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Keywords: Franco-american
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Item 18881
Title: Program, 'L'Amour A Bord,' Lewiston, 1939
Contributed by: Franco-American Collection
Date: 1939
Location: Lewiston
Media: Ink printed on paper
Item 18874
Title: Theater production, Lewiston, 1896
Contributed by: Franco-American Collection
Date: 1896
Location: Lewiston
Media: Photograph
Item 18864
Title: Jean-Baptiste Couture, Lewiston, 1926
Contributed by: Franco-American Collection
Date: 1926
Location: Lewiston
Media: Photograph
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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.
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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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"We are growing to be somewhat cosmopolitan…" Waterville in 1911
Between 1870 and 1911, Waterville more than doubled in size, becoming a center of manufacturing, transportation, and the retail trade and offering a variety of entertainments for its residents.
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Franco-American Heritage Center at St. Mary's
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Biddeford History & Heritage Project
Highlights of Biddeford history presented by McArthur Public Library, Biddeford Historical Society, and Biddeford High School’s Project ASPIRE class. The site explores shipbuilding, the Civil War homefront, women’s clubs, influential residents, and some of the city’s famous artists and inventors.