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McDermott, John F., ed. Frenchmen and French ways in the Mississippi Valley (1969) Marshall, Bill,ed. France and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History (3 Vol 2005) Moogk, Peter N. La Nouvelle France: The Making of French Canada -A Cultural History (2000). 340 pp. Trudel, Marcel. The Beginnings of New France 1524-1663 (1973) White, Sophie ...
At the same time, some members of the community are inviting reconsideration of Franco-Americans’ place in conversations about race [46] [47] and class. [48] Noted American popular culture figures who maintained a close connection to their French roots include musician Rudy Vallée (1901–1986) who grew up in Westbrook, Maine, a child of a ...
Most Modern-day Franco-Americans of French Canadian or French heritage are the descendants of settlers who lived in Canada during the 17th century (Canada was known as New France at that time), Canada then came to be known as Province of Québec in 1763, which then renamed to Lower Canada in 1791, and then to the Canadian Province of Québec after the Canadian Confederation was formed in 1867.
The conception of "French" culture however poses certain difficulties and presupposes a series of assumptions about what precisely the expression "French" means. Whereas American culture posits the notion of the "melting-pot" and cultural diversity, the expression "French culture" tends to refer implicitly to a specific geographical entity (as ...
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The Myth of the Savage: and the Beginnings of French Colonialism in the Americas (1984). Eccles, W. J. The Canadian Frontier, 1534–1760 (1983). Eccles, W. J. France in America (1990). Moogk, Peter N. La Nouvelle France: the making of French Canada: a cultural history (2000). Roberts, Walter Adolphe. The French in the West Indies (1971).
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The Bulletin de la Société Historique Franco-américaine for 1943, one of many institution created from La Survivance. Beginning in the late 1840s, greater numbers of French Canadians began to settle in the States, at first for seasonal agricultural jobs, and then eventually brought in by horse and later train, to serve as factory workers for the large mill towns being built by the Boston ...