When: Feb 16, 2021 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Register in advance for this meeting: https://maine.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZApdeCprD8rHtAWOvFM3udfreF7w_TP0YEt After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
When: Feb 25, 2021 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Register in advance for this meeting: https://maine.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAtdu2upjspGtDcPwLfcQNYQOFgcaXx34cY After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
While scholars have analyzed the phenomenal growth of the credit union movement in the United States, they have devoted little attention to the Québec origins of credit unions and, in particular, no one has examined in any comprehensive way Alphonse Desjardins’s fundamental role in assisting Franco-American and other groups in developing their credit institutions in […]
The Franco American Portal Project is a five-university collaboration to build an online portal to Franco American archival collections. Our project addresses the need for online access to Franco American cultural history by: locating and identifying archival materials that concern French-Canadian, Québécois(e), and Acadian diaspora communities in the US Northeast–wherever these materials have been collected […]
When: Apr 6, 2021 07:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Register in advance for this meeting: https://maine.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEqdeyorTIrH9SwDBmvEYHIm5JSaiUpSzcc After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
UMaine student Daniel Moreau describes his journey from inspiration to development of a ten-part video series on New England Mill Cities called Dawson. Spanning nearly 500 years and partly taking inspiration from his hometown of Lewiston, ME, he takes a look at the themes that all these mill cities have had in common, and still […]
Every year, the Franco American Center at the University of Maine organizes a “rassemblement” (gathering) of Franco-American artists, writers, and other cultural workers. Part conference, part reunion, this annual event provides a culturally supportive space in which members of the Franco-American creative community can share their work. This year, like last, we will gather virtually, […]
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 […]
Many years ago some people decided that the St.Pierre’s, Dupuis’, Morneau’s, and Pelletier’s shouldn’t speak French anymore. They decided it wasn’t useful, it wasn’t pretty… They declared it was the linguistic stamp of the undereducated and it was a verbal confirmation that in the years past there has been a lot of catholicism, even more […]
