Thomas Stacey – The Ice Man

c.1930  - Montreal

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The New Elegant Steam Packet St. Lawrence for Three Rivers and William Henry - 1828

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Provincial Dairy School – St. Hyacinthe

Postcard – c.1922

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Maple Stars and Stripes – Filles a Marier

Please subscribe to Maple Stars and Stripes Your French-Canadian Genealogy Podcast by Sandra Goodwin, podcast for this month is Filles a Marier

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Les anciennes familles du Québec – Prise 2

The Ancient Families of Quebec

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For many Mainers, ‘there is no Christmas without pork pie’

Each slice of French-Canadian tourtiere comes with memories of Christmas past.

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Winter is Franco - American Country

Mon pays, c’est l’hiver (my country is the winter), sang Gilles Vigneault, in what quickly became a Quebecois classic after its 1965 release. The tune, with its haunting melody and wistful lyrics has been seen by many as a nationalist anthem, capturing both the cultural isolation of Quebec within Canada, as well as French Canadians’ affinity for the landscape they inhabit, even during its long winter months. The association of French Canadians, and Franco Americans with this season begins long before Vigneault, and has resonated through the centuries.

In the very first years of French settlement at Quebec, in 1616, the French Jesuit Father Pierre Biard noted that they had been taken aback by the ferocity of the Canadian winter. Knowing that Canada and France lie at roughly the same degree of latitude, the early settlers had assumed the climate would be similar: more…

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