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  • Author: Roby, Yves

Date: 1987 Winter

Publication: Maine Historical Society Quarterly

Volume: 26

Language: en

Find in a Library: 2263768, 607696548

Historiographical analysis of writings on Franco Americans and an attempt to explain the different circumstances of these writings' publication. Observations on literature concerning the period of French Canadian migration to the United States…

  • Author: Vaillant, P.U.

Date: 1909-02

Publication: La Revue Franco-Américaine

Volume: 2

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 445763455, 564957447

Troisième partie d'une pièce biographique sur un prêtre canadien-français aux Etats-Unis. Les communications avec son évêque, et ses efforts à développer une paroisse nationale à Fall River, au Massachusetts. Quelques…

  • Author: Labbé, Yvon A. (editor)

Date: 1978 janvier

Publication: Le F.A.R.O.G. Forum

Volume: 5

Language: Bilingual/bilingue

Find in a Library: 6881976, b2728209

January 1978 issue of the bilingual periodical publication of the Franco-American Centre (formerly the Franco-American Office), University of Maine, Orono, Maine. Contains art and articles on Franco American life. This issue also contains a four-page…

  • Author: D'Andrea, Vaneeta-Marie

Date: 1986

Thesis Type: Ph. D., Sociology

Institution: University of Connecticut

Language: en

Find in a Library: 16137683, 707101694, 295684257

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Thesis in sociology highlighting Franco American women in the preservation of ethnic heritage and language. Based on a variety of case studies conducted by the author in 1980s New England. From the author: "The primary purpose of this dissertation…

  • Author: Bizier, Hélène-Andrée

Date: 1978

Publication: Forces

Language: Bilingual/bilingue

Find in a Library: 1081651, 61523125

Une introduction à l'histoire des prémières Français aux États-Unis, commençant par les explorateurs historiques qui ont établis les noms français de nombreux endroits en Amérique. Le début et la fin de la Nouvelle…

  • Author: Santerre, Richard

Date: 1978

Publication: Forces

Language: Bilingual/bilingue

Find in a Library: 1081651, 61523125

Un aperçu général d'une histoire des Canadiens français aux États-Unis - les Franco-Américains - et les changements qui ont eu lieu dans leurs communautés au fil du temps. De leurs débuts migratoires, à la fin de leurs…

  • Author: Thomas, Dr. Alton P.

Date: 1976

Language: en

Find in a Library: 2968303

Find Online: OL4907329M

Full title also reads: "A Bicentennial Project for the City of Woonsocket." A collection of historical essays on Woonsocket, Rhode Island, earlier featured in an historical column of the city's newspaper, the Woonsocket Call. Nearly two centuries of…

  • Author: Dubé, Normand C.

Date: 1971

Thesis Type: Ph. D., Education

Institution: The Ohio State University

Language: en; fr

Find in a Library: 22407012

Dissertation exploring the resources and methods available for teaching the French language to the Franco American native French speaker. Suggestions for materials, activity, and practice in the Franco American's bilingual education setting,…

  • Author: Belisle, Alexandre

Date: 1920

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 2757700

L'histoire d'un siècle des Franco-Américains à Worcester, Massachusetts, de 1820 a 1920. Un profil de la communauté franco-américaine: ses églises et écoles, ses religieux(-ses), ses organisations, ses chefs publiques, et ses…

  • Author: Guy, Don

Date: 1976 July

Publication: Yankee

Language: English

Find in a Library: 34796734

Article on the plight of Franco American cultural activists in New England. The variety of the troubles confronting them, and their energy in relation to the seeming decline of the historically supportive Franco cultural establishments as seen in…

  • Author: Vincens, Simone J.

Date: 1985-01

Publication: Contemporary French Civilization

Volume: 9

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 6466586, 3234085

Une vue d'ensemble de l'histoire de la presse franco-américaine du 19e et 20e siècles, écrit par un professeur de Millersville State College. Commentaire sur les divers publications et leur ampleur géographique à la hauteur de leurs…

  • Author: Schwartzwald, Robert

Date: 1994

Book Title: Langue, espace, société : les variétés du français en Amérique du Nord

Language: French

Find in a Library: 34478167

Des pensées sur les défis culturelles, politiques, et scolaires auxquels sont confrontés les études québécoises et les études franco-américaines dans les universités américaines. L'état actuel des cultures…

  • Author: Quintal, Claire

Date: 1994

Language: Français and English

Find in a Library: 31382224

Un recueil d'essais sur la femme franco-américaine tant qu'individuelle ainsi qu'un partie d'une collectivité sociale - de la France vers le Canada, du Québec vers les États-Unis. Certains expériences de femmes franco-américaines,…

  • Author: McClymer, John

Date: 1992

Book Title: Immigration and Ethnicity : American Society--"Melting Pot" or "Salad Bowl"?

Language: English

Find in a Library: 23016079

Brief essay that examines the focus terms "ethnicity" and "assimilation" through a case study of the Franco American population of Worcester, Massachusetts, before 1914. McClymer tells how the French Canadian immigrant ethnic group negotiated the…

  • Author: Langlois, Simon (rédacteur)

Date: 1995

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 32091322

Une collection d'essais sur l'évolution du fait français en Amérique du Nord. La langue, les histoires, et les cultures de communautés francophones au Canada et aux États-Unis. Origines des expressions culturelles…

  • Author: Freeman, Jesse (interviewer)

Date: 2009 January 23

Language: English

Find in a Library: 181139334

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Georgia Public Broadcasting radio interview of Worcester, Massachusetts native John Dufresne on the occasion of his new novel, "Requiem, Mass." Discussion about the novel's characters and setting, Dufresne's ideas about autobiographical writing and…

  • Author: Chodos, Robert
  • Author: Hamovitch, Eric

Date: 1991

Language: en

Find in a Library: 28181742

Find Online: OL1357139M

An examination of various and historical connections between Quebec and the United States. Beginning in the attitudes shaped during eighteenth-century struggles between France and Britain over the Canadian landmass, then moving through the American…

  • 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: Rosenzweig, Roy

Date: 2002 (1983)

Language: en

Find in a Library: 9154776

Find Online: OL2745501W

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Study of the off-hours lives of working-class people in the industrial city of Worcester, Massachusetts. Workers' hobbies, their hangouts, and the impact of their leisure on the workplace and politics in the immigration era. A fresh social history of…

  • Author: Fisher, John R.

Date: 1994

Language: English

Find in a Library: 35849944

Brief biography of a French Canadian who fought in the American Civil War as a volunteer from Richmond, Vermont. Concludes with a brief ancestry of his family extending into 17th century France, as well as a list of his descendants now dispersed…

  • Author: Wright, Carroll Davidson

Date: 1882

Language: en

Find in a Library: 9773740

Find Online: OL18861604M

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Transcription of an 1881 "informal hearing" at the Massachusetts legislature regarding the publication of the annual report of the Massachusetts Labor Statistics Bureau in which the French Canadians are famously referred to as "the Chinese of the…

  • Author: Bevis, Charlie

Date: 2008

Language: en

Find in a Library: 183162151

Find Online: OL1856361W

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A history of the New England minor baseball league around the turn of the century. The league's rise, demise, and its place in the social and economic transitions of that era. The impact of the league on the industrial centers of New England, and…

  • 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…

  • Author: Robbins, Rhea CoÌ‚té

Date: 1999

Publication: The River Review / La Revue rivière

Volume: 5

Language: English and français

Find in a Library: 33064369

Critical piece on the lives and literatures of three Franco American authors - Corinne Rocheleau Rouleau, Camille Lessard-Bissonnette, and Grace Metalious. Argument claiming the existence of a Franco American women's literary tradition, the…

  • Author: Ducharme, Jacques

Date: 1943

Language: en

Find in a Library: 932931

Find Online: OL6450417M

Book-length reflection on a personal journey through New England to learn about French-Canadian immigration and Franco American identity there. Permeated with personal anecdotes, comments on language, race, and genealogy, and perhaps the first…

  • Author: Guillet, Ernest

Date: 1981

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 8528395

Une histoire de théâtre - ses peuples et ses spectacles - franco-américain à Holyoke, Massachusetts, et dans la Nouvelle-Angleterre. Met un accent sur la période entre 1900 et 1940.

  • 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…