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  • Author: Murray, John O'Kane

Date: 1876

Language: en

Find in a Library: 6910728

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A single volume on the history of the Catholic Church in North America: from Columbus' arrival in 1492 to the French Jesuits and Native Americans of the 16th and 17th centuries, to the Irish of the 18th and 19th, up to the America of the period of…

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  • Author: Péloquin-Faré, Louise

Date: 1983

Institution: École Normale Supérieure de Saint-Cloud (Centre de recherche et d'étude pour la diffusion du français)

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 11599243

Find Online: OL5382031W

Une description des moeurs et de la vie franco-américaine dans la Nouvelle-Angleterre. Une exploration de la survivance dans le contexte d'une histoire précise et d'un avenir imprévisible pour un peuple francophone aux Etats-Unis. Etude…

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  • Author: Duke Alumni Association

Date: 2010 August 31

Language: English

Find in a Library: Unknown

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Waterville, Maine, writer, Ron Currie, Jr., discusses his book "Everything Matters!," his life, and his writing, and takes questions from Duke University's class of 2014. Currie's novel was chosen to be read and discussed by the entire first-year…

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  • Author: Greenman, John

Date: 1981

Language: English and français

Find in a Library: Unknown (viewable at the Franco-American Centre, University of Maine)

Second episode in a public broadcasting documentary series on Franco Americans in Maine at the beginning of the 1980s. Composed of two major segments. In the first segment, a video essay entitled "Bells and Whistles," Eugene Paradis guides viewers…

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  • Author: American French Genealogical Society

Date: 2003

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 53920272

Un livre qui contient des infos sur mariages et naissances canadiens français entre 1608 et 1760. Avec des surnoms. Un ressource important pour la généalogiste. Souvent dit "the red Drouin books."

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  • Author: Labbé, Yvon A.

Date: 1973

Language: English, with some français

Find in a Library: Unknown (viewable at the Franco-American Centre, University of Maine)

Recording of a 1973 FAROG (Franco-American Resource Opportunity Group) student meeting at the University of Maine at Orono. Beginning in the early 1970s, the group would meet on a regular basis and, among other things, involve themselves in…

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  • Author: Ménard, Jean-Sébastien

Date: 2005 mai

Language: Français

Find in a Library: Inconnu

Document de conférence sur la langue (anglaise et française) de l'écrivain Jack Kerouac - son oralité, son poèsie écrite, son mélange littéraire de langages. L'auteur déclare la primauté de Kerouac le francophone,…

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  • Author: Chartier, Armand
  • Author: Chartier, Catherine Rivard

Date: 1985

Language: English

Find in a Library: 16000329

The life of Father Armand Morissette - better known as Father Spike - Catholic priest of Lowell, Massachusetts. Father Spike was widely known for his compassion and ease of friendship, as well as for his community activism and ahead-of-the-curve…

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  • Author: Levasseur, Raymond Luc

Date: 1992

Language: English

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Essay on political activist and Vietnam veteran Ray Luc Levasseur's working-class Franco background from around the mills of Sanford, Maine. The pride he has built out of the integrity of his family and his experiences of discrimination. The…

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  • Author: Wormwood, Rick

Date: 2004 December 17-23

Publication: The Portland Phoenix

Language: English

Find in a Library: 42450194

Feature article on Sanford native, Ray Luc Levasseur, and his return to southern Maine following decades spent imprisoned for convictions associated with political activism. Some historical background about Levasseur, his hometown, and the reputation…

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  • Author: Alpert, Jessica

Date: 2008 Spring

Language: English

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Radio documentary piece on the violent invasion of the Waterville, Maine, convent of the Servants of the Blessed Sacrament in 1996. The death of two nuns, the recollections of surviving sisters, and how their community has chosen to live and express…

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  • Author: Dilling, Audrey

Date: 2009 Fall

Language: English

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Documentary radio piece on the cooks and servers - the "lunch ladies" - in the kitchen at Biddeford High School in Biddeford, Maine. How their work often transcends food service and their relationships with students become compassionate and somewhat…

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  • Author: Goodman, Giselle

Date: 2004 August 7

Publication: Portland Press Herald

Language: English

Find in a Library: 9341113, 232117688

Article on the return to southern Maine of Sanford native, Ray Luc Levasseur, after decades of imprisonment in federal penitentiary for convictions associated with his political activism. Includes a timeline from 1977 to 2004 of some of the major…

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  • Author: Dilling, Audrey
  • Author: Lovell, Catherine (photography)

Date: 2010 February

Language: English

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Audio recording of kitchen and cafeteria workers of Biddeford High School in Biddeford, Maine, accompanied by a video photo montage. Brief interviews during the workday and short profiles of the kitchen staff.

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  • Author: Imbert, Patrick

Date: 1991 Winter

Publication: Poetics Today

Volume: 12

Language: English

Find in a Library: 6301422

Origins and evolution of the Québec novel - its concerns, its scope, its structure. The novel's relationship to the social, linguistic, and economic landscapes of the society from which it springs. Reflections on this relationship as concerning…

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  • Author: Langlois, Simon (rédacteur)

Date: 1995

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 32091322

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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…

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  • Author: Melançon, Joseph

Date: 1983

Publication: Yale French Studies

Volume: 65

Language: English (traduction du français)

Find in a Library: 1770272

Essay on Québec literature, the collusion of nation and language, and the impact of determining either of one's own in consideration of its contrast from the model form. The author describes the "nationalization" of literature in Québec as the…

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  • Author: Wessel, Bessie Bloom

Date: 1931

Language: English

Find in a Library: 70341526

Find Online: OL5077644M

A case study and scientific report on ethnic make-up in Woonsocket, Rhode Island around 1930. Demographic figures on school populations, families, and communities in Woonsocket with regard to ethnicity and culture, compiled from survey data. Takes…

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  • Author: Hebert, Ernest

Date: 2005

Language: English

Find in a Library: 59755997

The most recent novel in Hebert's acclaimed "Darby Series," depicting realities of family and class in a fictional New Hampshire town. After the death of a young mother in childbirth, and with her wealthy parents seeking custody for the newborn son,…

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  • Author: Trépanier, Cécyle

Date: 1991 July

Publication: The Geographical Journal

Volume: 157

Language: English

Find in a Library: 481914879

Historical transformation of the term "Cajun" in Louisiana - its meaning, scope, and usage, as well as its blurring of the state's diversity of French lineages. Influence of the term "Cajun" on the cultural awareness of the Louisiana French, and the…

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  • Author: Brown, Becky

Date: 1993-03

Publication: Language in Society

Volume: 22

Language: en; fr

Find in a Library: 484389948

The status of French language in Louisiana over time - diversity, amalgamation, decay, revival, and current modes of expression. How the written French word in the context of Louisiana French language revival has taken on special political and social…

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  • Author: Heller, Monica

Date: 1992

Publication: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

Volume: 13

Language: en

Find in a Library: 43413712

From the author: "Using data from ethnographic studies of the use of French and English in Ontario and Quebec (Canada) in a variety of settings (hospital, factory, school, etc.) over the period 1978-1990, I discuss language choice as a political…

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  • Author: Litwack, Leon

Date: 1962

Language: en

Find in a Library: 414029

Find Online: OL5852980M

A first-person history of the American labor movement - the growth of labor unions and the development of collective worker consciousness from the middle of the nineteenth century until the middle of the twentieth. A century of labor in primary…

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  • Author: Rivard, Adjutor

Date: 1924 (1914)

Language: en (trans.)

Find in a Library: 1962661

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A series of graphic and sentimental depictions of different elements significant to home and community in rural Quebec. 21 chapters for as many subjects - some of simple descriptions with warmth in detail, others related as narrative in the manner of…

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  • Author: Henry, Jacques

Date: 1998 July

Publication: Journal of American Ethnic History

Volume: 17

Language: English, with some français

Find in a Library: 478200962, 209676066

An essay on the origins and historical transformation of the term "Cajun" in the context of French Louisiana. An historical etymology of "Cajun" and an analysis of its usage from its 17th century iterations to those of the present day. An attempt at…

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  • Author: Weber, Tom

Date: 1997 July 19-20

Publication: Bangor Daily News

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8818350

Article on geographer and anthropologist Barry Rodrigue's exploration and excavation of the Old Canada Road, or the stretch of land between central Maine and the Canadian border that traverses the northwestern part of the state. This route is known…

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  • Author: Bonin, Gordon

Date: 2000 June 17

Publication: Bangor Daily News

Language: English

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Article on the hiring of Susan Pinette, a full-time faculty person at the University of Maine at Orono, for the purpose of securing a minor academic concentration in "Franco-American studies." This academic program is one of the few of its kind.

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  • Author: Unknown

Date: 1994 November 17

Publication: Portland Press Herald

Language: English

Find in a Library: 9341113

Article on new research undertakings at the UMaine Franco-American Centre, including Professor C. Stewart Doty's historical timeline of events significant in the history of Franco American people.

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  • Author: Béliveau, Sévérin

Date: 2005 December 12

Publication: Bangor Daily News

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8818350

Transcript of a speech given to the mayor and town council of Loudon, France, from Maine attorney Severin Beliveau upon his trade mission there with Maine governor, John Baldacci. The speech addresses the history and breadth of Maine's Franco…

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  • Author: Hauger, Nok-Noi

Date: 2006 September 23-24

Publication: Bangor Daily News

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8818350

François Gauthier, former French consul to Boston and New England, and Françoise Gauthier visit Old Town, Maine, and the University of Maine's Franco-American Centre to learn more about Maine's French heritage.

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