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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 1 of [French Canadian Textile Worker]
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 2 of [French Canadian Textile Worker] New Hampshire Federal Writers Project Subject Living Lore 1801 in New England THE FRENCH CANADIAN TEXTILE WORKER BY PhiliDDO LOMAY Reported bY Louis Per French Canadians from the province of Quebec have...
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 3 of [French Canadian Textile Worker] to have a resident priest of their nationality and a parish of their own A second parish was founded in 1880 on the west side of the Merrimack At the time New...
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 4 of [French Canadian Textile Worker] without cost to the Frenchspeaking Catholics a French language school building heating lighting books and lay teachers This success was en couraging Naturalisation increased and that if you take account of the...
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 5 of [French Canadian Textile Worker] Many things can happen on such long trips and something did while we were coming to the States aux Etats as French Canadians say it even today At Island Pond my mother...
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 6 of [French Canadian Textile Worker] recognized as coming from Quebec province the very moment they left the train Most of them you see were from small towns and farming districts very few coming from large cities like...
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 7 of [French Canadian Textile Worker] Once a week sometimes twice our women folks broke their backs over the washboard and wrung the family washing by hand washing machines and wringers being unknown at the time There was...
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 8 of [French Canadian Textile Worker] Yes I learned much about them when I was a very young man and I can tell you they all started in the textile mills where most of them stayed The first...
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 9 of [French Canadian Textile Worker] didnt figure at all in the book Here is as far as we are concerned a re markable thing about this Directory after almost every French Canadian name you found this occupation...
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 10 of [French Canadian Textile Worker] wheelwright and carriage maker on Elm St opposite the Tremont building In 1869 Dr AL Tremblay who came to Manchester in 1867 formed a company and started the arst French language newspaper...
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 11 of [French Canadian Textile Worker] 10 winter the working hours of millhands were from six in the morning till 6 at night and that schedule was continued for many years Nobody complained because everybody was happy and...
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 12 of [French Canadian Textile Worker] 11 WhiCh was that of their fathers and ancestors in the country where we were born Some French Canadians were not afraid and fought for the Union during the Civil War there...
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 13 of [French Canadian Textile Worker] 12 with him I drove my car both ways every time This year again by automo bile I went to Canada three times No I havent forgotten my birthplace where father mother...
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 14 of [French Canadian Textile Worker] 13 I started working in the Lowell mills when I was only eight years old and I could understand If boys and girls were big and strong enough to work even if...
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 15 of [French Canadian Textile Worker] 14 Each spring and fall it seems the older immigrants had a touch of homesiokness Most of them still had farms in old Quebec I want to see if it is still...
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 16 of [French Canadian Textile Worker] 15 me know as soon as he needed me He had changed his mind about hiring French Canadians after he had seen one of them at work The very next day at...
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 17 of [French Canadian Textile Worker] 16 been struck by thunder and lightning What A Frenchman had the crust to think he could be an overseer that was something unheard of absolutely shocking And the super was shocked...
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 18 of [French Canadian Textile Worker] 17 Later those who were afraid of us got used to these things and took them in a better spirit for several other French Canadian textile workers got well deserved promotions Thafophile...
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 19 of [French Canadian Textile Worker] 18 back what he did to you Im giving this man a chance to make good with me if he wants to Besides hes just as good as I am I wont...
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 20 of [French Canadian Textile Worker] 19 had to walk about a mile and a half coming back only for supper As soon as he was gone I went in my turn but not to school I went...
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 21 of [French Canadian Textile Worker] 20 Salmon Falls and Newmarket to name only a few In each community they built a church first of all then a presbytare or residence for the pastor as soon as possible...
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 22 of [French Canadian Textile Worker] 21 place of Joes Canadian ancestors He then had four years of classical stu dies at the seminary of TroisRivitres He followed this up with two terms of business college in Manchester...
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 23 of [French Canadian Textile Worker] 22 Like myself Joe says we owe our success in the mills to the fact that we were faithful honest workers giving our attention to what we had to do instead of...
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 24 of [French Canadian Textile Worker] 23 He returned to Manchester and worked for a while in the card room of the Amory mill During the strike of 1922 and after the final shutdown of Amoskeag he worked...
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 25 of [French Canadian Textile Worker] 24 Ask any French Canadian textile worker and be will tell you how well he got along with his overseer Stanislas Gagnon who never was a boss says that he never had...
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 26 of [French Canadian Textile Worker] 25 had said was true The second band admitted it was and went on to say that I lost a lot of time talking with women operatives and killed time otherwise Speaking...
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 27 of [French Canadian Textile Worker] 26 It lasted nearly ten months and was the worse thing that ever happened It was bad for the city its merchants tene ment owners business in general It destroyed Amoskeags trade...
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 28 of [French Canadian Textile Worker] 27 We were too young to think of such things when we came to the States Vary few had known in childhood the girls they were going to marry so many of...
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 29 of [French Canadian Textile Worker] 28 He came back here in the spring of 1892 leaving his heart in the little Canadian village and went to work for Adam Graf In the fall of 1892 having decided...
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 30 of [French Canadian Textile Worker] I couldnt translate that in verse but here is what it means This is the day of my wedding the happiest day of my life beloved I am yours and forever Some...
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 31 of [French Canadian Textile Worker] 30 Another song this one a chanson a repondrewas a sort of catechism and mentioned one God two Testaments etc up to the ten Commandments As he went along the singer as...
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 32 of [French Canadian Textile Worker] 31 The men practiced in a small hall and were seated There came a time when they had to learn to play while marching So one day they went in carriages to...
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 33 of [French Canadian Textile Worker] 32 It has often been said Mr Lemay that the Frinch Canadian immigrants here and in all industrial centers had much to suffer from a certain nationality group for a number of...
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 34 of [French Canadian Textile Worker] We had our ears boxed by the man in charge of children When we couldnt stand it any longer we stopped going to church The priest visited our homes to inquire about...
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 35 of [French Canadian Textile Worker] time was over Granite St bridge across Elm St up Lake Avenue through the Commune dIriande and up Spruce St to the corner of Beech where the church was located Well sir...
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 36 of [French Canadian Textile Worker] 35 Some years later French Canadian grownups were treated more decently There were too many of us then and we werent so bashful about defending ourselves Irish boys alone re mained mischievous...
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 37 of [French Canadian Textile Worker] 36 the sidewalk A large round beer bottle containing a small quantity of hard liquor was broken in the fall The man was now furious He got back to his feet seized...
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 38 of [French Canadian Textile Worker] The bloody spot was still there and staring at it they said This is where three Irishmen killed Jean Blanchette last night The crowd was excited and you could hear a low...
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 39 of [French Canadian Textile Worker] Blanchette wasnt wasnt married He roomed with the family of Alexandre Boucher and boarded at 22 Concord St His body was laid out at the home of his good friend M Harrington...
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialImage 40 of [French Canadian Textile Worker] 39 our friend wore and the cornet he played in the band with a crown of natural flowers made by Miss Emelie Harrington After the church service the procession was formed just...
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