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Item 82153
Title: Little Canada School, Lewiston, ca.1900
Contributed by: Franco-American Collection
Date: circa 1900
Location: Lewiston
Media: Photograph
Item 82154
Title: Little Canada School, Lewiston, ca.1900
Contributed by: Franco-American Collection
Date: circa 1900
Location: Lewiston
Media: Photograph
Item 82156
Title: Little Canada School, Lewiston, 1900
Contributed by: Franco-American Collection
Date: 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.