Keywords: French-Canadian
Item 11759
St. John's School, Brunswick, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Pejepscot History Center Date: circa 1890 Location: Brunswick Media: Photograph, Print
Item 18866
'La Veuve Joyeuse,' Lewiston, 1976
Contributed by: Franco-American Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries Date: 1976 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
St-Jean-Baptiste Day -- June 24th -- in Lewiston-Auburn was a very public display of ethnic pride for nearly a century. Since about 1830, French Canadians had used St. John the Baptist's birthdate as a demonstration of French-Canadian nationalism.
Site Page
Music in Maine - Radio Cowboys and Country Music
"… musical influences from the British Isles and French Canadians to tell story-songs about life. Slim Andrews, Gini Huntington and Barry Deane…"
Site Page
Music in Maine - Community Music
"… designated me a Master Artist in traditional French Canadian dance, providing the chance to pass the French dance traditions down to numerous…"
Story
Where are the French?
by Rhea Côté Robbins
Franco-Americans in Maine
Story
A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin
As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down
