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- Author: Violette, Maurice
Date: 1976
Language: en
Find in a Library: 2176381
A thorough history of the Franco American presence in the city of Augusta, Maine, up to the 1970s. Histories of mill, church, school, and community, from their migrant inception through sometimes celebratory, sometimes violent, persistence.…
- Author: Ouelette, Joanne
- Author: New Hampshire Historical Society
Date: 2013
Language: en
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Outline of dates and figures; compilation of facts and notes relevant to the history of French Canadian immigrants in the state of New Hampshire around the beginning of the twentieth century. Designed by the New Hampshire Historical Society for…
- Author: New Hampshire Historical Society
Date: 2013
Language: en; fr
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Short history lesson on French Canadian immigration and community building in New Hampshire, covering the 19th and early 20th centuries. Concludes with discussion questions about the provided information and photographs. Designed by the New Hampshire…
- Author: Samson, Gary
Date: 2000
Language: en
Find in a Library: 46874965
Pictorial history of the communities in and around the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company's mill complex in Manchester, New Hampshire. The rise and fall of Amoskeag, in photos. A volume in the broad-ranging "Images of America" series of books. Previously…
- Author: Moran, William
Date: 2002
Language: en
Find in a Library: 49627749
Find Online: OL9515646M
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A history of New England women during industrialization, and the lifestyle differences among women of different economic classes. From Thomas Dunne Books: "This is a masterful, definitive, and eloquent look at the enormous cultural and economic…
- Author: Albert, Henry
Date: 1999
Language: English
Find in a Library: 42953999
The autobiography of a northern Maine native. Begins with his early life in Aroostook County and continues through his many years of service in the United States Army, bringing him and his family throughout the world - Ethiopia, Iran, and elsewhere -…
- Author: Aubin, Albert K.
Date: 1981
Language: en
Find in a Library: 8297862
Find Online: OL11436946M
A brief selection related to French exploration in North America, French Canadian immigration to the United States, and Franco American histories in Rhode Island. A small chapbook-sized resource that includes segments dedicated to culture and the…
- Author: Parker, James Hill
Date: 1983
Language: en
Find in a Library: 9082399
Sociological essay highlighting Franco American assimilation in a case-study of Lewiston, Maine. Includes a brief history of French Canadian immigration to Lewiston coinciding with the city's birth as an industrial center. Part of the preface reads,…
- Author: Sorg, Marcella Harnish
Date: 1978
Language: en
A paperback, illustrated, simply-written history of the Franco Americans in Old Town, Milford, Orono, and Bradley, Maine. Compiled from the larger book, "The Old Town Reader," also published by the National Materials Development Center.
- Author: Green, Constance McLaughlin
Date: 1939 (1968)
Language: en
Find in a Library: 1522230
Find Online: OL5601421M
A study of labor and industry in Holyoke, Massachusetts, beginning with the city's agrarian traditions, and establishing later an emphasis on the city's industrialization at the end of the nineteenth century. Published during the Great Depression,…
- Author: Creamer, Daniel Barnett
- Author: Coulter, Charles Wellsley
Date: 1971
Language: en
Find in a Library: 241413
Reprinting of a 1939 publication funded by the Works Progress Administration. Exploration of the economic conditions in Manchester, New Hampshire, and the economic climate surrounding the mill complex of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Corporation. The…
- Author: Cole, Donald
Date: 2002 (1963)
Language: en
Find in a Library: 475026
Find Online: OL7972822M
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A history of the city of Lawrence, Massachusetts, as a site of mass industrialization, diverse immigration, and unique dynamics of class and ethnicity around the turn of the 20th century. From UNC Press: "The violence and radicalism connected with…
- Author: Brière, Eloise
Date: 1986
Language: en; fr
Find in a Library: 34578272
French heritage travel and resource guide to New York state, divided by region and described by town and city. From the foreword to the text: "Continuing the tradition begun in the 17th century, French and Canadian ties flourish in New York which…
- Author: Scontras, Charles A.
Date: 1994
Language: en
Find in a Library: 31188167
A restorative history of the birth and early life of organized labor in Maine in the middle of the nineteenth century, on the rise of the industrial period. From the preface: "The history of organized labor in Maine has been ignored by the State's…
- Author: Connors-Carlson, Shirlee
Date: 2001
Language: en
Find in a Library: 49045997
A pictorial history of life and logging in St. John, Maine, at the beginning of the twentieth century. Includes some pictures that are featured in the book "Acadian Hard Times" (Stewart Doty, 1991), as well as many others that capture the households…
- Author: Fairfield, Roy P.
Date: 1956 (2003)
Language: en
Find in a Library: 3085526
Find Online: OL2044914W
A history of the coastal and industrial city of Saco, Maine, from its inception to the 1950s. Written by a Saco native. The inside cover reads: "In a rich and vivid history, documented with record, with facts bearing evidence of infinitely rewarding…
- Author: Van Lent, Peter C.
Date: 1988
Language: en
Find in a Library: 20845209
Find Online: OL1782127M
A professor of folklore offers here a study of the Franco Americans in northern New York state. He explores the themes of religion, family, work, and language, and interrogates their symbols in the folklore and folk art of Malone, New York and a…
- Author: Pelletier, Martine A.
Date: 1981
Language: en
Find in a Library: 726513498
A brief history, collection of historical letters, poems, photos, and other works compiled in a celebration of the town of Van Buren, Maine's centennial. From the editor: "Each and everyone of us has a dream. This is a story about a group of people…
- Author: Pelletier, Martine
- Author: Ferretti, Monica Dionne
Date: 1979
Language: en
Find in a Library: 5336702
Find Online: OL4434389M
A history of the people of Van Buren, Maine, with a heavy emphasis on local folklore. Includes a large collection of images of town buildings both past and present, historic documents, family trees, local advertisements, and local maps.
- Author: Le Jeune, R.P.L.
Date: 1990 (1918)
Language: Français
Find in a Library: 144748841 (peut être lu au Centre Franco-Américain, Université du Maine, Orono, Maine)
Une brève histoire de l'Acadie entre 1412 et 1800 (entre colonisation, le Grand Dérangement, et repopulation). Certaines descriptions d'événements significatives dans la courte durée de vie des premières communatés Acadiennes de…
- Author: Dunwell, Steve
Date: 1978
Language: en
Find in a Library: 4443770
Find Online: OL4743753M
A chronicle of centuries of labor in black and white photographs. Historical and modern perspectives on mills, industrial towns, and workers in New England from the earliest industrialization period to the 1970s. From the inside flap: "The full force…
- Author: Beaupré, Norman
Date: 2006
Language: Français (English translation available)
Find in a Library: 122931605
A monologue on life and love, written in the French vernacular of Biddeford, Maine. Based on a Southern Maine character from an earlier of Beaupré's novels, "Le Petit Mangeur de Fleurs" (1999). De Llumina Press: "[La Souillonne] se 'debourre…
- Author: Beaupré, Norman
Date: 2008
Language: Français
Find in a Library: 251338043
From the author's website: "The dramatic monologue, La Souillonne, was such a tremendous success for its author, Norman Beaupré, that it prompted a friend of his to say, 'There must be a follow-up to this.' The author replied that he had not…
- Author: Beaugrand, HonoreÌ
Date: 1878
Language: Français
Find in a Library: 8517304
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Un texte eÌssentiel à la collection de la litteÌrature franco-ameÌricaine du 19e siècle. Un conte d'eÌmigration du Canada à la Nouvelle-Angleterre avant l'anneÌe 1900. Ecrit par l'ancien maire de MontreÌal, et…
- Author: Hebert, Ernest
Date: 1979
Language: English
Find in a Library: 4492057
The first piece of Hebert's "Darby Series" - five novels set in a fictional town in rural New Hampshire. From University Press of New England: "Howard Elman is a man whose internal landscape is as disordered as his front yard, where native New…