"Answering an age-old question, Françoise Grossejambe let the dogs out."
On the blog this week, Joseph de la Croix's first encounter with the law, circa 1683 (or the threat of a winter without pea soup). #ancestry@genealogyalacarte.bsky.social
"Answering an age-old question, Françoise Grossejambe let the dogs out."
On the blog this week, Joseph de la Croix's first encounter with the law, circa 1683 (or the threat of a winter without pea soup). #ancestry@genealogyalacarte.bsky.social
Beware of French Canadians selling horses! This anecdote was published in 1851 and again in 1903—each article offering a different source. As the editor of the latter paper likely did not know of the first, this appears to have been a street joke that circulated across the Northeast for generations.
Huge kudos are in order for Tim Beaulieu and the whole Vermont PoutineFest team. The inaugural event, held last weekend, was a long-awaited celebration of the Champlain Valley's French-Canadian heritage. Great things will come of this... including, undoubtedly, a second edition.
Like 15,000 compatriots, Rémi Tremblay took part in the U.S. Civil War and lived a transnational life. But, in his case, horrific wartime experiences became a novel.
"Un Revenant" helped French Canadians make the story of the Civil War their own.
If you didn't have plans for the weekend, well, now you do. On Saturday, the Vermont French-Canadian Genealogical Society's annual conference will focus on the semiquincentennial and the migrations that ensued. Come for the presentations—and stay for Vermont PoutineFest on Sunday.
"While news of the tragedy reverberated in Quebec papers . . . the local Franco-American publication, L’Etoile, launched a subscription. Relief funds amounting to more than $160 were distributed among 19 individuals. In light of their last names, they may all have been Canadian immigrants."
"[T]he storage facilities of the U.S. Cartridge Company, packed with dynamite and other explosives, erupted in a mighty, devastating blast. Shock waves rocked towns near and far."
Is there really a violent “radical left” in North America? The failure of most media to challenge this premise is a real problem. The core values of most of the left (even the radicals) hue towards equity & non-violence. The usual cause of this type of violence is mental health & easy access to guns
"[T]he storage facilities of the U.S. Cartridge Company, packed with dynamite and other explosives, erupted in a mighty, devastating blast. Shock waves rocked towns near and far."
We need a social media platform that is just history - new publications, fun facts from our research, OTD posts, threads, etc.
In other words, I need an oasis where, for a solid 20 minutes a day, I don't need to see or think about the devastation caused by the second Orange-utan administration.
