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- Author: Tardivel, Jules Paul
Date: 1900
Language: fr
Find in a Library: 6856491
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Un histoire et critique de l'église Catholique aux États-Unis, écrit en deux parties par un scolaire français au Canada. Certaines réflexions sur le développement d'un catholicisme américain. Comparaisons entre des prévisions…
- Author: Ouelette, Joanne
- Author: New Hampshire Historical Society
Date: 2013
Language: en
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Outline of dates and figures; compilation of facts and notes relevant to the history of French Canadian immigrants in the state of New Hampshire around the beginning of the twentieth century. Designed by the New Hampshire Historical Society for…
- Author: New Hampshire Historical Society
Date: 2013
Language: en; fr
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Short history lesson on French Canadian immigration and community building in New Hampshire, covering the 19th and early 20th centuries. Concludes with discussion questions about the provided information and photographs. Designed by the New Hampshire…
- Author: Samson, Gary
Date: 2000
Language: en
Find in a Library: 46874965
Pictorial history of the communities in and around the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company's mill complex in Manchester, New Hampshire. The rise and fall of Amoskeag, in photos. A volume in the broad-ranging "Images of America" series of books. Previously…
- Author: Moran, William
Date: 2002
Language: en
Find in a Library: 49627749
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A history of New England women during industrialization, and the lifestyle differences among women of different economic classes. From Thomas Dunne Books: "This is a masterful, definitive, and eloquent look at the enormous cultural and economic…
- Author: Lambert, Raymond
- Author: Kowalczyk, Bruno
Date: 2010
Language: Bilingual/bilingue
Find in a Library: Aucun
Un histoire de la musique québécoise et de l'harmonica. Des techniques de jouer l'harmonica du facon québécois traditionel. Des biographies d'un quatre-vingtaine de musiciens québécois.
- Author: Albert, Henry
Date: 1999
Language: English
Find in a Library: 42953999
The autobiography of a northern Maine native. Begins with his early life in Aroostook County and continues through his many years of service in the United States Army, bringing him and his family throughout the world - Ethiopia, Iran, and elsewhere -…
- Author: Aubin, Albert K.
Date: 1981
Language: en
Find in a Library: 8297862
Find Online: OL11436946M
A brief selection related to French exploration in North America, French Canadian immigration to the United States, and Franco American histories in Rhode Island. A small chapbook-sized resource that includes segments dedicated to culture and the…
- Author: Parker, James Hill
Date: 1983
Language: en
Find in a Library: 9082399
Sociological essay highlighting Franco American assimilation in a case-study of Lewiston, Maine. Includes a brief history of French Canadian immigration to Lewiston coinciding with the city's birth as an industrial center. Part of the preface reads,…
- Author: Chartier, Armand
Date: 1993
Language: en
Find in a Library: 38570305
A brief history of the Franco Americans in New Bedford, Massachusetts. About half of the text is dedicated to the role of New Bedford's Catholic churches, while the remainder addresses New Bedford's community life, work, the French language, and…
- Author: Sorg, Marcella Harnish
Date: 1978
Language: en
A paperback, illustrated, simply-written history of the Franco Americans in Old Town, Milford, Orono, and Bradley, Maine. Compiled from the larger book, "The Old Town Reader," also published by the National Materials Development Center.
- Author: Robbins, Rhea Côté (editor)
- Author: Petrie, Lanette Landry (editor)
- Author: Langellier, Kristin (editor)
- Author: Slott, Kathryn (editor)
Date: 1995
Language: en; fr
Find in a Library: 34344246
A selection of women's writings - fiction, poetry, essay, journalism - that have appeared in the University of Maine Franco-American Centre's publication, "Le FAROG Forum." Le Forum is a periodical dedicated to issues related to the Franco American…
- Author: Green, Constance McLaughlin
Date: 1939 (1968)
Language: en
Find in a Library: 1522230
Find Online: OL5601421M
A study of labor and industry in Holyoke, Massachusetts, beginning with the city's agrarian traditions, and establishing later an emphasis on the city's industrialization at the end of the nineteenth century. Published during the Great Depression,…
- Author: Creamer, Daniel Barnett
- Author: Coulter, Charles Wellsley
Date: 1971
Language: en
Find in a Library: 241413
Reprinting of a 1939 publication funded by the Works Progress Administration. Exploration of the economic conditions in Manchester, New Hampshire, and the economic climate surrounding the mill complex of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Corporation. The…
- Author: Cole, Donald
Date: 2002 (1963)
Language: en
Find in a Library: 475026
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A history of the city of Lawrence, Massachusetts, as a site of mass industrialization, diverse immigration, and unique dynamics of class and ethnicity around the turn of the 20th century. From UNC Press: "The violence and radicalism connected with…
- Author: Brière, Eloise
Date: 1986
Language: en; fr
Find in a Library: 34578272
French heritage travel and resource guide to New York state, divided by region and described by town and city. From the foreword to the text: "Continuing the tradition begun in the 17th century, French and Canadian ties flourish in New York which…
- Author: Scontras, Charles A.
Date: 1994
Language: en
Find in a Library: 31188167
A restorative history of the birth and early life of organized labor in Maine in the middle of the nineteenth century, on the rise of the industrial period. From the preface: "The history of organized labor in Maine has been ignored by the State's…
- Author: Connors-Carlson, Shirlee
Date: 2001
Language: en
Find in a Library: 49045997
A pictorial history of life and logging in St. John, Maine, at the beginning of the twentieth century. Includes some pictures that are featured in the book "Acadian Hard Times" (Stewart Doty, 1991), as well as many others that capture the households…
- Author: Ouellette, Allen J.
Date: 2005
Language: en; fr
Find in a Library: PC3680.N7 O93
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From the author: "In New England, as elsewhere in the United States, colleges and universities offer degrees in languages, but few make courses in the history of those languages mandatory. Aside from the usual MA theses and Ph.d. dissertations -…
- Author: Levesque, Don
Date: 1999
Language: Français, avec quelques anglais
Find in a Library: 47725295
Sous-titre, "'C'est d'meÌ‚me qu'on parle par icitte' : dictons, patois, expressions de la ValleeÌ Saint-Jean, Maine." Un dictionnaire d'expressions familières et de phrases locales de la Vallée St. Jean au nord du Maine. Contient beaucoup…
- Author: Beaudoin, Rachelle (editor, illustrator)
Date: 2009
Language: English and français
Find in a Library: 501976693
A dictionary of Berlin, New Hampshire, colloquial terms. Equal parts Franco American euphemism, persistent French vernacular in the English language, and words for things and places particular to the community of Berlin. The author writes: "'The…
- Author: Nos Histoires de l'Ile
Date: 2005
Language: English
Find in a Library: 40721859
A cookbook from the "Nos Histoires de l'Ile" group, with local and family recipes from the homes of French Island in Old Town, Maine. Compiled by the community group that provides us with the French Island history book of the same title.
- Author: Perreault, Gene N.
Date: 1986
Language: en; fr
Find in a Library: 16989034
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From the author: "The following stories represent the folk history of the logging business in northern Maine. They were gathered over the years and the facts may have been changed as the stories were passed on to succeeding generations. However, they…
- Author: TheÌriault, J.R.T.
Date: 2009
Language: Bilingual/bilingue
Find in a Library: None
From the author: "The book is a biography of Charles Theriault, first francophone settler in 1821-1823 of the lower Madawaska River in present-day St-Jacques. The book presents a brief history of the Acadian migration before the time of…
- Author: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Date: 2004
Language: English
Find in a Library: 56903271
Maine native Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem about "le Grand Dérangement" - the Acadian Expulsion - and one Acadian woman's rampant search for a love lost. This text also includes an introduction, a brief historical sketch of the Acadians,…
- Author: Kent, Timothy J.
Date: 2009
Language: en
Find in a Library: 466744451
From the author: "When Kevin and Ben Kent were ages seven and five, their parents conceived an exciting, enriching, and educational project for the family. As a team, they began paddling the 3,000 mile length of the mainline fur trade canoe route…
- Author: Giamo, Benedict
Date: 2000
Language: English
Find in a Library: 42690123
From Southern Illinois University Press: "Giamo’s primary purpose is to chronicle and clarify Kerouac’s various spiritual quests through close examinations of [his] novels. Kerouac began his quest with 'On the Road,' which also is…
- Author: Fairfield, Roy P.
Date: 1956 (2003)
Language: en
Find in a Library: 3085526
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A history of the coastal and industrial city of Saco, Maine, from its inception to the 1950s. Written by a Saco native. The inside cover reads: "In a rich and vivid history, documented with record, with facts bearing evidence of infinitely rewarding…