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French North America: Canadien, Canadien-Français, Québécois
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Québécois(e), Franco-American, Acadian, and more. Thursday, March 28, 2013. Canadien, Canadien-Français, Québécois. Early in the history of Nouvelle-France. A distinction was made between les Français. Were those born in France and intending to return there. It included officialdom, and many of the clergy and military personnel. The term les Canadiens. Signified the French-speaking colonists born in Canada or permanently settled there. The term was used as early as the 1680s.*. Upper Canada (the root of ...
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French North America: Assimilation Is No Accident: 19th c. Yankee Attitudes Toward Franco-Americans
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Québécois(e), Franco-American, Acadian, and more. Tuesday, February 12, 2013. Assimilation Is No Accident: 19th c. Yankee Attitudes Toward Franco-Americans. 1890, Father E. Hamon, S.J. conducted interviews, visited communities, compiled lists, and crunched numbers regarding his French-Canadian fellow countrymen in the USA. His research eventually became the 1891 book Les Canadiens-français de la Nouvelle-Angleterre. This volume is among the earliest detailed views of these newcomers to the States. The Am...
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French North America: Family, History, and the Formation of the Heart
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Québécois(e), Franco-American, Acadian, and more. Saturday, March 16, 2013. Family, History, and the Formation of the Heart. How is the heart formed? I mean neither the physical organ nor the sentiments and affections but something deeper. In French the word for heart is cœur. Which appears to be related to the English word core. We value or find meaningful is the result of a process of formation. How is one heart formed in one way while another is formed in some other way? At the risk of mixing metaphor...
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French North America: Fears of Franco-American Conspiracy: Immigration and Paranoia
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Québécois(e), Franco-American, Acadian, and more. Friday, October 12, 2012. Fears of Franco-American Conspiracy: Immigration and Paranoia. The fear of a. French ‘papist’ horde. Descending from Canada to enslave New England was a common trope of the Revolutionary War period. In the late 19th c. the French ‘papist’ horde meme rose again like Lazarus from the dead. Were mooted as contributing to these dark designs. The famed fecundity. Family was viewed as a tactic in a clandestine war. December 28, 1889].
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French North America: 19th c. Québec Messianism and Franco-Americans
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Québécois(e), Franco-American, Acadian, and more. Monday, April 1, 2013. 19th c. Québec Messianism and Franco-Americans. I have discussed the backlash in the 1880s and 1890s against the rapidly growing numbers of Francophone, Catholic immigrants in the Northeastern USA. Major newspapers such as the New York Times. Waxed Francophobic editorializing not once but repeatedly about an alleged “danger facing New England.”. An 1892 New York Times. To which “every adult French-Canadian”. Was said to belong.
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French North America: Repatriation Revisited
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Québécois(e), Franco-American, Acadian, and more. Tuesday, September 4, 2012. 8230;Do you want your independence? These words were spoken in 1910. Were they the exhortations of a Union organizer? A demagogue running for office? No They are the words of a Roman Catholic. And repatriation agent Albert Bérubé speaking to Franco-Americans in my maternal grandfather’s hometown of Biddeford, Maine. Michael Guignard, in his well-researched article. 8220;The Franco-Americans of Biddeford Maine”,*. One of the rea...
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French North America: Message d’un Franco-Américain aux Québécois
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Québécois(e), Franco-American, Acadian, and more. Sunday, April 5, 2015. Message d’un Franco-Américain aux Québécois. Du déjà-vu à travers l’Amérique? Le natif du Québec demandait en anglais aux membres d’un groupe Facebook regroupant une multitude de Franco-Américains ce qu’ils souhaiteraient dire aux Québécois. Voici ma réponse. Statue à Nashua, New Hampshire, honorant les travailleurs. Canadiens-français dans les usines. Au cours des XIXe et XXe siècles. L'assimilation n’opère toutefois pas comm...
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French North America: Video Presentation: The Cabot Mill and Brunswick, Maine's Franco-Americans
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Québécois(e), Franco-American, Acadian, and more. Monday, December 29, 2014. Video Presentation: The Cabot Mill and Brunswick, Maine's Franco-Americans. This is a video of a presentation I delivered in April 2014 through the auspices of the Pejepscot Historical Society of Brunswick, Maine. It details the development of the Franco-American community in that town and the history of the textile mill that began to bring French-Canadians to Brunswick in the mid 19th century. Among other topics I discuss:.
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French North America: The French-Canadian 'Alien In Our Midst': Nativism vs. Nationality in 20th c. America
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Québécois(e), Franco-American, Acadian, and more. Friday, February 1, 2013. The French-Canadian 'Alien In Our Midst': Nativism vs. Nationality in 20th c. America. In previous posts I discussed from a French North American perspective the early 20th c. eugenicist activities of Charles Davenport. And the “master race” theories of Madison Grant. Grant’s best-known book is The Passing Of The Great Race. The Howl for Cheap Mexican Labor,. And The Permanent Menace From Europe. Of Slavic and Jewish emigration).
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French-Canadian and Acadian Genealogy Blogs (1 to 10 of 16). Sorted by Title Sort by Date Updated. Filed under: Personal Research. Acadian and French Canadian genealogy (Quebec and New Brunswick) cemeteries, photographs, primary documents. Surnames: Desilva Doucet Leger Luce Mignier dit Lagace Theriault. Last updated 24 Dec 2012. Filed under: Personal Research. Http:/ acadian-ancestral-home.blogspot.com/. Last updated 12 Sep 2014. Filed under: Personal Research. Http:/ acadianroots.blogspot.com/. The Gen...
