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  • Author: Handlin, Oscar

Date: 1972

Language: en

Find in a Library: 389635

Find Online: OL1170977W

American immigration history in photos by the author of the award-winning historical piece, "The Uprooted."

  • Author: Craig, Béatrice

Date: 2009

Language: en

Find in a Library: 181602806

From University of Toronto Press: "In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a local economy made up of settlers, loggers, and business people from Lower Canada, New Brunswick, and New England was established on the banks of the Upper…

  • Author: Craig, Béatrice
  • Author: Dagenais, Maxime

Date: 2009

Language: English

Find Online: 298184228

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  • Author: New Hampshire Historical Society

Date: 2013

Language: en; fr

Read: Full text

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: Albert, Henry

Date: 1999

Language: English

Find in a Library: 42953999

The autobiography of a northern Maine native. Begins with his early life in Aroostook County and continues through his many years of service in the United States Army, bringing him and his family throughout the world - Ethiopia, Iran, and elsewhere -…

  • Author: Green, Constance McLaughlin

Date: 1939 (1968)

Language: en

Find in a Library: 1522230

Find Online: OL5601421M

A study of labor and industry in Holyoke, Massachusetts, beginning with the city's agrarian traditions, and establishing later an emphasis on the city's industrialization at the end of the nineteenth century. Published during the Great Depression,…

  • Author: Scontras, Charles A.

Date: 1994

Language: en

Find in a Library: 31188167

A restorative history of the birth and early life of organized labor in Maine in the middle of the nineteenth century, on the rise of the industrial period. From the preface: "The history of organized labor in Maine has been ignored by the State's…

  • Author: Corey, Eleanor Lemire

Date: 2001

Language: English

Find in a Library: 50562148

Memoirs spanning the period from 1901 to 1945, focusing on stories of the author's family throughout the midwestern United States during that period.

  • 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: Le Jeune, R.P.L.

Date: 1990 (1918)

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 144748841 (peut être lu au Centre Franco-Américain, Université du Maine, Orono, Maine)

Une brève histoire de l'Acadie entre 1412 et 1800 (entre colonisation, le Grand Dérangement, et repopulation). Certaines descriptions d'événements significatives dans la courte durée de vie des premières communatés Acadiennes de…

  • Author: Arsenault, Bona [Bonaventure]

Date: 1978

Language: en

Find in a Library: 6252812

Read: Preview (revised and republished edition, untranslated)

Translation of the first volume of Arsenault's original historical collection, "Histoire et généalogie des Acadiens." This volume, "Histoire des Acadiens," attempts a comprehensive history of the Acadian people - their arrival in…

  • 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: Albert, Gilbert

Date: 1985

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 31682670

Find Online: 31682670

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Un livre pour les jeunes (pour practiquer la langue française) sur le camping, la cabane à sucre, le bord de l'eau, les fraises, et des autres choses amusants de la vie dans le forêt. Contient des histoires, chansons, et des…

  • 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: Geyh, Patricia Keeney
  • Author: Soltis Banachowski, Joyce
  • Author: Boyea, Linda
  • Author: Sarasin Ustine, Patricia
  • Author: Holt Bourbonais, Marilyn
  • Author: Ploenske Labelle, Beverly

Date: 2002

Language:

Find in a Library: 49699352

From Ancestry Publishing: "A six-year collaborative effort of members of the French Canadian/Acadian Genealogical Society, this book provides detailed explanations about the genealogical sources available to those seeking their French-Canadian…

  • Author: Ducharme, Jacques

Date: 1939

Language: English

Find in a Library: 884728

One of the first novels written in English by a Franco American on the long-told Canadian immigration narrative. Tells the tale of a family leaving Canada for the United States near the beginning of the twentieth century. From the author of the…

  • Author: Dubay, Guy F.

Date: 1976

Language: Français and English

Find in a Library: 2624099

With Justice For All leads its reader through the drama surrounding the potential 1876 eviction of French families from their homes on disputed land in the St. John River Valley of Aroostook County, Maine. A play in two languages, and a play that…

  • Author: Drummond, William

Date: 1897

Language: English

Find in a Library: 496888673

Late nineteenth-, early twentieth-century Irish-Canadian poetry written in the French-Canadian English vernacular.

  • Author: Blanchette, Michel A.

Date: 2005

Language: English

Find in a Library: 67294624

Self-published memoir about life in Québec, and life after Québec. From iUniverse: "Michel learns that his father is dying. This news precipitates a nostalgic journey into the past-a childhood spent on a dairy farm in French Québec. As a…

  • Author: Asselin, E. Donald

Date: 1954

Language: English

Find in a Library: 13855620

Book of poetry from the Vermont author of "A French-Canadian Cookbook" and many other small books about New England.

  • Author: Rocheleau Rouleau, Corinne
  • Author: Langford, W.F.

Date: 1948

Language: English

Find in a Library: 32991568

From CatholicAuthors.com: "In 1948 Longmans of Toronto published her first novel, 'Laurentian Heritage.' It is a story of the peaceful and picturesque way of life led by the well-to-do French Canadian country folk before the turn of the present…

  • Author: Parsons, Vivian (LaJeunesse)

Date: 1941

Language: en

Find in a Library: 4207548

Open Library: OL6420912M

Novel set in an American ore-mining town at the end of the 19th century. Begins with Père La Tendresse sending his son, Joseph, from their farm near Trois-Rivières, Québec to work for a time in the United States, in Michigan's Upper…

  • Author: Olivier, Julien
  • Author: Parent, Michael

Date: 1996

Language: English

Find in a Library: 34776071

French folklore in North America with an explanation of popular images and themes, as well as a glossary of vernacular terms in translation. From August House Publishers: "In 'Of Kings and Fools' Julien Olivier and Michael Parent recount the stories…

  • Author: Vicero, Ralph

Date: 1968

Thesis Type: Ph. D., Geography

Institution: University of Wisconsin

Language: en

Find in a Library: 2934957

Find Online: OL13204047W

Study of French-Canadian emigration into the United States during the nineteenth century. Pivotal research in French Canadian emigration. Includes maps that show migration patterns from specific Canadian regions to specific areas in New England. From…