Keywords: boarders
Item 10175
Boarders, convent school, St. Agatha, ca. 1920
Contributed by: Ste. Agathe Historical Society Date: circa 1920 Location: Saint Agatha Media: Photographic print
Item 10178
Notre Dame de la Sagesse convent and school, St. Agatha, ca. 1940
Contributed by: Ste. Agathe Historical Society Date: circa 1940 Location: Saint Agatha Media: Photographic print
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A Town Is Born: South Bristol, 1915
After being part of the town of Bristol for nearly 150 years, residents of South Bristol determined that their interests would be better served by becoming a separate town and they broke away from the large community of Bristol.
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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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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - The Tea Room
"Mary used the house to take in boarders during the war. Clevie remarried after Mary, a Sunday school teacher, passed away in 1950."
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Maine's Road to Statehood - The Coasting Law of 1789
"… at each state with which it did not share a boarder. Since Maine was a district of Massachusetts, a ship sailing south from Maine would not have to…"