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.

I think the Acadian Archives made @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social very happy again this year. 😅 Happy reading!

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.

We should question this slice of local memory and the Canadians' alleged role in breaking the strike—which continued into 1923.

From 100-Percent Americanism to cross-border taxi rides, this is a complex story beyond what oral histories would suggest.

For more: vermonthistory.org/journal/88/V...

Years later, a resident recalled French Canadians being "marched the men up Main Street, with bands and American flags frantically asserting the utmost patriotism. Immense boarding houses were built at the quarry, and here the Canadians were housed . . . [they] finally broke union demands."

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. ✊✊✊

Entre Vincent Lacroix de Norbourg, le xénophobe Frédéric Lacroix puis Julien Lacroix, pour ma part je suis simplement content qu'on puisse passer à de meilleures choses pour les gens qui doivent encore porter le nom.

Rural (Franco-)America New research suggests that rural Franco-Americans' ability to sustain themselves culturally was related to their economic autonomy.

🚨 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...

Absolutely!

Yikes indeed. My Larocque ancestors were there at the time and I doubt they would have been spared those buildings. Somehow they made it work. They repatriated, but only after 17ish years of life and work in Attleboro and Fall River.

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.

I'm in the same boat. As far back as I can trace it, my Irish line is Protestant, though I've yet to uncover where in Ireland it hailed from. Apparently that piece of the story didn't come down to my grandmother, for whom the St Paddy's day parade was an annual tradition.

Déplacements et contacts : l’Ouest canadien, l’Amérique et le monde Le présent ouvrage découle d’un colloque tenu à l’Université de Saint-Boniface (USB) du 21 au 24 septembre 2022, organisé conjointement par le Centre d’études franco-canadiennes de l’Ouest (CEFCO), ce...

Parution imminente: "Déplacements et contacts: L'Ouest canadien, l'Amérique et le monde"! Un partenariat CEFCO et le projet Trois siècles de migrations francophones en AdN (PUL et PUSB).

Il est dédié au regretté Yves Labrèche (1952-2023).

www.pulaval.com/livres/depla...

Les Petites franciscaines dont la maison-mère est à Baie-Saint-Paul.

Hundreds of thousands of Iranians will die because some dudes in Ohio were unable to read economic data and scared of Biden's non-existent trans agenda. Totally normal.