Patrick-or-Treat Lacroix

This edition of Pat's Pet Peeves was sponsored by historians. Historians—we're annoyed!

AND FURTHERMORE,

2. Your grandfather using a canoe and your grandmother weaving baskets does not inherently imply Indigenous heritage or ancestry (no more than my grandfather driving a car means that he worked for GM). That's not how that works.

PAT'S PET PEEVES TIME!!!

1. Stop referring to your "nineteenth-century Québécois ancestors." Your ancestors were Canadian and/or French and/or French-Canadian, but they were not Québécois. They did not identify as such and it makes no sense to apply that identity to them retrospectively.

That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed.

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand:

Originals microfilmed then destroyed.

From Lacroix's Memebrary Classics.

A Brawl in Saint-Michel A Lacroix immigrant ancestor faced the innumerable challenges of settling in New France, one being getting along with neighbors.

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"Answering an age-old question, Françoise Grossejambe let the dogs out."

On the blog this week, Joseph de la Croix's first encounter with the law, circa 1683 (or the threat of a winter without pea soup). #ancestry @genealogyalacarte.bsky.social

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A Brawl in Saint-Michel A Lacroix immigrant ancestor faced the innumerable challenges of settling in New France, one being getting along with neighbors.

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"Answering an age-old question, Françoise Grossejambe let the dogs out."

On the blog this week, Joseph de la Croix's first encounter with the law, circa 1683 (or the threat of a winter without pea soup). #ancestry @genealogyalacarte.bsky.social

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YouTube video by ZinnEdProject John Brown’s Last Speech Performed by David Strathairn

"I believe that to have interfered, as I have done . . . was not wrong but right."

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Beware of French Canadians selling horses! This anecdote was published in 1851 and again in 1903—each article offering a different source. As the editor of the latter paper likely did not know of the first, this appears to have been a street joke that circulated across the Northeast for generations.

Annual tradition.

Huge kudos are in order for Tim Beaulieu and the whole Vermont PoutineFest team. The inaugural event, held last weekend, was a long-awaited celebration of the Champlain Valley's French-Canadian heritage. Great things will come of this... including, undoubtedly, a second edition.

The Ghost of Léon Duroc Rémi Tremblay's semi-biographical Un Revenant occupies an obscure and unusual corner of Quebec's literary history.

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Like 15,000 compatriots, Rémi Tremblay took part in the U.S. Civil War and lived a transnational life. But, in his case, horrific wartime experiences became a novel.

"Un Revenant" helped French Canadians make the story of the Civil War their own.

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Definitely here for all of the ST:TNG cross-over memes.

If you didn't have plans for the weekend, well, now you do. On Saturday, the Vermont French-Canadian Genealogical Society's annual conference will focus on the semiquincentennial and the migrations that ensued. Come for the presentations—and stay for Vermont PoutineFest on Sunday.

As someone who just re-registered his car... no complaints about not getting raptured.

From 1820. Respectfully, Woodstock Observer, you can't just slide that in without providing details.

For "j"... junta?

Amazing.

Presidents ranked by badassness of name:

1. James K. Polk
2. Grover Cleveland
3. Barack Obama
4. Ronald Reagan
5. Franklin Pierce

...

43. John Quincy Adams
44. John Adams
45. Dwight Eisenhower

"While news of the tragedy reverberated in Quebec papers . . . the local Franco-American publication, L’Etoile, launched a subscription. Relief funds amounting to more than $160 were distributed among 19 individuals. In light of their last names, they may all have been Canadian immigrants."

I wonder what percentage of this is drinking and smoking.

YouTube video by onepapa2 Roy Acuff, Box Car Willie and Charlie Daniels Wabash Cannonball

Born on this day in 1903: Roy Acuff, the king of country music.

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Is there really a violent “radical left” in North America? The failure of most media to challenge this premise is a real problem. The core values of most of the left (even the radicals) hue towards equity & non-violence. The usual cause of this type of violence is mental health & easy access to guns

Lowell’s Darkest Day Now largely forgotten, the Lowell explosion of 1903 took 22 lives and had a disproportionate effect on immigrant groups.

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"[T]he storage facilities of the U.S. Cartridge Company, packed with dynamite and other explosives, erupted in a mighty, devastating blast. Shock waves rocked towns near and far."

#CanadaUS #francophonie #immigration #Lowell #NewEngland

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Good call. I curated my feed list, but I think that will have to be the next step.

We need a social media platform that is just history - new publications, fun facts from our research, OTD posts, threads, etc.

In other words, I need an oasis where, for a solid 20 minutes a day, I don't need to see or think about the devastation caused by the second Orange-utan administration.

You know things are bad when I agree with Rand Paul.

Mine certainly does.