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Nov 28, 2020 · And UMass Lowell has a set of photos of the 1964 demolition of the neighborhood on the Internet Archive. Here is the text that accompanies those photos: When Lowell’s Little Canada neighborhood was torn down in 1964 to make way for urban redevelopment, it represented the end of an era. “L’ptit Canada” was home to French Canadians and ...
Sep 14, 2023 · The Little Canada neighborhood of Lowell, as seen from the High Bridge on Pawtucket Street, overlooks the Northern Canal, circa 1964. This photograph was taken the same year the neighborhood was demolished for the city’s urban renewal project. IMAGE COURTESY CENTER FOR LOWELL HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL
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Feb 26, 2015 · By the turn of the century, Lowell was a microcosm of the broader society an uneasy blend of many ethnic groups living in distinct neighborhoods. A 1912 map of Lowell shows five major immigrant communities scattered in clusters around the city. Little Canada, which bordered the Northern Canal, had become the primary neighborhood for French ...
Oct 19, 2023 · Dr. Deodat Mighault was the first Franco-American doctor in Lowell, arriving in 1859. In 1865, several companies in Lowell hired Samuel P. Marin to visit his native province of Quebec to search for labor workers for the mills. Lucien Lagier and Andre Marie Garin, both Oblates, arrived in Lowell on April 18, 1868 to begin preaching.
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By 1990, Massachusetts had the highest number of Franco-Americans in the United States, with 310,636 – and nearly half of all Franco-Americans in New England. New Hampshire ranked fifth, with 118,857, Connecticut sixth with 110,426 and Maine eighth with 110,209. French speakers comprise at least 14 percent of the residents of Coos County in New Ham...
By 1860, another 18,000 Canadian immigrants moved to New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. This time, the economic boom after the Civil War attracted waves of French Canadians. They came to the huge textile mills in Lewiston, Maine, in Woonsocket, R.I., in Berlin and Manchester, N.H., and in Lowell, Worcester, Holyoke, New Bedford and Fall...
In the first decade of the 20th century, the population of Salem, Mass., was more than one-fifth Quebecois and their children. In South Salem’s Little Canada, children attended French schools like Sainte-Chrétienne. They built French churches like Église Sainte-Anne and they started French businesses like St. Pierre’s Garage, Ouellette Construction...
Life in the Little Canadas revolved around the neighborhood parish and the home, where families were often large. By the 1920s, Little Canadas supported thriving French-language newspapers, Catholic schools, social clubs and fraternal organizations. They established Rivier College in Nashua and Assumption College in Worcester. They built the first ...
Mar 6, 2018 · Left : The heart of Little Canada, Hall & Aiken Streets, Lowell, 1923. Source: Lowell Sun The "Little Canada" of Lowell was pretty much one of these "dismal proletarian districts". It was situated along the Merrimack River in central Lowell, behind the textile mills around Aiken, Austin, Cheever, Hall, Tucker, Ward, Ford, Decatur, Race, Merrimack and
