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  • Author: Mosher, Howard Frank

Date: 1983

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8845460

One of Mosher's time-tested Vermont stories, again set in his fictional Kingdom County. About a young French Canadian emigrant who endures hardship from the very beginnings of her life in the United States. Republished in 2004, to the Hardscrabble…

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  • Author: Mosher, Howard Frank

Date: 1978

Language: English

Find in a Library: 4136317

A collection of Mosher's early stories. These tales are set in the fictional Kingdom County, Vermont, that serves as the background and community for most of Mosher's works. The collection contains the following titles: Alabama Jones, Burl, First…

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  • Author: Mosher, Howard Frank

Date: 1977

Language: English

Find in a Library: 3168446

A Vermont family in financial straits turns to smuggling Canadian whiskey back into a Prohibition- and Depression-era America. Mosher's first novel, introducing us to the author's budding literary relationship with northern rural Vermont - an…

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  • Author: Mosher, Howard Frank

Date: 1999

Language: English

Find in a Library: 41488621

An intimate look at rural community life in the American-Canadian borderlands, centered around a Franco American priest, his stories, and his 3000+ page written history of the town in which the novel is set. Recent novel from the creator of the…

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  • Author: History Committee of Saint Joseph Parish

Date: 1988

Language: en

Find in a Library: 18726883, 21119721

Find Online: OL8667782W

157 year history of one of the multiple Roman Catholic parishes in the city of Burlington, Vermont. St. Joseph Parish recognizes itself as "the oldest national parish in New England." From the parish website: "The story of St. Joseph's is, from the…

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  • Author: Mason, Leonard A.
  • Author: Masson-Douglas, Jeanne (transcriber)

Date: 1980

Language: English

Find in a Library: 16816262

Collection of folklore that, transcribed by a listener, also has the function of oral history. Concerning story, home, and rural life in Vermont.

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  • Author: O'Connor, Daniel Giles

Date: 1969

Thesis Type: Ed. D.

Institution: University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Language: en

Find in a Library: 116818

Argument toward implementing a bilingual education program in the public schools of the state of Vermont. Written in the context of the 1968 United States congressional discussions about funding bilingual education in general, and the scope of…

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  • Author: Potvin, Raymond H.

Date: 2003-06 (summer)

Publication: American Catholic Studies

Volume: 114

Language: en

Find in a Library: 47828739

Essay on the birth of French Canadian Roman Catholic national parishes (churches, schools, communities) in New England - their subsequent growth, decline, and transformation as Franco American communities from the early nineteenth century to the…

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  • Author: Paquet, Gilles
  • Author: Smith, Wayne R.

Date: 1983-09

Publication: L'Actualité économique

Volume: 59

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 113277240

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Analyse sur l'émigration canadien-français aux États-Unis en mémoire de l'oeuvre d'Albert Faucher, et utilisant des donnees économiques dans la région nord-est pour tenter d'expliquer les schémas de migration correspondantes.

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  • Author: Ouimette, David S.

Date: 2010 September

Publication: National Genealogical Society Quarterly

Volume: 98

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1759226, 929 N21 v. 98

Genealogical piece from the quarterly publication of the National Genealogical Society. Focuses on the Bettis, Perrin, and Vaillancourt families between the geographies of Canada and Vermont.

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  • Author: Sharrow, Gregory L.

Date: 2001 November

Publication: Visit'n: Conversations with Vermonters

Volume: 7

Language: English

Find in a Library: 36559489

Article compiled from oral history interviews with two sisters of the Pellerin family in Highgate, Vermont. Featured in the Vermont Folklife Center's annual publication, "Visit'n."

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  • Author: Sharrow, Gregory L.

Date: 2001 November

Publication: Visit'n: Conversations with Vermonters

Volume: 7

Language: English

Find in a Library: 36559489

Article compiled from an oral history interview with a resident of the town of Highgate, Vermont, situated in a rural part of the state near to the US border with Canada. Featured in the Vermont Folklife Center's annual publication, "Visit'n."

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  • Author: Sharrow, Gregory L.

Date: 1997-11-00

Publication: Visit'n: Conversations with Vermonters

Volume: 3

Language: en

Find in a Library: 36559489

Article compiled from oral history interviews Vermont stonecutters of the early twentieth century. Featured in the Vermont Folklife Center's annual publication, "Visit'n." From the Vermont Historical Society: "Because many French Canadians first came…

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  • Author: Whitebrook, Susan

Date: 1994-06

Publication: Onomastica Canadiana

Volume: 76

Language: en

Find in a Library: 2240808

Article in the official journal of the Canadian Society for the Study of Names (formerly "Onomastica"). Features scholarship on name transition and translation, with a particular emphasis on these processes as they work through French Canadian names…

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  • Author: Sharrow, Gregory L.

Date: 2002-11-00

Publication: Visit'n: Conversations with Vermonters

Volume: 8

Language: en

Find in a Library: 36559489

Article compiled from oral history interviews of Vermont musicians in the twentieth century. Featured in the Vermont Folklife Center's annual publication, "Visit'n." From the Vermont Historical Society: "Includes reminisces by Franco-American fiddler…

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  • Author: Chase, Kim

Date: 1998 Summer

Publication: South Road: The Literary Journal of Martha's Vineyard

Volume: 1

Language: English, with some français

Find in a Library: 40561813

Short prose piece that comes out of the distance between a dying mother who loses her ability to speak English, and a searching daughter who, unlike her older siblings, can neither speak nor understand her mother's French.

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  • Author: Chassé, Paul P.

Date: 1976

Language: Français and English

Find in a Library: 4499336

Une collection de la poésie franco-américaine du vingtième siècle. Publiée en Rhode Island, se concerne avec les francos de la toute de la Nouvelle-Angleterre. Le plus des poèmes sont écrites en francais, mais en les plus…

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  • Author: Paige, Abby (moderator)

Date: 2010 June 27

Language: English

A roundtable discussion led by writer Abby Paige about Franco American heritage in Vermont with respect to the themes in Ben Levine's film, "Reveil!" From the Center for Media and Democracy: " 'Réveil! -- Waking Up French' is a powerful…

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  • Author: WCAX-TV

Date: 2001

Language: English

Students at North Country Union High School in Newport, Vermont are champions of the 2001 Cyberfair, a worldwide website design competition. Their site, LifeonTheBorder.com (no longer in service), was about their Franco American community's heritage,…

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  • 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…

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  • 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.

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  • Author: Christian Science Monitor

Date: 1909 July 6

Publication: The Christian Science Monitor

Language: English

Find in a Library: 10969332, 35351012

Article on the celebration of Franco-American Day at Lake Champlain (New York and Vermont) in 1909.

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  • Author: Christian Science Monitor

Date: 1918 July 8

Publication: The Christian Science Monitor

Language: English

Find in a Library: 10969332, 35351012

Article on multiple criminal alcohol seizures from a number of Vermont social clubs in the 1910s.

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  • Author: Christian Science Monitor

Date: 1958 August 19

Publication: The Christian Science Monitor

Language: English

Find in a Library: 10969332, 35351012

Article on French-English roadsigns planned for Vermont highways in the 1950s.

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  • 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…

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  • Author: Franco-American Centre Franco-Américain

Date: 1996

Language: Bilingual/bilingue

Find in a Library: 38755550

An examination of Franco-American history and life through the folkloric means of artistic woodcarving in Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. The introduction reads, "This exhibit catalogue is designed to share with the public the vitality and the…

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  • Author: Quintal, Claire

Date: 1996

Language: English

Find in a Library: 35289877

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Essay collection on the diverse aspects of Franco American community and life in New England. Emphases on French Canadian immigration to New England; religion, education, and community life; and Franco American literature. Includes a wide range of…

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  • Author: Vermont Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights

Date: 1983

Language: English

Find in a Library: 9609949

Find Online: OL5336454W

From the members of the Vermont Advisory Committee: "The report presents an historic overview of the French-Canadian presence in Vermont over the past 300 years, a discussion of the size of the State's Franco-American population, and the different…

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  • Author: Chandonnet, Thomas Aimé

Date: 1872

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 20649460

Find Online: OL7724186W

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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…

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  • Author: F.A.R.O.G. (Franco-American Resource Opportunity Group)

Date: 1980

Language: en; fr

Find in a Library: 6538417

1980 catalog of people and places in New England that function as resources for Franco-American culture both in- and outside of their communities. The results of a student-led investigation through New England cities: community, industry, educational…

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