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  • Author: Goodman, Giselle

Date: 2004 August 7

Publication: Portland Press Herald

Language: English

Find in a Library: 9341113, 232117688

Article on the return to southern Maine of Sanford native, Ray Luc Levasseur, after decades of imprisonment in federal penitentiary for convictions associated with his political activism. Includes a timeline from 1977 to 2004 of some of the major…

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  • Author: Wessel, Bessie Bloom

Date: 1931

Language: English

Find in a Library: 70341526

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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…

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  • Author: Brown, Becky

Date: 1993-03

Publication: Language in Society

Volume: 22

Language: en; fr

Find in a Library: 484389948

The status of French language in Louisiana over time - diversity, amalgamation, decay, revival, and current modes of expression. How the written French word in the context of Louisiana French language revival has taken on special political and social…

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  • Author: Heller, Monica

Date: 1992

Publication: Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

Volume: 13

Language: en

Find in a Library: 43413712

From the author: "Using data from ethnographic studies of the use of French and English in Ontario and Quebec (Canada) in a variety of settings (hospital, factory, school, etc.) over the period 1978-1990, I discuss language choice as a political…

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  • Author: Litwack, Leon

Date: 1962

Language: en

Find in a Library: 414029

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A first-person history of the American labor movement - the growth of labor unions and the development of collective worker consciousness from the middle of the nineteenth century until the middle of the twentieth. A century of labor in primary…

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  • Author: Béliveau, Sévérin

Date: 2005 December 12

Publication: Bangor Daily News

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8818350

Transcript of a speech given to the mayor and town council of Loudon, France, from Maine attorney Severin Beliveau upon his trade mission there with Maine governor, John Baldacci. The speech addresses the history and breadth of Maine's Franco…

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  • Author: Hauger, Nok-Noi

Date: 2006 September 23-24

Publication: Bangor Daily News

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8818350

François Gauthier, former French consul to Boston and New England, and Françoise Gauthier visit Old Town, Maine, and the University of Maine's Franco-American Centre to learn more about Maine's French heritage.

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  • Author: Brinkley, Tony

Date: 1996 November 11

Publication: Sun Journal

Language: English

Find in a Library: 26622903

Letter to the editor on the upcoming designation of Maine as "the location for the United States bureau of the Francophone Business Forum." This development comes after separate endeavors in the Bangor and Lewiston, Maine, encouraging that attention…

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  • Author: Bierman, Noah

Date: 2010 November 22

Publication: Boston Daily Globe

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1536853

Article introducing Maine's 2010 governor-elect, Waterville mayor Paul LePage, as an outspoken newcomer to state politics, and part of the Republican party's wave of success in Maine's 2010 elections.

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  • Author: Cover, Susan M.

Date: 2011 January 3

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

Find in a Library: 60630676, 8814143

Article describing the similarities of Alonzo Garcelon, a late nineteenth-century Maine governor, and the state's most recently elected governor, Paul LePage. While recent news has debated the term "Franco American" as a descriptor for both governors…

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  • Author: Radio Canada

Date: 2011 janvier 6

Language: Français

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Un bref article sur le nouveau gouverneur du Maine, M. Paul LePage. Son histoire personnelle, son héritage française, et sa promesse de soutenir le Congrès mondial acadien de 2014, à Madawaska, Maine.

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  • Author: Dutram, Paul W.

Date: 2011 April 2

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

Find in a Library: 60630676, 8814143

Letter to the editor criticizing Maine governor Paul LePage for his order to remove a mural depicting Maine's labor history from the walls of the Maine Department of Labor. A reference to how Maine's and LePage's Franco American history is largely…

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  • 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…

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  • Author: Salmond, John

Date: 2002

Language: en

Find in a Library: 56424876

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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: Mitchell, Paige (editor)

Date: 2009

Language: English

Find in a Library: None

A collection of writings in cultural studies, compiled for a University of Maine course in English composition. Available at the Franco-American Centre, Orono, Maine.

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  • Author: Bélanger, Damien-Claude

Date: 2001

Volume: 1

Language: en

Find in a Library: 48900085

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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…

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  • Author: Bernard, Shane

Date: 2003

Language: English

Find in a Library: 49618900

Find Online: OL2988647W

A history of twentieth-century Southern Louisiana by way of an exploration of the processes of assimilation experienced its people of French and Acadian heritage. Descripions of the transformations of Louisiana Cajuns and Cajun culture, as well as…

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  • Author: Dronet, Curney J.

Date: 2000

Language: en

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History of the community of Erath, Louisiana, in the twentieth century. Introduced by a brief account of the Acadian exile in 1755. Contains snapshots of the town's economic and political development; the social life, religion, and education of its…

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  • Author: Santos, Luis Claudio Villafane G.

Date: 2005

Publication: AmeriQuests

Volume: 2

Language: en

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One of two articles in the "From the Culture of Borders to Border Cultures" issue of AmeriQuests journal. From AmeriQuests: "The text discusses the use of the word 'American' when referring to people from, or citizens of, the United States of…

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  • Author: Kevra, Susan K.

Date: 2007

Publication: AmeriQuests

Volume: 4

Language: en; fr

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From AmeriQuests: "In her short story 'Le Peuplement de la Terre' ('Be Fruitful and Multiply') Madeleine Ferron reveals the reality of married life for generations of women in Quebec whose lives were a constant cycle of pregnancy, childbirth and…

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  • Author: Anctil, Pierre

Date: 1981

Publication: Recherches sociographiques

Volume: 22

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 60688713, 1763510

Une critique de la centième année après la publication d'un rapport gouvernemental Massachusetts qui a nommé les émigrants Canadiens français dans la Nouvelle-Angleterre, "les Chinois des Etats de l'est." Une exploration de ce…

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  • Author: Plumer, Chris

Date: 1977 November

Publication: Maine Magazine

Language: English

Find in a Library: 25733085

Feature article on the present (1977) cultural situation of Franco Americans in Maine. Discussion of their minority demographics, as well as local, academic, and federal intiatives to bolster bilingual educational support, community solidarity, and…

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  • Author: L'Italien, Rosaire

Date: 2011 janvier 5

Language: Français

Find in a Library: Inconnu

Une vidéo des nouvelles sur le début de l'administration du gouverneur Paul Lepage dans l'État du Maine, et certains de ses visions pour l'avenir de l'Etat.

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  • Author: Brault, Gerard J.

Date: 1986

Language: en

Find in a Library: 12665191

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Comprehensive history of French Canadians and Franco Americans in New England, with an emphasis on the early 20th century. Introduced with a summary of early North American exploration and colonization. Spans in specific an historical period that…

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  • Author: Chodos, Robert
  • Author: Hamovitch, Eric

Date: 1991

Language: en

Find in a Library: 28181742

Find Online: OL1357139M

An examination of various and historical connections between Quebec and the United States. Beginning in the attitudes shaped during eighteenth-century struggles between France and Britain over the Canadian landmass, then moving through the American…

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  • Author: Courville, Serge

Date: 2002

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 51281009

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D'Editions MultiMonde: "L’un des traits marquants du XIXe siècle a été le grand brassage de population qui a déversé sur les mers du globe des dizaines de millions d’immigrants. Jamais, depuis la fin de l’empire…

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  • Author: Perreault, Robert B.

Date: 2005

Language: en

Find in a Library: 62285075

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A pictorial history of Manchester, New Hampshire created from images featured on aged postcards. Compiled by the author of several other texts on Manchester and Franco Americans in New England, Robert B. Perreault. From Arcadia Publishing: "Here, for…

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  • Author: Wade, Mason

Date: 1946

Language: en

Find in a Library: 512297

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Historical survey of French Canada and its people from the 16th century to the end of World War II. Wade illustrates political and military history, emphasizing the conflicts within a singular French-and-British Canada and ending his text, in the…

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  • Author: Green, Nancy L. (editor)
  • Author: Weil, François (editor)

Date: 2007

Language: en (translation)

Find in a Library: 69734523

English translation of "Citoyenneté et émigration: Les politiques du départ" (Éditions de l'École des hautes études en Sciences sociales, 2006). Collection of essays on migration, expatriation, and the perpetuation of…

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  • Author: Weil, François

Date: 1989

Language: fr

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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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