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    Maintaining a 100-year old building and research library requires costly tender loving care. Developing and updating our main web site and members-only area on the Internet is another added expense. If you have already donated to these funds when you renewed your membership or joined the Society, we appreciate your additional support.

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    Please consider donating today.

    Maintaining a 100-year-old building and research library requires costly tender loving care. Developing and updating our main web site and members-only area on the Internet is another added expense. If you have already donated to these funds when you renewed your membership or joined the Society, we appreciate your additional support.

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  • Before the King’s Daughters: Les Filles a Marier 1634-1662

    $50.00
    384 pages 2022 This book first examines the much-misunderstood early immigration of women to New France, explaining the need for women in the colony, the difficulties in increasing the population, and the unfounded assertions that these women were prostitutes, not pioneers.
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  • King’s Daughters and Founding Mothers: Les Filles du Roi 1663-1673 – Two Volume Set

    $65.00
    Two Volume Set 2001 A groundbreaking biographical dictionary of the nearly 800 women and girls set from France to populate Quebec between 1663 and 1673. The introduction explains the need for the program, dispels misconceptions about the Filles du Roi, and gives a history of the program in Canada.
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  • La Cuisine De La Grandmère – Cookbook

    $15.00
    Over 250 pages. These recipes have been handed down through many generations. Printed in English.
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  • The Beginnings of the Franco-American Colony in Woonsocket, Rhode Island

    $20.00
    560 pages 1997 A translation of Marie Bonier’s book published in 1920.  Its pages contain genealogical details about the first 117 French-speaking families who settled in Woonsocket. It also incudes a description of Franco-American institutions and personal accomplishments of outstanding members of the group.
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  • A Distinct Alien Race by David Vermette

    $29.95
    388 pages 2021 One million French Canadians crossed the border between 1840 and 1930 to work in New England’s burgeoning textile industry. Vermette traces individuals and families , from the textile barons whose profits in the Caribbean and China trades financed a new industry, to the rural poor of Quebec who crowded the into fetid tenements after the Civil War.  Hos social history exposes the anti-Franco-American agitation of Protestant clergy , the Ku Klux Klan, and the eugenics movement.
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  • French Language Lifelines for the Anglo Genealogist by Sandra Goodwin

    $20.00
      294 pages 2020 From the producer of Maple Stars and Stripes: Your French-Canadian Genealogy Podcast, comes this guide to everything you’ll need to know to be a successful French-Canadian genealogist. You’ll find tips for dit names, French sounds, gender, French numbers, dates, translating church records and much more.
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  • Dictionnaire National des Canadiens Francais 1608-1760 (Red Drouin)

    $89.95
    NOTE: The Red Drouin CD is compatible with both PC and MAC. The program is also available on a thumb drive for the same price.
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