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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Join us for a special session, co-hosted by the UMaine Alumni Association and Franco American Programs, which celebrates the release of First Franco: Albert Beliveau in Law, Politics, and Love, […]
