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  • Author: Litwack, Leon

Date: 1962

Language: en

Find in a Library: 414029

Find Online: OL5852980M

A first-person history of the American labor movement - the growth of labor unions and the development of collective worker consciousness from the middle of the nineteenth century until the middle of the twentieth. A century of labor in primary…

  • Author: Delevingne, Lionel (photographs)
  • Author: Briere, Eloise A. (interviews)
  • Author: Vaget, Nicole (text)

Date: 1988

Language: en; fr

Find in a Library: 20218507

Find Online: OL2064431M

Illustrations of Massachusetts' Franco American cultural landscape in personal photos, personal interviews, and historical context. A local pictorial history in short form, singular in its use of quotations.

  • Author: Desrosiers-Lauzon, Godefroy

Date: 2008

Thesis Type: Ph. D., History

Institution: University of Ottawa

Language: en

Find in a Library: 658153238

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From the author: "This thesis explains and analyzes the phenomenon of seasonal, long-term winter travel to Florida, travelers that South Floridians have called 'snowbirds.' It demonstrates what pushed and pulled [Canadian and American] snowbirds to…

  • Author: Gosselin, Henri

Date: 1998

Language: English (traduction en français disponible)

Find in a Library: 42249878

Historical fiction piece about a French Canadian spy participating in the American Revolution and risking, from the threats of his Canadian bishop, excommunication from the Catholic Church. Based on actual events.

  • 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: 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: Thoet, Denis

Date: 2009 December 4

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8814143, 60630676

Humorous opinion piece on Maine as an American outcast state, sharing more in common with its Canadian neighbors than with the people and places of its neighboring American states.

  • Author: Bell, Debra
  • Author: Shaw, Richard

Date: 2008 August 14-15

Publication: Bangor Daily News

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8818350, 44337162

A newspaper supplement to the Bangor Daily News, Morning Sentinel, Kennebec Journal, Lewiston Sun Journal, Portland Press Herald, and York County Coast Star in celebration of Aubuchon Hardware's 100th anniversary. Contains a number of old photos and…

  • Author: Chandonnet, Thomas Aimé

Date: 1872

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 20649460

Find Online: OL7724186W

Une histoire des débuts d'une paroisse nationale catholique franco-américain de Worcester, Massachusetts, dans le cadre de tous les Canadiens francophones aux États-Unis de la seconde moitié du dix-neuvième siècle. Pensées sur…

  • 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: Casanova, Jacques Donat

Date: 1975

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 299654602

Un exploration québécois des contributions historiques des gens français et canadiens-français à la vie quotidienne et la culture des Etats-Unis. Du texte: "Quand on parle de l'apport français à l'histoire des États-Unis, on…

  • Author: Frenette, Yves (rédacteur)
  • Author: PaÌ‚quet, Martin (rédacteur)
  • Author: Lamarre, Jean (rédacteur)

Date: 2002

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 50236360

Recuil d'essaies en l'honneur d'Yves Roby, un historien québécois, par ses collègues et ses anciens étudiants. Des études sur les sujets importants de la carrière de Roby: l'historiographie; "les espaces québecois et…

  • Author: Johnston, James F.W.

Date: 1851

Volume: 1

Language: en

Find in a Library: 624873799

Find Online: OL1470838W

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A British scholar's notes on life in New Brunswick, New England, New York, and the Upper Midwestern U.S., based on extensive travel in those regions in the middle 19th century. Volume 1 of 2.

  • Author: Johnston, James F.W.

Date: 1851

Volume: 2

Language: en

Find in a Library: 624873799

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A British scholar's notes on life in New Brunswick, New England, New York, and the Upper Midwestern U.S., based on extensive travel in those regions in the middle 19th century. Volume 2 of 2.

  • Author: Lamarre, Jean

Date: 2003

Language: en

Find in a Library: 51613888

Find Online: OL6026791W

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From Wayne State University Press: "'The French Canadians of Michigan' looks at the factors behind the French Canadian immigration by providing a statistical profile of the migratory movement as well as analysis of the strategies used by French…

  • Author: Rosengarten, Joseph G.

Date: 1907

Language: en

Find in a Library: 2662696

Find Online: OL7249749M

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French presence in the United States from 1684 to the beginning of the 20th century. Includes early missions from France to the American South and Midwest, colonies in Louisiana, Huguenot communities on the Mid-Atlantic American coast, French…

  • Author: Casanova, Jacques Donat

Date: 1975

Language: en (translation)

Find in a Library: 4134570

Find Online: OL4288424M

A brief history of the French presence in North America. English translation of "Une Amérique française." From the text: "When we think of the French contribution to the history of the United States, we immediately think to Lafayette,…

  • Author: Tardivel, Jules Paul

Date: 1900

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 6856491

Find Online: OL6788369W

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Un histoire et critique de l'église Catholique aux États-Unis, écrit en deux parties par un scolaire français au Canada. Certaines réflexions sur le développement d'un catholicisme américain. Comparaisons entre des prévisions…

  • Author: BrieÌ€re, 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: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Date: 2004

Language: English

Find in a Library: 56903271

Maine native Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem about "le Grand Dérangement" - the Acadian Expulsion - and one Acadian woman's rampant search for a love lost. This text also includes an introduction, a brief historical sketch of the Acadians,…

  • Author: Kent, Timothy J.

Date: 2009

Language: en

Find in a Library: 466744451

From the author: "When Kevin and Ben Kent were ages seven and five, their parents conceived an exciting, enriching, and educational project for the family. As a team, they began paddling the 3,000 mile length of the mainline fur trade canoe route…

  • 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: Rathbone-McCuan, Eloise (editor)
  • Author: Havens, Betty (editor)

Date: 1988

Language: English

Find in a Library: 16088935

A study in sociology and gerontology. Comparative Canadian and United States perspectives on aging and the elderly. Observations on the social policies, demographics, geographies, and cultural realities of both countries in the context of family…

  • Author: Baird, Charles Washington

Date: 1885

Volume: 1

Language: en

Find in a Library: 8047731

Find Online: OL7003802W

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Late nineteenth-century historical text on the Huguenot emigration from a France in religious strife to the eastern coast of North America between the middle 16th and middle 18th centuries. According to the author, Volume 1 of this 2-volume text only…

  • Author: Letourneau, Armand
  • Author: Burkhart, Janice
  • Author: Boudreau, Dennis
  • Author: Pommeville, William

Date: 2003

Language:

Find in a Library: 52628325

From the American French Genealogical Society: "AFGS is pleased to offer you this very helpful resource book as a reference and guide book for the genealogist. It is an excellent book for both beginner and experienced researchers in the quest for…