Franco American Library

The Apple of His Eye

Author: Robichaud, Gerard

Date: 1965

Language: English and franÃ§ais

Find in a Library: 13791938

Robichaud returns to the Groveton Falls, Maine, town of his most famous novel, "Papa Martel," in the story of an orphaned Michel Dumont - a boy concerned with absolution for a benign theft as he overhears of the coming end of the world. "Apple" is…

Tags: Androscoggin River Valley, Community: Customs and Social Life, Death and Disaster, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Forestry, Illness, Language and Linguistics, Lewiston ME, Literary Works -- Fiction, Maine, Mills and Mill Work, Religion, Rumford ME, Youth

The Family

Author: Plante, David

Date: 1978

Language: English

Find in a Library: 3729360

The first novel, chronologically, of what are known as Plante's Francouer Novels. A finalist for the 1979 National Book Award in Fiction (hardcover). From Gale Literature: "'The Family' describes the emotional breakdown of Reena Francoeur, Daniel's…

Tags: Death and Disaster, Family, Fiction and Literature, Gender and Sexuality, Labor History, Language and Linguistics, Literary Works -- Fiction, Mills and Mill Work, Native Americans, Providence RI, Religion

Growing Up On Academy Hill: Remembering My French-Canadian-American Papa

Author: Paradis King, Annette

Date: 2002

Language: English

Find in a Library: None (can be viewed at the Franco-American Centre, University of Maine, Orono, Maine)

Biography of a father from his daughter's point of view, set in the context of Old Town, Maine, in the first half of the 20th century. From the author: "'Growing Up On Academy Hill' honors [King's] father who encouraged all six of his children to…

Tags: Community: Customs and Social Life, Family, Gender and Sexuality, Labor History, Mills and Mill Work, New England, Old Town ME, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Religion, Youth

What Became of Them and Other Stories from Franco-America

Author: Ledoux, Denis

Date: 1988

Language: English

Find in a Library: 18787563

Ledoux has woven a tapestry of vignettes all coming to a seam at self-reflection. 'What Became of Them' is a collection of short stories that spans a century of Franco America, its cultural mutations, and its burdening self-absorption. Ledoux finds a…

Tags: Emigration and Immigration, Family, Fiction and Literature, Labor History, Lewiston ME, Literary Works -- Fiction, Literary Works -- Short fiction, Mills and Mill Work, Poetry, Religion

Maggie Cassidy

Author: Kerouac, Jack

Date: 1959

Language:

Find in a Library: 28534657

Novel set at the end of Jack's high school days, chronicling an episode of teenage love and the tensions wrought on it when one moves on. Written in and out of the Lowell, Massachusetts of Kerouac's youth. Another piece of Jack Kerouac's…

Tags: Education, Fiction and Literature, Literary Works -- Fiction, Lowell MA, Mills and Mill Work, New England, Youth

Doctor Sax

Author: Kerouac, Jack

Date: 1959

Language: en

Find in a Library: 6082499

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The spaces and tenements of Lowell, Massachusetts in the 1930s are prowled by a mythic, devilish character in the 'Doctor Sax' of the narrator's imagination. A weaving of real and fantastical images from the Lowell of Kerouac's youth. This title is…

Tags: Dracut MA, Fiction and Literature, Folklore, Literary Works, Literary Works -- Fiction, Lowell MA, Merrimack River Valley, Mills and Mill Work, New England, Youth

Gender and the QuÃ©bÃ©cois Migration to New England, 1870-1930 : A Comparative Case Study

Author: Waldron, FlorenceMae

Date: 2003

Thesis Type: Ph. D., History

Institution: University of Minnesota

Language: en

Find in a Library: 55504516

A study of gender in the context of Quebecois immigration to the United States over a sixty-year period (1870-1930). Observations on gender evidenced in the labor statistics of this time period. The foundation and development of a Franco American…

Tags: Business and Economics, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Gender and Sexuality, Labor History, Lewiston ME, Mills and Mill Work, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Nonfiction -- Immigration, QuÃ©bec, Worcester MA

Immigration of French Canadians to New England, 1840-1900 : A Geographical Analysis

Author: Vicero, Ralph

Date: 1968

Thesis Type: Ph. D., Geography

Institution: University of Wisconsin

Language: en

Find in a Library: 2934957

Find Online: OL13204047W

Study of French-Canadian emigration into the United States during the nineteenth century. Pivotal research in French Canadian emigration. Includes maps that show migration patterns from specific Canadian regions to specific areas in New England. From…

Migration, Family, and Gender : A Longitudinal Analysis of French-Canadian Immigrants in Lowell, Massachussetts, 1900-1920

Author: Takai, Yukari

Date: 1999

Thesis Type: Ph. D., History

Institution: UniversiteÌ de MontreÌal

Language: en

Find in a Library: 46428729

From Takai: "'Migration, Family, and Gender: A Longitudinal Study of French-Canadian Immigrants in Lowell , Massachusetts , 1900-1920,' explores migration from French Canada to a New England urban centre of the textile industry, Lowell,…

The Sentinelle Affair (1924-1929) and Militant Survivance : The Franco-American Experience in Woonsocket, Rhode Island

Author: Sorrell, Richard Sherman

Date: 1975

Thesis Type: Ph. D., History

Institution: State University of New York at Buffalo

Language: en

Find in a Library: 3129396

Definitive text on the background and maneuverings of the Sentinelle Affair in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. How the relationship between Catholic Church leaders and lay Franco Americans in Woonsocket was tempered by the empassioning pull of 'la…

Tags: Education, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Government and Politics, Journalism, Labor History, Manchester NH, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Nonfiction -- History -- Religion, Religion, Woonsocket RI

The Spindle City : Labor, Politics, and Religion in Fall River, Massachusetts, 1870-1905

Author: Silvia, Philip Thomas, Jr.

Date: 1973

Thesis Type: Ph. D., History

Institution: Fordham University

Language: en

Find in a Library: 5661072

The place of Fall River, Massachusetts, in the United States' 19th-century industrial boom, its ensuing period of immigration and cultural diversification, and the birth of the American middle class. A massive and in-depth dissertation that pays…

Tags: Community: Customs and Social Life, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, Fall River MA, Government and Politics, Labor History, Massachusetts, Mills and Mill Work, Native Americans, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Nonfiction -- History -- Religion, Quequechan River Valley, Religion, Social History, Taunton River Valley

Economic Factors in the Persistence of French-Canadian Identity in New England

Author: Schulz, Julia

Date: 1985

Thesis Type: M.A., Anthropology

Institution: McGill University

Language: en; fr

Find in a Library: 61546426

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From Schulz: "French-Canadian immigrants to New England, unlike other ethnic groups in the United States, did not show signs of assimilation into American society until the 1950's. This thesis examines the history of one French-Canadian community -…

Tags: Acculturation and Assimilation, Augusta ME, Business and Economics, Community: Customs and Social Life, Education, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Labor History, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Anthropology, Nonfiction -- Social Sciences, Religion, Sand Hill ME, Social History

Exploration of Immigration, Industrialization, and Ethnicity in Waterville, Maine

Author: Rowe, Amy E.

Date: 1999

Thesis Type: B.A., Anthropology, Honors

Institution: Colby College

Language: en

Find in a Library: 215

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From Rowe: "This paper traces how hegemonic forces create boundaries through the specific examples of the Lebanese and Franco-Americans in Waterville, Maine. These two immigrant groups entered into Waterville after an English-Scottish Protestant…

Tags: Community: Customs and Social Life, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Kennebec River Valley, Labor History, Lebanese Americans, Maine, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Anthropology, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Nonfiction -- Immigration, Nonfiction -- Social Sciences, QuÃ©bec, Social History, Waterville ME

From Canadien to American : The Acculturation of French-Canadian Descendants in Lewiston, Maine, 1860 to the Present

Author: Richard, Mark Paul

Date: 2001

Thesis Type: Ph. D., History

Institution: Duke University

Language: en

Find in a Library: 48260966

Dissertation from the author of "Loyal but French: The Negotiation of Identity by French-Canadian Descendants in the United States." From the author: "Using Lewiston, Maine, as a community study, this dissertation examines how individuals of…

Tags: Acculturation and Assimilation, Auburn ME, Community: Customs and Social Life, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Government and Politics, Journalism, Labor History, Lewiston ME, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Religion, Social History

L'heritage franco-amÃ©ricain dans le Maine

Author: Leloup, Laurent

Date: 1994

Thesis Type: M.A., GÃ©ographie

Institution: University of Maine

Language: fr

Find in a Library: Inconnu/Unknown

De l'introduction de cet Ã©tudiant de France: "Afin d'approcher le sujet, trois mÃ©thodes ont Ã©tÃ© employÃ©es. La lecture de documents Ã©crits retracent l'immigration et l'installation de canadiens franÃ§ais dans le Maine. Afin de…

Border Spaces and La Survivance : The Evolution of the Franco-American Novel of New England (1875-2004)

Author: Lees, Cynthia C

Date: 2006

Thesis Type: Ph. D., Romance Languages and Literatures

Institution: University of Florida

Language: en; fr

Find in a Library: 658213798

From Lees: "This dissertation examines nine texts written by Franco-American novelists of New England. Themes of migrancy, exile, and cultural survival (la survivance) ground my study. I explore the negotiations of cultural, social, political,…

Tags: Acculturation and Assimilation, Criticism and Review, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fiction and Literature, Gender and Sexuality, Geography, Government and Politics, Labor History, Language and Linguistics, Literary Works, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Mills and Mill Work, New England, QuÃ©bec, Religion

Catholics in Maine : A Social Geography

Author: Allen, James Paul

Date: 1970

Thesis Type: Ph. D.

Institution: Syracuse University

Language: en

Find in a Library: 5962074

Dissertation on areal patterns and geographic trends espoused by Roman Catholics in the state of Maine, with a focus on population distribution and respective voting patterns.

Processes of Immigration : The Franco Americans of Manchester, New Hampshire, 1875-1925

Author: Kanzler, Eileen McAuliffe

Date: 1982

Thesis Type: D. A.

Institution: Illinois State University

Language: en

Find in a Library: 13624046

Find Online: OL12362366W

From Kanzler: "The Black History movement of the 1960s, the White Ethnic awareness of the 1970s and current developments in the Hispanic and Asian communities throughout the United States emphasize the significance of ethnicity as a major factor in…

Tags: Acculturation and Assimilation, Business and Economics, Community: Customs and Social Life, Criticism and Review, Demography, Education, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Labor History, Manchester NH, Mills and Mill Work, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Education, QuÃ©bec, Religion, Social History

Tradition and Change in the Gilded Age : Political History of Massachusetts, 1879-1893

Author: Harmond, Richard Peter

Date: 1966

Thesis Type: Ph. D., Political Science

Institution: Columbia University

Language: en

Find in a Library: 36608666

Find Online: OL11687408W

Massachusetts politics during fifteen years within the industrial and early immigration periods of the late 19th century. From Harmond: "As this study seeks to show, Massachusetts confronted a dual set of challenges in the post-Reconstruction era. …

Tags: Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Government and Politics, Journalism, Labor History, Massachusetts, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Social History

Ethnic Survival in a New England Mill Town : The Franco-Americans of Biddeford, Maine

Author: Guignard, Michael James

Date: 1977

Thesis Type: Ph. D., History

Institution: Syracuse University

Language: en

Find in a Library: 4392005

An exploration of the characteristics of cultural survival within the Franco American community in the town of Biddeford, Maine in the 20th century. From the introduction: "In this study I will 1) analyze the fundamental nature of the experiment in…

Tags: Acculturation and Assimilation, Biddeford ME, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Geography, Labor History, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Nonfiction -- History -- Local, Religion, Social History

From French Canadian to Franco-American : Cultural Survival and Reinvention of Nationality in a Connecticut Yankee Town, 1855-1895

Author: Fluet, Gregoire J.

Date: 2002

Thesis Type: Ph. D., History

Institution: Clark University

Language: en

Find in a Library: 56843683

From Fluet: "This dissertation...focuses on the immigrant French Canadians who maintained their cultural identity and embraced American nationality in the Connecticut Yankee town of Putnam in the period of 1855-1895. Few community studies exist for…

Tags: Acculturation and Assimilation, Brooklyn CT, Community: Customs and Social Life, Connecticut, Criticism and Review, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Government and Politics, Labor History, Language and Linguistics, Mills and Mill Work, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Putnam CT

Neither Peasants Nor Frenchmen : Racialization, Immigration, and Industrialization in the Franco-American Community of Manchester, New Hampshire, 1880-1930

Author: Finefrock, Kevin

Date: 2007

Thesis Type: B.A., History, Honors

Institution: Connecticut College

Language: en

Find in a Library: 278099025

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From the author: "In this thesis, I examine how the processes of racialization, immigration, and industrialization caused the emergence of two divergent definitions of ethnic identity in the Frenchâ€Canadian community of QuÃ©bec and the…

Tags: Acculturation and Assimilation, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, France, Great Britain, Labor History, Language and Linguistics, Manchang MA, Mills and Mill Work, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Nonfiction -- Immigration, QuÃ©bec, Religion

French-Canadian Beginnings in an American Community : Lowell, Massachusetts, 1868-1886

Author: Early, Frances H.

Date: 1979

Thesis Type: Ph. D., History

Institution: Concordia University

Language: en

Find in a Library: 9903408

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Ph. D. thesis on nineteenth-century immigration and the early development of the French-Canadian community of Lowell, Massachusetts - a significant city in post-bellum, industrial northeastern America.

Tags: Community: Customs and Social Life, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Labor History, Lowell MA, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Nonfiction -- Immigration, QuÃ©bec, Religion, Social History, United States

The Franco-Americans of New Hampshire : A Case Study of Ethnicity and Social Stratification

Author: Doane, Ashley W., Jr

Date: 1983

Thesis Type: M.A., Sociology

Institution: University of New Hampshire

Language: en

Find in a Library: 10353021

Exploration of the relationship between Franco-American ethnicity and socioeconomic status in the state of New Hampshire. Doane's research revolves around questions of class characteristics and ethnic group interests.

Tags: Business and Economics, Community: Customs and Social Life, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Labor History, Mills and Mill Work, New Hampshire, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Social Sciences, Nonfiction -- Sociology

Continuity and Disruption : Working-Class Community in Lynn and Fall River, Massachusetts, 1880-1950

Author: Cumbler, John Taylor, Jr.

Date: 1974

Thesis Type: Ph. D.

Institution: University of Michigan

Language: en

Find in a Library: 3420030

From a review of by Donald H. Stewart, SUNY Cortland, on the later text based on this dissertation's research: "Cumbler concentrates on two Massachusetts cities - Lynn, a late-nineteenth century shoe manufacturing center, and Fall River, a leading…

Tags: Boston MA, Bowenville MA, Business and Economics, Community: Customs and Social Life, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fall River MA, Government and Politics, Labor History, Lynn MA, Massachusetts, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Quequechan River Valley, Social History

Revolution : The Coming of F.A.R.O.G., 1970-1972

Author: Brown, Michael Serizawa

Date: 1992

Thesis Type: M.A., History

Institution: University of Maine at Orono

Language: en

Find in a Library: 27201223

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From the author: "In 1970 a group of Franco-Americans at the University of Maine, Orono, began meeting to discuss the creation of a new Franco-American ethnic identity. By the end of 1972, the succeeded in establishing a formal Franco-American…

Labor Study of the Franco-American Community of Waterville, Maine, from 1890 to 1940

Author: Bernier, Margaret

Date: 1981

Thesis Type: B.A., Sociology (Senior Scholar paper)

Institution: Colby College

Language: en

Find in a Library: 19834728

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Study in labor history of the Franco-Americans in Waterville, Maine up to 1940. Includes author-conducted interviews. From Bernier: "The purpose of this study is not to undermine the importance of [successful Franco-American businessmen and…

Tags: Emigration and Immigration, Kennebec River Valley, Labor History, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Nonfiction -- Social Sciences, Nonfiction -- Sociology, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Waterville ME

Aspects of Class Ideology in a New England Ethnic Minority : The Franco-Americans of Woonsocket, Rhode Island (1865-1929)

Author: Anctil, Pierre

Date: 1980

Thesis Type: Ph. D., Political and Social Science

Institution: New School for Social Research

Language: en; fr

Find in a Library: 8613568

Dissertation on class development and distinction through North American industrialization, immigration, and urbanization in Rhode Island. The particularity of this history as shaped in the Franco American community's experience of Woonsocket, Rhode…

Working-Class Women in the Gilded Age : Factory, Community and Family Life among Cohoes, New York, Cotton Workers

Author: Walkowitz, Daniel J.

Date: 1972 summer

Publication: Journal of Social History

Volume: 5

Language: en

Find in a Library: 478400880

An examination of industrial labor through the lenses of ethnicity and gender in 19th-century Cohoes, New York. From the text: "This essay intends to examine the ways in which the cultural experience of the predominantly immigrant working class might…

Tags: Cohoes NY, Demography, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Gender and Sexuality, Hudson River Valley, Labor History, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Social History

Author: Waldron, FlorenceMae

Date: 2005

Publication: Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies

Volume: 26

Language: en

Find in a Library: 480449413

Waldron explores the impacts of immigration on French Canadian norms of gender, labor, and social practice. She uses the examples of Lewiston, Maine, and Worcester, Massachusetts, and the different economies therein to ultimately observe the impact…

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The Apple of His Eye

The Family

Growing Up On Academy Hill: Remembering My French-Canadian-American Papa

What Became of Them and Other Stories from Franco-America

Maggie Cassidy

Doctor Sax

Gender and the QuÃ©bÃ©cois Migration to New England, 1870-1930 : A Comparative Case Study

Immigration of French Canadians to New England, 1840-1900 : A Geographical Analysis

Migration, Family, and Gender : A Longitudinal Analysis of French-Canadian Immigrants in Lowell, Massachussetts, 1900-1920

The Sentinelle Affair (1924-1929) and Militant Survivance : The Franco-American Experience in Woonsocket, Rhode Island

The Spindle City : Labor, Politics, and Religion in Fall River, Massachusetts, 1870-1905

Economic Factors in the Persistence of French-Canadian Identity in New England

Exploration of Immigration, Industrialization, and Ethnicity in Waterville, Maine

From Canadien to American : The Acculturation of French-Canadian Descendants in Lewiston, Maine, 1860 to the Present

L'heritage franco-amÃ©ricain dans le Maine

Border Spaces and La Survivance : The Evolution of the Franco-American Novel of New England (1875-2004)

Catholics in Maine : A Social Geography

Processes of Immigration : The Franco Americans of Manchester, New Hampshire, 1875-1925

Tradition and Change in the Gilded Age : Political History of Massachusetts, 1879-1893

Ethnic Survival in a New England Mill Town : The Franco-Americans of Biddeford, Maine

From French Canadian to Franco-American : Cultural Survival and Reinvention of Nationality in a Connecticut Yankee Town, 1855-1895

Neither Peasants Nor Frenchmen : Racialization, Immigration, and Industrialization in the Franco-American Community of Manchester, New Hampshire, 1880-1930

French-Canadian Beginnings in an American Community : Lowell, Massachusetts, 1868-1886

The Franco-Americans of New Hampshire : A Case Study of Ethnicity and Social Stratification

Continuity and Disruption : Working-Class Community in Lynn and Fall River, Massachusetts, 1880-1950

Revolution : The Coming of F.A.R.O.G., 1970-1972

Labor Study of the Franco-American Community of Waterville, Maine, from 1890 to 1940

Aspects of Class Ideology in a New England Ethnic Minority : The Franco-Americans of Woonsocket, Rhode Island (1865-1929)

Working-Class Women in the Gilded Age : Factory, Community and Family Life among Cohoes, New York, Cotton Workers

The Battle over Female (In)Dependence : Women in New England QuÃ©bÃ©cois Migrant Communities, 1870-1930