Franco American Library

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

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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

"These Lines of My Life" : Franco-American Women in Westbrook, Maine : The Intersection of Ethnicity and Gender, 1884-1984

Author: DeRoche, Celeste

Date: 1994

Thesis Type: M.S., History

Institution: University of Maine at Orono

Language: en

Find in a Library: 32268708

Historical perspectives on Franco American women in Westbrook, Maine, and evolving perspectives on gender and ethnicity over one century.

Tags: Acculturation and Assimilation, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Gender and Sexuality, Maine, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Social History, Westbrook ME

British and Canadian Immigration to the United States since 1920

Author: Lines, Kenneth

Date: 1977

Thesis Type: Ph. D., History

Institution: University of Hawaii

Language: en

Find in a Library: 4232362

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Dissertation on the "invisible immigrants" to the United States from Britain and Canada between the 1920s and 1960s. From the author: "Always among the most numerous groups of immigrants to the United States, until 1969, the British and Canadians…

Tags: Business and Economics, Canada, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Great Britain, Labor History, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Nonfiction -- Immigration, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, United States

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…

La migration des Canadiens franÃ§ais vers le Michigan, 1840-1914 : leur contribution au dÃ©veloppement socioÃ©conomique de la rÃ©gion

Author: Lamarre, Jean

Date: 1996

Thesis Type: Ph. D., Histoire

Institution: UniversitÃ© de MontrÃ©al

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 46524973

Ce texte a devenu le livre "Le Canadiens franÃ§ais du Michigan" (2000), ou "The French Canadians of Michigan" (2003). Du rÃ©sumÃ©: "Cette thÃ¨se a pour objet la migration des Canadiens franÃ§ais vers le Michigan de 1840 Ã 1914. Elle…

Tags: Business and Economics, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Farming and Agriculture, Forestry, Fur-trading, Geography, Government and Politics, Labor History, Michigan, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Social History

The Heflingers and the Lamoures : A Microcosm of United States Social History from the 1850's through the 1950's

Author: Huggins, Lucinda

Date: 1998

Thesis Type: M.A., Humanities

Institution: California State University, Dominguez Hills

Language: en

Find in a Library: 41928569

From Huggins: "This thesis traces the history of two immigrant families from the mid-1800's through the mid-1900's. The social and economic factors of Germany and French QuÃ©bec are studied to determine reasons for the movement of people from these…

Tags: Acculturation and Assimilation, Community: Customs and Social Life, Family, Genealogy, Germany, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Nonfiction -- Immigration, Nonfiction -- Social Sciences, Nonfiction -- Sociology, North Dakota, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, QuÃ©bec

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

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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

Tool of Acculturation, Outil de Survivance : Education of French Canadians in Holyoke, Massachusetts, 1880-1920

Author: Fliss, Susan

Date: 2007

Thesis Type: Ph. D., History

Institution: University of Maine

Language: en

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From Fliss: "Motivated to ensure 'la survivance,' the survival of their religion, language, and culture, French-Canadian immigrants established an extensive private Catholic education system ranging from parish elementary and high schools to boarding…

Tags: Acculturation and Assimilation, Business and Economics, Community: Customs and Social Life, Education, Gender and Sexuality, Holyoke MA, Language and Linguistics, Massachusetts, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Education, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, QuÃ©bec, Religion

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

The French Canadian Community of Waterville, Maine

Author: Fecteau, Albert

Date: 1952

Thesis Type: M.A., History

Institution: University of Maine at Orono

Language: en

Find in a Library: 6965308

From the text: "While there have been a number of books and articles on the French Canadians in New England, very little has been written about the French Canadians in Maine. This thesis presents a study of a typical Maine French Canadian community,…

Tags: Art and Architecture, Business and Economics, Community: Customs and Social Life, Education, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Government and Politics, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Religion, Waterville ME

Construction, Perpetuation and Unraveling of a Community : The Franco Americans of Manchester, New Hampshire, 1870 to the Present

Author: Fahey, Christine

Date: 1974

Thesis Type: B.A., History, Honors

Institution: Kenyon College

Language: en

Find in a Library: 17787221

Printed in 1987, Fahey's 1974 undergraduate thesis focuses on the history of Franco Americans in Manchester, New Hampshire, their development as a distinctly knit ethnic community, and the eventual softening of the heritage-centered communal bonds…

Tags: Acculturation and Assimilation, Community: Customs and Social Life, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Labor History, Manchester NH, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, 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

Structure and Strategy : French-Canadians in Central New England, 1850-1900

Author: Dauphinais, Paul Raymond

Date: 1991

Thesis Type: Ph. D., History

Institution: University of Maine

Language: en

Find in a Library: 27298873

Fitchburg and Worcester, Massachusetts, as cities atypical of Franco American communities in the 19th century. Focuses on the specific industries, demography, and institutional developments in these cities that serve to break the better-known pattern…

Tags: Acculturation and Assimilation, Business and Economics, Community: Customs and Social Life, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, Fitchburg MA, Geography, New England, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Worcester MA

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

The Pattern of Cultural Groups in Worcester

Author: Creveling, Harold Franklin

Date: 1951

Thesis Type: Ph. D.

Institution: Clark University

Language: en

Find in a Library: 31005518

Local geographic landscapes and social conditions of various ethnic groups in Worcester, Massachusetts. Author's 1955 article in the journal Economic Geography, "Mapping Cultural Groups in an American Industrial City," is based on the research…

Tags: Community: Customs and Social Life, Demography, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Geography, Labor History, Massachusetts, Nonfiction -- Anthropology, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Nonfiction -- History -- Local, Nonfiction -- Social Sciences, Religion, Social History, Worcester MA

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…

A Social History of the French Canadian Community of Suncook, New Hampshire (1870-1920)

Author: Blazon, Gerard

Date: 1974

Thesis Type: M.A.

Institution: University of New Hampshire

Language: en

Find in a Library: 53773481

Master's thesis on the French Canadian immigrants to the towns of Suncook, Pembroke, and Allentown, New Hampshire at the turn of the century. Emphasis on community and social life.

Tags: Allenstown NH, Community: Customs and Social Life, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Language and Linguistics, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Pembroke NH, Religion, Social History, Suncook NH

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…

'I've Never Dreamed It Was Necessary to Marry!' : Women and Work in New England French Canadian Communities, 1870-1930

Author: Waldron, FlorenceMae

Date: 2005 winter

Publication: Journal of American Ethnic History

Volume: 24

Language: en

Find in a Library: 366000054

Essay on women's labor in French Canadian immigrant communities in New England. Explores and qualifies the idea that, for women, migration could be equated with social and economic liberation. From the text: "The ways in which these women and girls…

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

De la difficultÃ© de naÃ®tre et de survivre dans une ville industrielle de la Nouvelle-Angleterre au XIXe siÃ¨cle : mortalitÃ© infantile, infanticide et avortement Ã Lowell, Massachusetts, 1870-1900

Date: 1993-07-00

Volume: 47

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 1764125

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De Consortium Ã‰rudit: "Le prÃ©sent texte est consacrÃ© Ã l'Ã©tude de la mortalitÃ© infantile ainsi qu'aux difficultÃ©s de survivre dans une ville industrielle de la Nouvelle-Angleterre durant la seconde moitiÃ© du XIXe siÃ¨cle.…

Review: "Franco-AmÃ©rique," and "Loyal but French: The Negotiation of Identity by French-Canadian Descendants in the United States"

Author: Takai, Yukari

Date: 2010

Publication: The Canadian Historical Review

Volume: 91

Language: en

Find in a Library: 636583583

Review of two 2008 history texts on French America: "Franco-AmÃ©rique," by Dean Louder and Eric Waddell, and "Loyal but French: The Negotiation of Identity by French-Canadian Descendants in the United States," by Mark Paul Richard.

Shared Earnings, Unequal Responsibilities : Single French-Canadian Wage-Earning Women in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1900-1920

Author: Takai, Yukari

Date: 2001 spring

Publication: Labour/Le Travail

Language: en

Find in a Library: 361810676

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An analysis of single French-Canadian women workers in Lowell, Massachusetts, Takai's piece attempts to show the contributions of this female population to their households and to the local economy at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Tags: Business and Economics, Demography, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Gender and Sexuality, Labor History, Lowell MA, Manchester NH, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social

The Position of "New" Immigrants in the Fall River Textile Industry

Author: Silvia, Philip Thomas, Jr.

Date: 1976 summer

Publication: International Migration Review

Volume: 10

Language: en

Find in a Library: 484990257

Brief essay on the reciprocal impacts of immigration on the textile industry and labor organization in Fall River, Massachusetts, at the beginning of the 20th century. The birth of the immigrant textile labor force. Emphasis on French-Canadian…

Tags: Business and Economics, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, Fall River MA, Labor History, Mills and Mill Work, New Bedford MA, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Nonfiction -- Immigration

The French-Canadian Experience in New England and the Photographs of Ulrich Bourgeois

Author: Schwartzwald, Robert

Date: 1987 spring

Publication: The Massachusetts Review

Volume: 28

Language: en

Find in a Library: 482941102

An essay on how photographer Ulrich Bourgeois captured the French Canadian ways of living that persisted and developed individually in early 20th-century Franco America. How Bourgeois, knowingly or not, worked to preserve a period of Franco American…

Tags: Acculturation and Assimilation, Art and Architecture, Community: Customs and Social Life, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Holyoke MA, Lowell MA, Manchester NH, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Nonfiction -- History -- Pictorial, Photography, QuÃ©bec

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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

"These Lines of My Life" : Franco-American Women in Westbrook, Maine : The Intersection of Ethnicity and Gender, 1884-1984

British and Canadian Immigration to the United States since 1920

L'heritage franco-amÃ©ricain dans le Maine

La migration des Canadiens franÃ§ais vers le Michigan, 1840-1914 : leur contribution au dÃ©veloppement socioÃ©conomique de la rÃ©gion

The Heflingers and the Lamoures : A Microcosm of United States Social History from the 1850's through the 1950's

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

Tool of Acculturation, Outil de Survivance : Education of French Canadians in Holyoke, Massachusetts, 1880-1920

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

The French Canadian Community of Waterville, Maine

Construction, Perpetuation and Unraveling of a Community : The Franco Americans of Manchester, New Hampshire, 1870 to the Present

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

Structure and Strategy : French-Canadians in Central New England, 1850-1900

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

The Pattern of Cultural Groups in Worcester

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

A Social History of the French Canadian Community of Suncook, New Hampshire (1870-1920)

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

'I've Never Dreamed It Was Necessary to Marry!' : Women and Work in New England French Canadian Communities, 1870-1930

De la difficultÃ© de naÃ®tre et de survivre dans une ville industrielle de la Nouvelle-Angleterre au XIXe siÃ¨cle : mortalitÃ© infantile, infanticide et avortement Ã Lowell, Massachusetts, 1870-1900

Review: "Franco-AmÃ©rique," and "Loyal but French: The Negotiation of Identity by French-Canadian Descendants in the United States"

Shared Earnings, Unequal Responsibilities : Single French-Canadian Wage-Earning Women in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1900-1920

The Position of "New" Immigrants in the Fall River Textile Industry

The French-Canadian Experience in New England and the Photographs of Ulrich Bourgeois