Franco American Library

America's French Heritage

Author: Casanova, Jacques Donat

Date: 1975

Language: en (translation)

Find in a Library: 4134570

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A brief history of the French presence in North America. English translation of "Une AmeÌrique francÌ§aise." From the text: "When we think of the French contribution to the history of the United States, we immediately think to Lafayette,…

J'aime le New York : A Bilingual Guide to the French Heritage of New York State

Author: BrieÌ€re, Eloise

Date: 1986

Language: en; fr

Find in a Library: 34578272

French heritage travel and resource guide to New York state, divided by region and described by town and city. From the foreword to the text: "Continuing the tradition begun in the 17th century, French and Canadian ties flourish in New York which…

Tags: Art and Architecture, Canada, Emigration and Immigration, Exploration and Colonization, France, Government and Politics, Hudson River Valley, Labor History, Mills and Mill Work, New York, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Travel and Tourism, QuÃ©bec, Religion, Social History, Travel and Movement

A Modern-Day Voyageur Family : Paddling the 3,000 Mile Fur Trade Canoe Route Across the U.S. and Canada

Author: Kent, Timothy J.

Date: 2009

Language: en

Find in a Library: 466744451

From the author: "When Kevin and Ben Kent were ages seven and five, their parents conceived an exciting, enriching, and educational project for the family. As a team, they began paddling the 3,000 mile length of the mainline fur trade canoe route…

Tags: Canada, Emigration and Immigration, Exploration and Colonization, Family, Fur-trading, Great Lakes Region, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Travel and Tourism, Ontario, QuÃ©bec, Travel and Movement

North American Elders : United States and Canadian Perspectives

Author: Rathbone-McCuan, Eloise (editor)
Author: Havens, Betty (editor)

Date: 1988

Language: English

Find in a Library: 16088935

A study in sociology and gerontology. Comparative Canadian and United States perspectives on aging and the elderly. Observations on the social policies, demographics, geographies, and cultural realities of both countries in the context of family…

Tags: Alaska, Canada, Death and Disaster, Demography, Essay, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Government and Politics, Manitoba, Native Americans, New York, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Demography, Ontario, Ottawa ON, QuÃ©bec, Saskatchewan, Social History, United States

History of the Huguenot Emigration to America : Volumes I and II

Author: Baird, Charles Washington

Date: 1885

Volume: 1

Language: en

Find in a Library: 8047731

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Late nineteenth-century historical text on the Huguenot emigration from a France in religious strife to the eastern coast of North America between the middle 16th and middle 18th centuries. According to the author, Volume 1 of this 2-volume text only…

L'AmÃ©rique du Nord

Author: DubeÌ, Normand

Date: 1974

Language: FranÃ§ais

Tags: Canada, Children's Literature, Education, Exploration and Colonization, Geography, Literary Works -- Children's Literature, United States, Youth

Je voyage en Nouvelle-Angleterre

Author: DubeÌ, Normand

Date: 1974

Language: FranÃ§ais

Find in a Library: Aucun

Un cahier pour les jeunes. Sur les sujets de la vocabulaire et la grammaire franÃ§aises, la biologie, la gÃ©nÃ©alogie, les sports et les arts. Contiens plusieurs des histoires Ã©crites pour l'explication des sujets au-dessus, et qui sont…

Histoire des Franco-AmeÌricains

Author: Rumilly, Robert

Date: 1958

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 873132

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Un histoire complÃ¨te des franco-amÃ©ricains - les franÃ§ais et canadiens-franÃ§ais en AmÃ©rique - depuis le temps de Champlain (17e siÃ¨cle) jusqu'Ã la fin de la DeuxiÃ¨me Guerre Mondiale. Cet volume a Ã©tÃ© publiÃ© par…

The Poetical Works of William Henry Drummond

Author: Drummond, William Henry

Date: 1912

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1682386

Turn-of-the-century Irish-Canadian poetry that is written, with a proclaimed admiration for its sound, in the French-Canadian spoken English vernacular.

Tags: Canada, Community: Customs and Social Life, Family, Language and Linguistics, Literary Works -- Poetry, Poetry, QuÃ©bec

The Habitant and Other French-Canadian Poems

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.

Tags: Canada, Farming and Agriculture, Forestry, Language and Linguistics, Literary Works -- Poetry, Poetry, QuÃ©bec

MeÌmoires d'une famille acadienne de Van Buren, Maine

Author: Cyr, Marguerite

Date: 1977

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 18597494

Une histoire culturelle des Acadiens de la VallÃ©e St-Jean dans le Maine, prÃ©sentÃ©e dans les mÃ©moires d'une famille acadienne de Van Buren. Six chapitres racontÃ©s avec les photos et les materiaux historiques d'une famille du Maine:…

Tags: Acadians, Canada, Community: Customs and Social Life, Emigration and Immigration, Family, Folklore, Food, France, Geography, Maine, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Local, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Poetry, Religion, St. John River Valley, Van Buren ME

Little Canuck : The Adventures of an Immigrant Boy from QuÃ©bec

Author: Blanchette, Michel A.

Date: 2005

Language: English

Find in a Library: 67294624

Self-published memoir about life in QuÃ©bec, and life after QuÃ©bec. 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 QuÃ©bec. As a…

Tags: Canada, Community: Customs and Social Life, Death and Disaster, Education, Emigration and Immigration, Family, Farming and Agriculture, Folklore, Gender and Sexuality, Government and Politics, Illness, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, QuÃ©bec, Religion

Lunar Attractions

Author: Blaise, Clark

Date: 1979

Language: English

Find in a Library: 4503478

From Gale Literature: "'Lunar Attractions' (1979) recalls many of the themes and settings of [Blaise's] short stories--the child, David Greenwood, who discovers his French-Canadian ancestry (his real name is Boisvert), the dislocations of life in…

Tags: Canada, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fiction and Literature, Language and Linguistics, Literary Works -- Fiction, Literary Works -- Short fiction, Personal History: Biography and Oral History

I Had a Father: A Post-Modern Autobiography

Author: Blaise, Clark

Date: 1993

Language: English

Find in a Library: 26398865

From Library Journal: "This unusual memoir focuses on the author's attempt to understand his dead father. Blaise, a prize-winning novelist and director of the University of Iowa's International Writing Program, combines fragments of memories, mostly…

Tags: Alcohol and Drugs, Canada, Death and Disaster, Family, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Travel and Movement, United States

Un reÌ‚ve queÌbeÌcois

Author: Beaulieu, Victor-LÃ©vy

Date: 1978

Language: FranÃ§ais (English translation available)

Find in a Library: 5982692, 184816014

The back cover of the text reads: "'A QuÃ©bÃ©cois Dream' is a nightmare vision of what happens to a man who is dispossessed, impotent, afraid and filled with rage. Joseph-David-BarthÃ©lÃ©my Dupuis takes grotesque war measures against his…

Tags: Alcohol and Drugs, Canada, Death and Disaster, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fiction and Literature, Government and Politics, Literary Works -- Fiction, MontrÃ©al QC, QuÃ©bec, Violence

Francophone Literatures : An Introductory Survey

Author: Jack, Belinda Elizabeth

Date: 1996

Language: English

Find in a Library: 34557449

From Oxford University Press: "The canon of French literature has undergone substantial transformation in recent years and francophone literature is now an increasingly important element in French literature courses. This study introduces the diverse…

Tags: Africa, Belgium, Canada, Caribbean, Criticism and Review, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Exploration and Colonization, Fiction and Literature, France, Haiti, Language and Linguistics, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Poetry, QuÃ©bec, Switzerland

Becoming Cajun, Becoming American : The Acadian in American Literature from Longfellow to James Lee Burke

Author: Hebert-Leiter, Maria

Date: 2009

Language: English

Find in a Library: 463256338

From LSU Press: "From antebellum times, Louisiana’s unique multipartite society included a legal and social space for intermediary racial groups such as Acadians, Creoles, and Creoles of Color. In 'Becoming Cajun, Becoming American,' Maria…

Tags: Acadians, Acculturation and Assimilation, Canada, Criticism and Review, Death and Disaster, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fiction and Literature, France, Gender and Sexuality, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Louisiana, Nova Scotia, Travel and Movement, United States

Postcolonialism in North America : Imaginative Colonization in Henry Thoreau's "A Yankee in Canada" and Jacques Poulin's "Volkswagen Blues"

Author: Weisman, Adam

Date: 1995

Thesis Type: Ph. D., English and American Literature and Language

Institution: Harvard University

Language: en

Find in a Library: 34361480

Also featured, in abridged form, in the Massachusetts Review (see 'Journal Articles'). From the author: "This thesis introduces the concept of imaginative colonization in postcolonial literary and cultural studies, which has a particular relevance to…

Tags: Canada, Criticism and Review, England, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fiction and Literature, France, Government and Politics, Literary Works, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, QuÃ©bec, United States

Banished from Our Home : The Acadian Diary of AngeÌlique Richard

Author: Stewart, Sharon

Date: 2004

Language: English (traduction en franÃ§ais est disponible)

Find in a Library: 54371823

A children's book about the Acadian expulsion of 1754 (le Grand DeÌrangement). From Scholastic Canada: "Angélique Richard's life is turned upside down when she and her family, along with the people of Grand-Pré, are forced by the…

Tags: Acadians, Canada, Children's Literature, Death and Disaster, England, Fiction and Literature, Literary Works -- Children's Literature, Nova Scotia, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, United States, Youth

The Virgin Forest

Author: Provencher Faucher, Doris

Date: 2000

Language: English

Find in a Library: 48655561

First novel in a thus far four-part series known as "Le Québécois." From Artenay Press: "This portrayal of early settlement in the St-Lawrence River Valley wilderness in the mid-1600’s represents the broad reality of the French…

Tags: Canada, Emigration and Immigration, Exploration and Colonization, Family, Fiction and Literature, France, Geography, Literary Works -- Fiction, QuÃ©bec, St. Lawrence River Valley

The Rapids

Author: Provencher Faucher, Doris

Date: 2002

Language: English

Find in a Library: 65165055

A sequel to "The Virgin Forest" (2000), second novel in "Le Québécois" series. From Artenay Press: "Bastien and Marguerite's first Canadian-born descendants face trials and challenges that are quite different from those experienced by…

Tags: Canada, Emigration and Immigration, Exploration and Colonization, Family, Fiction and Literature, France, Fur-trading, Hudson Bay, Literary Works -- Fiction, Native Americans, Newfoundland, QuÃ©bec, St. Lawrence River Valley, Violence, War

Imperial Conflict

Author: Provencher Faucher, Doris

Date: 2006

Language: English

Find in a Library: 122407531

Third novel in "Le Québécois" series. From Artenay Press: "Three decades of colonial peace and prosperity follow the Treaty of Utrecht. Bastien's three succeeding generations migrate to settle south and west along the Saint Lawrence…

Tags: Acadians, Canada, Family, Fiction and Literature, France, Fur-trading, Government and Politics, Great Britain, Illinois, Literary Works -- Fiction, Louisiana, Nova Scotia, QuÃ©bec, St. Lawrence River Valley, Violence, War

Date: 1987

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 19724424

De textes fictives et non-, une grande collection qui commence à expliquer le phénomène de l'exode canadien-français aux Etats-Unis. Contiens des pièces de Pierre Anctil, Josaphat Benoit, A. Bourbonnière,…

Volkswagen Blues

Author: Poulin, Jacques

Date: 1984

Language: English (traduction du franÃ§ais)

Find in a Library: 48670997

1984 best-selling QuÃ©bec novel about two new-found friends traveling across the roads of Canada and the United States - from GaspÃ© to San Francisco - in search of one's brother. Infused with histories of Native Americans, French colonization,…

A Momentary Order : Poems

Author: Poulin, A., Jr.

Date: 1987

Language: English

Find in a Library: 17018661

Book of poetry by SUNY Brockport Professor of Literature. Poulin was born in Lisbon, Maine, and educated at the former St. Francis College of Biddeford, Maine. He is also the translator of a collection of French poems by Rainer Maria Rilke.

Tags: Canada, Literary Works -- Poetry, Maine, Poetry

Folklore de la mer et religion

Author: Lacroix, BenoiÌ‚t

Date: 1980

Language: FranÃ§ais

Find in a Library: 8345159

De l'avant-propos: "Le pÃ¨re Benoit Lacroix, O.P., avec toute la luciditÃ© qu'on lui connait, a su, lui aussi, plonger dans la profondeur de l'Ã¢me du pecheur pour essayer d'en decouvrir le phÃ©nomÃ¨ne religieux maritime; et, en bon…

Tags: Canada, Fishing, Folklore, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, QuÃ©bec, Religion

Author: Tremblay, Remy

Date: 2000

Institution: University of Ottawa

Language: fr

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Le reÌsumeÌ de Tremblay: "Dans cette these de doctorat, nous explorons le concept de communauteÌ, lequel appartient Ã la sociologie mais qui est d'un grand inteÌret pour les geÌographes par sa dimension spatiale plutot meÌconnue.…

Tags: Canada, Community: Customs and Social Life, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, Florida, France, Geography, Great Britain, Hollywood FL, Miami FL, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Geography, QuÃ©bec, United States

La litteÌrature francÌ§aise de Nouvelle-Angleterre

Author: Therriault, Mary-Carmel

Date: 1945

Institution: UniversiteÌ Laval

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 77409396

Un oeuvre qui explore le phénomène de la litteÌrature langue francÌ§aise eÌcrit et lit dans la Nouvelle-Angleterre, jusqu'à 1945. Réédité en 1946 par Fides, les Publications de l'Université…

Living Arrangements : Race, Ethnicity and Nationality in the Liberal State

Author: Spinner, Jeffrey Alan

Date: 1992

Thesis Type: Ph. D., Political Science

Institution: University of Michigan

Language: en

Find in a Library: 30073134

From the author: "Liberals usually argue that cultural identity can flourish in the private sphere but should not matter in public. This argument is blind to the way liberal institutions affect cultural identity, the prejudices that members of some…

Tags: Acculturation and Assimilation, African Americans, Canada, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Government and Politics, Jewish Americans, Language and Linguistics, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Religion, United States

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

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America's French Heritage

J'aime le New York : A Bilingual Guide to the French Heritage of New York State

A Modern-Day Voyageur Family : Paddling the 3,000 Mile Fur Trade Canoe Route Across the U.S. and Canada

North American Elders : United States and Canadian Perspectives

History of the Huguenot Emigration to America : Volumes I and II

L'AmÃ©rique du Nord

Je voyage en Nouvelle-Angleterre

Histoire des Franco-AmeÌricains

The Poetical Works of William Henry Drummond

The Habitant and Other French-Canadian Poems

MeÌmoires d'une famille acadienne de Van Buren, Maine

Little Canuck : The Adventures of an Immigrant Boy from QuÃ©bec

Lunar Attractions

I Had a Father: A Post-Modern Autobiography

Un reÌ‚ve queÌbeÌcois

Francophone Literatures : An Introductory Survey

Becoming Cajun, Becoming American : The Acadian in American Literature from Longfellow to James Lee Burke

Postcolonialism in North America : Imaginative Colonization in Henry Thoreau's "A Yankee in Canada" and Jacques Poulin's "Volkswagen Blues"

Banished from Our Home : The Acadian Diary of AngeÌlique Richard

The Virgin Forest

The Rapids

Imperial Conflict

Textes de l'exode : recueil de textes sur l'Ã©migration des QuÃ©bÃ©cois aux Ã‰tats-Unis (XIXe et XXe siÃ¨cles)

Volkswagen Blues

A Momentary Order : Poems

Folklore de la mer et religion

Le concept de communautÃ© en gÃ©ographie vu Ã travers le petit QuÃ©bec de la Floride

La litteÌrature francÌ§aise de Nouvelle-Angleterre

Living Arrangements : Race, Ethnicity and Nationality in the Liberal State

British and Canadian Immigration to the United States since 1920