Quiet Presence
Author | : Dyke Hendrickson |
Publisher | : Portland, Me. : G. Gannett Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Dyke Hendrickson |
Publisher | : Portland, Me. : G. Gannett Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Yves Roby |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 563 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Canadians, French-speaking New England Economic conditions |
ISBN | : 2894483910 |
Between 1840 and 1930, approximately 900,000 people left Quebec for the United States and settled in French-Canadian colonies in New England's industrial cities. Yves Roby draws from first-person accounts to explore the conversion of these immigrants and their descendants from French-Canadian to Franco-American. The first generation of immigrants saw themselves as French Canadians who had relocated to the United States. They were not involved with American society and instead sought to recreate their lost homeland. The Franco-Americans of New England reveals that their children, however, did not see a need to create a distinct society. Although they maintained aspects of their language, religion, and customs, they felt no loyalty to Canada and identified themselves as Franco-American. Roby's analysis raises insightful questions about not only Franco-Americans but also the integration of ethno-cultural groups into Canadian society and the future of North American Francophonies.
Author | : Dyke Hendrickson |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738572802 |
Nearly one-third of Maine residents have French blood and are known as Franco-Americans. Many trace their heritage to French Canadian families who came south from Quebec in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to work in the mills of growing communities such as Auburn, Augusta, Biddeford, Brunswick, Lewiston, Saco, Sanford, Westbrook, Winslow, and Waterville. Other Franco-Americans, known as Acadians, have rural roots in the St. John Valley in northernmost Maine. Those of French heritage have added a unique and vibrant accent to every community in which they have lived, and they are known as a cohesive ethnic group with a strong belief in family, church, work, education, the arts, their language, and their community. Today they hold posts in every facet of Maine life, from hourly worker to the U.S. Congress. These hardworking people have a notable history and have been a major force in Maine's development.
Author | : David Vermette |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781771861694 |
Author | : C. Stewart Doty |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 163 |
Release | : 1985-05-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780891010630 |
Author | : Charles Stewart Doty |
Publisher | : Orono, Me. : University of Maine at Orono Press |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mary Rice-Defosse |
Publisher | : History Press Library Editions |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2015-01-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781540210098 |
Franco-Americans brought their proud cultural legacy to Lewiston-Auburn beginning in the mid-nineteenth century. As their population grew, religious leaders became community leaders, building an independent parish and a support system, as well as providing child care. The Sisters of Charity cared for the sick and orphaned and ran the first bilingual school in Maine. Franco-Americans grappled with their own questions of patriotism, identity and culture, assimilating as Americans while preserving both their French and French Canadian backgrounds. Authors Mary Rice-DeFosse and James Myall explore the challenges, accomplishments and enduring bonds of the Franco-Americans in Lewiston-Auburn.
Author | : Peter P. Hill |
Publisher | : Potomac Books, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 441 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1612343015 |
Shortly before the United States declared war on Great Britain in June 1812, Congress came within two votes of declaring war on Napoleon Bonaparte's French empire. For six years, France and Britain had both seized American shipping. While common wisdom says that America was virtually an innocent in this matter, caught in the middle of the epic wars between France and Britain, Peter Hill has uncovered a far more complex and interesting history. French privateers and Napoleon's navy were seizing American merchant ships in a concerted attempt to disrupt Britain's commerce. American ships were the principal carriers of British goods to the continent, and Napoleon believed his best, and perhaps only, hope to defeat Britain was to cut off that market. While the French emperor sought an accommodation with America, the administrations of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison continually frustrated him. American diplomatic fumbling sent mixed messages, and American neutrality policies, Hill finds, were more punishing to France than to Britain. Always interested in lucrative ventures, American merchant ships also became the main suppliers of food to British forces fighting Napoleon in Spain and Portugal. By 1812, the United States was on a collision course with both Britain and France over clashes on the high seas, and war with two major powers at once might have proven disastrous for the young United States. Hill's engaging narrative details the fascinating history of America's troubled relationship with Napoleon and how this crisis with France was finally averted.
Author | : Jonathan K. Gosnell |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2018-07-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0803285272 |
"A study of the manifestation and persistence of hybrid Franco-American literary, musical, culinary, and media cultures in North America, particularly New England and southern Louisiana"--
Author | : Julie Taylor |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 1997-07-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0684830922 |
Her name is Abbie. She is nineteen and she has had it with guys. Especially the wrong guys. 'Cause that's all she ever seems to meet. Oh, she likes guys just fine -- and they are kind of necessary, in a Mother Nature sort of way -- but she is just over it with the ones who drink all the time, and are forever taking pills and drifting off into their own little private Idaho. Abbie will just concentrate on getting through this final year of schooling in fashion design, because once outta here she is off to make her name. She's got her roommate Georgette and her best friend Pat, and they will be all the companionship she needs. And then she meets Franco. Dream on, Abbie. Dream on. In a style so fresh and original that it seems to practically reinvent prose, and with an energy that grabs the reader from the very outset, first-time novelist Julie Taylor succeeds with Franco American Dreams in bringing to life characters that defy you not to love them, no matter what your age. They and their story are funny, fabulous, far-out ... and so very, very real.