So many of our residents in Whitefield are of French-Canadian roots. – A Whitefield resident and historian (2026) The stories buried in Whitefield’s Catholic cemetery are too numerous to cover comprehensively here. The snapshots below are accompanied by small glimpses of underlying lives. These are derived from New Hampshire vital records, census returns, Quebec parish […]
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Laid to Rest: Whitefield, Part II
But what will it take to give life to those who gave Vermont a second life after the Civil War, after the momentous diaspora that emptied the Green Mountain valleys and piedmonts: the Canadians who took over marginal dairy farms? the Irish who made the railroad work? the Springfield and Bennington Jews who processed mountains […]
Continue readingLaid to Rest: Whitefield, Part I
For this series, I am indebted to the staff of Dimond Library at the University of New Hampshire; the Roman Catholic Diocese of Manchester; and Lise Moran of the Whitefield Historical Society. All shared valuable documentary resources on the history of Whitefield. Every research project begins with a spark and mine came, oh, let’s say, […]
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