Franco American Programs

Susan Pinette, Douglas Rooks and Severin Beliveau will be joining Jennifer Rooks on Maine Calling to discuss The First Franco. The book is published by Franco American Programs in association with the University of Maine Press. https://www.mainepublic.org/show/maine-calling https://umaine.edu/umpress/recently-published/first-franco-albert-beliveau-in-law-politics-and-love/

Americans don’t think of Canada as a source of potential terrorists—speaking a foreign tongue, serving a foreign religion, and invading their country. But when nearly a million French-Canadians crossed the border between 1840 and 1930, many seeking work in New England’s burgeoning textile industry, elements in the public sector, press, clergy, and academia cast them […]