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Item 15935
Title: French Row, Springvale
Contributed by: Sanford Historical Committee
Date: circa 1905
Location: Springvale
Media: Print from Glass Negative
Item 18409
Title: Float, Sts. Peter and Paul choir, Lewiston, 1896
Contributed by: Franco-American Collection
Date: 1896
Location: Lewiston
Media: Photograph
Item 18880
Title: Jean-Baptiste Couture, Lewiston
Contributed by: Franco-American Collection
Date: circa 1900
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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Like many cities in France, Lewiston and Auburn's skylines are dominated by a cathedral-like structure, St. Peter and Paul Church. Now designated a basilica by the Vatican, it stands as a symbol of French Catholic contributions to the State of Maine.
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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.