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Item 80397
Title: St Mary's Church, Lewiston, ca. 1960
Contributed by: Franco-American Collection
Date: circa 1960
Location: Lewiston
Media:
Item 79912
Title: Le Messager Newspaper Staff, 175 Lincoln Street, Lewiston, 1908
Contributed by: Franco-American Collection
Date: 1908
Location: Lewiston
Media: Photograph
Item 6859
Title: Levesque Family in Marion Automobile, 1917
Contributed by: Franco-American Heritage Center at St. Mary's
Date: 1917
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.