Between 1860 and 1900, an estimated 31,000 French Canadians moved to Lowell in Massachusetts. They moved from the Canadian province of Quebec to find work in the textile mills in New England and, by 1880, were the largest ethnic group in the city. To...
Between 1860 and 1900, an estimated 31,000 French Canadians moved to Lowell in Massachusetts. They moved from the Canadian province of Quebec to find work in the textile mills in New England and, by 1880, were the largest ethnic group in the city. Today, anyone who can trace a line of ancestry to these French-Canadian […]
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