Klux Klan movement in the United States during the 1920s. As Anglo-Canadian Protestants supported the KKK to assert control over French-Canadian and other Catholics in the New…

  • 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: Wiggin, P.G.

Date: 1901 October 13

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1760220

1901 supplementary article on French-Canadian communities in New England. According to author, these communities - unlike other immigrants to the United States around the turn of the century - appear to resist cultural assimilation by the insular…

  • 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: Christian Science Monitor

Date: 1915 May 26

Publication: The Christian Science Monitor

Language: English

Find in a Library: 10969332, 35351012

Article on a Lowell, Massachusetts, meeting of the Franco-American Republican Club and the election of its president.

  • Author: Albert, Félix

Date: 1909 (1991)

Language: English (traduction du français)

Find in a Library: 21761314

Translated and republished autobiography of French-Canadian immigrant to Lowell, Massachusetts, originally made public at the beginning of the 20th century. Introduction written by Frances H. Early. From the book jacket: "This is the story of a…

  • Author: Belisle, Alexandre

Date: 1911

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 11074320

Find Online: OL185751W

Du texte: "Inventaire chronologique des journaul et revues publies en langue francais aux États-Unis pour les Canadiens-Français émigrés, de 1838 jusque'a 1911, et qui n'existent plus aujourd'hui." Il aussi tiens beaucoup d'images de…

  • Author: Perreault, Robert B.

Date: 1978

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 8517158

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La vie et les ouevres d'un écrivain franco-américain dans la Nouvelle Angleterre, actif à la fin du XIXe siècle. Son journalisme politique au début du vingtième siècle et sa rélation avec le début du journalisme franco aux…

  • Author: Cameron, Ardis

Date: 1995

Language: en

Find in a Library: 26932573

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New England women's labor history text from a professor of American and New England studies at the University of Southern Maine. Focuses on Lawrence, Massachusetts, as a town with a diversity of worker and ethnic experience, and the relationship…