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- Author: Heffernan, Nancy Coffey
- Author: Stecker, Anne Page
Date: 1986
Language: en
Find in a Library: 12907801
Find Online: OL3321887M (3rd ed.)
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From University Press of New England: "A classic history of New Hampshire’s economic and political development, now updated for the twenty-first century....From fiercely ambitious and independent colonial towns to the media circus of the…
- Author: Plocher, Stephen
Date: 2007
Language: en
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A brief history of Waterville, Maine, written by a graduate of Waterville's Colby College and published online by the city government of Waterville. Begins with the city's peopling, moving through the town's incorporation apart from Winslow in 1802,…
- Author: Writers' Program, New Hampshire W.P.A.
Date: 1940
Language: en; fr
Find Online: OL7199146W
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From the introduction: "Today approximately 150,000 Americans of French ancestry, including a few who came directly from France, are living in New Hampshire. Like their grandparents in Quebec, they have preserved many of the traditions of their…
- Author: Albert, Julie
Date: 1969
Language: en; fr
Find in a Library: 7520465
Find Online: OL18252768M
Softcover community publication written in celebration of the town of Madawaska, Maine's centennial year - 1969. Contains historical vignettes, local pictures, advertisements, poetry, stories, customs, definitions of local words, and more, from the…
- Author: Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of Maine
Date: 1937
Language: en
Find in a Library: 255008
Find Online: @ Open Library
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State guidebook produced by the Maine Works Progress Administration's Federal Writers' Project in the 1930s. Installment in the American Guide Series: a collection of state travel guides and coffee tables books. Includes extensive descriptions of…
- Author: Violette, Maurice
Date: 1976
Language: en
Find in a Library: 2176381
A thorough history of the Franco American presence in the city of Augusta, Maine, up to the 1970s. Histories of mill, church, school, and community, from their migrant inception through sometimes celebratory, sometimes violent, persistence.…
- Author: Ouelette, Joanne
- Author: New Hampshire Historical Society
Date: 2013
Language: en
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Outline of dates and figures; compilation of facts and notes relevant to the history of French Canadian immigrants in the state of New Hampshire around the beginning of the twentieth century. Designed by the New Hampshire Historical Society for…
- Author: New Hampshire Historical Society
Date: 2013
Language: en; fr
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Short history lesson on French Canadian immigration and community building in New Hampshire, covering the 19th and early 20th centuries. Concludes with discussion questions about the provided information and photographs. Designed by the New Hampshire…
- Author: Samson, Gary
Date: 2000
Language: en
Find in a Library: 46874965
Pictorial history of the communities in and around the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company's mill complex in Manchester, New Hampshire. The rise and fall of Amoskeag, in photos. A volume in the broad-ranging "Images of America" series of books. Previously…
- Author: Aubin, Albert K.
Date: 1981
Language: en
Find in a Library: 8297862
Find Online: OL11436946M
A brief selection related to French exploration in North America, French Canadian immigration to the United States, and Franco American histories in Rhode Island. A small chapbook-sized resource that includes segments dedicated to culture and the…
- Author: Chartier, Armand
Date: 1993
Language: en
Find in a Library: 38570305
A brief history of the Franco Americans in New Bedford, Massachusetts. About half of the text is dedicated to the role of New Bedford's Catholic churches, while the remainder addresses New Bedford's community life, work, the French language, and…
- Author: Sorg, Marcella Harnish
Date: 1978
Language: en
A paperback, illustrated, simply-written history of the Franco Americans in Old Town, Milford, Orono, and Bradley, Maine. Compiled from the larger book, "The Old Town Reader," also published by the National Materials Development Center.
- Author: Connors-Carlson, Shirlee
Date: 2001
Language: en
Find in a Library: 49045997
A pictorial history of life and logging in St. John, Maine, at the beginning of the twentieth century. Includes some pictures that are featured in the book "Acadian Hard Times" (Stewart Doty, 1991), as well as many others that capture the households…
- Author: Perreault, Gene N.
Date: 1986
Language: en; fr
Find in a Library: 16989034
Find Online: OL5071919W
From the author: "The following stories represent the folk history of the logging business in northern Maine. They were gathered over the years and the facts may have been changed as the stories were passed on to succeeding generations. However, they…
- Author: Fairfield, Roy P.
Date: 1956 (2003)
Language: en
Find in a Library: 3085526
Find Online: OL2044914W
A history of the coastal and industrial city of Saco, Maine, from its inception to the 1950s. Written by a Saco native. The inside cover reads: "In a rich and vivid history, documented with record, with facts bearing evidence of infinitely rewarding…
- 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: Pelletier, Martine A.
Date: 1981
Language: en
Find in a Library: 726513498
A brief history, collection of historical letters, poems, photos, and other works compiled in a celebration of the town of Van Buren, Maine's centennial. From the editor: "Each and everyone of us has a dream. This is a story about a group of people…
- Author: Pelletier, Martine
- Author: Ferretti, Monica Dionne
Date: 1979
Language: en
Find in a Library: 5336702
Find Online: OL4434389M
A history of the people of Van Buren, Maine, with a heavy emphasis on local folklore. Includes a large collection of images of town buildings both past and present, historic documents, family trees, local advertisements, and local maps.
- Author: Mcgrath, Anna Fields
Date: 1989
Language: en
Find in a Library: 19509718
Subtitled, "A Pictorial History of Aroostook County, Maine." A celebration of Aroostook County's 150th year. A pictorial regional history consisting of general narrative and more intimate, anecdotal accounts of the place in present-day northern Maine…
- Author: Stadig, Rita
Date: 1989
Volume: 4
Language: en
Find in a Library: 20939346
A history of the St. John River Valley, Maine with a large segment dedicated to the town of Wallagrass. Begins with European colonization and the sixteenth century Native Americans, and continues through the establishment and demise of Acadia, and…
- Author: Stratton, Frances Morin Webb
Date: 1985
Language: en
Find in a Library: 24660801
Memoirs of a Northern Maine woman growing up during the Great Depression, with family straddling the rural and agrarian borderland of Maine and New Brunswick. Memories of her great-grandmother and extended family from working on a New Brunswick farm…
- Author: Cyr, Marguerite
Date: 1977
Language: fr
Find in a Library: 18597494
Une histoire culturelle des Acadiens de la Vallée St-Jean dans le Maine, présentée dans les mémoires d'une famille acadienne de Van Buren. Six chapitres racontés avec les photos et les materiaux historiques d'une famille du 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…
- Author: Gauvin, Marie Anne
Date: 1965
Thesis Type: M.S., Modern Languages
Institution: Central Connecticut State College
Language: en; fr
Find in a Library: 7520406
Find Online: OL12363344W
Historical observations of language usage in the St. John River Valley in Maine and New Brunswick, focusing on the social, cultural, and linguistic traits maintained by the area's Acadian population. From the author: "This thesis proposes to show how…
- 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…
- Author: Callnan, Miriam Therese
Date: 1974
Thesis Type: M.A., History
Institution: University of Maine at Orono
Language: en
Find in a Library: 3488495
Biographical history of a northern Maine Roman Catholic priest, Rev. Joseph S. Marcoux. Fr. Marcoux was the first pastor at St. Joseph's Parish in the town of Wallagrass, Maine, in Aroostook County.
- Author: Ham, Edward B.
Date: 1937 November
Publication: Modern Language Notes
Volume: 52
Language: en
Find in a Library: 479270094
A description of Manchester, New Hampshire's ACA library: its holdings, its scholars, and its intentions. Refers also to Woonsocket, Rhode Island's Union-St-Jean-Baptiste Library. Written by a 1930s Yale scholar.
- Author: Frenette, Yves
Date: 1989
Publication: Historical Papers/Communications historiques
Volume: 24
Language: fr
Find in a Library: 28280811
Adapté d'une plus longe forme (1988). D'Erudit: "Le présent article a pour sujet la genèse d'une communauté canadienne-française en Nouvelle-Angleterre, celle de Lewiston, Maine, avant 1880. L'auteur décrit d'abord la localité…