French North America
Blog by David Vermette
author of
A Distinct Alien Race
Thursday, December 19, 2019
An “Impending Race War” in Canada? Victorian Englishman “Explains” Québec to the U.S.
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In a previous post I mentioned The Forum , an eminent U.S. magazine of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This...
Friday, November 29, 2019
Must French-Canadians Be Made to Sing Yankee Doodle? A Dialog from Vermont
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In its October 10, 1889 edition, The Caledonian , a newspaper out of St. Johnsbury, Vermont, reprinted a piece from the Boston Advert...
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Tuesday, November 19, 2019
Non-stereotypical Occupations of Franco-American Women in 1900
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Did you know that there were twelve Franco-American women listed as “clergymen” in the 1900 U.S. census? I discovered this in a 1913 s...
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Monday, November 11, 2019
Were 19th Century Canadiens Bad Farmers?
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Reading the usual literature about Franco-Americans one gets the impression that our Canadien forbears were bad farmers...
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Thursday, August 8, 2019
Smithsonian Project: "When Americans Feared an Invasion From Their Northern Border"
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I was asked to write an article for a Smithsonian project called " What It Means to Be American ," based on my book A Distinct ...
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