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e University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine Le FORUM Journal Franco-American Centre Franco-Américain Summer 2017 Le FORUM, Vol. 39 No. 2 Lisa Desjardins Michaud, Rédactrice Grégoire Chabot Josée Vachon Joshua Barrière Roger Parent See next page for additional authors Follow this and additional works at: hps://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/ francoamericain_forum is Book is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in Le FORUM Journal by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Recommended Citation Desjardins Michaud, Rédactrice, Lisa; Chabot, Grégoire; Vachon, Josée; Barrière, Joshua; Parent, Roger; Paré, Paul; Dubay, Guy; Larson, Denise R.; Levasseur, Ray Luc; Blesso, Jacqueline Chamberland; Coulombe, Gérard; Marceau, Albert; Brinkley, Stuart; Myall, James; Jackson, Joseph; Langford, Margaret; Lacaux, Michel; Chenard, Bob; and Bérubé, Robert, "Le FORUM, Vol. 39 No. 2" (2017). Le FORUM Journal. 46. hps://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/francoamericain_forum/46
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The University of MaineDigitalCommons@UMaine

Le FORUM Journal Franco-American Centre Franco-Américain

Summer 2017

Le FORUM, Vol. 39 No. 2Lisa Desjardins Michaud, Rédactrice

Grégoire Chabot

Josée Vachon

Joshua Barrière

Roger Parent

See next page for additional authors

Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/francoamericain_forum

This Book is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in Le FORUM Journal by anauthorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, please contact [email protected].

Recommended CitationDesjardins Michaud, Rédactrice, Lisa; Chabot, Grégoire; Vachon, Josée; Barrière, Joshua; Parent, Roger; Paré, Paul; Dubay, Guy;Larson, Denise R.; Levasseur, Ray Luc; Blesso, Jacqueline Chamberland; Coulombe, Gérard; Marceau, Albert; Brinkley, Stuart; Myall,James; Jackson, Joseph; Langford, Margaret; Lacaux, Michel; Chenard, Bob; and Bérubé, Robert, "Le FORUM, Vol. 39 No. 2" (2017).Le FORUM Journal. 46.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/francoamericain_forum/46

AuthorsLisa Desjardins Michaud, Rédactrice; Grégoire Chabot; Josée Vachon; Joshua Barrière; Roger Parent; PaulParé; Guy Dubay; Denise R. Larson; Ray Luc Levasseur; Jacqueline Chamberland Blesso; Gérard Coulombe;Albert Marceau; Stuart Brinkley; James Myall; Joseph Jackson; Margaret Langford; Michel Lacaux; BobChenard; and Robert Bérubé

This book is available at DigitalCommons@UMaine: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/francoamericain_forum/46

Le FORUMVOLUME 39, #2 ÉTÉ/SUMMER 2017

Websites: Le Forum: http://umaine.edu/francoamerican/le-forum/

Oral History: Francoamericanarchives.orgLibrary: francolib.francoamerican.org

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About the Author: Paré was a reporter for the Lewiston

Evening Journal in the late 1960s and into the 1970s. He later worked in radio and television, receiving an Emmy in 1980 for his work at NH Public TV for the children’s series The Franco File.

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JEREMY BRINKLEYby Stuart Brinkley

submitted by Tony Brinkley[Stuart Brinkley is the brother of Tony Brinkley, the Senior Faculty Asso-

ciate at the Franco-American Centre. Stuart’s son, Jeremy, died of an overdose in 2012. Since 2012, Stuart has often given talks to parents and to high school and college students about heroin. This is a talk he has given at Moon High School in Western Pennsylvania.]

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Fr. Alvin Leblanc gives a homily from the podium at St. Joseph’s Cathedral, June 24, 2014. Photo by Marceau.

Fr. Robert J. Rousseau gives the homily in French from the podium at St. Joseph’s Cathedral, Hartford, for the Nativity of the St. Jean the Baptist, June 24, 2014. Photo by Marceau.

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Joseph Gadbois, formerly of Union-St-Jean-Baptiste in Woonsocket, R.I., and currently the Vice-President of Fraternal Outreach at Catholic Financial Life in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in a crowd in the foyer of St. Joseph’s Cathedral, June 24, 2014. Photo by Marceau.

Marie Turcotte of Bristol, Conn., reads one of the Scriptural passages from the podium during the Feast of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist at St. Joseph’s Cathedral on June 24, 2014. Notice on the extreme left is Fr. Robert J. Rousseau in the presider’s chair, DQG�WKHQ�WKH�ÁDJV�RI�$FDGLD�DQG�4XHEHF�WR�the left of the podium. Photo by Marceau.

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Fr. Rousseau gives the invocation that began the events of French-Canadian-American Day at the State Capitol in Hartford, June 24, 2014. To his right is Helene Lebrecque and to his left is State Rep. Russ Morin. Photo by Marceau

Lieu. Gov. Nancy Wyman gives an address during French-Canadian-American Day on the grounds of the Conn. State Capitol, June 24, 2014. Notice Helene Labrecque, State Rep. Russ Morin, and State Sen. Gary Lebeau to her right. Photo by Marceau.

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Josée Vachon receives applause from State Rep. Russ Morin during her performance at the Conn. State Capitol, June 24, 2014. Notice in the background, Daniel Boucher speaking with Camille Richard. Photo by Marceau.

Helene Labrecque is interviewed by WTIC-TV, Channel 61, Fox News in Hartford, Conn., for the first French-Canadian-American Day, June 24, 2014. Photo by Marceau. (Continued on page 22)

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Champion arm wrestler, apparently Eddy Wabby from Fort Kent was the only one who could break him. His life was walking. He would hitchhike, and during one winter he had followed some salesmen on the train all the way to Bangor. Trying to earn his bread in the same manner in a hostile envi-ronment where people did not know him, he was brought to the asylum where he stayed until spring. Once again he returned to his quest. He has since passed into the legend of the Valley. The older residents remember him and all have stories to tell about him.

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transient emotions and the fraternity of the children in motion, dimmed by the dust of time and seen in perspective by the mecha-nism of the road. The last line of the poem ends in a humoristic comment on intergener-ational relations. The stanzas are separated by Ida’s air repeated after four lines. Like the poem, the air does not have a refrain. These verses abound with optimism and, as we have seen, with ethnographic and linguistic notations.

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uncle Olivier at the Ste-Agathe Church. Of their nine children, Jean-Paul died in 1984. Valley folks know his wife, Berthile (Bea). Three others stayed in Ste-Agathe: Joel and his wife, Marie-Mae, are the parents of three sons and grand-parents of six; Rob-ert (Bob) married to Viola, Selectman and recent candidate for representative to the legislature; and Bernadette, her childhood photo immortalized in Stewart Doty’s pub-lication, Acadian Hard Times, and married to Samuel Michaud, both now retired from their enterprises - Michaud Funeral Home and Michaud Furniture. Five others live in Connecticut: Rock works in Plainville; Ger-alda, who was a nurse, is retired near her children and grand-children; Jacqueline, the PRWKHU�RI�ÀYH�JLUOV� LQFOXGLQJ�WZLQV��WZLQV�are very much a part of this line through the generations); Rachel, retired from her business career, is the mother of four and JUDQG�PRWKHU� RI� ÀYH�� DQG�0DULH�&ODLUH��married to Roderick Cormier and mother of two.

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everything to do with religious life. For many years, she was in charge of the al-tar linens and liturgical garments at the church. Sociable, she liked to visit family and friends and liked to play cards. One RI�KHU�FRPSRVLWLRQV��´&·HVW�DXMRXUG·KXL�OD�IrWH�G·XQH�PDPDQ�ELHQ�DLPpH�µ�ZDV� VXQJ�by the author’s mother, Eva, to celebrate the birthday of their mother-in-law, Edith Chassé Chamberland. After Olivier’s death, at her retirement home, she would organize evenings of card games, conversation and

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1. Did you know Mary Travers otherwise known as La Bolduc spent a \HDU��������LQ�6SULQJÀHOG��0$��ZLWK�KHU�sister-in-law working in the mills as so many other French Canadians.

2. Did you know New England was home to over 300 french language news-papers, among those papers are Le Tra-vailleur (Worcester), L’Étoile (Lowell), L’Indépendant (Fall River), Le Messager (Lewiston) and L’Avenir National (Man-chester).

3. Did you know la Saint-Jean-Baptiste, or St. John the Baptist day, was a holiday celebrated by ALL French Canadians and their diaspora (exclud-ing Acadians). It was only in 1977 that la St-Jean became the national holiday of the province Quebec (including their anglophone populations).

4. Did you know that Josaphat Benoît, a Franco-American, served more terms as Manchester’s mayor than any other in the city’s history.

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[5] United States Census, 1840, Bucksport.>�@�´5HSRUW�RI� WKH�5HVLGHQW�3K\VLFLDQ�RI� WKH�

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[7] Private Carie Bolduc, in Captain Lepichon’s Company, 1st Battalion of the Embodied Militia of Canada. Muster rolls of the Battallion, September 1814-Jan 1815. Viewable online at Libraries and Archives Canada.

[8] Land Petitions of Lower Canada, Zacharie Bolduc, 100 acres in the Township of Tring, granted ������FRQÀUPHG������

[9] Qubec parish records for Saint-François-de-Beauce (Beauceville), 21st February, 1838. Online via ancestry.com

[10] Qubec parish records for Saint-George-de-Beauce, July 20th, 1843. Online via ancestry.com

[11] For example, Philip Doyer �VRQ�RI�3KLOLSSH�'R\RQ���3HWLWLRQ�ÀOHG�6th Sept 1876 at Bangor, Maine. He attested to coming to the United States in 1836, aged 9.

[12] Joseph Dyer (b 1846), received a military headstone as a civil War veteran. Died Jul 24 1909. Private, 14th Me infantry;

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Alexandria VA;Charles Prue enlisted 21 Aug 1862, age 19.

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de-la-Rivière-du-Sud, April 5, 1806. Online via ancestry.com

[2] Notarial records between Hubert Bois-sonault and a number of other parties survivive – quittance with Michel Guilmet, notarized by Augustin Larue, Oct 17, 1827; obligation with Messieurs Patter-son et Compagnie, 16 July, 1832, notarized by Augustin /DUXH��REOLJDWLRQ�ZLWK�-pU{PH�3DUp�����0D\��������QR-tarized by Fabien Ouellet; 26 Nov 1833, obligation with ´1�%RLVVRQQDXOW�µ�QRWDUL]HG�E\�(GZDUG�*OXFNPD\HU���Indexes may be viewed online at the Bibliotheques et Archives Nationale sde Québec.

[3] Census of Canada, 1831, Parish of Saint Vallier, county of Hereford.

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