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Item 30998

Canadian National Club, Biddeford, ca. 1910

Contributed by: McArthur Public Library Date: 1910-10-17 Location: Biddeford Media: Photograph on board

Item 98864

Zépherin Lessard, Royal Canadian Army, Fernie, BC, ca. 1917

Contributed by: Madeleine Paré Roy through Franco-American Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries Date: circa 1917 Location: Lewiston; Fernie Media: Photographic print

Item 5976

Railroad station at Onawa, ca. 1920

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Onawa Media: Photographic print

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Camp Tekakwitha brochure, Leeds, ca. 1940

From French Canadians to Franco-Americans

French Canadians who emigrated to the Lewiston-Auburn area faced discrimination as children and adults -- such as living in "Little Canada" tenements and being ridiculed for speaking French -- but also adapted to their new lives and sustained many cultural traditions.

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La St-Jean in Lewiston-Auburn

St-Jean-Baptiste Day -- June 24th -- in Lewiston-Auburn was a very public display of ethnic pride for nearly a century. Since about 1830, French Canadians had used St. John the Baptist's birthdate as a demonstration of French-Canadian nationalism.

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Les Raquetteurs

In the early 1600s, French explorers and colonizers in the New World quickly adopted a Native American mode of transportation to get around during the harsh winter months: the snowshoe. Most Northern societies had some form of snowshoe, but the Native Americans turned it into a highly functional item. French settlers named snowshoes "raquettes" because they resembled the tennis racket then in use.

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Franco-American Collection

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Float in Parade for St. John de Baptist, Lewiston, ca. 1940

Franco-American Heritage Center at St. Mary's

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Mono Aircraft Company, Presque Isle, 1935

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… by disease, violence, and European (American and Canadian) encroachment. By the 1880s, native Maliseet and Mi’kmaq populations were near an…"