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  • Author: Sorrell, Richard S.

Date: 1972-11

Publication: Rhode Island History

Volume: 31

Language: en; fr

Find in a Library: 1696593

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The place of sport in the Franco American communities of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, around the beginning of the twentieth century. The complex identification of sport with both a means of French Canadian cultural preservation and a site of American…

  • Author: Born, Warren C. (editor)

Date: 1976

Language: English

Find in a Library: 2108146

A collection of reports from the working committees of the 1976 Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. An overview of the history and tradition of immigration in the United States, and an introduction to ethnic groups associated…

  • Author: Haebler, Peter

Date: 1976

Thesis Type: Ph. D., History

Institution: University of New Hampshire

Language: en

Find in a Library: 3231008, 5519977

Descriptions of turn-of-the-century transitions among the Franco Americans in Holyoke, Massachusetts, from a lower-class immigrant enclave to a more largely socially integrated, participatory American community with greater public influence. Argues a…

  • Author: Théroux, Bernard G. (editor/rédacteur)

Date: 1976

Language: Bilingual/bilingue

Find in a Library: 34020438

A collection of papers from a 1974 New Hampshire conference on Franco American life in the twentieth century. Published as a bilingual text, a dual collection, with papers printed in both English and French. Full English title reads: "A translation…

  • Author: Bonier, Marie-Louise

Date: 1920

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 6206154

Un portrait riche et approfondie de la naissance d'un des plus grandes communautés franco-américaines du Rhode Island. Présenté en trois parties: "Histoire de l'ancien Woonsocket et de ses environs," "L'émigration des Canadiens…

  • Author: Shannon, William F.

Date: 2010-12

Institution: Athabasca University

Language: en

Find in a Library: Unknown

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Critical reading of three Franco American oral history interviews from the Federal Writers' Project of the late 1930s. An exploration of how the participants in each interview constructed identities of self and community through the stories they…

  • Author: Belisle, Alexandre

Date: 1920

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 2757700

L'histoire d'un siècle des Franco-Américains à Worcester, Massachusetts, de 1820 a 1920. Un profil de la communauté franco-américaine: ses églises et écoles, ses religieux(-ses), ses organisations, ses chefs publiques, et ses…

  • Author: Conforti, Joseph A.

Date: 2001

Language: en

Find in a Library: 45909198

Find Online: OL7972726M

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The shape of regional identity in New England, from its Puritan origins, to its Yankee iterations, to its immigrant diversity. How popular conceptions of the New England region were created, established, and communicated, and how these conceptions…

  • Author: Bender, Prosper

Date: 1888 November

Publication: Magazine of American History

Volume: 10

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1590082, 7676496

Some comments from an American critic at the time of a visible wave of French Canadian immigration to the United States - especially New England - in the 1880s. Provides a favorable social and political context from the French Canada of this period.…

  • Author: Silvia, Philip T.

Date: 1979-07-01

Publication: The Catholic Historical Review

Volume: 65

Language: en

Find in a Library: 1553555, 45416719

Article on the 1880s Fall River, Massachusetts, dispute between French Canadian immigrant Catholics, Irish American parishioners, and a largely Irish American clergy, commonly known as the "Flint Affair." The prolonged and destructive debate over…

  • Author: Péloquin-Faré, Louise

Date: 1990

Book Title: Langue et identité : le français et les francophones d'Amérique du Nord

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 23869515

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Essai sur changements dans les rélations entre les Franco-Américains et la langue francaise, des débuts des enclaves francos et la survivance en Nouvelle-Angleterre jusqu'aux années 1980. Divisé en partie par les sujets qui suivent:…

  • 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…

  • Author: Maillet, Marguerite A.

Date: 1976

Thesis Type: M. Ed.

Institution: University of Maine Portland-Gorham

Language: en

Find in a Library: Unknown (available at Franco American Centre, University of Maine)

Historical origins of Franco American community in the city of Lewiston, Maine. Cultural heritage as related to the establishment of textile mills and shoe shops, the influence of church parishes and schools, and the concerns of local Roman Catholic…

  • Author: Quintal, Claire

Date: 1994

Language: Français and English

Find in a Library: 31382224

Un recueil d'essais sur la femme franco-américaine tant qu'individuelle ainsi qu'un partie d'une collectivité sociale - de la France vers le Canada, du Québec vers les États-Unis. Certains expériences de femmes franco-américaines,…

  • Author: Polenberg, Richard

Date: 1980

Language: en

Find in a Library: 5448039

Find Online: OL4101285M

A history of the United States between 1938 and 1978 that explores the categories and convergences of class, race, and ethnicity. Measures how these three categories factored into World War II, the Cold War, and the Vietnam War. Begins with the…

  • Author: Keyssar, Alexander

Date: 1986

Language: en

Find in a Library: 12555862

Find Online: OL2538576M

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A history of unemployment and the unemployed in Massachusetts during the hundred years previous to the stock market collapse of 1929. A study of the jobless - their backgrounds, conditions, and the social and political climate of their day - in…

  • Author: Murray, John O'Kane

Date: 1876

Language: en

Find in a Library: 6910728

Find Online: OL5916517W

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A single volume on the history of the Catholic Church in North America: from Columbus' arrival in 1492 to the French Jesuits and Native Americans of the 16th and 17th centuries, to the Irish of the 18th and 19th, up to the America of the period of…

  • Author: Péloquin-Faré, Louise

Date: 1983

Institution: École Normale Supérieure de Saint-Cloud (Centre de recherche et d'étude pour la diffusion du français)

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 11599243

Find Online: OL5382031W

Une description des moeurs et de la vie franco-américaine dans la Nouvelle-Angleterre. Une exploration de la survivance dans le contexte d'une histoire précise et d'un avenir imprévisible pour un peuple francophone aux Etats-Unis. Etude…

  • Author: Levasseur, Raymond Luc

Date: 1992

Language: English

Find in a Library: Unknown

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Essay on political activist and Vietnam veteran Ray Luc Levasseur's working-class Franco background from around the mills of Sanford, Maine. The pride he has built out of the integrity of his family and his experiences of discrimination. The…

  • Author: Langlois, Simon (rédacteur)

Date: 1995

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 32091322

Une collection d'essais sur l'évolution du fait français en Amérique du Nord. La langue, les histoires, et les cultures de communautés francophones au Canada et aux États-Unis. Origines des expressions culturelles…

  • Author: Wessel, Bessie Bloom

Date: 1931

Language: English

Find in a Library: 70341526

Find Online: OL5077644M

A case study and scientific report on ethnic make-up in Woonsocket, Rhode Island around 1930. Demographic figures on school populations, families, and communities in Woonsocket with regard to ethnicity and culture, compiled from survey data. Takes…

  • Author: Weber, Tom

Date: 1997 July 19-20

Publication: Bangor Daily News

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8818350

Article on geographer and anthropologist Barry Rodrigue's exploration and excavation of the Old Canada Road, or the stretch of land between central Maine and the Canadian border that traverses the northwestern part of the state. This route is known…

  • Author: DuLong, John

Date: 2001

Language: en

Find in a Library: 45830070

Find Online: OL3937234M

Overview of the French Canadian presence in the Great Lakes Region - from the forests of the seventeenth century to the industrial landscapes of the nineteenth and twentieth. Migration waves and community developments in this region, particularly in…

  • Author: Pinette, Susan

Date: 2007

Publication: The French Review

Volume: 80

Language: English

Find in a Library: 137573897

An essay on including Franco Americans and Franco American literature in the rubric of French studies. How such inclusions impact this rubric historically, theoretically, and in terms of content. How a recognition of "la Francophonie" outside of…

  • Author: Green, Susan

Date: 2011 April 3

Publication: Burlington Free Press

Language: English

Find in a Library: 9390458, 661313450

Article in recognition of Burlington, Vermont's 2011 French Friendship Day - a gathering together of local and international francophiles and francophones to celebrate the presence of French Canadian and Franco American culture in Vermont. Contains…

  • Author: Edington, Steve

Date: 1999

Language: English

Find in a Library: 43208165

A genealogical and literary excavation of the roots of Jack Kerouac's family in Nashua, New Hampshire. Historical and literary scholarship on both Nashua and Kerouac, accompanied by the author's thoughts on family and culture, illustrated with some…

  • Author: Bélanger, Damien-Claude

Date: 2001

Volume: 1

Language: en

Find in a Library: 48900085

Find Online: OL3618685M

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French Canadians and Franco Americans in the context of the American Civil War. Includes enlistment figures in relation to immigration, as well as population figures around 1860. Considers the short history surrounding the complicated reality of new…

  • Author: Cousins, Christopher

Date: 2010 March 3

Publication: Bangor Daily News

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8818350

Article on the Old Canada Road Historical Society's purchase of an aged home in Bingham, Maine, as a location to publicly display historical artifacts from the upper Kennebec River Valley region.