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A heritage told through time A history of family, connections, cunning trickster animals, and adventures untold: Old Grandmother’s Tree: A Collection of French-Canadian Folktales is a beautiful compilation of folktales set against the backdrop of 17th and early 20th century Quebec. On her wedding night, a young Algonquin woman is visited by the spirit if her first husband and the trickster animals if Indigenous legends, who encourage her to set forth on a new journey. So begins the Meunier family’s origin story and the many adventures that cine through the generations that follow. Combing richly woven stories and stunning artwork, Joseph Bolton’s and Natasha Pelley-Smith’s Old Grandmother’s Tree is a tribute to an untold story that will touch any reader. -
A heritage told through time A history of family, connections, cunning trickster animals, and adventures untold: Old Grandmother’s Tree: A Collection of French-Canadian Folktales is a beautiful compilation of folktales set against the backdrop of 17th and early 20th century Quebec. On her wedding night, a young Algonquin woman is visited by the spirit if her first husband and the trickster animals if Indigenous legends, who encourage her to set forth on a new journey. So begins the Meunier family’s origin story and the many adventures that cine through the generations that follow. Combing richly woven stories and stunning artwork, Joseph Bolton’s and Natasha Pelley-Smith’s Old Grandmother’s Tree is a tribute to an untold story that will touch any reader. -
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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. -
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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