Keywords: French Canadians
Item 15935
French Row, Springvale, ca. 1905
Contributed by: Sanford-Springvale Historical Society Date: circa 1905 Location: Sanford Media: Print from Glass Negative
Item 30998
Canadian National Club, Biddeford, ca. 1910
Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1910-10-17 Location: Biddeford Media: Photograph on board
Exhibit
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.
Exhibit
St-Jean-Baptiste Day -- June 24th -- in Lewiston-Auburn was a very public display of ethnic pride for nearly a century. Since about 1830, French Canadians had used St. John the Baptist's birthdate as a demonstration of French-Canadian nationalism.
Site Page
"… Biddeford during the 1860s, thousands of French Canadian, Irish, and some west European immigrants migrated to Biddeford and Saco to work in…"
Site Page
"Due to the influx of French-Canadians and the animosity between the French and Irish Catholics, a separate church--St."
Story
Where are the French?
by Rhea Côté Robbins
Franco-Americans in Maine
Story
Biddeford and Maine Franco-American Hall of Fame Award recipient
by Biddeford Cultural & Heritage Center
With options to be a college French professor, became a lawyer, mayor, DA & District Court Judge
