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  • Author: New York Times

Date: 1889 January 22

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

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Very brief article about the number of French-Canadian Catholics in the United States and their representation in the American Church hierarchy.

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  • Author: Gross, Sarah Chokla

Date: 1952 September 14

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

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A review of the 1952 children's book, "Party for Suzanne," written by Cecile Pepin Edwards and illustrated by Jane Costle. Edwards and Costle attempted to create a book that talks about a French-Canadian child's experience in a New England public…

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  • Author: Wiggin, P.G.

Date: 1901 December 15

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

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Descriptive, ethnographic New York Times feature article on "French-Canadian women" from youth to old age in New England. The author considers the Franco-American working woman a peculiarly American character, and the French-Canadian American mother…

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  • Author: Wiggin, P.G.

Date: 1901 October 13

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

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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…

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  • Author: Bullard, F. Lauriston

Date: 1929 September 29

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

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Brief editorial on the growth of the French-Canadian/Franco-American population in the United States relative to other cultural groups. Considers the dilemma of the French-Canadians' resistance to full assimilation alongside their healthy…

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  • Author: New York Times

Date: 1881 November 4

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

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Brief article taken from the Boston Commercial Bulletin that cites Boston French Canadians being granted a hearing to protest against the Bureau of Statistics labeling them the "Chinese of the East."

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  • Author: New York Times

Date: 1889 January 27

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

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Article from the Montreal Witness, January 22, about a French-Canadian American's visit to a Quebec Cardinal in order to request French-Canadian coadjutor bishops in New England, for the purpose of representing the majority Franco congregations.

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  • Author: Beston, Henry

Date: 1943 May 2

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

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A review of the exploratory book-length essay entitled "The Shadows of the Trees," by Jacques Ducharme, on the Franco-American experience in the United States. Ducharme attempts to explore the most prominent aspects of French-Canadian emigrant…

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  • Author: New York Times

Date: 1939 July 2

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

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A collection of book reviews, including, as the title indicates, a review of Jacques Ducharme's 1939 novel, "The Delusson Family," about a French-Canadian immigrant family in the United States.

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  • Author: Naughton, James M.

Date: 1972 February 27

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

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  • Author: New York Times

Date: 1881 April 11

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

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An article on various minor news topics of the day. Marked for a particular selection, the sixth paragraph of the column, on French-Canadian emigration into the United States. Remarks that the movement of people southward from Québec seems to be…

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  • Author: New York Times

Date: 1890 January 6

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

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1890 article on one Fall River, Massachusetts, social organization's response to the Catholic Centennial Congress's outright rejection of the existence of national societies.

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  • Author: New York Times

Date: 1887 December 21

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

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1887 article on "American labor" - particularly in New England - being subsumed by immigrant workers. Contains pejorative descriptions of Irish, French-Canadian, and other working immigrant communities in the industrialized Northeast. A particularly…

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  • Author: New York Times

Date: 1889 January 13

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

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1889 article in which the author attempts to describe what seem to be Québec's French-Canadian allegiances: neither to England nor to the Dominion of Canada, but to the Roman Catholic Church. Author considers French-Canadian imperial federation…

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  • Author: New York Times

Date: 1900 June 10

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

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1900 article on the New York City assembly of l'Union St-Jean-Baptiste in commemoration of the organization's fiftieth anniversary.

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  • Author: New York Times

Date: 1890 March 9

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

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1890 article accounting for some resistance to French in the Canadian northwest. Also Québec resistance to clerical rule which, says the author, is partly evidenced by the French-Canadian exodus to New England. Moreover, the author predicts the…

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  • Author: New York Times

Date: 1889 August 22

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

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1889 article on the proposal of Canada to recognize English as the country's sole national language, with Québec threatening to counter with its official provincial language as French -- or, as the author tosses out, to propose annexation to the…

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  • Author: New York Times

Date: 1903 November 7

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

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1903 book review of Sir Gilbert Barker's history text, "Old Quebec: The Fortunes of New France" (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1903).

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  • Author: Carter, George F.

Date: 1905 March 11

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

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1905 letter to the editor on the recent discovery that New England author Nathaniel Hawthorne had supplied fellow New England writer Henry Wadsworth Longfellow with the theme for his famous story in verse, "Evangeline."

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  • Author: New York Times

Date: 1874 October 3

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

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1874 article remarking on the social conditions of Canada, seemingly split between predominantly French- and English-speaking geographies.

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  • Author: New York Times

Date: 1900 December 22

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

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Christmastime 1900 article predicting the potential mass return of immigrant workers from Maine to French Canada in the coming spring. The author cites the principal reason for relocation as French Canadians being denied Francophone priests in the…

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  • Author: Lemay, George

Date: 1900 September 9

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

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1900 letter to the New York Times refuting pejorative descriptions leveled on "the French-Canadian of to-day" by a New York Times editorialist who had only spent a short time in Canada. The letter covers the editorialist's attitude toward…

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  • Author: Goodman, Denise

Date: 1992 March 22

Publication: The Boston Globe

Language: English

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A Boston Globe update on the Maine Supreme Court case of the Maine Human Rights Commission and Nancy Ellis vs. Le Club Calumet, regarding the issue of a private accommodation limiting its membership based on ethnic and sex discriminations and if, as…

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  • Author: Christian Science Monitor

Date: 1909 May 24

Publication: The Christian Science Monitor

Language: English

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An article on the meeting of the Franco American Order of Foresters held in Manchester, New Hampshire, in 1909.

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  • Author: Christian Science Monitor

Date: 1914 December 31

Publication: The Christian Science Monitor

Language: English

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Article on the New England institution of the "town crier" - one who yells out public announcements from a central community area to alert those in earshot.

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  • Author: Christian Science Monitor

Date: 1919 November 10

Publication: The Christian Science Monitor

Language: English

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Article reflecting on the work of a Québec social scholar, and exploring the idea that there may or may not exist "a distinct French Canadian patois."

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  • Author: Frutig, Judith

Date: 1975 October 17

Publication: The Christian Science Monitor

Language: English

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Article on the translation of baseball into the cultural registers of French Canada and the vernaculars of the Canadian French language.

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  • Author: Christian Science Monitor

Date: 1959 August 15

Publication: The Christian Science Monitor

Language: English

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Article on the comparisons made between French language varieties in Canada, France, and elsewhere in the Francophone world.

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  • Author: Boston Daily Globe

Date: 1903 July 15

Publication: Boston Daily Globe

Language: English

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Article on the annual gathering of the New England Franco-American Chamber of Commerce at Concord, New Hampshire, in 1903.

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  • Author: Boston Daily Globe

Date: 1907 May 5

Publication: Boston Daily Globe

Language: English

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Article on the Knights of Columbus convention to be held at the Franco American Hall in Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1907.

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