This page is devoted to our French connections:  sites connected with French-Canadian history and genealogy, sites concerned with the language and culture of Québec, Acadia, and France and web sites in Québec communities that have an ancestral link to the French community in Brunswick.

Brunswick’s Québec and Acadian Connections

Bas-Saint-Laurent

Bienvenue au Bas-Saint-Laurent Travel information on the Lower Saint Lawrence region.

Beauce

This community web site (http://www.destinationbeauce.com/) for the Beauce region, centered around St. Georges, a small city about 50 miles northwest of Jackman, includes current events, visitor information, links to business, education, and municipal affairs, and a continuing panorama of the Ville St. Georges townscape from a webcam …in French.

Chaudière-Appalaches

Welcome to Chaudière-Appalaches The tourism information website for the Chaudière-Appalaches region, which includes L’Islet and several other communities that sent migrants to Brunswick.  In English and French.

Québec City

Le Soleil is the French language daily newspaper covering Québec City and region; includes some local news for the communities of eastern Québec province. In French only.

Québec in general:

Tourisme Québec Maintained by the Government tourism agency, this site includes maps, photos, extensive travel itineraries, and links to many sites of interest to travelers. As detailed as any printed travel guide. In English, French, or Spanish

More French Connections…

Culture and Language

French-English Dictionary. Allows searching French to English, or English to French, in a 75,000 word database. Gives very simple definitions. Developed by the ARTFL Project (ARTFL: American and French Research of the Treasury of the French Language) at the University of Chicago.

Le grand dictionnaire terminologique. The fruit of thirty years of research by linguists at l’Office québécois de la langue française, Le grand dictionnaire terminologique includes translations of nearly 3 million terms in French and English used in 200 areas of industry, science, and business.

Tennessee Bob’s Famous French Links Terrific set of links to more than 4500 sites about French books, literature, art, music, film, education, and language; to travel in Francophone countries; and to using French across the curriculum and in everyday life. This page, created by Prof. Bob Peckham of the University of Tennessee, is available in English or French.

History and Genealogy

Chronologie de l’histoire du Québec Extensive chronology of Québec history (and North American history from a Québec viewpoint). Many links to related sources. In French.

Francogene.com is a a comprehensive guide to the www sites, printed resources, and archival repositories of French, French American, and French Canadian genealogy. In English and French.

La Nouvelle France: Ressources françaises Brief history of New France; links to organizations in France that have an interest in Québec history or relevant historical records. In French.

Maine Franco-American Genealogy Society located in Auburn, is a very important resource for anyone in Maine researching French ancestors.

Search Tools

Francite is a major French-language web search tool, with roots in both Québec and France.

La Toile du Québec is a comprehensive guide to sites in Québec. While Quebec is home to only 5% of the world’s Francophone population, it hosts about 30% of the world’s French-language web sites. Like Yahoo, la Toile lets you explore sites by topic, or by geographic location. La Toile is a great place from which to start your virtual visit to Québec.

Sites in (or very close to) Maine

Acadian Archives at the University of Maine at Fort Kent. Site includes the online book, Acadian Culture in Maine.

Campus d’Edmundston, Université de Moncton. This campus of New Brunswick’s French-language public university is located less than a mile from Madawaska, Maine. In French.

Franco American Heritage Center in Lewiston.

Franco American Heritage Collection at the University of Southern Maine.

Franco American Studies Page. About the University of Southern Maine’s program led by Barry Rodrigue.

Franco American Studies Program About the University of Maine at Orono’s program led by Susan Pinette.

Franco-American Women’s Institute, led by Rhea Côté Robbins, is an organization of women who gather together as a force for the specific purpose of promoting Franco-American, ethnic women’s voices.

FrancoMaine website assembles information on the French fact in Maine, including migration routes and modern demographic data.

Maine Acadian Culture “What does it mean to be a Maine Acadian?” Information about the Maine Acadian Culture Project of the U. S. National Parks Service.

Upper Saint John River Valley: a guide to this French-language region in northern New Brunswick. Pages in English or French.

WPA Life Histories Collection: Maine Oral histories of Franco Americans collected in the 1930′s by the Federal Works Progress Administration.