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  • Author: Eno, Arthur L. Jr.

Date: 1976

Language: en

Find in a Library: 2942452

Find Online: OL8319368M

A collection of 14 essays on the history of Chelmsford and Lowell, Massachusetts, from pre-incorporation to industrialization, into the middle 20th century. As the title suggests, an emphasis on the prevalence of mill work and immigrants cultures…

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  • Author: Mosher, Howard Frank

Date: 1983

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8845460

One of Mosher's time-tested Vermont stories, again set in his fictional Kingdom County. About a young French Canadian emigrant who endures hardship from the very beginnings of her life in the United States. Republished in 2004, to the Hardscrabble…

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  • Author: Bevis, Charlie

Date: 2008

Language: en

Find in a Library: 183162151

Find Online: OL1856361W

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A history of the New England minor baseball league around the turn of the century. The league's rise, demise, and its place in the social and economic transitions of that era. The impact of the league on the industrial centers of New England, and…

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  • Author: History Committee of Saint Joseph Parish

Date: 1988

Language: en

Find in a Library: 18726883, 21119721

Find Online: OL8667782W

157 year history of one of the multiple Roman Catholic parishes in the city of Burlington, Vermont. St. Joseph Parish recognizes itself as "the oldest national parish in New England." From the parish website: "The story of St. Joseph's is, from the…

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  • Author: Cuomo, Donna Fournier

Date: 1977

Book Title: Immigration in American Life: Graduate Seminar Research Papers on North Shore Selected Topics

Language: en

Find in a Library: 19571844

Descriptions of Franco American people and community in Lawrence, Massachusetts. One essay in a collection of graduate-level academic essays on immigration and ethnicity in Massachusetts and the United States. From a seminar in the study of history,…

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  • Author: Chenard, Robert E.

Date: 2010 January

Language: English

Find in a Library: None

Website publication. Brief essay on the beginnings of French Canadian migration to Waterville, Maine, in the nineteenth century, and the impact of later, more pervasive chain migrations on that town and its riverside industrialization before World…

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  • Author: Melvin, Charlotte Maxine Lenentine

Date: 1955

Thesis Type: M.A., History

Institution: University of New Brunswick

Language: en

Find in a Library: 433902080

History of the Madawaska border region of the Upper Saint John River Valley as a meeting point of New Brunswick and the state of Maine. Madawaska as an area of political negotiation, a borderland infused with geographic and political meaning in the…

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  • Author: Craig, Béatrice (Chevalier)

Date: 1983

Thesis Type: Ph. D., History

Institution: University of Maine at Orono

Language: en

Find in a Library: 52377703

From the author: "The Madawaska settlement, on the Upper St. John Valley in Northern Maine and North West New Brunswick was started in 1785 by a group of Acadian and French-Canadian families for New Brunswick, and a group of French Canadians from the…

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  • Author: Desrosiers-Lauzon, Godefroy

Date: 2008

Thesis Type: Ph. D., History

Institution: University of Ottawa

Language: en

Find in a Library: 658153238

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From the author: "This thesis explains and analyzes the phenomenon of seasonal, long-term winter travel to Florida, travelers that South Floridians have called 'snowbirds.' It demonstrates what pushed and pulled [Canadian and American] snowbirds to…

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  • Author: Guillet, Ernest Bernard

Date: 1978

Thesis Type: Ph. D., French

Institution: University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Language: en

Find in a Library: 7436222, 49091666

Find Online: OL12362900W

From the author: "This study examines the French literary and cultural life of French Canadians in New England with emphasis on Holyoke, Massachusetts, between 1869 and 1940. At the turn of the century French Canadians became known as…

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  • Author: Guyette, George Francis

Date: 1941

Thesis Type: M.A., Education

Institution: University of Maine at Orono

Language: en; fr

Find in a Library: 50013355

Thesis that argues a recognition of the persistence of French language from 17th-century France and New France into 20th-century southern New England. As a research piece in the field of education, this study examined the 1930s state of colloquial…

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  • Author: Paradis, Wilfrid Henry

Date: 1949

Thesis Type: M.A.

Institution: St. Mary's Seminary

Language: en

Find in a Library: 11477573

Master's thesis on the impact of French-Canadian immigration, labor, religion, and community-building in the industrial city of Manchester, New Hampshire, in the nineteenth century. Approaches this community before its more recent periods of growth…

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  • Author: Potvin, Raymond H.

Date: 2003-06 (summer)

Publication: American Catholic Studies

Volume: 114

Language: en

Find in a Library: 47828739

Essay on the birth of French Canadian Roman Catholic national parishes (churches, schools, communities) in New England - their subsequent growth, decline, and transformation as Franco American communities from the early nineteenth century to the…

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  • Author: Kaell, Hillary

Date: 2007

Publication: Historical Studies

Volume: 73

Language: en

Find in a Library: 12864095

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From a publication of the Canadian Catholic Historical Association. Essay that situates the early-twentieth-century "mystic stigmatic" figure of Marie-Rose Ferron in a Franco American religious history. Using Ferron's biography as measure, Kaell sees…

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  • Author: Richard, Mark Paul

Date: 2002-03 (spring and summer)

Publication: Québec Studies

Volume: 33

Language: en; fr

Find in a Library: 60628349, 9360295

Essay that follows the Roman Catholic Dominican order from its French expatriation to Canada, to its subsequent immigration to New England. Explores how Dominican fathers and other Church leaders impacted the acculturation of French Canadian…

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  • Author: Paquet, Gilles
  • Author: Smith, Wayne R.

Date: 1983-09

Publication: L'Actualité économique

Volume: 59

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 113277240

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Analyse sur l'émigration canadien-français aux États-Unis en mémoire de l'oeuvre d'Albert Faucher, et utilisant des donnees économiques dans la région nord-est pour tenter d'expliquer les schémas de migration correspondantes.

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  • Author: Ramirez, Bruno

Date: 2001-04

Publication: Journal of American Ethnic History

Volume: 20

Language: en

Find in a Library: 49605417, 7845143

Brief historiographical piece that begins with discrepancies between Canadian and American data on Canadian migrants to the United States. Concerning studies of continental migration - both empirical and theoretical, international statistics on…

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  • Author: Myrback, Margrit

Date: 2010 Fall

Publication: American Ancestors

Volume: 11

Language: English

Find in a Library: 517962020, 929.05 bN44a

Article from the New England Historic Genealogical Society periodical. Genealogical research sparked from an interest in a picture displayed in the author's grandmother's Vermont home.

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  • Author: Cerquiglini, Bernard

Date: 2010-10

Publication: Glottopol: Revue de sociolinguistique en ligne

Volume: 16

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 163640790

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De l'auteur: "Ce texte porte sur la langue française telle qu'elle se parle en Louisiane depuis près de quatre siècles. Après un bref rappel de ses sources (français hexagonal, créole, acadien, etc), l'auteur s'intéresse aux…

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  • Author: Choquette, Leslie

Date: 2002 Spring/Summer

Publication: Québec Studies

Volume: 33

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 60628349

"Par le mythe de la Nouvelle-France," Choquette écrit, "je veux dire la persistance...d'un vision nostalgique du Québec." Alors, elle commence à décrire en quelle façon les écritures de Camille Lessard et Honoré Beaugrand - deux…

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  • Author: DeRoche, Celeste

Date: 1996 December

Publication: The Oral History Review

Volume: 23

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1793844, 45954894

Historiographical essay on the dearth and fragmentation of source material relevant to working class Franco Americans - especially Franco American women. Considers the published reality that is "la survivance" in relation to the lived realities of…

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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: Shideler, Janet Lee

Date: 1998

Language: English

Find in a Library: 32273493

The published book form of Shideler's 1991 Ph.D. thesis from the University of Massachusetts. A biographical study of a québécoise and first-generation Franco American author and her works - as a means, Shideler writes, "to identify the…

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  • Author: Field, Rachel

Date: 1931

Language: English

Find in a Library: 4411669

Young adult novel about a French girl orphaned upon her arrival in America. Follows her through the loss of her family, her adaptations to servitude, and her coming-of-age in the New World. Winner of a Newbery Honor Award for youth literature in…

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  • Author: Charters, Ann

Date: 1973

Language: English

Find in a Library: 6065241

Seminal biography of native of Lowell, Massachusetts, Franco American, novelist, and poet, Jack Kerouac. Republished in 1994. Written by Ann Charters, who worked with Kerouac during the final three years of his life. In her writing of this book,…

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  • Author: Caffee, Gabrielle Leboeuf

Date: 1993

Language: English

Find in a Library: 266161022

Experimental, semi-biographical fiction about the movement of people and culture through Bas Canada et les États-Unis. A self-proclaimed "case study" of imagined ancestral movement from North to South, and the evolution of culture along that…

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  • Author: Leprince, Jean-Michel
  • Author: Devroede, Pierre

Date: 2001 septembre 7

Language: Français

Du Radio-Canada: "[Ici] Jean-Michel Leprince et Pierre Devroede ont rencontré des Franco-Américains de la communauté de Waterville, dans le Maine, qui réapprennent à parler français."

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  • Author: Eaton, Aurore Dionne

Date: 1991

Language: English

Find in a Library: 74823189

Film on the history of Franco-Americans in the state of New Hampshire. A series of photographs and paintings with descriptive narration.

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  • Author: Jepson, Brenda N. (director)

Date: 2006

Language: English

Find in a Library: 76891153

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From Crown of Maine Productions: "'Greetings From Aroostook' is a seventeen minute DVD featuring spectacular scenery, people and wildlife of The County set to music. The DVD includes scenes throughout the area from the Million Dollar View south of…

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  • Author: Sharkey, Jim (writer & producer)

Date: 2004

Language: English

Find in a Library: 661411507

Full title of the film: "Hard Work: 'To Make Both Ends Meet' : Maine Women's Voices, 1888." From Folkfilms.com: "In 1888 the Maine State Bureau of Industrial and Labor Statistics conducted a survey to assess working conditions for women in the…

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