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The suffix "-ville," from the French word for "city" is common for town and city names throughout the United States. Many originally French place names, possibly hundreds, in the Midwest and Upper West were replaced with directly translated English names once American settlers became locally dominant (e.g. "La Petite Roche" became Little Rock ...
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]
Mexico City is the most populous city of Mexico and North America New York City is the most populous city in the United States, and the second-most in North America Toronto is the most populous city in Canada, and the fourth-most in North America Los Angeles, the most populous city on the Pacific coast of North America Montreal is the most populous French-speaking city in North America
The nation is linked to North America and Europe by satellite communications for telephone and television service. [ 98 ] The department of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon is served by three television stations: Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon 1ère ( call sign FQN) on Channel 8, with a repeater on Channel 31, and France Ô on Channel 6.
At the beginning of the French and Indian War (1754–1763), the British population in North America outnumbered the French 20 to 1. France fought a total of six colonial wars in North America (see the four French and Indian Wars as well as Father Rale's War and Father Le Loutre's War). [15
Later, a fur trading post was established and the settlement expanded to include both sides of the river. Sault Ste. Marie is one of the oldest French settlements in North America. 1668: Sault Ste. Marie: Michigan: United States [36] Oldest city in Michigan 1668: Elizabethtown: New Jersey: United States: designated the first capital of New ...
This article presents a list of towns and villages in New France. These towns and villages were or are still located throughout the former North American colonies of France .
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 ...