Keywords: compulsory service
Item 103105
Selective Service Draft Law registration poster, 1917
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1917 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.
