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| | French Canadian Emigration to the United States, 1840-1930 - Readings - Quebec History |
 | | However, in 1930, during the opening phases of the Great Depression, the American government put a virtual stop to Canadian immigration by imposing severe restrictions on continental immigration and naturalisation (extra- continental immigration had been severely restricted from 1928 on). | | | The legacy of French Canadian immigration to the United States | | | Franco-Ontarians frequently moved to Michigan and Illinois while Franco-Manitobans and other Western French Canadians often opted for Minnesota and Wisconsin. |
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http://www2.marianopolis.edu/quebechistory/readings/leaving.htm
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| | Where French Is Not a Foreign Language: Franco-Americans and the State and University of Maine |
| | The hopeful prospect with respect to the viability of French in New England lies in the increasingly successful pressure of many ethnic groups in the United States to shift the burden of mother-tongue instruction and maintenance from the Catholic school system to the public school system. | | | A brief sketch of the major displacements of the French in North America will reveal why in the state of Maine families of French stock equal thirty percent of the census. | | | New France was first permanently settled under the leadership of Samuel de Champlain, who in 1605 established the first settlement at Port Royal, Nova Scotia, and in 1608 sailed up the St. Lawrence to the future site of Quebec City. |
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http://www.ade.org/adfl/bulletin/v11n4/114017.htm
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| | Quebec South |
| | This was perhaps the way my great-grandfather went back to the old county, to visit those towns he had known, to speak to all the former acquiantances, and then to wander farther and farther in search of willing hands. | | | Tens of thousands of immigrants were arriving in Canada, just as in the U.S. But unlike the United States, Canada was both a receiver and a donor of immigrants. | | | Other immigrants would arrive to work at the mills, but in cities like Lowell and Fall River, Massachusetts, Lewiston, Maine, and Manchester, New Hampshire, French Canadians would be dominant (see map). |
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http://www.duke.edu/~mahealey/quebec_south.htm
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| | Cyndi's List - France |
| | History of the French republican calendar and conversions to the Gregorian calendar. | | | Online searchable index of births by surname from 1891 which provides localities where the name is mainly found. | | | Software utility for the Palm that converts dates in the French Republican calendar to the Gregorian calendar. |
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http://www.cyndislist.com/france.htm
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| | American-French Genealogical Society: Links |
| | French Canadian Ancestry Groups in the United States according to the 1990 Census- Map Located at Minnesota Department of Administration | | | The Boston States Migration Page -- Resources to track families migrating between the Canadian Eastern Provinces, New England and New York through the centuries, including directions for subscribing to a Boston States mailing list. | | | Rhode Island Secretary of State's Information Kiosk "State Links" - -State Links created as an information forum to link organizations and businesses in the State of Rhode Island on the web. |
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http://www.afgs.org/genepges.html
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| | Acadian Links |
| | Acadians and French from the Parish records of St. Peter's, Tracadie, Nova Scotia and St. Paul's, Havre Boucher, Nova Scotia, Canada | | | Du Feu Surname Homepage, Island of Jersey, Channel Islands near coast of France. | | | Those that were executed on the Guillotine during French Revolution |
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http://users.andara.com/~grose/acadianl.html
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| | French Canadian Genealogy Research |
| | Minnesota Genealogical Society - Golden Valley MN NW Territory, Canadian and French Heritage Center - Golden Valley MN New England | | | Camille Lessard-Bissonnette: The Quiet Evolution of French-Canadian Immigrants in New England (Francophone Cultures and Literatures, Vol 14) - Janet L. Shideler | | | Quintin Publications - The only full-time American supplier of genealogical materials with specialties in American, British and Canadian genealogy and history |
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http://www.happyones.com/genealogy/research.html
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| | Genealogy - Acadian and French Canadian |
| | This section deals only with those whose ancestors were originally from France, and settled in the province of Québec before 1900. | | | Their descendants in Louisiana are now known as Cajuns. | | | Acadians are descendants of the French settlers of Nova Scotia in the early 17th century. |
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http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/lwjones
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| | NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: French Canadian |
| | After many decades of British immigration, the Canadiens became a minority in the Province of Canada in the 1850s. | | | It took the 1774 Quebec Act for them to regain the French civil law system, and in 1791 French Canadians in Lower Canada were introduced to the British parliamentary system when an elected Legislative Assembly was created. | | | Six million of Canada's French speakers are found in the province of Québec, where they constitute the majority language group, and another one million are distributed throughout the rest of Canada. |
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http://pedia.nodeworks.com/F/FR/FRE/French_Canadian
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| | Chemins historiques - Le fait français au Maine |
| | This website is also meant to provide profiles of some of this movement. | | | In short, the French settlers made the roads into two way streets. |
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http://www.francomaine.org/English/Histo/Histo_intro.html
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| | CRCCF - Overview |
| | This documentation, from Québec, Ontario, Acadia and the Western provinces, as well as parts of the United States, is open for on site public consultation; there is also a reference library. | | | It supplies these projects with administrative facilities, such as office space, documentation and secretarial services, or other assistance within its means. | | | The Centre for Research on French Canadian Culture (Centre de recherche en civilisation canadienne-française or CRCCF) of the University of Ottawa was founded in 1958 and offers an range of specialized services to the university, faculty and students, as well as the public at large. |
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http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/crccf/presentation/overview.html
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| | American-French Genealogical Society: Dit Surnames etc. Surname Index |
| | Rochefort became Rushfort in the Carolinas, Champagne became Shampang, Thibodeaux became Thibodo, or Tibodo. | | | Consequently, many of the clerics and notories, who under the French system of administration were charged with recording "vital statistics" wrote the names as they knew them to be in France, as a precious few of the immigrants/colonists signed them, or as they heard them (phonetically). | | | With his permission we have included them in our list. |
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http://homepages.rootsweb.com/%7Eafgs/index1.html
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| | Canadian French - definition of Canadian French in Encyclopedia |
| | Government services are provided in French "where numbers warrant" as with the federal government. | | | This is due to the long history of French in Canada and the fact that French immigrants to Canada kept speaking the French of the Ancien Régime while in France the French revolution led to the standardization of bourgeois Parisian French. | | | French is an official language in each of the three northern territories: Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut. |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Canadian_French
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| | Canadian literature, French. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | This school of thought inspired the first nationalist poet, Octave Crémazie and the Quebec school of poets, novelists, and historians. | | | Except for the narratives of French explorers (such as Samuel de Champlain and Pierre Esprit Radisson) and missionaries, no notable writing was produced before the British conquest of New France in 1759. | | | In 1861 they began a deliberate effort to create a national literature, with such French authors as Hugo and Lamartine as their chief models. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/65/ca/Canad-litFr.html
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| | Michigan French Canadians |
| | French Canadians often formed their own Catholic parishes and your ancestors will undoubtedly be found in parish registers. | | | This meeting is open to paid members of the French Canadian Heritage Society of Michigan. | | | In addition to the many French Canadians who came to Michigan during the colonial period, a large number also came to the state in the nineteenth century. |
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http://habitant.org/fchsm/index.htm
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| | The French Connection |
| | French immigrant; also some old family pictures from one branch of this family. | | | The method used to identify the individuals and the marriages of their children in Part II. | | | Chenard fmilies of North America: All the known marriages of Chenards in the US and Canada are listed in a GEDCOM-like file and over 99% are traced to the original French ancestor. |
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http://users.adelphia.net/~frenchcx
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| | Frontier Press Bookstore - Canada - 1-800-772-7559 |
| | Written by the eminent Scottish genealogist, Donald Whyte, this volume (and volume 2) constitute a major contribution to the documentation of Canadian immigration before 1867. | | | Births, bar mitzvahs, marriages and deaths, as well as information concerning communal and synagogue activities of Canadian Jewry. | | | Wisconsin's Early French Habitants, Alderson, Jo Bartels, and Rennert, Kate Alderson. |
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http://www.frontierpress.com/frontier.cgi?category=can
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| | French-Canadian Heritage Society of California |
| | After his retirement, he started to retrace his father's genealogy project & picked up where he had left off in 1900!!! | | | Although the use of the library of the | | | Welcome to the homepage of the French Canadian Heritage Society of California, affilated with the Southern California Genealogical Society. |
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| | Canadian Genealogy and History Links - Quebec |
| | A chronicle of the life of a man who, in his own humble way, contributed to the history of his country and founded a family whose members now inhabit both Canada and the United States. | | | Filles du Roi The women and girls of marrying age who emigrated to New France between 1663 and 1673 and whose transportation and settlement expenses were assumed by the royal treasury. | | | French Canadian/Acadian Genealogists of Wisconsin Dedicated to research and education regarding French Canadian and Acadian Genealogy. |
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http://www.islandnet.com/%7Ejveinot/cghl/quebec.html
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| | The Habitant's Home Page |
| | This is an historical work that traces the two distinct waves of French Canadian immigrants to Michigan during the colonial period of the eighteenth century and the industrial period of the nineteenth century. | | | You will have to contact him about his current rates. | | | After losing contact for several years with one of the best French translators I have worked with, Mr. |
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http://habitant.org
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| | Acadian History and Genealogy |
| | The first formal French settlement in North America was founded at Port-Royal, Nova Scotia in 1605. | | | The settlers were forced to return to France in August of 1607, but came back to Port-Royal in 1609. | | | The American Canadian Genealogical Society, 4 Elm Street, Manchester, NH is primarily for French-Canadian research, but it also has a good number of Acadian references, including some of Arsenault's marriage repertoires of the Gaspe from 1760 to 1960. |
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http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/lwjones/acadianh.htm
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| | Branchereau Family |
| | Charles’ older brother Francis had been baptized on May 26, 1654. | | | Charles was a soldier, serving under the command of Pierre Payen du Noyan. | | | Francois and Charles Branchereau left France for North America at the same time, probably accompanying Frontenac who was a Canadian hero. |
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http://home.earthlink.net/~djmill/branchereau.html
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| | George Washington's French Canadian Spy |
| | He went on to serve as a spy in Canada for General George Washington. | | | Despite his pastor's warning, Clement continued to recruit other French Canadians to support the American assault on Quebec, Dec. | | | And so are the souls of the innocent men whom you are attempting to recruit! |
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http://home.gwi.net/%7Ehgosseli/english.html
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| | Genealogy at the American Antiquarian Society |
| | These include state, county, and local histories for all fifty states, biographies, United States histories, regimental histories, Canadian histories, periodicals of local historical societies and state libraries, and city directories. | | | The Society has a wide spectrum of auxiliary materials available for genealogical research. |
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http://www.americanantiquarian.org/genealogy.htm
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| | Breeds of Livestock - Canadienne Cattle |
| | It is small (cows weigh 1000-1100 pounds), long-lived and has an exceptionally docile temperament. | | | Also known by: Black Canadian, Canadian, French Canadian. | | | Most breeders and their cattle continue to be found in the province of Quebec. |
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http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/cattle/canadienne/index.htm
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| | SFDRSC - The Carignan Regiment Soldiers |
| | In addition to the list of soldiers and officers on the official "roll" of the Regiment, there were many others who participated in the successful campaign against the Iroquois, including many militiamen who resided in the colony but whose names were not recorded for posterity. | | | Most persons of French Canadian descent can claim one or more of these brave soldiers as ancestors. | | | Between June and September 1665, some 1200 soldiers and their officers arrived in Quebec, under the leadership of Lt. General Alexander de Prouville, Sieur de Tracy. |
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http://www.fillesduroi.org/Regiment/regiment.html
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| | The University of Maine: Department of Franco American Studies |
| | Franco American Studies is an interdisciplinary program that explores the French cultures of the United States. | | | Its emphasis is on the people of Franco American heritage in Maine and the Northeast region but it recognizes that cultural patterns do not stop at national borders. | | | It does not contain any important information for the visitor of this site. |
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http://www.umaine.edu/francoamericanstudies
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| | Canadian-American Center |
| | Bowen continued her studies at Queen's University in ON, earning her Ph.D. in Historical Geography, and now teaches at Mary Washington College in VA where she is Assoc. | | | Dawn S. Bowen, who earned her Master's degree in History with a concentration on Canada from UMaine in 1990, recently gave UM Foundation an endowment of over $54,000 to establish a scholarship in Canadian History. | | | "The supportive environment at UMaine that existed in the History Department and the Canadian-American Center convinced me to choose a career in academics." In recognition of those faculty who encouraged her interest in Canadian Studies, Dr. Bowen has established this scholarship to enable other students to pursue historical research on Canadian topics. |
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| | Vancouver Register |
| | They shared the rugged trek with the French Canadian voyageurs who were bound for Fort Vancouver on the Columbia River. | | | The priests kept a register of the baptisms, marriages, and burials made along the way and continued using the first register until 1844. | | | On 10 July 1838, the Catholic priests Francois Norbert Blanchet and Modeste Demers, joined the Hudson's Bay Company Brigade at Red River. |
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http://www.orednet.org/%7Eclenzen/1vancouver.html
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| | Resources for Feminist Research / Documentation sur la recherche féministe |
| | Resources for Feminist Research / Documentation sur la recherche féministe is a bilingual (English/French) Canadian scholarly journal published since 1972 in the Centre for Women's Studies in Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education / University of Toronto. | | | Resources for Feminist Research / Documentation sur la recherche féministe | | | Included in each issue are major research papers, reports of works in progress, bibliographies, book reviews, and abstracts of Canadian feminist journals. |
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| | Michigan State University Press French Canadians in Michigan John P. DuLong |
| | As the first European settlers in Michigan, the French Canadians left an indelible mark on the place names and early settlement patterns of the Great Lakes State. | | | John DuLong explores the history and influence of these early French Canadians, and traces, as well, the successive 19th- and 20th-century waves of industrial migration from Quebec, creating new communities outside the old fur trade routes of their ancestors. | | | is president of the Detroit Chapter of the French Canadian Heritage Society of Michigan and author of the forthcoming book, Tracing Your French Ancestry: A Guide to North American French Gene... |
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http://msupress.msu.edu/bookTemplate.php?bookID=16
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| | Canadian Newspapers : Newspapers from Canada : Canadian News |
| | Canadian newspapers for information on local issues, politics, events, celebrations, people and business. | | | Canadian Newspapers : Newspapers from Canada : Canadian News | | | Please EMAIL US if you know of any new online newspapers or those on our lists where the address has changed. |
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http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/canada.htm
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| | SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Features -- French-Canadian movie seduces global audience |
| | LOS ANGELES – Director Jean-Francois Pouliot took 15 years to find the right script for his first feature film, but his little French-Canadian movie "Seducing Doctor Lewis" has had audiences falling in love with it as far afield as Israel and South Korea. | | | The film, originally titled "La Grande Seduction" in French, is the comic tale of how a dying French-Canadian fishing village tricks a big city doctor into accepting a job in the tiny community, thereby halting its demise. | | | The film's setting in a remote French-Canadian harbor village touches universal themes of how communities cope when their traditional industries – in this case fishing – die out and threaten both livelihoods and self-esteem. |
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http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/20040707-0500-leisure-seduction.html
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| | 'My best buddy was a French Canadian' |
| | The irony of this latest news, he said, was that just moments before he had received a positive call from Quebec. | | | Tee off in the first round of the PGA Tour's Bell Canadian Open in Oakville, Ont., has been pushed back to 12:15 p.m. | | | This was the longtime host of Coach's Corner's reaction when told of Official Languages Commissioner Dyane Adam's report that urges that CBC guest commentators and contract employees receive training on "linguistic duality." |
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http://www.canoe.ca/Slam040630/nhl_che-sun.html
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| | BLAIS FAMILY DATA for Genealogy Researchers |
| | This can be especially helpful as a quick reference to check for alternate spellings of a last name, of which there are many. | | | As a note, I have done away with the "dit" so commonly seen in French names, and multiple surnames are hyphenated (e.g. |
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| | A Celebration of Women Writers |
| | In some cases, authors who live in a particular country may be identifiable as members of an ethnic subgroup. | | | A writer who lived primarily in one country, but wrote works relevant to another country, may also be listed under both. | | | African American -- Arab -- Asian American -- First Nations -- French Canadian -- Jewish -- Latina -- Muslim |
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http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women
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| | 1990 Ancestry maps |
| | All data comes from respondents who reported a single ancestry (although multiple responses were accepted for this question). | | | Some multiple responses (such as French Canadian or Scotch-Irish) are treated as a single response, reflecting their status as a unique ancestry group. |
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http://www.mnplan.state.mn.us/maps/ancestry
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| | As the furs became depleted and the territory began to open up for settlement, these same individuals retired to the areas that they had become familiar with. | | | Below the Medicine Line Metis Society by descendants of the early French Canadian settlers from the Red River Settlement who came to Oregon in the 1840s | | | Many of the fur traders were French Canadian and metisse (of French Canadian and Indian ancestry). |
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http://www.oregonpioneers.com/frcan.htm
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| | French & Canadian Heritage |
| | View the current Board Members and membership information of the French and Canadian Heritage Society. | | | Encompassing French, Canadian, and Acadian genealogical research, the group meets locally and has built up a small library of special genealogical materials. | | | Open to all GSSB members, FandCHS members are drawn from a large geographic area of east central Florida. |
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http://www.rootsweb.com/~flgssb/FrCanHeritage.htm
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| | Charleen Touchette - DREAMS of BEAUTY |
| | Artist journeys from Catholic French Canadian culture to Indian Country and Judaism. |
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http://www.members.authorsguild.net/touchart/work2.htm
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| | The Upper St.John River Valley , N. Aroostook Co., Me. and Madawaska Co., NB: A history of the communities and people |
| | How the French of northern Maine were viewed by Anglos in the 19th century | | | My Gagnon line: Descendants and ancestors of Prospère Gagnon and Marie-Anne Ouellette, who moved from Kamouraska, Québec to what's today Frenchville in about 1831 | | | 1831 Census of Kamouraska County, Lower Canada (Québec) Includes Rivière-Ouelle, Rivière-du-Loup, and Ste-Anne-de-la-Pocatière Many of the inhabitants of the Upper St.John River Valley came from the Kamouraska region of Québec; this census provides info on some of these settlers, their families and neighbors (in French and English) |
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http://www.upperstjohn.com
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| | Franco-American Women's Institute |
| | Franco-Americans are the ancestors of an important and large genealogical group located on the North American continent. | | | The women come together in many forms of presentation, body, soul and creative spirit, as Franco-American women--Québécois, Acadian, Métis, Mixed Blood, French Canadian, 'Cajun, Creole and Huguenot--in a way which encourages them to be voiced while collecting a record of their and their maman's existence. | | | The Franco-American Women's Institute is also an archival place or a recording place. |
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http://www.fawi.net
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| | French Canadian Genealogy Research Service, Quebec, Canada |
| | Located in historic Québec City, the cradle of French North America, the French Canadian Genealogy Research Service (FCGRS) offers professional genealogical research services at an affordable price. |
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http://www3.sympatico.ca/fcgss
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| | Acadian Cultural Society |
| | Following the business portion of the annual meeting, Maine filmmaker Ben Levine presented his documentary film | | | We extend our deepest sympathies to all those affected by the tragic events of September 11, 2001. | | | Réveil-Waking Up French is a powerful documentary film that explores the struggle for cultural survival among the French-Canadian, Franco-American communities of New England. |
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http://www.acadiancultural.org
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| | Poutine |
| | Since then, it has spread across Canada, and is even available at fast-food chains such as Burger King. | | | Poutine is a French-Canadian concoction comprised of french fries, gravy, and cheese curds. |
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http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~gedetil/poutine.shtml
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