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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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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.
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- The Voyageurs is an intricately detailed depiction of the adventurous French Canadian men who traveled by birch bark canoe transporting barter goods, supplies, and pelts between Montreal and the vast outreaches of the western wilderness stretching to the Pacific Coast
- Each exquisite 24kt gold-electroplated collectible is handcrafted of solid brass. The men in their canoe are depicted in full color.
- The ornament is beautifully gift-boxed with the AFGS logo embossed in gold on the cover and includes a short history of the voyageurs and the important role they played in the fur trade that sustained the Canadian economy for over two hundred years.
- Actual size: 2.5″ X 3.5″
- Please note: $5 additional shipping and handling each ornament. Rhode Island residents $0.84 cents tax per ornament will be added