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New feature! Franco-American News and Events Listing


The Nonprofit Community of Military Wives and Women

CinCHouse.com and Operation Homefront are the same organization, 
respectively the largest organization of military families 
and the charity which serves those families in times of need, especially during deployments.



 Katrina

THE HURRICANE POSTER PROJECT seeks limited edition sets of hurricane-related posters from high-profile 
and up-and-coming artists, designers, and firms from the United States and abroad. 
The donated posters will be sold online, 
and all profits will go directly to the Red Cross.

THE HURRICANE POSTER PROJECT (THPP) has been conceived as a collective effort by the design community to unite 
and effect change through our work. In order for this project to be successful, 
we are counting on designer participation. Our goal is to raise at least $1,000,000 
for the Red Cross through this project. Please spread the word. Please participate.
http://www.thehurricaneposterproject.com/




Women of the French & Indian War
&
Films

Contemporary Franco-American Women's Writings

Pages of Franco-American Women's Institute's initiatives

Pages of interest focusing on other initiatives and writings

French American women artists



France
New exhibit about the Mlle. Franco-American Liberty!
"Bartholdi, building of the statue of Liberty"

Canada

United States/États-Unis

Haiti


Tante Blanche

Les Femmes Française qui chantent and other musical/theatrical pages

Huguenot

Acadian, Cajun, Creole, and more

The Tourtière Connection

Genealogical pages

Books of other authors, cultures, places

Listservs to subscribe to


Contemporary Franco-American Women's Writings

  moé pi toé (formerly The Initiative--A Publication) an 'Ezine

Redesigned  as:
moé pi toé


New edition of moé pi toé

New ezine! Vol. 4 No. 1


Volume 3 Number 4

Volume 3 Number 3

and 
Volume 3 Number 2
 

Now on online!
Past Issues of the 'ezine, named The Initiative [some links at these sites may be obsolete]:

Volume 3 Number 1
http://www.fawi.net/ezine/pastezines/Volume3Number1.html

Volume 2 Number 4
http://www.fawi.net/ezine/pastezines/Volume2Number4.html

Volume 2 Numbers 2 and 3
http://www.fawi.net/ezine/pastezines/Volume2Number2and3.html

Volume 2 Number 1
http://www.fawi.net/ezine/pastezines/Volume2Number1.html

Volume 1 Number 4
http://www.fawi.net/ezine/pastezines/Volume1Number4.html

Volume 1 Number 3
http://www.fawi.net/ezine/pastezines/Volume1Number3.html

Volume 1 Number 2
http://www.fawi.net/ezine/pastezines/Volume1Number2.html

Volume 1 Number 1
http://www.fawi.net/ezine/pastezines/Volume1Number1.html

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Links

Pages of Franco-American Women's Institute's initiatives



NEW! Maman Disait--Collages and Proverbs in French

NEW! The Grand March, Submitted by Cathy Lamirande

NEW! Museum in the Streets® 'down the Plains,' Waterville, Maine, the South End

Great Links for French Culture 
and Language Teachers

Curriculum for Franco-American Women 
of Maine, Grades 7-12

From Texture to Textiles to Texts
Franco-American Women's Literary Tradition

Click here for your Proud to be Franco-American button!

The Haitian Diaries

A Necklace of the Franco-American Jewels of Maine

Suggested Readings & Bibliographies on Franco-American Culture and Other Cultures

Franco-American Women's Writers and Editors Slide Show

Franco-American Health Related Materials

Franco-American Women Writers and Editors

Franco-American Women and Parochial Schools

Proceedings from Parochial School Panel

Maine 1990 Census Statistics, English

Statistiques du recensement de 1990 au Maine, French

Census 2000 Data for the State of Maine see Table QT-02. Profile of Selected Social Characteristics for Maine: 2000 scroll to bottom--delineates FA population for 2000 Census

Franco American Women's Institute Directory

The Feminist Times: Franco-American Women's Voices

La Santé de la Femme Private

Flags of Franco-America

See the Cross Listing of Web Sites who list FAWI as a resource! More info for you!

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Pages of interest focusing on other initiatives and writings

Women of the French & Indian War

18th Century Nouvelle France Habitantes--Carolyn Smith-Kizer

French & Indian Women's Listserv
A discussion of women and their pertinent issues in the French and Indian (Seven Years) War era. We interpret the daily lives of women in Nouvelle France [roughly 1740-1760].  Please share with us information about the cultures of this period.  Peruse our files, photos, and links. Explore with us la difference

18th Century Cuisine Blog

Clash of Empires: The British, French & Indian War, 1754-1763
At the History Center May 1, 2005 ? April 15, 2006 

National Registry of Living Historians

Le Detachement

Colonial women
 
 


Films
The War That Made America
For the first time in 2005, The War That Made America will tell the remarkable stories of The French and Indian War. As the French and English clashed to control North America, Native Americans manipulated the balance of power. It also marks the inauspicious beginning of George Washington's military career.

Presented by WQED Multimedia, Pittsburgh and The French and Indian War 250 Inc., the four-hour TV series, educational outreach activities, companion book, and Web site are at the center of a national initiative to mark the 250th commemoration of this critical moment in American history.

In addition to the four-hour broadcast series, tentatively planned to premiere in Fall 2005, The War That Made America is a comprehensive Multimedia project that includes a companion book, Web site, innovative curriculum components for middle school and high school that will offer new insights as well as new strategies for teaching, and an extensive outreach campaign designed to engage the public in a fuller understanding of this important chapter in American History.
 

thumb print of Nouvelle Film poster

Nouvelle France--Quand l'Amour Suivit à l'Histoire
Sur la toile de fond d'une vaste fresque historique, le récit épique d'une grande passion amoureuse contrariée par les événements et par les hommes... 

 L'époque (1758-61), riche en bouleversements, est à cheval entre l'effondrement de la Nouvelle-France et l'instauration du régime anglais. C'est <<un temps de toutes les passions>>.  Inspirée de faits réels, l'histoire des amours tragiques d'une jeune paysanne du Bas Saint-Laurent et d'un audacieux aventurier se déroule ici à la manière d'une destinée inéluctable, en miroir d'une autre Histoire déjà écrite, celle de l'abandon du Canada par la France. 

 Set against a sweeping historical fresque, the epic tale of a great love story thwarted by fortune and men's will.  1758-61: a turbulent period bridging the collapse of New France and the establishment of the British regime. An "era of passions".  This tragic love story of a young peasant girl from the lower Saint Laurent River and a dashing adventurer is based on fact.  As their passionate destiny advances inexorably, driven by fate, it mirrors another story that's already been written: France's abandon of Canada. 


French American women artists:
 

Mary Cassatt

Yvonne Jacquette


Niki de Saint Phalle

Louise Bourgeois Cecilia Beaux Berthe Morisot

France:

Musee des Arts et Metiers
http://www.bartholdi.arts-et-metiers.net/target="_blank"
Les bâtisseurs de la Liberté 
Exposition de photographies de la célèbre statue new-yorkaise.
7 décembre 2004 - 6 mars 2005 

Statue of Liberty
http://www.nps.gov/stli/target="_blank"

Joan of Arc

University of Minnesota
EARLY MODERN FRENCH WOMEN WRITERS:  A WOMEN'S STUDIES DIGITIZATION PROJECT INITIATIVE

ARTFL French Women Writers Project
Studies in Franco-American History found at the Quebec History Site
Études sur l'histoire des Franco-Américains qui se trouvent au site de l'histoire du Québec

Marguerite Yourcenar

Le Monde diplomatique--Femmes

FRANCO AMERICAN FILMS
 

Celebration of Women Writers
Browse by Ethnicity/Country:  Present-day Franco-American women, alphabetical, & French Canadian writers also
Specialty Collections lists FAWI's ezine, moé pi toé

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Canada:

Chronologie historique des femmes du Québec, par: Claire Du Sablon

Famous Canadian Women

Women Religious

The Ursuline Order was officially established by St. Angela Merici on November 25, 1535, in Brescia, Italy. St. Angela's - Ursuline Sisters of Prelate

La Broderie d'art chez les Ursulines, c. 1640 - c. 1880

First superior of the Ursulines of Quebec, born at Tours, France, 28 Oct., 1599:
Catholic Encyclopedia: VEN. MARIE DE L'INCARNATION

National Library of Canada

Canadian Women's History: Celebrating Women's Achievements

L'histoire des femmes au Canada : une bibliographie sélective

LES FILLES DU ROI 

La societe des filles du roi et soldats du Carignan
and 
an EXTENSIVE listing of les filles du roi

Filles du Roi and more
English
http://www.civilization.ca/vmnf/popul/filles/s-fil-en.htm
French
http://www.civilization.ca/vmnf/popul/filles/s-fil-fr.htm

LES FILLES DU ROI 
http://www.delmars.com/family/filleroi.htm
et
http://www.ziplink.net/~24601/roots/sources/KINGGIRL.htm
et
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King's_Daughters

L'histoire des femmes au Canada : une bibliographie sélective
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/femmes/002026-220-f.html

Evangeline 150th Anniversary , text on EvangelineEvangeline: an Overviewby Dr. Bernard Quetchenbach

Grand-Pré National Park, Evangelineland

The Legend of Rose Latulippe

La rose et le diable : un roman

Rose Latulippe--L'Encyclopédie canadienne

Antonine Maillet, (1929-)

Anne Hébert (1916-2000)

Gabrielle Roy

La Maison Gabrielle-Roy, Inc.

Hémon, Louis (1880-1913) :
- Maria Chapdelaine: a tale of the Lake St. John Country [1924]. 353 Ko.

le Musée virtuel francophone de la Saskatchewan

"Les Collections numérisées du Canada"

"Ressources en direct sur le patrimoine canadien"

Poetry by Joy Yourcenar: Mythologies

La Bibliothèque électronique du Québec, best viewed with Internet Explorer
Textes d'auteurs québécois appartenant au domaine public

Northwest Passages Canadian Literature On-Line

Resources for Feminist Research/Documentation sur la recherche féministe

Womanspace:

A Guide to Women in Canadian History

The Collectif Féminisme et Démocratie

Planète Québec, Place Aux Femmes

History of Credit Unions

Franco-American History

Center for Research on French Canadian Culture (CRFCC)  And: 

An Overview in English for (CRFCC)

Centre de recherches sur la pomme de terre

Canadienne

Beauceron dog breed developed in the 1500s in the LaBeauce plains around Paris

INDEPTH: ABORIGINAL CANADIANS

CBC's LATEST INDEPTH COVERAGE

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United States/États-Unis:

Maine
Lewiston mill rulesWhole Cloth: Discovering Science and Technology Through American History, Smithsonian
Lewiston Mills Regulations, Lewiston, Maine, 1867. Courtesy of the American Textile History Museum, Lowell, Mass. 
To be found at: Unit "at a Glance", Student Activity Packet
Activity #9: "Comparative Labor Systems: 
Plantation Rules/Factory Rules".

Maine Women Writer's Collection at Westbrook College

NEW! Quilts and Wall Hangings by Bridget T. Grant

Maine Women's Hall of Fame, including Franco-American women:  Senator Margaret Chase Smith, Joan Benoit Samuelson, and Judy Ayotte Paradis

Rita Dube, Executive Director, Franco-American Heritage Center, Lewiston

United Somali Women of Maine

Multicultural Resource Guide
http://www.maine.gov/dhhs/oma/MulticulturalResource/index.html

Community & Religious Organizations and Contacts

Joline Blais, Research/Works In the Presence of the Sacred

Margaret Chase Smith's Franco-American Heritage and Genealogy

Joan Benoit Samuelson

Wednesday's ChildAn award-winning, creative nonfiction book about the Franco-American culture by Rhea Côté Robbins

Museum in the Streets® 'down the Plains,' Waterville, Maine, the South End

Wolf Moon Press Journal--Laurie Meunier Graves, Editor

Cathie Pelletier, Author from Allagash, Maine

Le Québécois: The Virgin Forest, by Doris Provencher-Faucher

Nos Histoires de l'Ile, French Island, Maine

Maine Writers Index: Marguerite Yourcenar (8 June 1903 - 17 Dec. 1987)

Evangeline
Reprint by Françoise Paradis, Ed.D.

Lynn Plourde, Children's Book Author

1998 Maryann Hartman Award Winners including Lucy Poulin of H.O.M.E.

Madeleine Giguere--1997 Maryann Hartman Award Recipient

 also on Madeleine Giguere: Maryann Hartman 1997 Award Winners

Anniversary Joy!, Arlene Pelletier Luzzi

Portland Magazine Archives
'Down the Plains' Three generations of Franco-American Women
by Rhea J. Côté Robbins

Charlotte Michaud

Theses on Canada from University of Maine's Canadian American Center and Fogler Library

Franco American Studies/Études franco-américaines
See related story on:
Director/Directrice:  Susan Pinette, Ph.D.

UMaine Franco-American Centre
Virtual Franco-American Resources 
The Franco Maine website, Maine French Communities
provided by the UMaine Franco-American Centre.

Le FORUM

La Vallée Supérieure da la Rivière Saint-Jean
incluant
la colonie de Madawaska
Dont le nom original est
Wulustuk
au nord du comté d'Aroostook, Maine
et
au comtés de Madawaska et Victoria, Nouveau-Brunswick 
Une histoire des communautés et des peuples 

The Upper St. John River Valley 
including
The Madawaska Settlement 
Originally named
Wulustuk
Northern Aroostook County, Maine
and
Madawaska & Victoria Counties, New Brunswick 
A history of the communities and people 

Dexter Historical Society

ST. AGATHA HISTORICAL HOUSE

Old Canada Road Historical Society

Maine Societies, Historical

The Records Room
 
 

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Tante Blanche 

Tante Blanche

Tante Blanche Museum (photos)

The Acadian Landing Site on the banks of the St. John River in Madawaska commemorates the first Acadian settlers in the Saint John Valley. The site is part of the Tante Blanche museum complex, which includes artifact displays, a one-room schoolhouse, and a house built with square-sawn logs more than 100 years ago. 
MAINE ACADIAN CULTURE PROJECT

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Bouchard Family Farm

Acadian Village - The Virtual Tour - Van Buren, Maine

Acadian Archives - UMFK

The River Review/La Revue rivière, University of Maine at Fort Kent

Photos from Wallagrass, ME

University of Southern Maine Lewiston-Auburn, Franco American Collection
http://www.usm.maine.edu/lac/franco/

University of Southern Maine Lewiston-Auburn Franco-American Resources
http://usm.maine.edu/lac/francoresources/

Tribal Pages site of Fran Michaud


Rhode Island

The Museum of Work and Culture, Located in Rhode Island

The Stigmatized Ecstatic of Woonsocket, R.I.: Marie Rose Ferron - "The Little Rose"

The Stigmatized Ecstatic of Woonsocket, R.I.: Marie Louise Bonier"


New Hampshire

Immigration and the Granite State

Great Links for Grace MetaliousBiographer of Grace Metalious--Emily Toth: Louisiana Authors

New Hampshire Almanac

One Came Back Un Revenant, translation by Margaret Langford

Dr. Margaret S. Langford French/American Studies/Women's Studies, Keene State College

Franco-American Centre, Manchester, NH


Massachusetts

"Word That's Heard"--Claudia Belleau, Artistic Director

The French Institute

Lowell National Historic Park



Louisiana

Gladys LeBlanc Clark: Weaving Cajun Tradition

Louisiana Folklife Center

Folklife in Louisiana

Elaine Bourque
Acadian Brown Cotton Spinner and Weaver

Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve
http://www.nps.gov/jela/


Illinois

French settlements in Illinois


Michigan

French Canadian Heritage Society of Michigan



New York

Lynn Flewelling, Science Fiction Writer



Florida

Le Soleilde de la Floride


Wyoming

annieproulx@wiki


Texas

Welcome to Jubilee Airedales! Joyce Miller, Owner


California

Sadie Kendall author of The Crème Fraîche Cookbook

French Canadian Heritage Society of California


Kansas

Cultures Bibliography, Cultures Timeline,and Kansas State Historical Society


Wisconsin

French in Wisconsin

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Haiti

Mémoire de Femmes


Les Femmes Française qui chantent and other musical/theatrical pages:

Michele Choiniere, "was born into a musical Franco-American family in northern Vermont..."

Patty Griffin, formerly of Old Town, Maine

Ann Savoy

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, featuring Ann Savoy singing

Chanterelle, "brings the audience into the heart of the New England's warm, lively French culture..." 

Colette Fournier

Donna Hébert's Front Porch Fiddlers' Jamboree

also on Lil Labbé: Winners 1991 Maryann Hartman Awards

Lucie LeBlanc-, listed in the Franco-American Women's Directory

Rebecca Martin, "Rebecca left her native Rumford Point, Maine, behind and made the big move to New York City..."

In Memorium: Martha Pellerin Drury

Ida Roy-listed in the Franco-American Women's Directory

Lucie Therrien, "Nationally & internationally acclaimed..."

Josée Vachon, "Born in Quebec and raised in Maine..."

Mademoiselle, Voulez-Vous Danser?
Franco-American Music from the New England Borderlands 
Various Artists, Smithsonian Folkways Recordings - SFW40116 1999

Emeline Michel

Susan Poulin, ..."selected by Portland Magazine as one of their 10 most intriguing people in Maine..."

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Huguenot:
Presbyterian Women of Huguenot
http://www.huguenotchurch.org/women.htm

Huguenot Society
http://www.huguenot.netnation.com/general/

Notable women ancestors
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nwa/suzanne.html

Huguenot Torte
http://find.myrecipes.com/recipes/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&recipe_id=1042026
and
http://www.thatsmyhome.com/sweetspot/huguenot-torte.htm

History of Huguenot Torte
http://whatscookingamerica.net/History/Cakes/HuguenotTorte.htm

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Acadian, Cajun, Creole, and more:
Encyclopedia of Cajun Culture
http://www.cajunculture.com/

Folklife in Louisiana Web Site:
http://www.crt.state.la.us/arts/folklife/index.html
random search for the term "woman" brought up these two articles of many that are available

The Public and Private Domains of Cajun Women Musicians in Southwest Louisiana
By Lisa E. Richardson
http://www.louisianafolklife.org/LT/Articles_Essays/creole_art_pub_priv_cajunm.html

"Keep Your Mind and Your Hands Busy:" Expressive Dimensions of the Lone Quilter"
By Susan Roach
http://www.louisianafolklife.org/LT/Articles_Essays/main_misc_lone_quilter.html

Acadian & French Canadian Ancestral Home site of Lucie LeBlanc Consentino

Centre d'études acadiennes, Université de Moncton

INDEPTH: ACADIANS

Société Promotion Grand-Pré

CEA - Moncton University

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The Tourtière Connection:

My father's old French dictionary was printed in Montreal in the 1870's. It has three intriguing clues:: 
*"tourtiere": kitchen utensil which is used to bake the "tourtes" 
*"tourte": a kind of pastry filled with meat, fruits, etc. 
*"tourterelle":Ê a pigeon, smaller than the ordinary pigeon (In the mid-17th century, in late spring and early fall, hundreds of thousands of these "passenger pigeons" darkened the skies and filled the forests of northeastern North America during their seasonal migrations. Colonists shot and trapped them for their meat, eventually to extinction some time in the 1800's. 
--D. Provencher Faucher
There are many variations of the Tourtière and a search of the internet will lead to many of these recipes. 
Here is one version:

Tourtière

French Canadian Pea Soup

Poutine

Canadian recipes with Québec additions

Franco-American Canned Gravy, discontinued brand

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Genealogical pages:

Maine Franco-American Genealogical Society

American - Canadian Genealogical Society

Franco-American Heritage Collection

The French-Canadian Genealogical Society of Connecticut

The Maine Genealogical Society

Maine Genealogical Societies
GENEALOGICAL SOCIETIES OF MAINE

NE-DO-BA (Friends) The Abenaki of Western Maine

New England Historical Genealogical Society

The French Connection/Waterville

Maine USGenWeb Project

Aroostook County, Maine Genealogy

Genealogy - Acadian and French Canadian

Acadian Genealogy Homepage

Acadian Cajun Genealogy

Canadian Genealogy and History Links

John P. DuLong's Home Page Acadian & French Canadian Genealogy

Paper Talks Magazine

New Orleans and Louisiana Heritage and Genealogy

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Books of other authors, cultures, places:

NEW! Maine A Sense of Place, Collected Maine Poems
featuring Franco-American women writers and many others!


Listservs to subscribe to:

Franco American discussion list <FRANCOAMERICA@LISTS.MAINE.EDU>
Hello folks, Here's the newly set-up listserv. Let folks know that we're up and running again! Susan
To subscribe email:  Susan Pinette <spinette@MAINE.EDU>
 

Franco-American Free Exchange Moving into the Millennium Listserv:
The FAFEMM-L, 1997-2004, Franco-American Free Exchange Moving into the Millennium is no longer in service.
Thank you, merci! For all the support, listeros!
Rhea Cote Robbins


PAR-L: The Canadian Electronic Feminist Network


LA LISTE NETFEMMES

LA LISTE NETFEMMES La première, c'est la liste d'envoi NetFemmes@cam.org. NetFemmes, c'est une liste destinée aux chercheuses et militantes féministes francophones, un espace où, comme sur PAR-L, nous pourrons partager nos expériences, nos connaissances, refléchir et collaborer ensemble. 
Listes de discussion

Principal outil de concertation du réseau NetFemmes, la liste netfemme@netfemmes.org s'adresse particulièrement aux militantes et aux chercheuses féministes. C'est un espace où les féministes peuvent partager leurs expériences, leurs connaissances, collaborer et réfléchir ensemble.

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Date last updated: February 2008

Please report broken links to:  Rhea Côté Robbins

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