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French
speaking immigrants from the Provinces of Québec and New Brunswick
started migrating to the United States before the Civil War.
Immigrants to Maine often traveled from the Beauce county in Québec
to Augusta Maine along the trail that became known as The
Old Canada Road. Other settlers came to the St-John river area
from Québec and from Acadia because of its fertile lands. Once
the boundary between Canada and the US was agreed on in 1842, many French
speaking immigrants found themselves on the US side.
After the turn of the century, many more French Canadians migrated
to the US in search of work in the newly formed companies of the industrial
revolution. They moved to states from New England to the Midwest and
worked in paper mills, saw mills, cotton factories, auto factories,
shoe factories and the steel industry, to name a few. They planned to
only stay a few years, but most stayed forever and raised their families
here. And they brought with them their language, their culture and their
religious traditions. And they became today's writers, teachers, doctors
... And now the Franco-Americans, as they are called, are distributed
all over the US as seen in this demographic
map. This site is dedicated to the descendants of these brave
expatriates.
This migration to New England was beautifully summarized in an essay
written by Emily Williams, a Brunswick student attending the Maine School
of Science and Mathematics in Limestone. Her essay details the initial
migration of French Canadians into Brunswick, ME and their assimilation
with the English and other immigrants.
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