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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.
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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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369 pages 1996 The Manitoba Scrip was issued to all Metis or half-breed s and original white settlers. Applications for the land scrip began in June 1875 and continued until the early 1900s. The information was extracted from microfilmed copies of the documents. The applications are listed alphabetically.
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History of Compton County and Sketches of the Eastern Townships, District of St Francis and Sherbrooke County Complied by L.S. Channell 289 pages 1896 The book is supplemented with records of 400 families, 200 illustrations of buildings and leading citizens in the county. Includes a biography of the late John Henry pope.