Web Sites on French-Canadian History and Related Information

http://www.museum.siu.edu/museum_classroom_grant/Museum_Explorers/school_pages/bourbonnais2/index.htm
The George Letourneau Home (home of the Bourbonnais Grove Historical Society) in Bourbonnais, Illinois is explained and explored.

http://members.aol.com/DJKboysrus/index.html The "Petite Canada Project" is a gathering and showing about the pioneer families of Petite Canada.  English-speaking families gave this name to the Franco-Americans that had settled 2 1/2 miles northwest of Bourbonnais Grove in the western part of the Bourbonnais Township, in the southern part of Rockwell, Kankakee County, Illinois.  The Franco-Americans had settle the area between 1832 and 1865.  In the year 1848, there were about 14 families that had settled in Le Petite Canada.

http://www.kankakeecountymuseum.com/ The home of the Kankakee County Historical Society is explained and explored.

http://www.btpd.org/timeline.htm  The Perry Farm (part of the Bourbonnais Township Park District) is explained and explored.

http://members.aol.com/djkboysrus/chiniquy.html Letter from Rev. P. Chiniquy as published on 22 September 1851 in Le Canadien.

http://www.geocities.com/chiniquy/lincoln_writings.html Father Chiniquy's relationship with Abraham Lincoln.

http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/1999/ihwt9904.html Exploring the Midwest's French Roots
from the Illinois Periodicals On Line.

http://www.uwgb.edu/wisfrench/library/articles/lebeau.htm French Entrepreneurship in the Post Colonial
Fur Trade by B. Pierre Lebeau (North Central College, Naperville, IL).

http://www2.marianopolis.edu/quebechistory/readings/leaving.htm French Canadian Emigration to the United States, 1840-1930 by Damien-Claude Bélanger Département d’histoire, Université de Montréal, Claude Bélanger, Department of History, Marianopolis College.

http://www2.marianopolis.edu/quebechistory/frncdns/docs/maclean1.pdf Documents on France-American History, Significance of the Canadian Migration 2001 Claude Be’langer, Marianopolis College.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06271c.htm French Catholics in the United States.
J.L.K. LAFLAMME, DAVID E. LAVIGNE, and J. ARTHUR FAVREAU
Transcribed by Douglas J. Potter (Pâté)

http://www.iath.virginia.edu/utc/sentimnt/evanhp.html EVANGELINE, 1847, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.  Loosely based on the 1755 expulsion of the Acadians from Nova Scotia (known as Le Grand Derangement).