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Item 74893
Title: St Peter's School, Lewiston, Class of 1910
Contributed by: Franco-American Collection
Date: 1910-06-16
Location: Lewiston
Media: Photograph
Item 67532
Title: Schoolyard sports, St. Peter's School, Lewiston, 1925
Contributed by: Franco-American Collection
Date: 1925
Location: Lewiston
Media: Photograph
Item 18365
Title: St. Peter's parochial school, Lewiston, ca. 1964
Contributed by: Franco-American Collection
Date: circa 1964
Location: Lewiston
Media: Postcard
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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.