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  • Author: Gosselin, Henri

Date: 1998

Language: English (traduction en français disponible)

Find in a Library: 42249878

Historical fiction piece about a French Canadian spy participating in the American Revolution and risking, from the threats of his Canadian bishop, excommunication from the Catholic Church. Based on actual events.

  • Author: Genest, Eloise

Date: 2001

Language: English

Find in a Library: 49396582

A 21st-century novel about Louisiana's colonial period, and the demise of French power on the North American continent before the end of the 1700s.. From Amazon.com: " It is the period of the Enlightenment in France and Europe, and early French…

  • Author: Cather, Willa

Date: 1931

Language: English

Find in a Library: 167912

Novel set in seventeenth-century Canada - New France - maneuvering between a widower, his family and guests, and the great political figures of the time. Written by Cather out of a brief obsession with Québec and French Canada in the early…

  • Author: Levine, Ben (director)

Date: 1980

Language: English and français

Find in a Library: 56624171

A documentary that captures sentiments toward francophone cultures between France, Quebec, and New England in the context of Quebec's 1980 sovereignty referendum. From WorldCat: "Features interviews with French Canadians and Franco-Americans about…

  • Author: Fournier, Claude

Date: 1988

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 77099172, 235986817

Read: Regarder: BANDE-ANNONCE

Un drame télévisé sur l'émigration canadienne française à la Nouvelle-Angleterre au début de la vingtième siècle, et les travailleurs des usines textiles de l'époque industrielle aux Etats-Unis.

  • Author: Bélanger, Damien-Claude

Date: 2011

Language: en

Find in a Library: 466659872

Read: Preview

From University of Toronto Press: "As a country with enormous economic, military, and cultural power, the United States can seem an overwhelming neighbour - one that demands consideration by politicians, thinkers, and cultural figures. Prejudice and…

  • Author: Fecteau, Edouard

Date: 1941

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 8372494

Pris du texte: "Les Franco-Américains du Greater Lawrence ne se connaissent pas assez. Nous avons donc compilé une liste de nos hommes d'affaires , de nos professionnels, de nos marchands, de nos hommes publics et un court résumé de nos…

  • 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…

  • Author: Belluck, Pam

Date: 2006 June 4

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

2006 New York Times article on the particular history of French language in Maine and more recent attempts of many - including the founders of a Freeport elementary school - to revive it after a prolonged suppression.

  • Author: Naughton, James M.

Date: 1972 February 27

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1760220

  • Author: New York Times

Date: 1881 April 11

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1760220

An article on various minor news topics of the day. Marked for a particular selection, the sixth paragraph of the column, on French-Canadian emigration into the United States. Remarks that the movement of people southward from Québec seems to be…

  • Author: Williams, Allen Samuel

Date: 1907 September 2

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1760220

Brief letter to the editor acknowledging the local governments of Fall River, Massachusetts, and Providence, Rhode Island, forbidding the act of spitting on the sidewalk. Author suggests the positive effect of the law in these cities is perhaps due…

  • Author: New York Times

Date: 1891 November 15

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1760220

Brief 1891 article acknowledging the upcoming visit of Wilfrid Laurier, potential Canadian Prime Minister, to Boston, Massachusetts.

  • Author: New York Times

Date: 1889 January 13

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1760220

1889 article in which the author attempts to describe what seem to be Québec's French-Canadian allegiances: neither to England nor to the Dominion of Canada, but to the Roman Catholic Church. Author considers French-Canadian imperial federation…

  • Author: New York Times

Date: 1892 September 19

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1760220

1892 article on multilingual political tracts (pamphlets) being handed out by Republicans to Italian and French-Canadian laborers in working-class areas of Connecticut. The tracts at issue in this article were attempting to illustrate the benefits…

  • Author: New York Times

Date: 1890 March 9

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1760220

1890 article accounting for some resistance to French in the Canadian northwest. Also Québec resistance to clerical rule which, says the author, is partly evidenced by the French-Canadian exodus to New England. Moreover, the author predicts the…

  • Author: New York Times

Date: 1889 August 22

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1760220

1889 article on the proposal of Canada to recognize English as the country's sole national language, with Québec threatening to counter with its official provincial language as French -- or, as the author tosses out, to propose annexation to the…

  • Author: New York Times

Date: 1874 October 3

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1760220

1874 article remarking on the social conditions of Canada, seemingly split between predominantly French- and English-speaking geographies.

  • Author: Lemay, George

Date: 1900 September 9

Publication: New York Times

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1760220

1900 letter to the New York Times refuting pejorative descriptions leveled on "the French-Canadian of to-day" by a New York Times editorialist who had only spent a short time in Canada. The letter covers the editorialist's attitude toward…

  • Author: Hale, Karlene K.

Date: 1991 October 23

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8814143, 60630676

Part 3 of 4 of the October, 1991, series entitled, "Against all odds: Life on the 'Hill'" - a close look into Augusta, Maine's Sand Hill (Sandhill) neighborhood. Part 3 is a brief look into St. Augustine School, the educational foundation - alongside…

  • Author: Kennebec Journal Editorial Staff

Date: 1972 September 23

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English, with some français

Find in a Library: 8814143, 60630676

A supplement to the Daily Kennebec Journal in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Le Club Calumet, a (then) men's-only Franco American social club in Augusta, Maine. Includes many advertisement congratulations from local businesses, pictures of…

  • Author: Cartwright, Steve

Date: 1989 October 18

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8814143, 60630676

A Readfield, Maine, woman who was denied membership at Le Club Calumet - a men's Franco-American social club in Augusta, Maine - appealed to the Maine Human Rights Commission on account of discrimination.

  • Author: Guimond, Tammy

Date: 1989 November 7

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8814143, 60630676

Letter to the editor regarding the 1989 Le Club Calumet controversy sparked by a woman's seeking entry into the all-male club. Offers a measure of support for the Augusta, Maine, Club in its rejection of the woman's request.

  • Author: Dostie, Art

Date: 1989 November 7

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8814143, 60630676

Letter to the editor on the subject of Augusta, Maine's Franco American social club, Le Club Calumet, excluding women from its membership.

  • Author: Grenier Hanley, Karen

Date: 1989 November 17

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8814143, 60630676

  • Author: Guimond, Jean

Date: 1989 November 17

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8814143, 60630676

Letter to the editor chastising Nancy Albert Ellis, the woman who in 1989 sought entry into the all-male Franco-American social club, Le Club Calumet, of Augusta, Maine.

  • Author: Berube, Lila

Date: 1989 November 17

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8814143, 60630676

Letter to the editor questioning the motives of Nancy Albert Ellis, the woman who in 1989 sought entry into an all-male Franco American social club, Le Club Calumet, of Augusta, Maine.

  • Author: Lovejoy, David

Date: 1989 November 17

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8814143, 60630676

Letter to the editor in support of the 1989 decision of Augusta, Maine's Le Club Calumet to reject the membership application of a woman, Nancy Albert Ellis, and remain an all-male organization.

  • Author: Cartwright, Steve

Date: 1989 November 21

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8814143, 60630676

The Maine Human Rights Commission ruled that Le Club Calumet, an all-male Franco American social club in Augusta, Maine, discriminated when it refused membership to a woman applicant. The article contains commentary from arguing members of the Club…

  • Author: Hale, Karlene K.

Date: 1989 November 22

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

After the Maine Human Rights Commission ruled that she had been discriminated against when denied membership at Le Club Calumet, a Franco American social club, Nancy Albert Ellis considered filing charges in court. Many members of the Club, in her…