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The Bulletin de la Société Historique Franco-américaine for 1943, one of many institution created from La Survivance. Beginning in the late 1840s, greater numbers of French Canadians began to settle in the States, at first for seasonal agricultural jobs, and then eventually brought in by horse and later train, to serve as factory workers for the large mill towns being built by the Boston ...
The cities with the largest French American populations are in Maine. However, in northern Maine, they are of Acadian ancestry, and in southern Maine and northern New Hampshire, of Canadian ancestry. The cities are as follows: [1]
Frenchville is a town in Aroostook County, Maine, United States.The population was 1,052 at the 2020 census. [2]A total of 79.3 percent of Frenchville residents are regular speakers of French, aided by its proximity to French-speaking Quebec and New Brunswick in Canada. [3]
Durant (The French surname of the town's founding French/Choctaw family) El Reno (Named after Civil War officer Jesse L. Reno, of Huguenot descent) Guymon; Lucien (A common French given name) Poteau ("Stake," named by French explorers) Remy; Sans Bois Mountains ("Without forest") Verdigris "Green Gray"
In 2010, 18.0% of the population reported speaking French at home; other than speakers of English, there were no other significant linguistic groups. [ 37 ] Of the 30,961 households, 25.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 49.6% were married couples living together, 9.4% had a female householder with no husband present, 36.8% ...
The French language is spoken as a minority language in the United States.Roughly 1.18 million Americans over the age of five reported speaking the language at home in the federal 2020 American Community Survey, [1] making French the seventh most spoken language in the country behind English, Spanish (of which it is the second Romance language to be spoken after the latter), Chinese, Tagalog ...
Nestled up in the northeastern-most corner of the country, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean, New Hampshire and our Canadian neighbors, Maine...
Many U.S. cities have large French American populations. The city with the largest concentration of people of French extraction is Madawaska, Maine, while the largest French-speaking population by percentage of speakers in the U.S. is found in St. Martin Parish, Louisiana.