Franco Americans In Massachusetts

Author : Edith Szlezák
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783823374497

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Franco-Americans in Massachusetts by Edith Szlezák Pdf

Within the United States of America, French is of importance in only two areas, Louisiana and New England, the latter often being referred to as the Québec d'en bas for its high number of French-Canadian immigrants. Among the six states that constitute New England, Massachusetts is the one that attracted most of them, Québécois as well as Acadiens. Despite the high number of citizens of French-Canadian origin and the proximity to Canada, French has been losing ground as a langue du foyer in all of New England but especially in the southern part. This sociolinguistic study concentrates on the process of language decay among the French-Canadian population of Massachusetts. Based on a corpus consisting of 87qualitative interviews and a quantitative questionnaire survey of 392 questionnaires in 7 areas (covering the centers of French-Canadian immigration throughout Massachusetts),this study approaches the topic in a new, broader angle by encompassing the following aspects: ananalysis of U.S. Census data on ancestry and language use, an overview of the history of French-Canadian presence in Massachusetts, various specificities of the varieties of Canadian French spoken there, as well as ananalysis of the extralinguistic factors, such as the heterogeneity of the French-speaking population, and the intralinguistic consequences, such as unskilled code-switching,of language decay.

Author : Yves Roby
Publisher : Les éditions du Septentrion
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 2894483910

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The Franco-Americans of New England by Yves Roby Pdf

Between 1840 and 1930, approximately 900,000 people left Quebec for the United States and settled in French-Canadian colonies in New England's industrial cities. Yves Roby draws from first-person accounts to explore the conversion of these immigrants and their descendants from French-Canadian to Franco-American. The first generation of immigrants saw themselves as French Canadians who had relocated to the United States. They were not involved with American society and instead sought to recreate their lost homeland. The Franco-Americans of New England reveals that their children, however, did not see a need to create a distinct society. Although they maintained aspects of their language, religion, and customs, they felt no loyalty to Canada and identified themselves as Franco-American. Roby's analysis raises insightful questions about not only Franco-Americans but also the integration of ethno-cultural groups into Canadian society and the future of North American Francophonies.

Author : Richard Santerre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : French Americans
ISBN : LCCN:72189991

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The Franco-Americans of Lowell, Massachusetts by Richard Santerre Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Acculturation
ISBN : WISC:89058262981

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A Franco-American Overview by Anonim Pdf

Author : Wayne E. Phaneuf,Joseph Carvalho
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Franco-Americans
ISBN : 1597256099

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Building a Better Life by Wayne E. Phaneuf,Joseph Carvalho Pdf

This hardcover book from the Republican's Heritage series chronicles the history of French Canadians from their life in Canada and the mass migration of more than a million, many of whom ended up in Massachusetts. Many of these migrants did build a better life not just for themselves but for others who benefited from their skills as carpenters and builders responsible for thousands of homes in Western Massachusetts. Follow along as the French Canadian population morphs into Franco Americans and becomes a major force in all walks of life in their adopted country.

Author : Félix Gatineau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-13
Category : Canadian Americans
ISBN : 0999796615

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History of the Franco-Americans of Southbridge, Massachusetts by Félix Gatineau Pdf

In 1919, Southbridge business leader, state representative, and prominent member of the French-Canadian community published L'Histoire des Franco-Américains de Southbridge, chronicling the earliest settlers of French lineage in the region and the growth of the community to dominance in the town. Available only in French, many of Canadian descent and others simply interested in town history have not been able to fully enjoy this work - until now. Dr. Elizabeth Blood, a Professor of World Languages and Cultures at Salem State University recently completed this full English translation.

Author : Gerard J. Brault
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1986-06-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780773561045

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French-Canadian Heritage in New England by Gerard J. Brault Pdf

Brault has ably managed to weave the dual history of French Canadians -- Acadians and Québécois -- into the fabric of his account of the history and development of Franco-American culture and its contemporary situation. Drawing upon historical works and the literature of the period, the author provides a detailed description of early life in Quebec and Acadia and analyses the forces which led to migration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Brault is himself an American of French-Canadian descent. A brief account of his own family history provides important insights into the experience of being Franco-American, and offers a perspective from which it is possible to understand how members of this group can feel close to Canada and to France while remaining solidly and patriotically American.

Author : Jonathan K. Gosnell
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803285279

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Franco-America in the Making by Jonathan K. Gosnell Pdf

"A study of the manifestation and persistence of hybrid Franco-American literary, musical, culinary, and media cultures in North America, particularly New England and southern Louisiana"--

Author : David Vermette
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 177186169X

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A Distinct Alien Race by David Vermette Pdf

Author : Ronald Arthur Petrin
Publisher : Balch Institute Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0944190073

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French Canadians in Massachusetts Politics, 1885-1915 by Ronald Arthur Petrin Pdf

Emigrating from Quebec to New England in large numbers after the Civil War, French Canadians became by 1900 the largest non-English-speaking ethnic group in Massachusetts. This study reevaluates the political behavior of French Canadians in Massachusetts from 1885 to 1915 and analyzes the complex relationship between ethnicity and politics.

Author : Jonathan K. Gosnell
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496207159

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Franco-America in the Making by Jonathan K. Gosnell Pdf

Every June the city of Lowell, Massachusetts, celebrates Franco-American Day, raising the Franco-American flag and hosting events designed to commemorate French culture in the Americas. Though there are twenty million French speakers and people of French or francophone descent in North America, making them the fifth-largest ethnic group in the United States, their cultural legacy has remained nearly invisible. Events like Franco-American Day, however, attest to French ethnic permanence on the American topography. In Franco-America in the Making, Jonathan K. Gosnell examines the manifestation and persistence of hybrid Franco-American literary, musical, culinary, and media cultures in North America, especially New England and southern Louisiana. To shed light on the French cultural legacy in North America long after the formal end of the French empire in the mid-eighteenth century, Gosnell seeks out hidden French or “Franco” identities and sites of memory in the United States and Canada that quietly proclaim an intercontinental French presence, examining institutions of higher learning, literature, folklore, newspapers, women’s organizations, and churches. This study situates Franco-American cultures within the new and evolving field of postcolonial Francophone studies by exploring the story of the peoples and ideas contributing to the evolution and articulation of a Franco-American cultural identity in the New World. Gosnell asks what it means to be French, not simply in America but of America.

Author : Yves Roby
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Canadians, French-speaking New England Economic conditions
ISBN : 9782894483916

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Franco-Americans of New England by Yves Roby Pdf

Between 1840 and 1930, approximately 900,000 people left Quebec for the United States and settled in French-Canadian colonies in New England's industrial cities. Yves Roby draws from first-person accounts to explore the conversion of these immigrants and their descendants from French-Canadian to Franco-American. The first generation of immigrants saw themselves as French Canadians who had relocated to the United States. They were not involved with American society and instead sought to recreate their lost homeland. The Franco-Americans of New England reveals that their children, however, did not see a need to create a distinct society. Although they maintained aspects of their language, religion, and customs, they felt no loyalty to Canada and identified themselves as Franco-American. Roby's analysis raises insightful questions about not only Franco-Americans but also the integration of ethno-cultural groups into Canadian society and the future of North American Francophonies.

Author : Gerard J. Brault
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 0874513596

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The French-Canadian Heritage in New England by Gerard J. Brault Pdf

"In this book, Gerard J. Brault offers an introduction to Franco- American culture, covering the group's history, ideology, language, and literature; architecture, art, folklore, and music; demography, education, politics, religion, and sociology. " Back cover of book.

Author : Dyke Hendrickson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0738572802

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Franco-Americans of Maine by Dyke Hendrickson Pdf

Nearly one-third of Maine residents have French blood and are known as Franco-Americans. Many trace their heritage to French Canadian families who came south from Quebec in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to work in the mills of growing communities such as Auburn, Augusta, Biddeford, Brunswick, Lewiston, Saco, Sanford, Westbrook, Winslow, and Waterville. Other Franco-Americans, known as Acadians, have rural roots in the St. John Valley in northernmost Maine. Those of French heritage have added a unique and vibrant accent to every community in which they have lived, and they are known as a cohesive ethnic group with a strong belief in family, church, work, education, the arts, their language, and their community. Today they hold posts in every facet of Maine life, from hourly worker to the U.S. Congress. These hardworking people have a notable history and have been a major force in Maine's development.

Author : Armand B. Chartier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89073156531

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The Franco-Americans of New England by Armand B. Chartier Pdf