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19 Nov 2024
Enfin! Aujourd’hui voit le lancement de la traduction française de mon livre. En 2015, j’ai dit que l’objectif était de le publier en français comme en anglais et que je voulais que Les éditions du Septentrion soit l’éditeur de cette traduction. Après neuf ans, le voici ! #AmFr
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Lewiston is a former industrial town where the largest cohort are of French-Canadian descent, the descendants of textile mill workers. When the French-Canadians came in the 1865-1930 period, people said they were "half-savage" and were replacing the "real" white people.
May 11
Imagine, someone in the US gov't thought it was a good idea to take thousands of sub saharan muslims directly from Africa and dump them on the small rural historic previously 100% white town of Lewiston ME. Just think of how much they despise you to do this to you.
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On peut tout lire à ce sujet dans ce livre.
septentrion.qc.ca/catalogue/…
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I am going to be on the NPR radio call-in show "Maine Calling" tomorrow (3/23) at 11 A.M. to Noon. We will discuss immigrants to that state and the reception they received there. I'll be speaking to the Franco-American story there, of course.
mainepublic.org/show/maine-c…
#NPR #Maine
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Mar 20
The graphs showing housing prices vs. real income are missing a variable: interest rates. In 1981, rates rose to near 19%. It was incredibly expensive to borrow money back then. And 1981-82 also saw 11% unemployment and inflation at 10%. The worst economy since the 1930s. (1)
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The problem with the generational battle over "who had it worse" is that younger people don't rate the real ups and downs that happened over the decades. They think that the whole period from 1945 to 2000 was like a happy 1950s sitcom where everything was easy and wonderful. (2)
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But those who were there will recall that the whole period from the oil embargo of the early 70s, through stagflation, and into the nadir of the early 80s was grim as hell and everyone was wondering if young people had a future. ("Go into computers!" said your parents.) (3)
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There were attempts at repression but that's not why the Little Canadas dissolved. The mills moved elsewhere. Economics called those neighborhoods into existence and when the cheap labor was no longer needed away they went. The F-As followed jobs where English was the language.
Le français ne disparaît pas d’un coup. Il s’efface d’abord du quotidien, puis du quartier, puis de la mémoire. Dans ce texte, je raconte ce que j’ai vu dans mon Manchester natal — et pourquoi j’ai choisi le Québec. À lire ici :
open.substack.com/pub/remifr…
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One of the lessons of the Little Canadas story is that, in a French-speaking place, it must be economically viable to speak French. An economically vibrant francophone community is a safeguard of the language. If you work in English Mon-Fri the pull can be irrestible.
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I was interviewed for this CBC article about the recent legislation re: "lost Canadians" and have a couple of (accurate) quotes in it.
cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/…
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Numero six on the list of my publisher's top ten best-selling titles for 2025.
#AuthorsOfTwitter #Quebec #books #francoamericans #History
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20 Dec 2025
If you're an indie scholar who wants to be taken seriously by PhDs then prove you can do the job. 1) Cite your sources impeccably. 2) Address the existing literature. 3) Try to get legit academics to review your work (or parts of it). 4) Don't be a crackpot. #scholarship
19 Dec 2025
Humbly, I'm not a PhD but I published on a particular topic and am now among the small "community of scholars" on it. I am asked to do many things academics might do such as write book reviews and journal articles, go to conferences, I'm consulted by scholars, I'm cited, etc.
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4 Sep 2025
@DavidVermette Reçu aujourd’hui. Après avoir regardé quelques-unes de vos conférences, il me le fallait 🙂
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27 Aug 2025
Je me suis appuyé sur le travail d'Yvan Lamonde pour éclairer ma recherche sur les origines québécoises des Franco-Américains et le bagage idéologique qu'ils ont apporté avec eux en Nouvelle-Angleterre au 19e siècle. Son travail était perspicace, bien documenté et accessible.
Décès d’Yvan Lamonde, historien de la culture et des idées ledevoir.com/culture/912249/…
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Une suggestion amicale pour le 12 août. Publié au Québec, au sujet du Québec.
septentrion.qc.ca/catalogue/…
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24 Jun 2025
Bonne Saint-Jean !
Bonne fête nationale !
(Image : La Saint-Jean à Brunswick, Maine en 1930.)
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18 Jun 2025
My peer-reviewed journal article quantifying the F-C contribution to the textile industry labor force in New England in the 1920s is now published. Using mill records and the census I crunch the numbers. Happy to get this study published. #Quebec #AmFr liverpooluniversitypress.co.…
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12 May 2025
I am editing the final proofs of my first sole-authored peer-reviewed academic journal article. I've edited hundreds of these (no exaggeration) for other people over the years. Now I'll finally have one in my own name. It took me long enough!
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8 May 2025
Suggestion de lecture,un incontournable!
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30 Apr 2025
Leslie Choquette dans Les Cahiers de lecture: «[Une race d'étrangers est] la meilleure synthèse de l’histoire franco-américaine jusqu’à aujourd’hui. La recherche et l'écriture sont excellentes [...] Tous ceux qui s'intéressent à la Franco-Amérique devraient lire ce livre. » #AmFr
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