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New Year Preview

This year will start with back-to-back posts on Honoré Beaugrand’s Jeanne la Fileuse, the classic Quebec novel on late nineteenth-century emigration. Although a fairly conventional love story drives the plot, Beaugrand did not hide his own politics. My blog posts will cover his treatise on emigration—and those he deemed responsible for the mass exodus. Moving […]

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Blog Update

After six months of regular weekly posts—some twenty-five posts in fact—this blog is shifting gears. Following Mason Wade, its stated mission was and remains to chronicle French Canadians’ larger North American experience, beyond their history in the St. Lawrence River valley, beyond Quebec. As consistent readers know, I am especially interested in the French-Canadian diaspora […]

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Franco-American History Blog: A Tribute to Mason Wade (1913-1986)

The several million Americans of French or French-Canadian origin, who are among the oldest Americans of European stock, are for the most part human vestiges of the vast continental French empire in North America. Thus began historian Mason Wade’s essay on Franco-American history in The New Catholic Encyclopedia, published a half-century ago. In the 1950s […]

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