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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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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.
