In coming weeks, blog posts will address the “human vestiges of the vast continental French empire in North America,” with apologies to the Huguenots. It begins to trace the French-Canadian story as Britain sought to consolidate its hold over its new subjects, and it will carry this drama well past American independence—as far as the […]

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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