Lewiston, Maine was built by French Canadians—many of their descendants may now be Canadian
In the 1870s, the trains pulled into Lewiston’s Grand Trunk Station carrying a new kind of arrival. They came from Quebec farms and Acadian villages in the Maritimes — thousands of French-speaking Canadians, drawn south by the steady wages of Maine’s textile mills. They settled in a dense neighborhood beside the Androscoggin River, between the
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In the 1870s, the trains pulled into Lewiston’s Grand Trunk Station carrying a new kind of arrival. They came from Quebec farms and Acadian villages in the Maritimes — thousands of French-speaking Canadians, drawn south by the steady wages of Maine’s textile mills. They settled in a dense neighborhood beside the Androscoggin River, between the […]
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