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Item 11759
Title: St. John's School, Brunswick, ca. 1900
Contributed by: Pejepscot Historical Society
Date: circa 1890
Location: Brunswick
Media: Photograph, Print
Item 18866
Title: 'La Veuve Joyeuse,' Lewiston, 1976
Contributed by: Franco-American Collection
Date: 1976
Location: Lewiston
Media: Photograph
Item 18858
Title: 'The Merry Widow,' Lewiston, 1976
Contributed by: Franco-American Collection
Date: 1976
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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St-Jean-Baptiste Day in Lewiston-Auburn was a very public display of ethnic pride for nearly a century.
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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.