Canuck et d'Autres Histoires

Canuck, by Camille Lessard Bissonnette, (1883-1970), 
is a book which reflects the French Canadian immigration 
experience from a young woman's point of view. 
The protagonist, Vic, is a very modern young
woman who sets out to accomplish 
many things in her new country, the U.S. 

La Jeune Franco-Américaine, The Young Franco-American
by Alberte Gastonguay, (1906-1978), 
is a study of the life of a young woman 
who is seeking her way in the world. 
She meets many suitors and comes to the
conclusion of a satisfactory ending 
in the ways of traditional culture. 

Françaises d'Amérique, Frenchwomen of North America
by Corinne Rocheleau Rouleau, (1881-1963), 
is a one act play which features the heroines 
who helped settle New France. 
This play proves their presence 
on the North American continent 
and is as fresh today as the day it was first presented.

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Exemples/Examples of each book
in Canuck et d'Autres Histoires

 
Rhea Côté (Cote) Robbins' Wednesday's Child 
is beautiful stuff, a defiant and poignant memoir 
that transcends the personal. 
It is an important book not only for 
its immediate content, for the experience 
of life within its covers, but because 
it gives us a glimpse of the almost unmined Golconda 
of literary source material in 
Franco-American lives. --E. Annie Proulx 

Wednesday's Child is a dark, dream-like 
meditation on fragility and survival, 
of the body from cancer and of the 
Franco-American community from 
its inheritance of paroissial piety, social marginality, 
and relentless poverty. If your roots 
are in that community, there is much to recognize 
and confirm; if not, there is much 
to learn and remember. --Clark Blaise