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  • Author: Gassette, Véronique

Date: 1994

Language: English and français

Find in a Library: 32548021

A look into the unique renditions of names of French Canadian families in Vermont, and the recent and transformative linguistic histories of these names in a largely anglophone space.

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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: Brault, Gerard J. (rédacteur)

Date: 1961

Language: Français and English

Find in a Library: 4591169

Une collection d'essaies sur le sujet de la vie franco-américaine dans la Nouvelle-Angleterre. Compilée des présentations de quelques conférences academiques de Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine. Avec les écrits qui suivent:…

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  • Author: Langellier, Kristin M.

Date: 1996

Book Title: Logon Didonai: Gespräch und Verantwortung

Language: English

Find in a Library: 35227497

Essay discussing the particular engagements - with theory, academia, community - of Franco-American Studies initiatives at the University of Maine. How community/classroom collaborative programming and discussion-based research participate in what…

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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: Cloutier De la Garza, Anita-Louise

Date: 1964

Thesis Type: M.A., Romance Philology

Institution: Columbia University

Language: en; fr

Find in a Library: 56147589

Comparison of phonological traits in the English and the French languages spoken in the twin cities of Lewiston and Auburn, Maine. Observations of idiosyncratic French language characteristics in Lewiston. An introductory history of Franco Americans…

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  • Author: Burns, Anna Laura

Date: 2009

Thesis Type: Ph. D.

Institution: University of Louisiana at Lafayette

Language: fr; en

Find in a Library: 670816623, 419475617

From the author: "This dissertation explores the cultural identity of two Franco-American communities in the Mid-West [United States] to identify traits that continue to persist despite language loss due to prejudice and persecution. In this…

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  • Author: Thompson, Laura Anne

Date: 2008

Thesis Type: Ph. D., Secondary Education

Institution: University of Alberta

Language: en; fr

Find in a Library: 229425429

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From the author: "In the province of Alberta, the recent phenomenon of French-speaking newcomers, who are multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic and multifaith, is putting into question the concept of a collective Francophone identity in Canada. On…

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  • Author: Fischer, Robert

Date: 1979

Thesis Type: Ph. D., Linguistics

Institution: The Pennsylvania State University

Language: en; fr

Find in a Library: 8961706

Certain linguistic descriptions of the French language characteristics heard among Franco Americans in the industrialized New England town of Lewiston, Maine, in the twentieth century.

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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: Locke, William Nash

Date: 1941

Thesis Type: Ph. D., Linguistics

Institution: Harvard University

Language: en; fr

Find in a Library: 315848

Observations and analyses of the linguistic characteristics of vernacular French in the French Canadian and Franco American community of Brunswick, Maine, in the early twentieth century. Special emphasis on word pronunciation and its relationship to…

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  • Author: Michaud, Guy Roland

Date: 1970

Thesis Type: Ed. D.

Institution: University of Maine at Orono

Language: en

Find in a Library: 51537550, 2580126

Analysis of early education programs and their varying effects on monolingual and French/English bilingual students in the state of Maine. How the effectiveness of educational programs can be measured with regard to anglophone, francophone, and…

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  • Author: O'Connor, Daniel Giles

Date: 1969

Thesis Type: Ed. D.

Institution: University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Language: en

Find in a Library: 116818

Argument toward implementing a bilingual education program in the public schools of the state of Vermont. Written in the context of the 1968 United States congressional discussions about funding bilingual education in general, and the scope of…

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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: 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: Rice-DeFosse, Mary

Date: 1999

Publication: The River Review / La Revue rivière

Volume: 5

Language: English and français

Find in a Library: 33064369

Critical essay on Waterville, Maine writer Rhea CoÌ‚té Robbins' 1997 memoir, "Wednesday's Child." Explores Robbins' work as it speaks newly to concepts of gender, cultural difference, and the specificity of a Franco American's experiences of…

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  • Author: Whitebrook, Susan

Date: 1994-06

Publication: Onomastica Canadiana

Volume: 76

Language: en

Find in a Library: 2240808

Article in the official journal of the Canadian Society for the Study of Names (formerly "Onomastica"). Features scholarship on name transition and translation, with a particular emphasis on these processes as they work through French Canadian names…

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  • Author: Picard, Marc

Date: 2003-09

Publication: Onoma

Volume: 38

Language: en; fr

Find in a Library: 1645764

From the author:"Although most French-Canadian surnames bear a strong resemblance to those found in France today, many have undergone various types of orthographical and phonological alterations which make them unique in the French-speaking world.…

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  • Author: Picard, Marc

Date: 2007-01

Publication: Glottopol: Revue de sociolinguistique en ligne

Volume: 9

Language: fr

Find in a Library: 163640790

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De l'introduction: "La grande majorité des noms de famille du Québec à l'heure actuelle sont d'origine française, et on en trouve aussi un grand nombre en Acadie. Hormis les Huguenots qui se sont établis ici et là aux Etats-Unis aux…

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  • Author: Cerquiglini, Bernard

Date: 2010-10

Publication: Glottopol: Revue de sociolinguistique en ligne

Volume: 16

Language: fr

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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: Levine, Ben (director)

Date: 2003

Language: English, with some français

Find in a Library: 64637065

Documentary film about Franco American culture and language in New England. Press release from Watching Place Productions: "Explores the struggle for cultural survival among the French-Canadian, Franco-American communities of New England. It reveals…

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  • Author: Brière, Eloise A.

Date: 2002 Spring/Summer

Publication: Québec Studies

Volume: 33

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 60628349

Un essai qui explore l'étendue de l'imagination culturel des écrivains culturellement hybride en Amérique. De l'auteur: "Dans quelle mesure les Haitiens devenus écrivains Québécois ou les Canadiens-francais devenus écrivains…

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  • Author: Boudreaux, Elia

Date: 1940 March

Publication: The Modern Language Journal

Volume: 24

Language: English

Find in a Library: 1642244, 41157033

A 1938-1939 argument in favor of increasing the number of Louisiana public elementary schools that teach the French language, and some thoughts on best practices in the implementation of educational programs. From the author: "This paper contains a…

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  • Author: Chase, Kim

Date: 1998 Summer

Publication: South Road: The Literary Journal of Martha's Vineyard

Volume: 1

Language: English, with some français

Find in a Library: 40561813

Short prose piece that comes out of the distance between a dying mother who loses her ability to speak English, and a searching daughter who, unlike her older siblings, can neither speak nor understand her mother's French.

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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: Gosselin, Henri

Date: 2001

Language: English

Find in a Library: 47671730

Fictional account of a French missionary to the Huron people in colonial New France on the eastern half of modern-day Canada. From the back of the text: "A historical novel based on the true story of Eustache Lambert's heroic service as a devoted…

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  • Author: Gaudreau, Carmen

Date: 1979

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 9985372

Une histoire pour les enfants de deux petits souris qui apprennent aÌ€ faire le sirop d'érable. Ecrit pour la salle de classe française. Illustrée par des dessins en noir et blanc. A children's story about two mice who learn…

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  • Author: Chassé, Paul P.

Date: 1976

Language: Français and English

Find in a Library: 4499336

Une collection de la poésie franco-américaine du vingtième siècle. Publiée en Rhode Island, se concerne avec les francos de la toute de la Nouvelle-Angleterre. Le plus des poèmes sont écrites en francais, mais en les plus…

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  • Author: Chartier, Armand

Date: 1981

Language: Français

Find in a Library: 10358959

From the catalog description: "A 'petite anthologie' of ten 19th and 20th century French-American authors." Includes selections from their work, chosen as literary representations of the Franco American ethnic reality up to the second half of the…

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