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	Canadian literature, French. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		French Canadian writers found their models mainly in writers from France and their themes in nationalism, the simple lives and folkways of the habitants, and the devotion to the Roman Catholic Church.
		Since that time the inspiration for much French Canadian literature has been a concern with preserving an autonomous identity in a country dominated by the English language and the Protestant religion.
		Except for the narratives of French explorers (such as Samuel de Champlain and Pierre Esprit Radisson) and missionaries, no notable writing was produced before the British conquest of New France in 1759.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ca/Canad-litFr.html (741 words)

	French Canadian Emigration to the United States, 1840-1930 - Readings - Quebec History
		The French Canadian emigrant to New England was a factory worker, particularly in the huge cotton mills that dotted the area.
		The focus of French Canadian immigration to the New England area particularly is also related to two factors raised at the beginning of this article when the cost of immigration was discussed.
		In fact, it would be normal to consider that French Canadians, who only find their language and religion dominant in a part of the continent, would be the least likely to engage in the migration process.
	www2.marianopolis.edu /quebechistory/readings/leaving.htm (7369 words)

	Michigan French Canadians
		The French Canadian Heritage Society of Michigan (FCHSM) was founded in 1980 as an educational, historical, cultural, and genealogical non-profit organization.
		French Canadians often formed their own Catholic parishes and your ancestors will undoubtedly be found in parish registers.
		In addition to the many French Canadians who came to Michigan during the colonial period, a large number also came to the state in the nineteenth century.
	habitant.org /fchsm/index.htm (2474 words)

	Where French Is Not a Foreign Language: Franco-Americans and the State and University of Maine
		French was the working language maintained in elementary and secondary parochial schools in Biddeford and Lewiston and through the elementary level in a dozen small towns and cities.
		For the Nova Scotia French, 1755 is the pivotal date; it was the beginning of their great deportation by the Scottish and the English, a hundred and fifty years after the Acadians had settled in Nova Scotia and almost fifty years after the Treaty of Utrecht (1713), which gave Acadia to the British.
		Dionne does not explain in his article, however, that the loss of spoken French is not only the sign of assimilation but more precisely the result of the relatively recent assimilation induced by the decline of the parochial school system that gave instruction in the language of the home.
	www.ade.org /adfl/bulletin/v11n4/114017.htm (5168 words)

	Quebec Nationalism
		We see a very clear distinction between nationalism, today a universal phenomenon, and the exploitation of a people's patriotic sentiment by political rulers who wish to keep themselves in power or gain more of it.
		In the context of a colonization by a foreign power, the nationalism of a conquered people can be and has often been a progressive liberation movement.
		Warning: Nationalism is often stigmatized and misunderstood, especially when it comes to minority nationalism.
	english.republiquelibre.org /nationalism.html (5168 words)

	AllRefer.com - Canadian literature, French (English And French Canadian Literature) - Encyclopedia
		French Canadian writers found their models mainly in writers from France and their themes in nationalism, the simple lives and folkways of the habitants, and the devotion to the Roman Catholic Church.
		Canadian literature, French, the body of literature of the French-speaking population of Canada.
		Since that time the inspiration for much French Canadian literature has been a concern with preserving an autonomous identity in a country dominated by the English language and the Protestant religion.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/Canad-litFr.html (5168 words)

	uni.ca - Origins of Quebec separatism
		French Canadian nationalism was also the outcome of profound economic and social changes that had taken place in Quebec since about 1890.
		The coming of hydroelectric power and the wood-pulp industry as a result of the successful national policy of protection in creating Canadian manufacturing plants in Quebec and Ontario created a labour force that brought French Canadians as workers into the cities, particularly Montreal.
		Until that time French Canadians had lived by agriculture and seasonal work in the timber trade.
	www.uni.ca /sep_origins.html (5168 words)

	French language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		French is an official language of New Brunswick, the Yukon Territory, the Northwest Territories, and Nunavut.
		French has been the only official language of Quebec since 1974, although it is commonly (and incorrectly) believed that the designation of French as the sole official language occurred in 1977 with the adoption of the Charter of the French Language (which is popularly referred to as Bill 101).
		French (French: français) is the third of the Romance languages in terms of number of speakers, after Spanish and Portuguese, being spoken by about 67 million people as a mother tongue, and altogether by some 128 million francophones, which includes second-language speakers who use French for daily communication.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/French_language (3920 words)

	American-French Genealogical Society: Links
		French Canadian-Acadian Genealogists of Wisconsin -- Founded in 1982, the FCGW fosters and encourages interest and research in French Canadian and Acadian genealogy, heritage and culture.
		French Canadian Interest Group, of the Southern California Genealogical Society - - The primary purpose of the French-Canadian Interest Group is to research our own French-Canadian ancestors as well as to help others research theirs.
		French Canadians in the 1842 Oregon Census -- List of French Canadians in Oregon census of 1842, often ignored or left out of contemporary listings.
	www.afgs.org /genepges.html (3207 words)

	Canadian Genealogy and History Links - Quebec
		French Canadian/Acadian Genealogists of Wisconsin Dedicated to research and education regarding French Canadian and Acadian Genealogy.
		French Canadian Heritage Society of Michigan Information on researching your french Canadian ancestors in Michigan.
		Acadian- French Canadian Research Page Information on how to trace your Acadian or French-Canadian heritage.
	www.islandnet.com /%7Ejveinot/cghl/quebec.html (1906 words)

	CRCCF - Overview
		The Centre for Research on French Canadian Culture (Centre de recherche en civilisation canadienne-française or CRCCF) of the University of Ottawa was founded in 1958 and offers an range of specialized services to the university, faculty and students, as well as the public at large.
		In order to encourage research on French Canadian culture by scholars from all the humanities and social sciences, the Centre houses research projects headed by University of Ottawa faculty, financed by outside sources.
		The Centre is involved in the publication of this multidisciplinary journal wich aims to reflect the cultural diversity of the Francophone communities in North America by presenting articles on various subjects as well as report on the activites of research centres on French Canadian studies.
	www.uottawa.ca /academic/crccf/presentation/overview.html (921 words)

	Quebec South
		Even more than other groups, French Canadians came to occupy a space between two nations: keeping up ties with both, reluctant to abandon their birth place, and with one of the lowest naturalization rates of any immigrant group.
		French-Canadians in the U.S. "The Americans may say with truth," Canadian social critic Gordon Smith observed a century ago, "that if they do not annex Canada they are annexing the Canadians." In the last three decades of the nineteenth century, English- and French-speaking Canadians went south to the United States in unprecedented numbers.
		Other immigrants would arrive to work at the mills, but in cities like Lowell and Fall River, Massachusetts, Lewiston, Maine, and Manchester, New Hampshire, French Canadians would be dominant (see map).
	www.duke.edu /~mahealey/quebec_south.htm (4722 words)

	Cyndi's List - France
		A database of 45,000 French marriages in which one of the a people is a "migrant" (married in another department or country other than that of their birth).
		French Polynesia consists of five island groups: The Society Islands; The Marquesas Archipelago ("Hiva"); The Tuamotu Archipelago; The Austral Islands; and Mangareva (also known as the Gambier Islands).
		In the French territory of Wallis and Futuna Islands existed three kingdoms: Uvea (in the main island) and Alo and Sigave (in Futuna, in the Horn Group that include Futuna, Alofi and minor reefs).
	www.cyndislist.com /france.htm (5351 words)

	Quebec nationalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although it was still defended and promoted up until the beginning of the 20th century, the French-Canadian liberal nationalism born out of the American and French revolutions began to decline in the 1840s, gradually being replaced by both a more moderate liberal nationalism and the ultramontanism of the powerful Catholic clergy.
		However, the use of the expression la nation canadienne (the Canadian nation) by French Canadians is a reality of the 1800s as far as we know from historical records.
		From 1783 to the late 1830s the world witnessed the creation of many new national states with the birth of the United States of America, the French Republic,
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quebec_nationalism (5351 words)

	French Canadian Nationalism
		French Canadian nationalism concerns a wide variety of manifestations of the collective will of much of Canada's French-speaking population to live as a distinct cultural community.
		Economic and political themes became central and, particularly after 1960, the province of Québec became principal supporter of the French Canadian collectivity, or at least of those French Canadians (about 80% of the Canadian total) living within Québec.
		Others, in an effort to promote French Canadian commerce, led "Buy French Canada" campaigns and warned against the patronizing of Jewish establishments.
	www.canadianencyclopedia.ca /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&ArticleId=A0003061 (5351 words)

	French Canadian - Open Encyclopedia
		French Canadian contributions were essential in securing responsible government for the Canadas and in undertaking Canadian Confederation.
		French Canadian (or Franco-Canadian) is a term that refers to francophone inhabitants of Canada.
		It took the 1774 Quebec Act for them to regain the French civil law system, and in 1791 French Canadians in Lower Canada were introduced to the British parliamentarism system when an elected Legislative Assembly was created.
	open-encyclopedia.com /French-Canadian (721 words)

	The Habitant's Home Page
		This is an historical work that traces the two distinct waves of French Canadian immigrants to Michigan during the colonial period of the eighteenth century and the industrial period of the nineteenth century.
		In Canada, the early French Canadians settlers who cleared the land and farmed it were known as habitants.
		My booklet on French Canadians in Michigan, part of the Discovering the Peoples of Michigan series published by Michigan State University Press, is now available.
	habitant.org (525 words)

	BOOK, CD & VIDEO LIST - - Quebec, French North America / Canadian - Genealogy & History Books & CDs
		BOOK - French Canadian sources, a Guide for Genealogists This book is designed to assist researchers by provided detailed explanations about many primary and secondary sources available to them.
		The island of Montreal in the seventeenth century as a case study for an analysis of the establishment of colonial society, investigates the emergence of urban and rural communities that were shaped by both their French cultural backgrounds and the new environment.
		Published in 1983, it covers French people in the area now called Quebec, and named at that time Canada or New France.
	globalgenealogy.com /cdaque.htm (1484 words)

	Frontier Press Bookstore - Canada - 1-800-772-7559
		The Canadian Frontier, 1534-1760, Eccles, W. A reliable and authoritative general history of the French era in Canada.
		Numerous genealogies of the earliest French settlers of Wisconsin are included.
		Written by the eminent Scottish genealogist, Donald Whyte, this volume (and volume 2) constitute a major contribution to the documentation of Canadian immigration before 1867.
	www.frontierpress.com /frontier.cgi?category=can (1502 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Features -- French-Canadian movie seduces global audience
		The film, originally titled "La Grande Seduction" in French, is the comic tale of how a dying French-Canadian fishing village tricks a big city doctor into accepting a job in the tiny community, thereby halting its demise.
		In the mainly French-speaking separatist province of Quebec, "Seducing Doctor Lewis" is at the forefront of a booming home-grown industry that includes the Oscar-winning "Barbarian Invasions," the Canadian box-office smash "Seraphin: Un homme et son peche" and the Oscar-nominated French/Canadian/ Belgian/British-produced "Triplets of Belleville."
		The film's setting in a remote French-Canadian harbor village touches universal themes of how communities cope when their traditional industries – in this case fishing – die out and threaten both livelihoods and self-esteem.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/features/20040707-0500-leisure-seduction.html (612 words)

	Quintin Publications Métis and First Nations Catalog
		French-Canadians of the West: A Biographical Dictionary of French-Canadians and French Métis of the Western United States and Canada by Peter J. Gagné.
		Since goals frequently conflicted, the war was as notable for cultural conflict with the French as for military engagements with the British.
		An alphabetized extraction of the applications for the Treaty with the Chippewa Indians of Lake Superior, and the Mississippi, concluded at La Pointe, Wisconsin, September 30, 1854.
	www.quintinpublications.com /metis.html (2944 words)

	Resources for Feminist Research / Documentation sur la recherche féministe
		Resources for Feminist Research / Documentation sur la recherche féministe is a bilingual (English/French) Canadian scholarly journal published since 1972 in the Centre for Women's Studies in Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education / University of Toronto.
		Included in each issue are major research papers, reports of works in progress, bibliographies, book reviews, and abstracts of Canadian feminist journals.
		RFR/DRF addresses Canadian and international feminist research issues and debates.
	www.oise.utoronto.ca /rfr (107 words)

	Michigan State University Press French Canadians in Michigan John P. DuLong
		Because of its importance in the fur trade, many French Canadians migrated to Michigan, settling primarily along the Detroit- Illinois trade route, and throughout the fur trade avenues of the Straits of Mackinac.
		John DuLong explores the history and influence of these early French Canadians, and traces, as well, the successive 19th- and 20th-century waves of industrial migration from Quebec, creating new communities outside the old fur trade routes of their ancestors.
		As the first European settlers in Michigan, the French Canadians left an indelible mark on the place names and early settlement patterns of the Great Lakes State.
	msupress.msu.edu /bookTemplate.php?bookID=16 (144 words)

	French & Canadian Heritage
		Encompassing French, Canadian, and Acadian genealogical research, the group meets locally and has built up a small library of special genealogical materials.
		The French and Canadian Heritage Society was formed as a sub-group of GSSB.
		View the current Board Members and membership information of the French and Canadian Heritage Society.
	www.rootsweb.com /~flgssb/FrCanHeritage.htm (126 words)

	The French Connection
		French immigrant; also some old family pictures from one branch of this family.
		Josée Vachon: Popular New England French folksinger and TV personality with her schedule of performances.
		Genealogy Information: for those who seek help or assistance with their French ancestral research.
	users.adelphia.net /~frenchcx (1826 words)

	Diaspora - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The French Canadian diaspora includes hundreds of thousands of people who left Quebec for "greener pastures" in the United States, Ontario and the Prairies, between 1840 and the 1930s.
		Originally, the term Diaspora (capitalized) was used to refer specifically to the populations of Jews exiled from Judea in 586 BCE by the Babylonians, and Jerusalem in 135 CE by the Roman Empire.
		The Jewish diaspora in its historical use, refers to the period between the destruction of the Jewish state by the Roman Empire in 137 CE, to the re-establishment of Israel in 1948.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Diasporic (1409 words)

	MSN Encarta - Québec (province)
		The site of the first permanent French settlement in North America, Québec is unique among the Canadian provinces in that the vast majority of its population is of French descent and speaks French as a first language.
		Québec is divided into three natural regions: the Canadian Shield in the north; the Appalachian Region in the south and southeast; and, between these two regions, the St. Lawrence Lowlands, see Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Lowlands.
		Québec’s landscape is divided into three major regions: the Canadian Shield, the St. Lawrence Lowlands, and the Appalachian Region.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761551789/Qu%c3%a9bec_(province).html (1409 words)

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