Category: Tupper Lake

Those Other Franco-Americans: Tupper Lake in 1900

This post is inspired by conversations with historian Jason Newton, who recently published an op-ed on New York State French Canadians in Albany’s Times Union. *          *          * Demars. Facteau. Boyer. Vachereau. Bushey. From local street names, an attentive visitor would quickly recognize a historic French-Canadian presence in Tupper Lake, New York. As in countless […]

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