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Historical Items Showing 3 of 12 View All
Item 9401
Title: Letter to Clark & Dow, from Female Orphan Asylum, Oct. 15, 1856
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: 1856-10-15
Location: Portland
Media: Ink on paper
Item 67544
Title: Santa Claus at the Healey Asylum, Lewiston, c.1950
Contributed by: Franco-American Collection
Location: Lewiston
Media:
Item 20851
Title: St. Elizabeth's Home, Portland, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1920
Location: Portland
Media: Photograph
Tax Records Showing 3 of 5 View All
Item 62752
Address: 28-40 Mellen Street, Portland
Owner in 1924: St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Asylum
Use: Asylum
Item 70374
Item 57992
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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.