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  • Author: Lane, Brigitte Marie

Date: 1983

Thesis Type: Ph. D.

Institution: Harvard University

Language: en

Find in a Library: 21874384

From Lane: "Being Americans of French-Canadian descent, the Franco-Americans of New England possess a rich and original traditional culture which has been little documented up to now, especially in English....As a result, this dissertation, which is…

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  • Author: Shea, Louise Gravel

Date: 1999

Thesis Type: M.A., Geography

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 277833186

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De l'auteur: "Le territoire d'étude de ce mémoire est situé dans le comté du Madawaska, au nord-ouest du Nouveau-Brunswick et dans la partie nord du comte d'Aroostook Maine, c'est-à-dire dans la vallée supérieure de la rivière…

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  • 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…

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  • Author: Desjardins, Lise A.

Date: 1995

Thesis Type: M.S., Nursing

Institution: University of Maine at Orono

Language: en

Find in a Library: 34127818

From the author: "The purpose of this thesis was to explore and describe the health and illness beliefs of a Franco-American community in Northern Maine. A major assumption of this study was that culture impacts all aspects of life and therefore…

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  • Author: Chevalier, Sister Florence Marie, S.S.A.

Date: 1972

Thesis Type: Ph. D., Sociology

Institution: Catholic University of America

Language: en

Find in a Library: 11037919

Dissertation on the histories of Franco American national societies and fraternal organizations in New England. Their significance to French Canadian and Franco American communities there from 1860 to 1960. How these organizations were involved in…

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  • Author: Elliot, Noel Montgomery

Date: 1992

Language:

Find in a Library: 25538822

Genealogical directory of French-Canadian names and places useful for Franco-American family, genealogical, or historical research as far back as the 17th century.

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  • Author: Bunnell, Paul

Date: 2004

Language:

Find in a Library: 58017168

List of French (Canadian) and Native American Marriages from eastern North America. Respective sources are listed for each documented marriage.

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  • Author: Weisman, Adam Paul

Date: 1995-fall

Publication: The Massachusetts Review

Volume: 36

Language: en

Find in a Library: 482967897

From the author:"This thesis introduces the concept of imaginative colonization in postcolonial literary and cultural studies, which has a particular relevance to the literatures of North America. It argues that the postcolonial experiences of the…

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  • Author: Wickett, S. Morley

Date: 1913-01

Publication: The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volume: 45

Language: en

Find in a Library: 486783228

Brief 1913 review of what the author calls "the great Canadian exodus" - the period from 1850 to 1900 when nearly 1.8 million English and French Canadians emigrated to the United States.

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  • Author: Veltman, Calvin J.

Date: 1976 Autumn

Publication: American Review of Canadian Studies

Volume: 6

Language:

Find in a Library: 60621291

Analysis of the population, migration, and marriage patterns of Rawdon, Québec, as they relate to a growing percentage of predominantly French speakers in that region. From the author: "This paper is an empirical examination of the processes by…

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  • Author: Stewart, Philip

Date: 1976 May

Publication: The French Review

Volume: 49

Language:

Find in a Library: 481390284

Un revue critique du texte "Une Amérique française" - une histoire de l'heritage française à l'Amérique du Nord de la période de la guerre d'Indépendance jusqu'au présent.

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  • Author: Senécal, Joseph-André

Date: 2003 Winter/Spring

Publication: Vermont History: The Proceedings of the Vermont Historical Society

Volume: 71

Language:

Find in a Library: 1773222

Essay on the topic of ethnicity, ethnic whiteness, and the ethnic heritages of Vermont. An exploration in historiography that asks the question, "who are the 'real' Vermonters?" and considers how we could ever know the answer.

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  • Author: Sarkonak, Ralph

Date: 1983

Publication: Yale French Studies

Volume: 65

Language: en

Find in a Library: 482388574

A timeline of important political and cultural events in the history of French Canada and Québec up to 1982, introduced with a short reflection by the author.

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  • Author: Sarkonak, Ralph

Date: 1983

Publication: Yale French Studies

Language:

Find in a Library: 1770272

A preface to this issue of Yale French Studies that focuses upon the idea of "writing in Québec(ois)." Sarkonak traces the North American transition from français, to Canayen, to French Canadian, to québécois, and asks how language and…

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  • Author: Ramirez, Bruno

Date: 1992 September

Publication: Journal of American History

Volume: 79

Language: en

Find in a Library: 483420594

Brief essay on the discipline of United States history in Canada, the influence of American perspectives on Canadian historiography of the US, and how attitudes toward cross-boundary historiography change over time. Ramirez takes a semi-biographical…

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  • Author: Ramirez, Bruno

Date: 1983-03 (spring)

Publication: Labor/Le Travail

Volume: 11

Language: en

Find in a Library: 317511047

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Introduction to an analysis of the French Canadian emigration/immigration period from 1900 to 1929 that, according to Ramirez, suffers from a lack of attention paid to it. Ramirez conducts his exploration through the lens of the New England cotton…

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  • Author: MacKinnon, Mary
  • Author: Parent, Daniel

Date: 2005-06

Language: en

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From MacKinnon and Parent - Department of Economics, McGill University: "In this paper, we look at the emigration of approximately 1 million French-Canadians who moved to the United States, with the bulk of the migration occurring between the end of…

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  • Author: Louder, Dean

Date: 1996

Publication: Géographie et cultures

Volume: 17

Language: en

Find in a Library: 27125228

De l'auteur: "Une mission salvatrice à l'âge de dix-neuf a amené l'A. à connaître l'Archipel. Cet essai trace son périple personnel, professionnel et intellectuel depuis la région culturelle mormone jusqu'à l'île principale…

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  • Author: Louder, Dean R.
  • Author: Morissonneau, Christian
  • Author: Waddell, Eric

Date: 1983

Publication: Journal of Cultural Geography

Volume: 4

Language: en

Find in a Library: 43321549

From the authors: "Contrary to the commonly held belief that following the British conquest, French Canadian society limited itself to a clearly defined geopolitical realm conceived as a stronghold into which a defeated people withdrew to build its…

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  • Author: Lamy, Paul

Date: 1976 Autumn

Publication: American Review of Canadian Studies

Volume: 6

Language: en

Find in a Library: 60621291

Discussion on Canadian government service "language planning" in light of its official bilingual status. Particular attention is paid to the percentage of federal employee positions that, before unilingual, are now slated and anticipated to be held…

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  • Author: Kristofferson, Robert B.

Date: 2010

Publication: The American Historical Review

Volume: 115

Language: en

Find in a Library: 611180848

A review of Béatrice Craig's "Backwoods Consumers and Homespun Capitalists: The Rise of a Market Culture in Eastern Canada" (University of Toronto Press, 2009). The reviewer, Robert Kristofferson, is a professor at Wilfrid Laurier University.

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  • Author: Joy, Richard J.

Date: 1976 Autumn

Publication: American Review of Canadian Studies

Volume: 6

Language:

Find in a Library: 60621291

An explanation of 1970s Canadian census figures specifically regarding language, birth rates, and geography. From the author: "Canada is an ideal country in which to study the progress of language transfer and other factors affecting minority…

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  • Author: Jackson, G.E.

Date: 1923-05

Publication: The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volume: 107

Language: en

Find in a Library: 479566418

1923 article on emigration statistics from the whole of Canada into the United States. Complete with tables and commentary. Geographic distribution of Canadians in the United States. Sites French Canadians as "less migratory," or less prone to…

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  • Author: Hull, Alexander

Date: 1966

Publication: La Linguistique

Volume: 2

Language: en

Find in a Library: 608944874

Discussion of consonantal traits characteristic of Canadian French, excluding the dialectical traits of the Acadians typically heard in Northern Maine and the Maritime Provinces in Canada. Brief references to French Creole and New England…

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  • Author: Hareven, Tamara K.

Date: 1985 automne

Publication: Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française

Volume: 39

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 1764125

L'auteure de "Amoskeag," Tamara Hareven écrit un pièce sur les bourses d'études, ou un historigraphie, de la famille aux Etats-Unis. Elle la comprend cette histoire comme partie de la nouvelle histoire sociale: un mouvement académique du…

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  • Author: Ham, Edward B.

Date: 1945 December

Publication: The New England Quarterly

Volume: 18

Language: en

Find in a Library: 480410679

Thoughts on political and cultural attitudes in Québec with particular reference to the war effort. Ham interrogates New England French Canadian minority culture to examine more intimately the general political thought-processes of WWII-era…

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  • Author: Gill, Robert M.

Date: 1978 Autumn

Publication: American Review of Canadian Studies

Volume: 8

Language:

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Gill explores French Canadian societies through the lens of its literatures, particularly those coming from Quebec. He introduces his efforts with a brief illustration of the rise and fall of New France, where he claims that French Canadians have…

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  • Author: Doty, C. Stewart

Date: 1994

Publication: Canadian Review of American Studies

Volume: 24

Language:

Find in a Library: 44653568

From EBSCOhost: "Provides a critique of Québécois literary figure Louis Dantin's writings. Dantin's perspective on the American scene unlike other intellectuals of the Québec diaspora. Examples of Dantin's writings that demonstrated how his…

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  • Author: Davidson, John

Date: 1896-01

Publication: The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volume: 8

Language: en

Find in a Library: 479354506

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French-Canadian population growth in Canada as a model for testing the claims of Malthusian economics.

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  • Author: Christie, Nancy

Date: 2002 Fall

Publication: Labour/Le Travail

Volume: 50

Language: en

Find in a Library: 317511047

Article exploring how feminist historiography impacts interpretations of the rise of labour in the US and Canada, recognizing the divisions of gender that are fixed along the North American process of industrialization. From the text: "It is the…

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