French Canadian Sources

French Canadian Sources
Author: Patricia Kenney Geyh
Publisher: Ancestry Publishing
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2002
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9781931279017

A six-year collaborative effort of members of the French Canadian/Acadian Genealogical Society, this book provides detailed explanations about the genealogical sources available to those seeking their French-Canadian ancestors.

French Canada

French Canada
Author: Hazel Boswell
Publisher: New York : Viking Press
Total Pages: 90
Release: 1938
Genre: French-Canadians
ISBN:

Gives a verbal tour of French Canada (Quebec) and describes its customs and people.

The French Canadians of Michigan

The French Canadians of Michigan
Author: Jean Lamarre
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2003
Genre: French-Canadians
ISBN: 9780814331583

The first major study of the migration of French Canadians to Michigan during the nineteenth century and their substantial impact on the state's development.

Sorry, I Don't Speak French

Sorry, I Don't Speak French
Author: Graham Fraser
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007-03-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 0771047673

As the threat of another Quebec referendum on independence looms, this book becomes important for every Canadian — especially as language remains both a barrier and a bridge in our divided country Canada’s language policy is the only connection between two largely unilingual societies — English-speaking Canada and French-speaking Quebec. The country’s success in staying together depends on making it work. How well is it working? Graham Fraser, an English-speaking Canadian who became bilingual, decided to take a clear-eyed look at the situation. The results are startling — a blend of good news and bad. The Official Languages Act was passed with the support of every party in the House way back in 1969 — yet Canada’s language policy is still a controversial, red-hot topic; jobs, ideals, and ultimately the country are at stake. And the myth that the whole thing was always a plot to get francophones top jobs continues to live. Graham Fraser looks at the intentions, the hopes, the fears, the record, the myths, and the unexpected reality of a country that is still grappling with the language challenge that has shaped its history. He finds a paradox: after letting Quebec lawyers run the country for three decades, Canadians keep hoping the next generation will be bilingual — but forty years after learning that the country faced a language crisis, Canada’s universities still treat French as a foreign language. He describes the impact of language on politics and government (not to mention social life in Montreal and Ottawa) in a hard-hitting book that will be discussed everywhere, including the headlines in both languages.

French Canada

French Canada
Author: Stanley Bréhaut Ryerson
Publisher: Progress Books
Total Pages: 134
Release: 1980
Genre: Canada
ISBN: 0919396364

Learn Canadian French

Learn Canadian French
Author: Pierre Levesque
Publisher: Blurb
Total Pages: 254
Release: 2019-05-22
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781366373571

Learn Canadian French and speak with a beautiful aged accent of colonial France that has stood the test of time, exceeding 400 years in North America. This book provides countless expressions, idioms, and typical French Canadian words, explaining the differences between Parisian French and Canadian French, with many grammar tables. This book also contains one chapter featuring French-Canadian medium to high impact coarse language. This second edition also includes downloadable audio files, provided in the link inside the book. Once downloaded, you may listen to various chapters and practice your Canadian French oral spoken skills by repeating the sentences and pronunciations. You will also find that the words include English transliteral pronunciations of the French words, which helps the reader tremendously in understanding the French-Canadian accent.

Frog Town

Frog Town
Author: Laurence Armand French
Publisher: University Press of America
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2014-07-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 0761863842

Frog Towndescribes in detail a French Canadian parish that was unique due to the high density of both Acadian and Quebecois settlers that were situated in a Yankee stronghold of Puritan stock. This demography provided for a volatile history that accentuated the inter-ethnic/sectarian conflicts of the time. In this book, Laurence Armand French discusses the work, language, and social activities of the working-class French Canadians during the changing times that transformed them from French Canadians to Franco Americans. French also articulates the current double-standard of justice within New Hampshire with details of actual cases, presented alongside their circumstances and judicial outcomes, to offer a thorough depiction of the community of Frog Town.

Discovering French Canada

Discovering French Canada
Author: Romey Borges
Publisher: Allied Publishers
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2002
Genre: Canada, French-speaking Congresses
ISBN: 9788177642995

The Oxford Book of French-Canadian Short Stories

The Oxford Book of French-Canadian Short Stories
Author: Richard Teleky
Publisher: Brantford : W. Ross Macdonald School, 1985. (Toronto : CNIB)
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1983
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

The first major historical collection of French-Canadian short stories in translation, spanning a century and a half, this anthology offers twenty-two stories that will entertain, charm, and often disturb. At the same time they reveal the development of the French-Canadian short-story form, and present many of the leading writers of French Canada.