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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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AncestorTracking: July 2009
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Documenting my search for information on elusive ancestors and tracking my progress through the wilds of the Internet. Wednesday, July 22, 2009. Are Blogs a Distraction? Randy Seaver, over at Genea-Musings, poses the question "Are the many blogs being written and read messing us up - are they time-wasters? To me, that question has two parts. Are they messing me up? Are they time wasters? Well, the jury is out on my blog, but the blogs I read are definitely. Led me to a previously unknown to me family org...
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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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Cricket's Tree - A History and Heritage: The Franco-Americans That Built a Community in Maine.
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Cricket's Tree - A History and Heritage. The settlement of the Franco Americans and the Canadian Americans of Canada, Maine and northern New England, A family history rich in culture, heritage and religion in a new country. Follow me along in a great journey to freedom and finding our place in history! Tuesday, February 1, 2011. The Franco-Americans That Built a Community in Maine. Logging Wharf on the Kennebec River in Hallowell Maine. THE IRISH and FRENCH MIGRATION of KENNEBEC VALLEY. The depression of...
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Cricket's Tree - A History and Heritage: Featured Biography- Ancestor Ren`e Ouellette 1639 - 1675
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Cricket's Tree - A History and Heritage. The settlement of the Franco Americans and the Canadian Americans of Canada, Maine and northern New England, A family history rich in culture, heritage and religion in a new country. Follow me along in a great journey to freedom and finding our place in history! Monday, January 3, 2011. Featured Biography- Ancestor Ren`e Ouellette 1639 - 1675. Ancestor, Rene' Ouellet. Can say whether ancestor Ouellet was a nobleman become a commoner or a commoner become a nobleman!
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Cricket's Tree - A History and Heritage: Happy Father's Day!
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Cricket's Tree - A History and Heritage. The settlement of the Franco Americans and the Canadian Americans of Canada, Maine and northern New England, A family history rich in culture, heritage and religion in a new country. Follow me along in a great journey to freedom and finding our place in history! Sunday, June 19, 2011. Sunday, June 19th 2011. My Funny, Grampa Roland Patry. Ann "Cricket" M. Thomas. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Ann "Cricket" M. Thomas. Where Else Would I Be? Welcome to my blog!
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Cricket's Tree - A History and Heritage: 01/03/11
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Cricket's Tree - A History and Heritage. The settlement of the Franco Americans and the Canadian Americans of Canada, Maine and northern New England, A family history rich in culture, heritage and religion in a new country. Follow me along in a great journey to freedom and finding our place in history! Monday, January 3, 2011. Featured Biography- Ancestor Ren`e Ouellette 1639 - 1675. Ancestor, Rene Ouellet. Can say whether ancestor Ouellet was a nobleman become a commoner or a commoner become a nobleman!
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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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