Our French Canadian Roots
Presented on: Tuesday, June 15th at 6:00 PM EDT
Resources
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More Resources for Our French-Canadian Roots
These resources will help you understand your French-Canadian roots and maybe connect you to others who are doing the same.
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Professor Blood's PowerPoint Presentation
Please find the presentation enclosed here. It includes many resources on the final slides in addition to the other document provided.
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Are you related to one of the founding families of New France (Québec’s version of “Mayflower” families)?
Can you trace your roots to one of the 800 “Filles du Roi” sent to New France by Louis XIV to help populate the colony?
Did your ancestors settle the Acadian region of eastern Canada?
If you are of French-Canadian descent, the answer is most likely “yes” for at least one if not all of these questions!
Come learn more about French Canadian ancestry and get some tips on doing genealogical research to further discover your French Canadian roots.
Join us for a fascinating deep-dive with Dr. Elizabeth Blood of the Department of World Languages and Cultures at Salem State University.
Can't make the program but want to learn more? No problem!
Check out the French-Canadian Heritage Collection and French-Canadian/Franco-American in Salem!
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Elizabeth Blood, Ph.D., is a Professor of French in the World Languages and Cultures Department at Salem State University in Salem, Massachusetts where she teaches all levels of French language courses and courses on translation.
She earned her B.A. in Anthropology from Connecticut College, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in French and Romance Literatures from Boston College. She is the author of Intrigue: langue, culture et mystère dans le monde francophone, an intermediate French textbook (Pearson Education, 3rd edition, 2011) and Je me souviens: histoire, culture et littérature, a Québec culture reader for students of French (Georgetown University Press, 2015).
Her current research focus is on North American Francophony, including Québec and Franco-America, aiming to make the cultural history of French North Americans more widely available to the public by translating important texts and local histories.
She has published English translations of several French-Canadian and Franco-American cultural histories, which are assembled in a digital archive at Salem State University (https://digitalcommons.salemstate.edu/fchc/), as well as a print translation of Félix Gatineau’s History of the Franco-Americans of Southbridge, Massachusetts (Via Appia Press, 2018).