Keywords: Franco-American Collection
Item 18881
Program, 'L'Amour A Bord,' Lewiston, 1939
Contributed by: Franco-American Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries Date: 1939-04-18 Location: Lewiston Media: Ink on paper
Item 18874
Theater production, Lewiston, 1896
Contributed by: Franco-American Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries Date: 1896 Location: Lewiston Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
From French Canadians to Franco-Americans
French Canadians who emigrated to the Lewiston-Auburn area faced discrimination as children and adults -- such as living in "Little Canada" tenements and being ridiculed for speaking French -- but also adapted to their new lives and sustained many cultural traditions.
Exhibit
In the early 1600s, French explorers and colonizers in the New World quickly adopted a Native American mode of transportation to get around during the harsh winter months: the snowshoe. Most Northern societies had some form of snowshoe, but the Native Americans turned it into a highly functional item. French settlers named snowshoes "raquettes" because they resembled the tennis racket then in use.
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Franco-American Heritage Center at St. Mary's
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Story
Story of the "little nun"
by Felicia Garant
My grandmother made a nun's outfit for me
