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- Author: Arsenault, Idamay Michaud
Date: 1999
Language: en
Find in a Library: 43496038
Find Online: OL55423M
History of Worcester, Massachusett's Union Station. Its various shapes and transformations from its initial construction in 1875 and reconstruction in 1911, through its closure in 1964, to its 1999 restoration. The place of the station in French…
- Author: Cyr, Sr. Marguerite
Date: Unknown
Language: English
Find in a Library: 19889308
Illustrated brief memoir of northern Maine women religious moving about France during World War II. The events leading up to, and the sequence of, a five-day journey from their Paris convent to a safe haven in St. Etienne. Written soon after the…
- Author: Schilcher, Elisabeth
Date: 1992
Thesis Type: M.A., French
Institution: University of Maine
Language: fr
Find in a Library: 27257499
Étude sur l'identité ethnique et sa transformation dans les Acadiens de la vallée de la rivière Saint-Jean au nord de l'état du Maine dans les années 1990; analyse basée sur des recherches historiques et des données locales…
- Author: Konrad, Victor
- Author: Nicol, Heather N.
Date: 2011
Publication: Geopolitics
Volume: 16
Language: en
Find in a Library: 4796886589
Discussion of "border culture" as a product of both the divisions and the transnational cultural and political relationships apparent in societies that share a geopolitical boundary. Exploration of "borderlands theory" as a means for considering the…
- Author: Lalande, Louis, S.J.
Date: 1907
Language: Français
Find in a Library: 427229617
Collection de lettres envoyées par P. Louis Lalande, S.J., à son ami Arthur Prévost, du Québec, du Canada, des fois aux États-Unis, et d'ailleurs. Rend une chronique de la vie du prêtre et de sa relation avec son ami. Publiée…
- Author: Levin, Abbe (director)
- Author: Mundell, Kathleen (folklorist)
- Author: Spitzer, Nicholas (narrator)
Date: 2006
Language: English
Find in a Library: 76810555
Subtitled, "An Audio Tour of Route 201 in Maine." A production of short interviews and other recordings that capture the people from each major section of Maine's historic route running north to south along the Kennebec River. Designed to accompany…
- Author: Frederic, Paul B. (editor)
Date: 1983 April 29-30
Language: English
Find in a Library: 10910811
Transcript of a 1983 conference panel discussion on forest industry and cross-border lumber and timber trade between Quebec, New Brunswick, Maine, and other New England states. Certain perspectives on American wood in the mills of Canada, Canadian…
- Author: Guignard, Michael
Date: 1969
Language: en
Find in a Library: 16286903
An undergraduate honors essay written for the Department of Government at Bowdoin College. Observations into the "low assimilation rate among Franco-Americans" as determined by French Canadian migration patterns, and partly evidenced in what the…
- Author: Frenette, Yves
Date: 1986 spring
Publication: Maine Historical Society Quarterly
Volume: 25
Language: en
Essay on the extra-cultural forces that helped to shape the French Canadian immigrant community of Lewiston, Maine. Class and ethnicity among the peoples of urban Lewiston in the second half of the 19th century. The impact of the industrial…
- Author: Colon, Jean
Date: 1909 janvier
Publication: La Revue Franco-AmeÌricaine
Volume: 2
Language: fr
Un article sur les développements d'infrastructure réalisés au Québec grâce à des investissements d'une banque franco-américaine. Construction d'un camp de bois dans la colonie d'Estcourt, et le début d'une voie ferrée…
- Author: Farfan, Matthew
Date: 2009
Language: en
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"Images of America" series pictorial history of the people and places surrounding the border that separates the province of QueÌbec and the state of Vermont, slightly above the 45th parallel. How the international communities in this area have…
- Author: Thomas, Dr. Alton P.
Date: 1976
Language: en
Find in a Library: 2968303
Find Online: OL4907329M
Full title also reads: "A Bicentennial Project for the City of Woonsocket." A collection of historical essays on Woonsocket, Rhode Island, earlier featured in an historical column of the city's newspaper, the Woonsocket Call. Nearly two centuries of…
- 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
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: Sanderson, Mary Hildegarde
Date: 1967
Thesis Type: Ph. D., Anthropology
Institution: Boston University
Language: en
Find in a Library: 15027702
Dissertation presenting anthropological research on French Canadian loggers at work in northern New Hampshire in the middle twentieth century. The impact of work situations on the families of loggers, and the influence of family life on structures…
- 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: Breton, Raymond (editor)
- Author: Savard, Pierre (editor)
Date: 1982
Language: English
Find in a Library: 36283800
A conference publication consisting of a collection of essays on the titled topic. Contains the following written pieces by their respective authors: "The Acadians: a People in Search of a Country" by Jean Daigle, "Emigration and Colonization: Twin…
- Author: Turner, Loretta M.
Date: 1993
Language: en
Find in a Library: 31033874
Find Online: OL10810066M
Pictorial History of Biddeford, Maine, with a particular emphasis on Franco American life there. Biddeford, an industrial city, can claim the presence of working mills from as far back as 1800, many years before the first French Canadian migrations…
- Author: Mosher, Howard Frank
Date: 1977
Language: English
Find in a Library: 3168446
A Vermont family in financial straits turns to smuggling Canadian whiskey back into a Prohibition- and Depression-era America. Mosher's first novel, introducing us to the author's budding literary relationship with northern rural Vermont - an…