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Keywords: Sisters of Charity
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Item 67730
Title: Girl in nun's habit, Lewiston, 1964
Contributed by: Franco-American Collection
Date: 1964-10-31
Location: Lewiston
Media: Photograph
Item 67544
Title: Santa Claus at the Healey Asylum, Lewiston, c.1950
Contributed by: Franco-American Collection
Location: Lewiston
Media:
Item 16977
Title: Knoxx Fluter, c. 1866
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum
Date: circa 1866
Location: Houlton; New York
Media: steel
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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.