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- Author: Handlin, Oscar
Date: 1972
Language: en
Find in a Library: 389635
Find Online: OL1170977W
American immigration history in photos by the author of the award-winning historical piece, "The Uprooted."
- Author: Heffernan, Nancy Coffey
- Author: Stecker, Anne Page
Date: 1986
Language: en
Find in a Library: 12907801
Find Online: OL3321887M (3rd ed.)
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From University Press of New England: "A classic history of New Hampshire’s economic and political development, now updated for the twenty-first century....From fiercely ambitious and independent colonial towns to the media circus of the…
- Author: Perreault, Robert B.
Date: 1981
Language: fr
Find in a Library: 8278566
Une examination du mouvement sentinelliste aÌ€ l'éxterieur de Providence, Rhode Island, dans une autre ville franco-américain: Manchester, New Hampshire. Perreault écrit une nouvelle type de l'histoire sentinelliste telle qu'elle…
- Author: Cumbler, John Taylor, Jr.
Date: 1979
Language: en
Find in a Library: 4492431
Find Online: OL4743780M
Based on the research for Cumbler's 1974 dissertation, "Continuity and Disruption," this text is a narrower (twenty years fewer), illustrated exploration of ethnicity woven through the working-class communities of Lynn and Fall River, Massachusetts.…
- Author: Craig, BeÌatrice
Date: 2009
Language: en
Find in a Library: 181602806
From University of Toronto Press: "In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a local economy made up of settlers, loggers, and business people from Lower Canada, New Brunswick, and New England was established on the banks of the Upper…
- Author: Plocher, Stephen
Date: 2007
Language: en
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A brief history of Waterville, Maine, written by a graduate of Waterville's Colby College and published online by the city government of Waterville. Begins with the city's peopling, moving through the town's incorporation apart from Winslow in 1802,…
- Author: Lambert, AdeÌlard
Date: 1918
Language: fr
Find in a Library: 23394052
Find Online: OL16350945M
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Des contes de la meÌmoire de la jeunesse de Lambert, un eÌmigreÌ canadien-francais aux États-Unis au but du vingtième siècle. L'ideÌe de la survivance reste à l'arriere-plan du texte. Le fin de livre contien des messages…
- Author: Writers' Program, New Hampshire W.P.A.
Date: 1940
Language: en; fr
Find Online: OL7199146W
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From the introduction: "Today approximately 150,000 Americans of French ancestry, including a few who came directly from France, are living in New Hampshire. Like their grandparents in Quebec, they have preserved many of the traditions of their…
- Author: Albert, Julie
Date: 1969
Language: en; fr
Find in a Library: 7520465
Find Online: OL18252768M
Softcover community publication written in celebration of the town of Madawaska, Maine's centennial year - 1969. Contains historical vignettes, local pictures, advertisements, poetry, stories, customs, definitions of local words, and more, from the…
- Author: ChasseÌ, Paul P.
Date: 1979
Language: fr
Find in a Library: 8604972
Une collection des titres des journaux de langue française et des articles de périodiques franco-américains de la Nouvelle Angleterre. Une introduction historique de la grande variété dans la presse écrite…
- Author: La SocieÌteÌ Canadienne Française du Minnesota
Date: 1983
Language: en
Find in a Library: Unknown
Manual for a French Canadian cultural heritage organization based in Minnesota. Contains a narrative of the organization's own brief history, its constitution and by-laws, the function of its head members, and a listing of member contact information.…
- Author: Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of Maine
Date: 1937
Language: en
Find in a Library: 255008
Find Online: @ Open Library
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State guidebook produced by the Maine Works Progress Administration's Federal Writers' Project in the 1930s. Installment in the American Guide Series: a collection of state travel guides and coffee tables books. Includes extensive descriptions of…
- Author: Dublin, Thomas
Date: 1992
Language: en
Find in a Library: 24214090
Find Online: OL1549242M
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From the inside cover: "Lowell, Massachusetts, was America's first large-scale planned industrial community. After its establishment as a town in 1826, Lowell was celebrated for its innovative textile technology and its unique workforce of young…
- Author: Woolfson, Peter
Date: 1983
Publication: The French in Vermont: Some Current Views
Language: en
Find in a Library: 10565367
Paper on Franco American values and cultural patterns as visible in the people of Vermont. The importance of recognizing such patterns and morals for health and social service providers. Included in Occasional Paper Number Six, in a series produced…
- Author: Roberge, CeÌleste
Date: 1974
Language: en; fr
Find in a Library: 1075370
Collection of 1970s writings on Franco Americans and Franco American culture, compiled and edited by Céleste Roberge. Contains the following sections and selections: Introduction - Céleste Roberge I. Social Sciences A History of…
- Author: Turenne, Augustin
Date: 1962
Language: Français
Find in a Library: 1999775
Dictionnaire, organisé par sujet, des termes du dialecte canadienne-française, «joual». Compare les désignations en joual aux termes anglais et des synonymes français.
- Author: Casanova, Jacques Donat
Date: 1975
Language: en (translation)
Find in a Library: 4134570
Find Online: OL4288424M
A brief history of the French presence in North America. English translation of "Une AmeÌrique française." From the text: "When we think of the French contribution to the history of the United States, we immediately think to Lafayette,…
- Author: Violette, Maurice
Date: 1976
Language: en
Find in a Library: 2176381
A thorough history of the Franco American presence in the city of Augusta, Maine, up to the 1970s. Histories of mill, church, school, and community, from their migrant inception through sometimes celebratory, sometimes violent, persistence.…
- Author: Calvert, Mary
Date: 1983
Language: en
Find in a Library: 10864362
Find Online: OL2769967W
Historical piece on the European explorers of the Kennebec River Valley and the Abenaki people of that Maine region. Highlights the relationships among British, French, and Native American, and their confrontations from the 17th century onward. The…
- Author: Calvert, Mary
Date: 1986
Language: en
Find in a Library: 15523085
Find Online: OL2769969W
Historical piece on the Kennebec River and its surrounding valley towns, from the end of the American Revolution until the river's final log drive in the second half of the twentieth century. Relationships between early settlers and Native Americans.…