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  • Author: New York Times

Date: 1890 January 6

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

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1890 article on one Fall River, Massachusetts, social organization's response to the Catholic Centennial Congress's outright rejection of the existence of national societies.

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  • Author: New York Times

Date: 1893 July 1

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

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1893 article on the letter of a Fall River, Massachusetts, French-Canadian Congregationalist minister to the governor of South Carolina, requesting information on how he and his protestant community might relocate to South Carolina and escape the…

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  • Author: New York Times

Date: 1887 December 21

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

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1887 article on "American labor" - particularly in New England - being subsumed by immigrant workers. Contains pejorative descriptions of Irish, French-Canadian, and other working immigrant communities in the industrialized Northeast. A particularly…

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  • Author: Williams, Allen Samuel

Date: 1907 September 2

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

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Brief letter to the editor acknowledging the local governments of Fall River, Massachusetts, and Providence, Rhode Island, forbidding the act of spitting on the sidewalk. Author suggests the positive effect of the law in these cities is perhaps due…

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  • Author: New York Times

Date: 1891 November 15

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

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Brief 1891 article acknowledging the upcoming visit of Wilfrid Laurier, potential Canadian Prime Minister, to Boston, Massachusetts.

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  • Author: New York Times

Date: 1889 January 13

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

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1889 article in which the author attempts to describe what seem to be Québec's French-Canadian allegiances: neither to England nor to the Dominion of Canada, but to the Roman Catholic Church. Author considers French-Canadian imperial federation…

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  • Author: New York Times

Date: 1892 September 19

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

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1892 article on multilingual political tracts (pamphlets) being handed out by Republicans to Italian and French-Canadian laborers in working-class areas of Connecticut. The tracts at issue in this article were attempting to illustrate the benefits…

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  • Author: New York Times

Date: 1928 April 8

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

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1928 article on the 56 excommunications of Rhode Island's infamous "Sentinelle Affair," where certain journalists came under the Papal See's fire for highly nationalized criticisms of their bishop's attitude toward the French language.

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  • Author: New York Times

Date: 1900 June 10

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

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1900 article on the New York City assembly of l'Union St-Jean-Baptiste in commemoration of the organization's fiftieth anniversary.

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  • Author: New York Times

Date: 1890 March 9

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

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1890 article accounting for some resistance to French in the Canadian northwest. Also Québec resistance to clerical rule which, says the author, is partly evidenced by the French-Canadian exodus to New England. Moreover, the author predicts the…

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  • Author: New York Times

Date: 1893 November 10

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

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1893 obituary of historian of French in North America, Francis Parkman. Wrote, among other books, "Pioneers of France in the New World" (1871).

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  • Author: New York Times

Date: 1889 August 22

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

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1889 article on the proposal of Canada to recognize English as the country's sole national language, with Québec threatening to counter with its official provincial language as French -- or, as the author tosses out, to propose annexation to the…

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  • Author: New York Times

Date: 1903 November 7

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

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1903 book review of Sir Gilbert Barker's history text, "Old Quebec: The Fortunes of New France" (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1903).

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  • Author: Carter, George F.

Date: 1905 March 11

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

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1905 letter to the editor on the recent discovery that New England author Nathaniel Hawthorne had supplied fellow New England writer Henry Wadsworth Longfellow with the theme for his famous story in verse, "Evangeline."

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  • Author: New York Times

Date: 1874 October 3

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

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1874 article remarking on the social conditions of Canada, seemingly split between predominantly French- and English-speaking geographies.

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  • Author: New York Times

Date: 1900 December 22

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

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Christmastime 1900 article predicting the potential mass return of immigrant workers from Maine to French Canada in the coming spring. The author cites the principal reason for relocation as French Canadians being denied Francophone priests in the…

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  • Author: Lemay, George

Date: 1900 September 9

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

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1900 letter to the New York Times refuting pejorative descriptions leveled on "the French-Canadian of to-day" by a New York Times editorialist who had only spent a short time in Canada. The letter covers the editorialist's attitude toward…

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  • Author: Harlow, Doug

Date: 2010 August 18

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

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Madison, Maine, native, Jesse LaCasse, operates a wooden baseball bat business out of the nearby town of Skowhegan. His products and company "teamed up with Subway Restaurants" for a joint advertising bid at the Senior League World Series in Bangor,…

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  • Author: Hale, Karlene K.

Date: 1991 October 21

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

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Part 1 of 4 of the October, 1991, series entitled, "Against all odds: Life on the 'Hill'" - a close look into Augusta, Maine's Sand Hill (Sandhill) neighborhood. Part 1 gives the cultural background of the Hill and looks to a few of its community…

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  • Author: Hale, Karlene K.

Date: 1991 October 22

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

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Part 2 of 4 of the October, 1991, series entitled, "Against all odds: Life on the 'Hill'" - a close look into Augusta, Maine's Sand Hill (Sandhill) neighborhood. Part 2 focuses on St. Augustine Roman Catholic Church, the unifying center for many in…

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  • Author: Hale, Karlene K.

Date: 1991 October 23

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

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Part 3 of 4 of the October, 1991, series entitled, "Against all odds: Life on the 'Hill'" - a close look into Augusta, Maine's Sand Hill (Sandhill) neighborhood. Part 3 is a brief look into St. Augustine School, the educational foundation - alongside…

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  • Author: Hale, Karlene K.

Date: 1991 October 24

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

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Part 4 of 4 of the October, 1991, series entitled, "Against all odds: Life on the 'Hill'" - a close look into Augusta, Maine's Sand Hill (Sandhill) neighborhood. Part 4 includes two pieces: one acknowledging the vast changes that have taken place in…

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  • Author: Kennebec Journal Editorial Staff

Date: 1997 June 3

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

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A captioned image from within Pomerleau's Bakery that sat on Franklin Street in Augusta, Maine, in the 1940s. The Kennebec Journal celebrated Augusta, Maine's bicentennial (1797-1997) throughout that year by regularly featuring city images from days…

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  • Author: Kennebec Journal Editorial Staff

Date: 1972 September 23

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English, with some français

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A supplement to the Daily Kennebec Journal in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Le Club Calumet, a (then) men's-only Franco American social club in Augusta, Maine. Includes many advertisement congratulations from local businesses, pictures of…

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  • Author: Cartwright, Steve

Date: 1989 October 18

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

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A Readfield, Maine, woman who was denied membership at Le Club Calumet - a men's Franco-American social club in Augusta, Maine - appealed to the Maine Human Rights Commission on account of discrimination.

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  • Author: Guimond, Tammy

Date: 1989 November 7

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

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Letter to the editor regarding the 1989 Le Club Calumet controversy sparked by a woman's seeking entry into the all-male club. Offers a measure of support for the Augusta, Maine, Club in its rejection of the woman's request.

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  • Author: Dostie, Art

Date: 1989 November 7

Language: English

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Letter to the editor on the subject of Augusta, Maine's Franco American social club, Le Club Calumet, excluding women from its membership.

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  • Author: Grenier Hanley, Karen

Date: 1989 November 17

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

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  • Author: Guimond, Jean

Date: 1989 November 17

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

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Letter to the editor chastising Nancy Albert Ellis, the woman who in 1989 sought entry into the all-male Franco-American social club, Le Club Calumet, of Augusta, Maine.

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  • Author: Berube, Lila

Date: 1989 November 17

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

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Letter to the editor questioning the motives of Nancy Albert Ellis, the woman who in 1989 sought entry into an all-male Franco American social club, Le Club Calumet, of Augusta, Maine.

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