Keywords: Healey Asylum, Lewiston
Item 67544
Santa Claus at the Healey Asylum, Lewiston, ca. 1950
Contributed by: Franco-American Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries Date: circa 1950 Location: Lewiston Media: Photographic print
Item 67731
Christmas at St Joseph's Orphanage, Lewiston, 1946
Contributed by: Franco-American Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries Date: 1946 Location: Lewiston Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
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.
