Keywords: Sporting arena
Item 81538
Clearing the Debris at St. Dominic's Arena, Lewiston, 1956
Contributed by: Franco-American Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries Date: 1956 Location: Lewiston Media: Photographic print
Item 148519
Cumberland County Civic Center souvenir poster, ca. 1978
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1978 Location: Portland Media: Ink on paper
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.
