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Item 79979
Title: Waldo Street, Rumford, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Greater Rumford Area Historical Society
Date: circa 1920
Location: Rumford
Media: photograph
Item 22730
Title: Mill Street, Brunswick, 1936
Contributed by: Pejepscot Historical Society
Date: 1936
Location: Brunswick
Media: Photograph
Item 27809
Title: Saco Residence, 48-50 Middle Street, ca. 1880
Contributed by: Dyer Library Archives / Saco Museum
Date: circa 1880
Location: Saco
Media: black and white 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.