French Canadians In Michigan

Author : John P. DuLong
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2001-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781628954340

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French Canadians in Michigan by John P. DuLong Pdf

As the first European settlers in Michigan, the French Canadians left an indelible mark on the place names and early settlement patterns of the Great Lakes State. Because of its importance in the fur trade, many French Canadians migrated to Michigan, settling primarily along the Detroit- Illinois trade route, and throughout the fur trade avenues of the Straits of Mackinac. When the British conquered New France in 1763, most Europeans in Michigan were Francophones. John DuLong explores the history and influence of these early French Canadians, and traces, as well, the successive 19th- and 20th-century waves of industrial migration from Quebec, creating new communities outside the old fur trade routes of their ancestors.

Author : Jean Lamarre
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814339978

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The French Canadians of Michigan by Jean Lamarre Pdf

Most information regarding the French Canadians in Michigan concerns those who settled during the French period. However, another significant migration occurred during the industrial period of the nineteenth century, when many French Canadians settled in the Saginaw Valley and on the Keweenaw Peninsula—two regions characteristic of Michigan’s economic development in the nineteenth century. The lumber industry of the Saginaw Valley and the copper mines of the Keweenaw Peninsula provided very different challenges to French Canadian settlers as they tried to find ways to adapt to changing environments and industrial realities. The French Canadians of Michigan looks at the factors behind the French Canadian immigration by providing a statistical profile of the migratory movement as well as analysis of the strategies used by French Canadians to cope with and adapt to new environments. Using federal manuscript censuses, parochial archives, and government reports, Jean Lamarre closely examines who the immigrants were, the causes of their migration, their social and geographical itinerary, and the reasons they chose Michigan as their destination. Besides comparing the different settlements in the Saginaw Valley and the Keweenaw Peninsula, Lamarre also compares the Michigan French Canadians to the French Canadians who settled in New England during the same period. This book is a major contribution to the study of the French Canadian migration to the Midwest and will be valuable to researchers of both Michigan and French Canadian history.

Author : Peter N. Moogk
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780870135286

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La Nouvelle France by Peter N. Moogk Pdf

On one level, Peter Moogk's latest book, La Nouvelle France: The Making of French Canada—A Cultural History, is a candid exploration of the troubled historical relationship that exists between the inhabitants of French- and English- speaking Canada. At the same time, it is a long- overdue study of the colonial social institutions, values, and experiences that shaped modern French Canada. Moogk draws on a rich body of evidence—literature; statistical studies; government, legal, and private documents in France, Britain, and North America— and traces the roots of the Anglo-French cultural struggle to the seventeenth century. In so doing, he discovered a New France vastly different from the one portrayed in popular mythology. French relations with Native Peoples, for instance, were strained. The colony of New France was really no single entity, but rather a chain of loosely aligned outposts stretching from Newfoundland in the east to the Illinois Country in the west. Moogk also found that many early immigrants to New France were reluctant exiles from their homeland and that a high percentage returned to Europe. Those who stayed, the Acadians and Canadians, were politically conservative and retained Old Régime values: feudal social hierarchies remained strong; one's individualism tended to be familial, not personal; Roman Catholicism molded attitudes and was as important as language in defining Acadian and Canadian identities. It was, Moogk concludes, the pre-French Revolution Bourbon monarchy and its institutions that shaped modern French Canada, in particular the Province of Quebec, and set its people apart from the rest of the nation.

Author : Jean Lamarre
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : French-Canadians
ISBN : 0814331580

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The French Canadians of Michigan by Jean Lamarre Pdf

The first major study of the migration of French Canadians to Michigan during the nineteenth century and their substantial impact on the state's development.

Author : Russell M. Magnaghi
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781628952599

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French in Michigan by Russell M. Magnaghi Pdf

Compared to other nationalities, few French have immigrated to the United States, and the state of Michigan is no exception in that regard. Although the French came in small numbers, those who did settle in or pass through Michigan played important roles as either permanent residents or visitors. The colonial French served as explorers, soldiers, missionaries, fur traders, and colonists. Later, French priests and nuns were influential in promoting Catholicism in the state and in developing schools and hospitals. Father Gabriel Richard fled the violence of the French Revolution and became a prominent and influential citizen of the state as a U.S. Congressman and one of the founders of the University of Michigan. French observers of Michigan life included Alexis de Tocqueville. French entrepreneurs opened copper mines and a variety of service-oriented businesses. Louis Fasquelle became the first foreign-language instructor at the University of Michigan, and François A. Artault introduced photography to the Upper Peninsula. As pioneers of the early automobile, the French made a major contribution to the language used in auto manufacturing.

Author : Carol McGinnis
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0806317558

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Michigan Genealogy by Carol McGinnis Pdf

This is one of the finest statewide sourcebooks ever published, a remarkable compilation of sources and resources that are available to help researchers find their Michigan ancestors. It identifies records on the state and regional level and then the county level, providing details of vital records, court and land records, military records, newspapers, and census records, as well as the holdings of the various societies and institutions whose resources and facilities support the special needs of the genealogist. County-by-county, it lists the names, addresses, websites, e-mail addresses, and hours of business of libraries, archives, genealogical and historical societies, courthouses, and other record repositories; describes their manuscripts and record collections; highlights their special holdings; and provides details regarding queries, searches, and restrictions on the use of their records.

Author : Louis Balthazar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Canada
ISBN : UOM:39015040669890

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French-Canadian Civilization by Louis Balthazar Pdf

Author : Robert Englebert,Guillaume Teasdale
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781609173609

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French and Indians in the Heart of North America, 1630-1815 by Robert Englebert,Guillaume Teasdale Pdf

In the past thirty years, the study of French-Indian relations in the center of North America has emerged as an important field for examining the complex relationships that defined a vast geographical area, including the Great Lakes region, the Illinois Country, the Missouri River Valley, and Upper and Lower Louisiana. For years, no one better represented this emerging area of study than Jacqueline Peterson and Richard White, scholars who identified a world defined by miscegenation between French colonists and the native population, or métissage, and the unique process of cultural accommodation that led to a “middle ground” between French and Algonquians. Building on the research of Peterson, White, and Jay Gitlin, this collection of essays brings together new and established scholars from the United States, Canada, and France, to move beyond the paradigms of the middle ground and métissage. At the same time it seeks to demonstrate the rich variety of encounters that defined French and Indians in the heart of North America from 1630 to 1815. Capturing the complexity and nuance of these relations, the authors examine a number of thematic areas that provide a broader assessment of the historical bridge-building process, including ritual interactions, transatlantic connections, diplomatic relations, and post-New France French-Indian relations.

Author : Peter N. Moogk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 1628964510

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La Nouvelle France by Peter N. Moogk Pdf

Author : Jean Barman
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774828079

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French Canadians, Furs, and Indigenous Women in the Making of the Pacific Northwest by Jean Barman Pdf

Jean Barman was the recipient of the 2014 George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award. In French Canadians, Furs, and Indigenous Women in the Making of the Pacific Northwest, Jean Barman rewrites the history of the Pacific Northwest from the perspective of French Canadians attracted by the fur economy, the indigenous women whose presence in their lives encouraged them to stay, and their descendants. Joined in this distant setting by Quebec paternal origins, the French language, and Catholicism, French Canadians comprised Canadiens from Quebec, Iroquois from the Montreal area, and métis combining Canadien and indigenous descent. For half a century, French Canadians were the largest group of newcomers to this region extending from Oregon and Washington east into Montana and north through British Columbia. Here, they facilitated the early overland crossings, drove the fur economy, initiated non-wholly-indigenous agricultural settlement, eased relations with indigenous peoples, and ensured that, when the region was divided in 1846, the northern half would go to Britain, giving today’s Canada its Pacific shoreline.

Author : Louisa Mackenzie,Stephanie Posthumus
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781628950465

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French Thinking about Animals by Louisa Mackenzie,Stephanie Posthumus Pdf

Bringing together leading scholars from Belgium, Canada, France, and the United States, French Thinking about Animals makes available for the first time to an Anglophone readership a rich variety of interdisciplinary approaches to the animal question in France. While the work of French thinkers such as Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, and Felix Guattari has been available in English for many years, French Thinking about Animals opens up a much broader cross-cultural dialogue within animal studies. These original essays, many of which have been translated especially for this volume, draw on anthropology, ethology, geography, history, legal studies, phenomenology, and philosophy to interrogate human-animal relationships. They explore the many ways in which animals signify in French history, society, and intellectual history, illustrating the exciting new perspectives being developed about the animal question in the French-speaking world today. Built on the strength and diversity of these contributions, French Thinking about Animals demonstrates the interdisciplinary and internationalism that are needed if we hope to transform the interactions of humans and nonhuman animals in contemporary society.

Author : Mark Paul Richard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Americanization
ISBN : OCLC:1392426532

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Loyal But French by Mark Paul Richard Pdf

Author : Mark Paul Richard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131608874

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Loyal But French by Mark Paul Richard Pdf

Richard's work challenges prevailing notions of "assimilation." As he shows, "acculturation" better describes the roundabout process by which some ethnic groups join their host society. He argues that, for more than a centry, the French- Canadians in Lewiston, Maine, pursued the twin objectives of ethnic preservation and acculturation. These were not separate goals but rather intertwined processes. Underscored with statistics compiled by the author, Loyal but French portrays the French-Canadian history of Lewiston, from the 1880s through the 1990s, in this light.

Author : Patricia Kenney Geyh
Publisher : Ancestry Publishing
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1931279012

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French Canadian Sources by Patricia Kenney Geyh Pdf

A six-year collaborative effort of members of the French Canadian/Acadian Genealogical Society, this book provides detailed explanations about the genealogical sources available to those seeking their French-Canadian ancestors.

Author : Holly M. Karibo
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469625218

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Sin City North by Holly M. Karibo Pdf

The early decades of the twentieth century sparked the Detroit-Windsor region's ascendancy as the busiest crossing point between Canada and the United States, setting the stage for socioeconomic developments that would link the border cities for years to come. As Holly M. Karibo shows, this border fostered the emergence of illegal industries alongside legal trade, rapid industrial development, and tourism. Tracing the growth of the two cities' cross-border prostitution and heroin markets in the late 1940s and the 1950s, Sin City North explores the social, legal, and national boundaries that emerged there and their ramifications. In bars, brothels, and dance halls, Canadians and Americans were united in their desire to cross racial, sexual, and legal lines in the border cities. Yet the increasing visibility of illicit economies on city streets—and the growing number of African American and French Canadian women working in illegal trades—provoked the ire of moral reformers who mobilized to eliminate them from their communities. This valuable study demonstrates that struggles over the meaning of vice evolved beyond definitions of legality; they were also crucial avenues for residents attempting to define productive citizenship and community in this postwar urban borderland.