AATF
ADVOCACY FACT PACK FOR MAINE
IMPORTANT FRANCOPHONE GOVERNMENT
ADDRESSES
Belgian Consular Representatives in Maine
Mr. Alan MARCUSE, Honorary Consul
Home Network Assets LLC
11 Foster Street
Brighton, MA 02135
Phone (617) 779-8700
Fax (617) 779-7923
E-mail: Boston@diplobel.org
Consul Général de France - Boston
http://www.consulfrance-boston.org/
31 Saint James Avenue
Suite 750
Boston, MA 02116
Tel. (617) 542 7374
Consul Honoraire pour le Maine
Mr Séverin Béliveau
PretiFlaherty
45 Memorial Circle
P.O Box 1058
Augusta, ME 04332
Tel : (207) 623 5300
Fax : (207) 623 2914
Mél: Sbeliveau@preti.com
Consulate General of Canada - Boston
http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/can-am/boston/
The Consulate General of Canada
Three Copley Place, Suite 400
Boston, MA 02116
Tel: (617) 262-3760
Fax: (617) 262-3415
e-mail: boston.commerce@international.gc.ca
Québec Government Office in Boston
One Boston Place
201 Washington Street, Suite 1920
Boston, MA 02108
Phone: (617) 482-1193
Fax: (617) 482-1195
E-mail: qc.boston@mri.gouv.qc.ca
Website: http://www.Quebec-Boston.org
EDUCATIONAL ADDRESSES
ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE
ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE DE PORTLAND
Mme Sue LEONARD
P.O. Box 17793
PORTLAND, ME 04101
Tel. (207) 773-7583 or (207) 781-7429 x406
AATF MAINE CHAPTER
http://www.angelfire.com/me4/aatfmaine/
Catherine Hobby, President
E-mail: rhobby1@maine.rr.com
Sylvie Charron, Treasurer
University of Maine/Humanities
270 Main Street
Farmington, ME 04938
E-mail: scharron@maine.edu
Foreign Language Association of Maine
http://www.umaine.edu/flame/
Maine Department of Education
23 State House Station
Augusta, ME 04333-0023
Phone: 207-624-6826
Fax: 207-624-6821
State Foreign-Languages Supervisor (Member of NCSSFL)
Donald Reutershan
don.reutershan@maine.gov
23 State House Station
Augusta, ME 04333-0023
Phone: 207-624-6826
Fax: 207-624-6821
L'Ecole Française du Maine
http://www.angelfire.com/me4/maternelle/
Evening Reception for the French School of Maine -
December 3, 2005
http://www.consulfrance-boston.org/article.php3?id_article=710
Penobscot School
http://www.languagelearning.org/
The Franco-American Woman's Institute
http://www.fawi.net/
Acadian Cultural Society
http://www.acadiancultural.org/
Bath Public Schools have done some videoconferencing with France
http://www.bathpublicschools.com/fms/Bears/videoconf/eye.htm
French Video Postcard (Rumford, Maine)
http://seed.mainecenter.org/index.cfm?section=13&page=snapshots.htm#74
The Franco-American Center (U. of Maine)
http://www.francoamerican.org/
Canadian American Center (U. of Maine)
http://www.umaine.edu/canam/
Studies in Franco-America (University of Southern Maine)
http://www.usm.maine.edu/lac/francoamericanstudies/
University of Maine Franco-American Studies
http://www.umaine.edu/francoamericanstudies/
Camp Tekakwitha (Francophone summer camp in Maine)
http://campdevacances.com/summercamp.eng.html
Hoose, S. "French spoken here, proudly." Maine Sunday Telegram
109 no. 22, (December 15, 1996) 1A, 14A.
Landry, R., & Allard, R. "Subtractive bilingualism: The case
of Franco-Americans in Maineís St. John Valley." Journal of Mutilingual
and Multicultural Development 13, no. 6 (1992): 515-544
CULTURAL TIES WITH THE FRANCOPHONE WORLD
Parisian Theater Professionals Consider Collaborating With Maine
Playwrights
http://www.umaine.edu/news/080204/ParisianTheaterProfessionals.htm
Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-1987), famous French writer and the first
woman elected to the Académie Française, lived in Maine
from 1950.
A Novelist and Her Ethnicity: Grace Metalious as a Franco-American
http://www.francoamerican.org/academic/
Grace_Metalious_RS_Sorrell.pdf
Ethnic Voices in Maine Literature
http://dll.umaine.edu/welcome/wom/ethnic_voices.htm
Cindy Burrell, "Maine - French from Head-to-Toe"
http://www.fawi.net/ezine/vol3no4/FASWST2003/Cburrell2.html
The French connection...in Maine?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5226521/
Ethnic Voices in Maine Liiterature
http://dll.umaine.edu/welcome/wom/ethnic_voices.htm
Comments: FRENCH IN MAINE (bulletinboart @ Languagehat)
http://www.languagehat.com/mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=2396
English Only, By Juliana L’Heureux
http://www.mainewriter.com/articles/English-Only.htm
Réveil: Waking up French
http://wakingupfrench.com/
French in Maine: Louis XIV lives?
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003220.html
Where French Is Not a Foreign Language: Franco-Americans and the State
and University of Maine
http://www.mla.org/adfl/bulletin/v11n4/114017.htm
Franco-American Collection ( University of Southern
Maine/Lewiston-Auburn)
http://usm.maine.edu/lac/franco/
Long-Scorned in Maine, French Has Renaissance (NY Times, June 4, 2006)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/04/us/04french.html?ei=5090&en=d0a1bc8720c0b2b9&ex=1307073600&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all
French-Language Communication
Sources:
Television:
Portland, ME TV3 / 23 000 - France Feelings /
Canapé
Radio
Portland, ME WMPG / 90.9 - 104.1FM
Orono, ME WMEB / 91.9 FM
Lewiston, ME WRBC / 91.5 FMKRRC / 104.1
FM & WZOU / 1470 AM
Biddeford, ME WIDE / 1400 AM
FRANCOPHONE DEMOGRAPHIC AND
ETHNICITY FACTS
Flags for French communities in Maine
http://flagspot.net/flags/us-reg.html#maine
63,700 French, French Creole, French Cajun speaking residents of Maine,
about 5.3% of Maine's current population. 30% of Maine residents who
are foreign-born are European and 41.5% are North-American. This
is main's first language other than English, and has nearly seven times
the number of speakers as the second language oother than English:
Spanish.
The following statistics about French speakers in Maine come from an
article in Wikipedia:
French in the United States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_in_the_United_States
Eagle Lake, Maine 49.0% French-speaking
Fort Kent, Maine 62.3% French-speaking
Frenchville, Maine 79.6% French-speaking
Grand Isle, Maine 76.0% French-speaking
Hamlin, Maine 56.8% French-speaking
Madawaska, Maine 83.4% French-speaking
St. Agatha, Maine 79.7% French-speaking
St. Francis, Maine 61.0% French-speaking
St. John, Maine 59.5% French-speaking
Van Buren, Maine 76.6% French-speaking
Ancestry:
French (except
Basque) 181,663 (14.2%)
French
Canadian 110,344 (8.7%)
Swiss
1,878 (0.1%)
West Indian
(non-Hispanic) 881 (0.1%)
French is a heritage language in over 35 school districts in Maine.
Many Government documents are summarized in French.
Maine Franco-American Genealogical Society
http://www.avcnet.org/begin/
The census shows Maine has become less French
http://www.mainetoday.com/census2000/news/020522censusfranco.shtml
Acadian Genealogy - Maine
http://www.acadian.org/maine.html
The French Connection [Maine French/French-Canadian genealogy]
http://users.adelphia.net/~frenchcx/
Maine's FRENCH Communities
http://www.francomaine.org/
Welcome to Madaswaska
http://www.townofmadawaska.com/
Acadian Culture in Maine
http://acim.umfk.maine.edu/
Franco-American Collection (Lewiston, Maine)
http://www.usm.maine.edu/lac/franco/
La Kermesse Franco-American Festival (June in Biddeford, ME)
http://www.biddefordmaine.org/index.asp?Type=B_BASIC&SEC={6C9F4F77-377A-4F59-9BA3-82EA1F8D2723}
Festival de Joie (Lewiston, ME)
http://www.festivaldejoie.org/
Franco-American Genealogical Society of York County
http://www.mcarthur.lib.me.us/fageneal.htm
Franco-American (Lewiston, Maine)
http://www.francoamericanheritage.org/
Madawaska Historical Society
http://www.madawaskahistorical.org/
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE on Waterville's 19th Century Franco-Americans
http://users.adelphia.net/~frenchcx/frcanwtv.htm
St-Croix: 1604-2004: Il faut se souvenir de ces 400 ans!
http://www.happyones.com/franco-american/st-croix/index.html
FRENCH PLACE NAMES IN MAINE
The state is named for a French Province "Le Maine", Ste. Croix
River, Aroostook County, Frenchville, French Island, French Pond,
Fournier, Roque Island, Fayette, Paris, Calais, Isle au Haut,
Presqu'ile, South Paris, West Paris, Piscataquis, Chebeague Island,
Grand Isle, Lubec, Detroit, Frenchboro, Sainte Pierre et Sainte Paul
Roman Catholic Church, Sainte Croix Park, Acadia, Fort Lyon, Little
French Island, Frenchboro, Acadia National Park, Frenchman Bay,
Frenchmans Hill, Lamoine Beach, Cape Rosier, Saint Sauveur Mountain,
Sieur de Monts, Fayette, North Fayette, Frenchman Ledge, Isle Au Haut,
Saint Denis Church, Saint Gilles Church, Paris, West Paris, Dufour
Landing, French Settlement, Saint Martin of Tours Catholic Church,
Detroit, Calais,
FRENCH MOMENTS IN MAINE HISTORY
1498 - France sent explorers to Maine. They claimed the area of
Canada and Maine, calling it Acadia.
1524 - Giovanni da Verranzo explored the Maine coast, making claims for
France.
1556 - Andre Thevet, for France, visits Maine and explores Penobscot.
1604 - Henry IV, King of France, gave authority to Pierre du Gaust,
Sieur de Monts, to establish colonies between the 40th and 46th degrees
of north latitude.
1604 - The first French colony in Maine was established on the Ste.
Croix River (near Calais, in June)
1604 - Mass offered for the first time in New England by Nicolas Aubray
of Paris
Champlain
1605 - Samuel de Champlain and Pierre du Gaust, Sieur de Monts explore
Maine coastline and the Penobscot River.
1606 - Champlain and e Poutrincourt scout Gloucester Harbor as a
potential spot for a colony.
1613 - A French Jesuit mission was established at Bar Harbor on Mt.
Dessert Island. (Pierre Biard)
1635 - French encroachments under d'Aulney, on the Penobscot.
1635-1674 French fort at Pentagoet.
1639 - Sir Ferdinando Gorges obtained from King Charles I the charter
of the "Province of Mayne."
1640 - An Abenaki chief, is baptized by French Jesuits and named Jean
Baptiste.
1646 - Father Gabriel Druillettes was sent to the Kennebec and
established the mission of the Assumption among the Abenaki, obtaining
wonderful results from this docile people.
1667 - Père Morain was successful in missionary work with the
Penobscots and Passamaquoddy Indians. Father Thury, a secular priest,
came to the Penobscots and labored successfully among them to the close
of his life.
1668 - Father Thury established the mission at Panawaniski, at Oldtown.
Père Bigot erected a chapel at Narantsouac, now Norridgewock.
1671 - French regain control of Eastern Maine; St.-Castine arrives.
1675-76: King Philipp's War. French allied with tribes like the
Narragansett, fought English colonists.
1688 - the Sieur de la Mothe Cadillac asked for and received a hundred
thousand acres of land along the Maine coast including all of Mount
Desert.
1688-1759: five "French and Indian" wars are fought by Indians,
French and English.
1696 - The sieur d'Iberville capured Fort William Henry in coastal
Maine.
1697 - In the Treaty of Ryswick, France and England both claim
Sagadahoc (territory between Kennebec and St. Croix).
1703 - A French and Indian expedition destroyed Falmouth and many other
Maine settlements.
1703-13: Queen Anne's War. New France against the English Colonies.
1745 The French fortress of Louisbourg in Nova Scotia was captured by
William Pepperrell of Maine.
1775 - Benedict Arnold marches a band of revolutionaries through Maine
in a failed attempt to capture British strongholds in Quebec City and
Montreal.
1763 - The Treaty of Paris ended all French claims to the Maine region.
1847 - Maine native, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow published Evangeline
1871 - Establishment of a French Catholic parish in Lewiston
1930 - Maine's Franco-American population reached nearly 100,000.
The Cartographic Creation of New England. Section II: Samuel de
Champlain and New France
http://www.usm.maine.edu/~maps/exhibit2/sec2.htm
La Basilique Lewiston
http://www.mainememory.net/bin/Features?t=fp&feat=238&supst=Exhibits
Curriculum for Franco-American Women of Maine, Grades 7-12
http://www.fawi.net/FAWCurriculum/FAWomenCurriculum.html
Voilà! Franco-Americans regain their tongue
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/06/02/news/french.php
Our French Roots (14-page educational program by Maine Public Radio)
http://www.mainepublicradio.org/educators/lesson_plans/french_roots.pdf
Canadians in Maine State Military - Us Civil War
http://www.islandregister.com/mainem.html
Steve Comeau, French Canadian Immigrant
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/learn/features/timeline/progress/immigrnt/comeau.html
Faulkner, Alaric and Faulkner, Gretchen Fearon. The French at
Pentagoet, 1635-1674: An archaeological portrait of the Acadian
frontier. Augusta, ME and Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada: Maine
Historic Preservation Commission and New Brunswick Museum, 1987
MAINE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS AND THE FRENCH-SPEAKING WORLD
Maine ranks 10th in the US for the percent of its workforce working for
foreign companies in Maine: 5.6%
Maine has by far the largest foreign-owned farmland: nearly 3 million
acres. This represents nearly 16% of the state's privately-owned
agricultural land, and 20% of all foreign-owned agricultural land in
the US
Maine-Canada Economic Relations
http://www.canadianembassy.org/statetrade/me-en.asp
24,000 Maine jobs are supported by Canada-U.S. trade
Canada supplied $1.1 billion more in energy to Maine
last year than it did in 2003, an important thing to consider, while we
are trying to reduce our
dependancy on middle eastern sources of energy.
Maine International Trade Center
http://www.mitc.com/
Maine and the European Union (power-point)
http://www.eurunion.org/partner/
usstates/Maine%20-%20ME%202003.ppt
Maine International Trade News
http://www.einnews.com/maine/newsfeed-MaineInternationalTrade
Governor's Trade Mission to France Expanded Economy Overseas
http://www.maine.gov/tools/whatsnew/index.php?topic=Gov+News&id=10613&v=Article
Governor and Quebec Premier Sign Bilateral Agreement
http://www.maine.gov/tools/whatsnew/index.php?topic=Gov+News&id=1679&v=Article
MAINE : MISSION DE LA CHAMBRE DE COMMERCE ET DU TOURISME EN FRANCE.
http://www.office-tourisme-usa.com/actus.php?idinfo=391
Maine delegation leaves on weeklong trade mission to France
http://www.mitc.com/PDF_and_Microsoft_Office_Files/MEDelegationLeaves_PPH.pdf
Maine's exports in 2003 in
millions of dollars:
total: 2,188.4
to Canada: 821.0
to Belgium 52.9
to France 11.8
(off from 36.5 in 2002)
Nearly 40.5% of Maine's exports went to French-speaking countries.
Maine's exports in 2005 in
millions of dollars:
total:
2,310
to Canada: 901
to Belgium 43
to France
26
Nearly 42% of Maine's export revenue comes from French-speaking
countries.
Figures for total value transboarder surface freight between
Canada and Maine between September 2003 and September 2004:
Canada to Maine: $2,079,731,254
Maine to Canada: $862,159,096
Figures for total value transboarder surface freight between
Canada and Maine between March 2005 and Marchr 2006:
Canada to Maine: $2,230,153,563
Maine to Canada: $951,412,799
There has been an important increase in transboarder surface freight.
Tourism
Corridor international Chaudière-Kennebec,
(tourism)
http://www.chaudiere-kennebec.com/index1.html
Maine Governor Baldacci led State of Maine Trade and
Tourism Mission to France
http://www.benchmarkemail.com/newsletters/parlezusa/maine_govern.htm
Canadian tourism in Maine is going back up with the value of the
Canadian dollar to the US dollar.
Tourism businesses see benefit from Canada's rising
loonie
http://www.boston.com/news/local/maine/articles/2006/05/28/tourism_businesses_see_benefit_from_canadas_rising_loonie/
The following Maine-based companies have imoportant bubsidiaries in
France:
Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation - South
Portland, ME
Idexx Laboratories Inc. - -
Westbrook, ME
DIRECT POLITICAL ADVOCACY FOR
MAINE
Maine in Congress
http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/cgi-bin/newseek.cgi?site=ctc&state=me
Directory Members of the Maine House of
Representatives
http://janus.state.me.us/house/hbiolist.htm1
Directory of Members of the Maine Senate
http://www.state.me.us/legis/senate/homepage.htm