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The Boston French: a collection of facts and incidents with appropriate illustrations relating to some well-known citizens of France who found homes in Boston and New England, with which are included accounts of several visits made by one of the authors to LaRochelle and to the homes of the ancestors of Paul Revere

Author: Forbes, Allan

Date: 1971

Language: English

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Tags: Boston MA, Cambridge MA, Canton MA, Charleston SC, Dorchester MA, Emigration and Immigration, France, Government and Politics, Milton MA, New Rochelle NY, Oxford MA, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Providence RI, Religion, Washington DC, Wickford RI

Boston's French Secrets : Guided Walks That Reveal Boston's French Heritage

Author: Atwood, Rhea Hollis

Date: 2004

Language: en

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Travel guide to the city of Boston, Massachusetts, centered around local sites with significant French history. An effort in French archaelogical tourism. Includes brief histories of all large-scale migrations to the United States from the…

Tags: Acadians, Art and Architecture, Boston MA, Emigration and Immigration, France, Government and Politics, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Travel and Tourism, Religion, Travel and Movement

A Shoe-Maker's Story: Being chiefly about French Canadian immigrants, enterprising photographers, rascal Yankees, and Chinese cobblers in a nineteenth-century factory town

Author: Lee, Anthony W.

Date: 2008

Language: en

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A history of photography, shoemaking, mining, and immigration as they converged on North Adams, Massachusetts, in the 1870s. From the text: "...[this book] is concerned...with the industrialization of a New England craft at one of its key historical…

Tags: Art and Architecture, Business and Economics, Emigration and Immigration, Government and Politics, Labor History, Lowell MA, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, North Adams MA, Waltham MA

A Maine Point of View

Author: LaVerdiere, Clayton

Date: 1997

Language: en

Find in a Library: 38004982

Tags: Essay, Journalism, Maine, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Essay, Waterville ME

The French in New England, Acadia, and Quebec : Proceedings of a Conference sponsored by the New England-Atlantic Provinces-Quebec Center at the University of Maine, Orono, May 1 and 2, 1972.

Author: Schriver, Edward (editor)

Date: 1973

Language: English

Find in a Library: 3187379

Proceedings of a 1972 conference at the University of Maine on the subject of French culture in the northeastern borderlands of Maine and Canada. Contents include transcripts of the following presentations: "The Loyalists and the Acadians" "Le Centre…

Tags: Acadians, Biddeford ME, Business and Economics, Education, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Folklore, Government and Politics, Massachusetts, New Brunswick, New England, Orono ME, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, QuÃ©bec, St. John River Valley

Notes on North America : Agricultural, Economical, and Social, Volume 1

Author: Johnston, James F.W.

Date: 1851

Volume: 1

Language: en

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A British scholar's notes on life in New Brunswick, New England, New York, and the Upper Midwestern U.S., based on extensive travel in those regions in the middle 19th century. Volume 1 of 2.

Tags: Community: Customs and Social Life, Farming and Agriculture, Great Lakes Region, Maine, Michigan, Native Americans, New Brunswick, New York, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Travel and Tourism, Religion, St. John River Valley, Vermont

Notes on North America : Agricultural, Economical, and Social, Volume 2

Author: Johnston, James F.W.

Date: 1851

Volume: 2

Language: en

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A British scholar's notes on life in New Brunswick, New England, New York, and the Upper Midwestern U.S., based on extensive travel in those regions in the middle 19th century. Volume 2 of 2.

Tags: Acadians, Community: Customs and Social Life, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Farming and Agriculture, Great Lakes Region, Maine, Michigan, Native Americans, New Brunswick, New York, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Travel and Tourism, Religion, St. John River Valley, Vermont

Nine Lives for Labor

Author: Kelly, Richard

Date: 1956

Language: en

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A biographical tribute to nine members of the Textile Workers Union of America, represented in mills across the industrial United States. Characterization of conditions at various mills, including those in Fall River, Massachusetts, and Cohoes, New…

Tags: Bedford MA, Cohoes NY, Fall River MA, Labor History, Lawrence MA, Lowell MA, Lynchburg VA, Memphis TN, Mills and Mill Work, Nashville TN, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Philadelphia PA

The French Canadians of Michigan : Their Contribution to the Development of the Saginaw Valley and the Keweenaw Peninsula, 1840-1914

Author: Lamarre, Jean

Date: 2003

Language: en

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From Wayne State University Press: "'The French Canadians of Michigan' looks at the factors behind the French Canadian immigration by providing a statistical profile of the migratory movement as well as analysis of the strategies used by French…

Communicating Ethnic and Cultural Identity

Author: Fong, Mary (editor)
Author: Chuang, Rueyling (editor)

Date: 2004

Language: en

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Reader in ethnic studies. Critical approaches to ethnic, linguistic, cultural, and group identity in the United States, and the various ways they are manifest. Includes an essay by University of Maine scholar Kristin Langellier entitled, "'Where I…

Tags: Criticism and Review, Essay, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Language and Linguistics, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Anthology, Nonfiction -- Performance Studies

History of Jay, Franklin County, Maine

Author: Lawrence, Benjamin

Date: 1912

Language: en

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1912 history of the city of Jay in Franklin County, Maine, situated alongside the Androscoggin River. Gives a brief background sketch of the Native American presence there; historical profile detailed from the town's 1795 incorporation to the turn of…

Tags: Canton ME, Education, Family, Farming and Agriculture, Forestry, Genealogy, Government and Politics, Jay ME, Labor History, Mills and Mill Work, Native Americans, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Local, Religion

A History of Rumford, Maine, 1774-2000

Author: Leane, John
Author: Burns, Elliot E. "Bud"

Date: 2005

Language: en

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Comprehensive history of the city of Rumford, Maine. Revised edition of the text that spanned from pre-incorporation to 1972. Updates extend to the year 2000. The Androscoggin River city in western Maine - its people, significant events, the paper…

Tags: Androscoggin River Valley, Community: Customs and Social Life, Farming and Agriculture, Government and Politics, Labor History, Maine, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Local, Oxford County ME, Rumford ME

The Trial Statements of Ray Luc Levasseur

Author: Levasseur, Raymond Luc

Date: 2002

Language: en

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Ray Luc Levasseur's statements from the 1989 criminal trial where he represented himself against accusations of racketeering. He places himself and a working-class Franco (Sanford, Maine) upbringing in the course of an American class struggle,…

Tags: African Americans, Death and Disaster, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Family, Government and Politics, Labor History, Maine, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Essay, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics, Sanford ME, Social History, Springfield MA, United States, Violence, War

The Northeastern Borderlands: Four Centuries of Interaction

Author: Hornsby, Stephen
Author: Konrad, Victor A.
Author: Herlan, James J.

Date: 1989

Language: English

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Tags: Boston MA, Brunswick ME, Education, Geography, Government and Politics, Great Britain, Massachusetts, MontrÃ©al QC, Native Americans, New Brunswick, New England, Nova Scotia, Orono ME, Prince Edward Island, QuÃ©bec

Vision et visages de la Franco-AmeÌrique

Author: Louder, Dean
Author: Morisset, Jean
Author: Waddell, Eric

Date: 2001

Language: FranÃ§ais

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Tags: Canada, Demography, Essay, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Genealogy, Geography, Language and Linguistics, New England, QuÃ©bec, Social History, United States

A Land of Discord Always : Acadia from Its Beginning to the Expulsion of Its People, 1604-1755

Author: Mahaffie, Charles

Date: 1995

Language: en

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From Down East Books: " 'A Land of Discord Always' is the history of Acadia up to the time of the grand derangement. It tells how a unique society grew and prospered in an obscure corner of North America only to be crushed in a contest between…

Tags: Acadians, Canada, Death and Disaster, Emigration and Immigration, Exploration and Colonization, Language and Linguistics, Native Americans, New Brunswick, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- General, North America, Nova Scotia, Religion

L'identitÃ© enfouie d'un franco en terre d'AmÃ©rique: rÃ©flexions suscitÃ©es par la lecture de Jack Kerouac

Author: Germain, Alexandre

Date: 2003

Language: FranÃ§ais

Tags: California, Criticism and Review, Emigration and Immigration, Essay, Family, Florida, Great Lakes Region, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Lowell MA, Mississippi River Valley, New England, Poetry, QuÃ©bec, St. Lawrence River Valley

French Colonists and Exiles in the United States

Author: Rosengarten, Joseph G.

Date: 1907

Language: en

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French presence in the United States from 1684 to the beginning of the 20th century. Includes early missions from France to the American South and Midwest, colonies in Louisiana, Huguenot communities on the Mid-Atlantic American coast, French…

The French Blood in America

Author: Fosdick, Lucian J.

Date: 1973

Language: English

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Tags: Boston MA, Delaware, Emigration and Immigration, Florida, France, Genealogy, Government and Politics, Maine, New Paltz NY, New Rochelle NY, New York NY, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Plymouth MA, Religion, South Carolina, Virginia, War

Our French-Canadian Ancestors: Biographies of Ancestors

Author: Lebel, GeÌrard
Author: Laforest, Thomas J.
Author: Saintonge, Jacques

Date: 1983-2000

Language: FranÃ§ais and English

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Tags: Family, Genealogy, Geography, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, QuÃ©bec, United States

Documents Concerning Acadian DeporteÌes in Massachusetts Towns, 1755-1766: Volumes I and II.

Author: Cyr, Paul Albert

Date: 2005

Language: English

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Tags: Acadians, Death and Disaster, Demography, Emigration and Immigration, Geography, Government and Politics, Massachusetts, Nova Scotia, Personal History: Biography and Oral History

Woonsocket Revisited

Author: Bellerose, Robert

Date: 2004

Language: en

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Arcadia's "Images of America" series revisits the pre- and post-industrial city of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, with pictures that span the period from 1834 to 2000. Transitional American urban and riverbank landscapes across two centuries, through…

Tags: Business and Economics, Community: Customs and Social Life, Death and Disaster, Geography, Labor History, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Local, Nonfiction -- History -- Pictorial, Religion, Woonsocket RI

French Neutrals in Massachusetts: the Story of Acadians Rounded up by Soldiers from Massachusetts and Their Captivity in the Bay Province, 1755-1766

Author: Belliveau, Pierre

Date: 1972

Language: English

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Manchester.

Author: Clarke, Maurice D.
Author: Clarke, John Badger

Date: 1875

Language: en

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Subtitled, "A brief record of its past and a picture of its present, including an account of its settlement and of its growth as a town and city a history of its schools, churches, societies, banks." 1875 history of Manchester, New Hampshire. Begins…

Tags: Business and Economics, Community: Customs and Social Life, Education, Emigration and Immigration, Government and Politics, Labor History, Manchester NH, Mills and Mill Work, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Local, Religion

Thrust and Counterthrust : The Genesis of the Canada-United States Boundary

Author: Classen, H. George

Date: 1967

Language: en

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History of borderlands and border disputes between the United States and Canada. Chapter 1 is dedicated to the early-nineteenth-century St. John River Valley border dispute and the Webster-Ashburton Treaty (1842) that solidified the division between…

Tags: Acadians, Aroostook County ME, Augusta ME, Fort Fairfield ME, Fort Kent ME, Geography, Government and Politics, Madawaska ME, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Government and Politics

Deportation of the Prince Edward Island Acadians

Author: Lockerby, Earle

Date: 2008

Language: English

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Tags: Acadians, Amherst MA, Canada, Death and Disaster, Emigration and Immigration, England, France, Holland, Native Americans, Nova Scotia, Plymouth MA, Portsmouth NH, Prince Edward Island, QuÃ©bec, Toronto ON, Violence

Immigrant Voices : New Lives in America, 1773-1986

Author: Dublin, Thomas (editor)

Date: 1993

Language: en

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From University of Illinois Press: "In this richly evocative collection ten men and women of European, Latin American, and Asian backgrounds tell of their immigrant experiences. They range from a Shetland Islander who sailed to Virginia as an…

Tags: Chicago IL, Emigration and Immigration, Italy, Korea, Mexico, New York NY, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- History -- Labor and Social, Nonfiction -- Immigration, Personal History: Biography and Oral History, Puerto Rico, Russia, Sacramento CA, Shetland Islands, United States, Vietnam

The French Writers of New England

Author: LaVergne, Marcel

Date: 2008 February

Language: FranÃ§ais and English

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A brief and general history of French Canadian immigration to New England around the turn of the century, followed by a list of Franco-American writers, their works, and a selection of excerpts.

Tags: Acculturation and Assimilation, Community: Customs and Social Life, Essay, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Fiction and Literature, Labor History, Language and Linguistics, Literary Works -- Criticism and History, Massachusetts, Mills and Mill Work, Minnesota, Poetry, QuÃ©bec, Religion

Immigration as a Factor in American History

Author: Handlin, Oscar

Date: 1959

Language: en

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Varied selections of scholarship, speeches, interviews, and articles that, according to the author, "attempt to illustrate the immigration contribution to American civilization and the forces which brought the movement to a close" (Handlin, intro).…

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Coming to America : A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life

Author: Daniels, Roger

Date: 2002

Language: en

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Comprehensive history of immigration to the United States from the 17th to the 21st century. Divided into [ ] parts: Colonial America; The Century of Immigration (1820-1924); and Modern Times.

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Boston's French Secrets : Guided Walks That Reveal Boston's French Heritage

A Shoe-Maker's Story: Being chiefly about French Canadian immigrants, enterprising photographers, rascal Yankees, and Chinese cobblers in a nineteenth-century factory town

A Maine Point of View

The French in New England, Acadia, and Quebec : Proceedings of a Conference sponsored by the New England-Atlantic Provinces-Quebec Center at the University of Maine, Orono, May 1 and 2, 1972.

Notes on North America : Agricultural, Economical, and Social, Volume 1

Notes on North America : Agricultural, Economical, and Social, Volume 2

Nine Lives for Labor

The French Canadians of Michigan : Their Contribution to the Development of the Saginaw Valley and the Keweenaw Peninsula, 1840-1914

Communicating Ethnic and Cultural Identity

History of Jay, Franklin County, Maine

A History of Rumford, Maine, 1774-2000

The Trial Statements of Ray Luc Levasseur

The Northeastern Borderlands: Four Centuries of Interaction

Vision et visages de la Franco-AmeÌrique

A Land of Discord Always : Acadia from Its Beginning to the Expulsion of Its People, 1604-1755

L'identitÃ© enfouie d'un franco en terre d'AmÃ©rique: rÃ©flexions suscitÃ©es par la lecture de Jack Kerouac

French Colonists and Exiles in the United States

The French Blood in America

Our French-Canadian Ancestors: Biographies of Ancestors

Documents Concerning Acadian DeporteÌes in Massachusetts Towns, 1755-1766: Volumes I and II.

Woonsocket Revisited

French Neutrals in Massachusetts: the Story of Acadians Rounded up by Soldiers from Massachusetts and Their Captivity in the Bay Province, 1755-1766

Manchester.

Thrust and Counterthrust : The Genesis of the Canada-United States Boundary

Deportation of the Prince Edward Island Acadians

Immigrant Voices : New Lives in America, 1773-1986

The French Writers of New England

Immigration as a Factor in American History

Coming to America : A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life