{"id":10411,"date":"2026-06-14T12:27:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T19:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/2026\/06\/14\/lewiston-maine-was-built-by-french-canadians-many-of-their-descendants-may-now-be-canadian\/"},"modified":"2026-06-14T12:27:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T19:27:43","slug":"lewiston-maine-was-built-by-french-canadians-many-of-their-descendants-may-now-be-canadian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/2026\/06\/14\/lewiston-maine-was-built-by-french-canadians-many-of-their-descendants-may-now-be-canadian\/","title":{"rendered":"Lewiston, Maine was built by French Canadians\u2014many of their descendants may now be Canadian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bIn the 1870s, the trains pulled into Lewiston\u2019s Grand Trunk Station carrying a new kind of arrival. They came from Quebec farms and Acadian villages in the Maritimes \u2014 thousands of French-speaking Canadians, drawn south by the steady wages of Maine\u2019s textile mills. They settled in a dense neighborhood beside the Androscoggin River, between the<br \/>\nThe post Lewiston, Maine was built by French Canadians\u2014many of their descendants may now be Canadian first appeared on CIC News.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1870s, the trains pulled into Lewiston\u2019s Grand Trunk Station carrying a new kind of arrival. They came from Quebec farms and Acadian villages in the Maritimes \u2014 thousands of French-speaking Canadians, drawn south by the steady wages of Maine\u2019s textile mills. They settled in a dense neighborhood beside the Androscoggin River, between the [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicnews.com\/2026\/06\/lewiston-was-built-by-french-canadians-many-of-their-descendants-may-now-be-canadian-0676779.html\">Lewiston, Maine was built by French Canadians\u2014many of their descendants may now be Canadian<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicnews.com\/\">CIC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicnews.com\/2026\/06\/lewiston-was-built-by-french-canadians-many-of-their-descendants-may-now-be-canadian-0676779.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bIn the 1870s, the trains pulled into Lewiston\u2019s Grand Trunk Station carrying a new kind of arrival. They came from Quebec farms and Acadian villages in the Maritimes \u2014 thousands of French-speaking Canadians, drawn south by the steady wages of Maine\u2019s textile mills. They settled in a dense neighborhood beside the Androscoggin River, between the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cic-news-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shaya.sabtrax.dev\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}