La vie franco-américaine en Nouvelle-Angleterre vue à travers la fête de St-Jean-Baptiste (1945-1956). « Les jeunes connaissent l’importance du 17 mars mais non du 24 juin, ce qui porte la rédaction à déclarer, "On ne sait plus qui l’on est!!". » #Quebec #CanadaUS querythepast.com/saint-jean-b...

Canadian #immigrants benefited from an open border between #Canada and the United States for more than a century prior to 1930. This nearly changed in 1897, but President Cleveland vetoed a ban on the admission of illiterate immigrants. #UShistory Full message: millercenter.org/the-presiden...

From Lacroix's House of Memes & Corn Biscuit Emporium:

This is very exciting. The Champlain History Center is a treasure trove of information on French Canadians' historic presence in upstate New York. Céline Racine Paquette treated me a tour several years ago and I can think of no better place to share my work on New York's Franco-American communities.

🚨 New on QTP! 🚨 The rise and near-demise of a French-Canadian community in the #NewHampshire Seacoast region. #CanadaUS #FrancoAmerica #francophonie #immigration #Quebec querythepast.com/it-happened-...

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🚨 New on QTP! 🚨 The rise and near-demise of a French-Canadian community in the #NewHampshire Seacoast region. #CanadaUS #FrancoAmerica #francophonie #immigration #Quebec querythepast.com/it-happened-...

Well, I finally got around to watching "My Man Godfrey" (the 1936 version). It wasn't a bad ride. The actors were all terrific and I'M SORRY WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY?

Academic writing should be addressed neither to the public nor to other academics. It should be addressed to a single interlocutor with whom you have a petty rivalry and whose work you are trying to discredit

On this date in 1919: Motion Picture World promotes the new film Jacques of the Silver North, the latest expression of "Canuck chic." The movie industry portrayed French-Canadian characters in a distant wilderness. For more: querythepast.com/french-canad... And: querythepast.com/canuck-as-ch...

The U.S. right now: We are against concentration camps... well, unless they're ours, of course.

A two-part article on Lenthier appears on Query the Past: querythepast.com/benjamin-len... #CanadaUS #FrancoAmericans #francophonie #immigration #UShistory

🚨 NEW! 🚨 "Jack London’s Perrault and François were not particularly unusual characters from this standpoint. Nor were the stage and screen productions of the early twentieth century the first performances of a 'canadianité'." querythepast.com/canuck-as-ch...

🚨 NEW! 🚨 "Jack London’s Perrault and François were not particularly unusual characters from this standpoint. Nor were the stage and screen productions of the early twentieth century the first performances of a 'canadianité'." querythepast.com/canuck-as-ch...

#CanadaUS #francophonie #immigration #Minnesota

I hated Dale Earnhardt. Rooted against him every race. I hated Kyle Busch. Rooted against him every race. But losing each of them has hit like a death in the family.

Northern #Maine tales:

Th Journée nationale des Patriotes, a #Quebec holiday, will be upon us tomorrow. Commemorations typically have historical blind spots; the information below helps address some of these. Follow Query the Past on Facebook for more. See also: querythepast.com/french-canad...

@querythepast.bsky.social Vu chez mon libraire de seconde main sur la rue Crémazie ce midi 😉

The book bin at Guy's Frenchys in Bouctouche 🤝 One of @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social's autographed books. This wouldn't be possible were it not for John Green sacrificing himself on the cross of crippling arthritis for his readers.

It's not a visit to Halifax without this.

From James Myall: "Nineteenth-century immigrants did benefit from the modest government funded poverty relief that was provided. In fact, they benefitted in greater proportion than-native born Americans." #FrancoAmericans #immigration #UShistory parlezvousamerican.substack.com/p/19th-centu...

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Hey, @umaine.bsky.social, do you think that sending five e-mails in the course of 12 hours sweetens the deal? Literally no one wants this.

#CanadaUS #FrancoAmericans #francophonie #history #immigration #NewEngland #Quebec

According to Wikipedia, Christine Fréchette is the first Gen X premier of Quebec. But that's Wikipedia. I'll believe it when I see her popping an ollie live on TQS or, at the very least, jousting other nihilistic stoners in Rossy shopping carts.

He tried to warn us the only way he knew how. "Après moi, la conflagration."

"Prior to the advent of modern mental health facilities, poor farms were dumping grounds for people with severe intellectual deficiencies and mental health conditions. Divorcée Rosa 'Labidre' was considered 'idiotic.'" French-Canadian immigrants and public assistance:

Franco-American history and anti-Somali rhetoric in Maine: confronting bad-faith statements with good history. #CanadaUS #FrancoAmerica #history #immigration #Maine #Somali querythepast.com/somali-franc...

Pour quelle raison PSPP pleure-t-il dans le foyer de l'Assemblée nationale aujourd'hui (à part les immigrant.e.s pis les wokes)?

Too good not to reshare.

La première célébration de la fête de Saint-Jean-Baptiste en sol étatsunien (1839) / The first celebration of Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day on U.S. soil (1839). #FrancoAmerica #immigration #Quebec #ushistory #Vermont

I had no idea. There were Chapdelaines at my high school and they ran a furniture store near Mount Holyoke College in S. Hadley.

🚨 New blog post! 🚨 A new opportunity to make historical sense of the Eastern Townships / les Cantons de l'Est : querythepast.com/eastern-town... #CanadaUS #Cdnhist #Quebec #history

🚨 New blog post! 🚨 A new opportunity to make historical sense of the Eastern Townships / les Cantons de l'Est : querythepast.com/eastern-town... #CanadaUS #Cdnhist #Quebec #history

Shout out to @querythepast.bsky.social and the Acadian Archives at the University of Maine, Fort Kent for another great Acadian History Lecture Series! Looking forward to catching up on some recent Acadian history and folklore.

Il y a 200 ans : les débuts de la grande saignée. Selon Albert Faucher, il semblerait « que l’émigration ait été l’événement majeur de l’histoire canadienne-française au XIXe siècle » (1961). #CanadaUS #cdnhist #immigration #Quebec

Some of the biggest and most successful battles of the last year have been fought in the courts. The @aclu.org has been leading the charge to protect constitutional rights through the judicial system and has quite a bit to show for its efforts. Consider supporting its fight for the rule of law.

On April 1, 1922, granite workers in Barre, Vt., walked off the job. Their strike came in response to a proposed 20-percent wage cut and their employers' anti-labor tactics. Instances of strikebreaking culminated in May when the manufacturers brought in more than 70 workers from other states.

The Franco population of Woonsocket then was about the same as the total present population of the St. John Valley.

It's quite something that 40 people in tiny, conservative Fort Kent were willing to brave both the cold and public opinion to make their voices heard—and that something is all the more significant for the 70-year-olds who were taking part in their first-ever protest. ✊✊✊

🚨 NEW! 🚨 French Canadians who immigrated to rural areas of the United States—from Vermont to Illinois—were not fated to disappear culturally. But their community life may have become an expression of access to property. Upcoming research on rural Francos: querythepast.com/rural-franco...

OTD in 1926: What a great glimpse into the dumbassery of our day. The GOP has done everything it could to sap people's trust in government and paralyze political institutions—to its own benefit. Too many people have bought the supposed corollary: that it takes a strongman to restore sense and order.

Oh man, remembers the '20s? No, no, the other '20s, when government wasn't the fomenter of all of these things.