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Keywords: St Joseph's Orphanage
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Item 67732
Title: Swimming pool, St. Joseph's Orphanage, Lewiston, 1963
Contributed by: Franco-American Collection
Date: 1963-07-02
Location: Lewiston
Media: Photograph
Item 67731
Title: Christmas at St Joseph's Orphanage, Lewiston, 1946
Contributed by: Franco-American Collection
Date: 1946
Location: Lewiston
Media: Photograph
Item 67730
Title: Girl in nun's habit, Lewiston, 1964
Contributed by: Franco-American Collection
Date: 1964-10-31
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.