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  • Author: Stewart, Alice R.

Date: 1987 Winter

Publication: Maine Historical Society Quarterly

Volume: 26

Language: en

Find in a Library: 2263768, 607696548

Brief essay characterizing the historical writings on Franco Americans in Maine, the evolution of the historical scope of these writings, and the transformation of their concerns from the end of the nineteenth century to the present. A call for new…

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  • Author: Bizier, Hélène-Andrée

Date: 1978

Publication: Forces

Language: Bilingual/bilingue

Find in a Library: 1081651, 61523125

Une introduction à l'histoire des prémières Français aux États-Unis, commençant par les explorateurs historiques qui ont établis les noms français de nombreux endroits en Amérique. Le début et la fin de la Nouvelle…

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  • Author: Giguère, Madeleine

Date: 1974

Institution: University of Maine at Portland-Gorham

Language: en

Find in a Library: 2146676

Unpublished presentation of statistics on persons of French and English mother tongue in the state of Maine, adapted from 1970 United States census data. Shows figures related to family make-up, mobility, education, labor, income, state geography,…

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  • Author: Dubé, Normand C.

Date: 1971

Thesis Type: Ph. D., Education

Institution: The Ohio State University

Language: en; fr

Find in a Library: 22407012

Dissertation exploring the resources and methods available for teaching the French language to the Franco American native French speaker. Suggestions for materials, activity, and practice in the Franco American's bilingual education setting,…

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  • Author: Boyle-Durgin, Mary Louise

Date: 1994

Language: English

Find in a Library: 31454810

A biography of Westbrook, Maine, native, Sister Marie Ange Larrivee, a nun in the Order of the Presentation of Mary. Stories that take us from her youth in Westbrook, through her Canadian religious education, all the way to her travels in Europe and…

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  • Author: Guy, Don

Date: 1976 July

Publication: Yankee

Language: English

Find in a Library: 34796734

Article on the plight of Franco American cultural activists in New England. The variety of the troubles confronting them, and their energy in relation to the seeming decline of the historically supportive Franco cultural establishments as seen in…

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  • Author: Vincens, Simone J.

Date: 1985-01

Publication: Contemporary French Civilization

Volume: 9

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 6466586, 3234085

Une vue d'ensemble de l'histoire de la presse franco-américaine du 19e et 20e siècles, écrit par un professeur de Millersville State College. Commentaire sur les divers publications et leur ampleur géographique à la hauteur de leurs…

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  • Author: Unknown

Date: 2010 October 30

Language: English

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Brief article on a Roman Catholic mass celebrated by Bishop of the Diocese of Portland, Maine, Richard Malone, at St. André Church, Biddeford, Maine. This ceremony was held, in tribute to the parish, two months before the occasion of the church's…

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

Date: 2010 February

Language: English

Find in a Library: Unknown

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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: Sun Journal Staff

Date: 2003 March 14

Publication: Sun Journal

Language: English

Find in a Library: 26622903

Article on Quebec's donation of nearly 10,000 books in the French language to the Franco-American Centre at the University of Maine, to be distributed into the state's Franco-American communities.

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  • Author: Salmond, John

Date: 2002

Language: en

Find in a Library: 56424876

Find Online: OL8166385M

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An account of 1934's nationwide textile strike in the United States. The trend of unionization that preceded the strike, and the strike's lasting impact on labor and industry in the United States. A specific focus on the impact of this strike in the…

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  • Author: Hendrickson, Dyke

Date: 1980

Language: en

Find in a Library: 6627420

Find Online: OL4117174M

Historical overview of Franco Americans in New England. 27 interviews that lend personality, locality, and intimacy to the author's history. Hendrickson's work has led to his being quoted as a commentator on immigrant labor history in an exhibit of…

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  • Author: Weil, François

Date: 1989

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 23695732

Find Online: OL1970647M

Un bref historique complet sur les Franco-Américains de la Nouvelle-Angleterre jusqu'à 1980. Une étude socielle, culturelle, démographique, et historiographique, basée "sur les travaux historiques existant" états-uniniens sur ce…

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  • Author: Guignard, Michael J.

Date: 1982

Language: en

Find in a Library: 11210512

Find Online: OL3006097M

Edited and updated book version of a dissertation published five years earlier ("Ethnic survival in a New England Mill Town," Syracuse University, 1977), with a foreword by author and Biddeford resident, Norman Beaupré. A Franco American history…

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  • Author: Beaupré, Norman R.

Date: 2006

Language: English

Find in a Library: 85854514

The life of a young man after graduating college, his battle with AIDS, and his friendship with a mentor and former professor, Norman Beaupré, as read through a chronological series of personal letters. From the author's website: "What would you…

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  • Author: Turner, Loretta M.

Date: 1993

Language: en

Find in a Library: 31033874

Find Online: OL10810066M

Pictorial History of Biddeford, Maine, with a particular emphasis on Franco American life there. Biddeford, an industrial city, can claim the presence of working mills from as far back as 1800, many years before the first French Canadian migrations…

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  • Author: Beaupré, Norman

Date: 2010

Language: English (traduction du français)

Find in a Library: 43280504 (la version française)

English translation of "Le Petit Mangeur de Fleurs" (1999) - a work of autobiographical fiction from a Biddeford, Maine native. From the author: "Le Petit Mangeur de Fleurs (The Little Eater of Bleeding Hearts) is the story of a boy growing up and…

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  • Author: Knowlton, Evelyn H. P.

Date: 1948

Language: en

Find in a Library: 2235222

Find Online: OL9259422W

An organizational, corporate, and industrial history of the Pepperell Manufacturing Company, whose Boston-run mills operated in the coastal city of Biddeford, Maine, and in the other industrial towns of Lewiston, Maine, Laconia, New Hampshire, and…

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  • Author: Ducharme, Jacques

Date: 1943

Language: en

Find in a Library: 932931

Find Online: OL6450417M

Book-length reflection on a personal journey through New England to learn about French-Canadian immigration and Franco American identity there. Permeated with personal anecdotes, comments on language, race, and genealogy, and perhaps the first…

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  • Author: Austin, Mark D. (director)

Date: 2010 June 24

Language: English

Maine Public Broadcasting Network television show focusing on news, events, and people important to the state of Maine. Here, part two of a three-part episode. "Franco-Americans in Photos" is an interview with journalist Dyke Hendrickson, author of…

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  • Author: Martin, Jane

Date: 2010 September 7

Language: English and français

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Episode of a CBC broadcast, "C'est la vie," whose feature is Franco American life in southern Maine. Biddeford, the hometown of narrator Jane Martin, is the episode's main setting. Contains interviews with Martin's aunt and parents in Biddeford and…

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  • Author: Moran, William (speaker)

Date: 2002 October 26

Language: English

Find in a Library: 174144-1 (C-SPAN Video Library)

A presentation by William Moran on his book, "The Belles of New England," as a portion of the 2002 Concord Festival of Authors, Concord, Massachusetts. From C-SPAN: "Mr. Moran discussed his book 'The Belles of New England: The Women of the Textile…

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  • Author: Religieuse de la Présentation de Marie, La (Hudson, New Hampshire)

Date: 1945

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 22844640, 34711965

La biographie de Monseigneur Arthur Décary, dit le Révérend Père Zénon Décary: un prêtre qui a servi les églises catholique romain du Maine. Écrite comme hagiographie moderne, avec…

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  • Author: Richard, Mark Paul

Date: 2010-12-00

Publication: American Review of Canadian Studies

Volume: 40

Language: en

Find in a Library: 690210682

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From the author: "This article examines a little-known dimension to the Ku Klux Klan movement in the United States during the 1920s. As Anglo-Canadian Protestants supported the KKK to assert control over French-Canadian and other Catholics in the New…

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  • Author: Laberge, Yves

Date: 2008 November 3

Publication: University Affairs/Affaires universitaires

Language: English

Find in a Library: 61569585

A sympathetic review of the anthology, "Voyages: A Franco-American Reader" (Gardiner, Maine: Tilbury House, 2007). Discusses a few of the entries and their importance to the whole of American Studies.

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  • Author: Associated Press

Date: 2010 October 8-9

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8814143, 60630676

Priscille Gagnon, for head of La Kermesse Franco American festival in Biddeford, Maine, is sentenced to three months in prison after being convicted of embezzling nearly $80,000 in festival funds to pay for her husband's hospital bills.

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  • Author: Hendrickson, Dyke

Date: 2010 October 17

Publication: Sun Journal

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8814143, 60630676

Article on the absence of a Franco American in the Maine governor's seat. Observes the one-year term of Alonzo Garcelon in the 19th century, the losses of past Francos vying for election, and the contemporary case of Waterville, Maine, mayor Paul…

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  • Author: Richardson, John

Date: 2010 November 4

Publication: Portland Press Herald

Language: English

Find in a Library: 9341113

Analysis of Maine voting patterns from the 2010 gubernatorial election. This author contends that the Maine vote - largely divided between Paul LePage, the victor, and Eliot Cutler - was not a "north-south split," but a more complex divide better…

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  • Author: Bouthillette, Emma

Date: 2010 November 18

Publication: Portland Press Herald

Language: English

Find in a Library: 9341113

Article on the redevelopment of vacant space in the Riverdam Mill of Biddeford, Maine, on the banks of the Saco River.

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