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Keywords: French-Canadian immigrants

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Item 9916 

Contributed by: Sanford-Springvale Historical Society

Date: circa 1895

Location: Sanford

Media: Photographic print

Item 18377 Sts. Peter and Paul Basilica, Lewiston, 2005

Contributed by: Franco-American Collection

Date: 2005

Location: Lewiston


Item 103129 Lunn & Sweet baseball team, Industrial League Champions, Lewiston, 1916

Courtesy of Kathy Bolduc Amoroso, an individual partner

Date: 1916

Location: Auburn

Media: Photographic Print

Exhibits Showing 3 of 10 View All From French Canadians to Franco-Americans La St-Jean in Lewiston-Auburn Les Raquetteurs

Site Pages Showing 3 of 7 View All

Site Page Biddeford History & Heritage Project - VI. The deluge of industrial expansion & immigration (1865-1900) - Page 2 of 2

Mary's), founded in 1855. Due to the influx of French-Canadians and the animosity between the French and Irish Catholics, a separate church--St.
 

… an intense level of immigration, first of Irish and other west European workers; then later French-Canadian, east and southern Europeans.
 Biddeford History & Heritage Project - Pierre Painchaud

… la France” during the weekly performances of French-Canadian ballads, chants, and folk songs at local parks.

My Maine Stories Showing 1 of 1 View All I never thought I would work at a paper mill.

by Greg Bizier