Association Canado-Américaine]]> Assumption College]]> Franco-Americans--Healthcare]]> Franco-Americans--Music]]> Franco-Americans--New Hampshire]]> Franco-Americans--Television]]> Lacasse, Raymond]]> Lemieux, Eugene]]> Quintal, Claire]]> Vachon, Josée]]> Bonjour! episode 53 was broadcast in 1988 with host Josée Vachon. This episode is divided into four segments. The first segment is an interview with Claire Quintal, founder and director of the French Institute at Assumption College in Worcester, Massachusetts. She was the second woman hired as a professor at Assumption College. She is an internationally recognized scholar who served administrative leadership at Assumption as the Dean of their graduate school. She has received a number of awards from the French government in her service to the French language and Franco-American research. Her many scholarly publications are touchstones in Franco-American studies and in this segment she discusses her research. The second segment is of Raymond Lacasse from the New Hampshire Division of Elderly and Adult Services discussing changes to Medicare. The third segment is of Eugene Lemieux, the president of the Association Canado-Americaine (ACA), discussing the services and benefits of the ACA including the television show Bonjour! The episode ends with a musical performance by host and musician Josée Vachon.

The VHS copy of the episode from Bonjour! television program recordings, 1987-1999, in the Franco-American Collections of the Saint Anselm College Archives & Special Collections was digitized in March 2017.]]> Association Canado-Américaine]]> 1988]]> VHS]]> Acadia--History]]> Acadia--History--17th century]]> Acadia--Colonization]]> Acadia--Politics and Government--17th century]]> France--History--17th century]]> La Tour, Charles de Saint-Etienne de, 1593-1666]]> Louix XIV, King of France, 1638-1715]]>
This commission was issued by Louis XIV, King of France, in 1651. It not only appoints Charles de Saint-Étienne de la Tour governor and lieutenant-general of the French colony of Acadia, but more importantly it confirms an earlier appointment for those positions made by Louis XVI’s father, Louis XIII, in 1631. It also exonerates La Tour for his actions during the civil strife in Acadia between 1635 and 1645, and it goes further to criticize La Tour’s rival d’Aulnay for having prevented La Tour from exercising his lawful authority by favoring “enemies and accusations and suppositions that were not able to be verified and of which the said Saint-Étienne was absolved on the sixteenth of February last” (nine days prior to the issuance of the commission).]]> Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715]]> 1651]]> Book collecting]]> Book collectors--Canada--Correspondence]]> Lambert, Adélard, 1867-1946]]> Association Canado-Américaine]]> Franco-Americans--Autobiography]]> Franco-Americans--Manchester (N.H.)]]> Manchester (N.H.)]]> Correspondence]]> Franco-Americans--Portraits]]> Folklore]]> Lambert, Adélard]]> 1927]]> https://beta.francoamericanportal.org/items/show/10]]> Photograph of Adélard Lambert]]> Boston (Mass.)]]> Correspondence]]> Jordan Marsh and Company]]> Québec]]> St. Augustin Parish (Qué.)]]> Jobin, Joseph]]> 1890 September 17]]> Letter from Joseph Jobin, Boston, MA, August 30, 1890.]]> English translation available]]> Boston (Mass.)]]> Correspondence]]> Québec]]> St. Augustin Parish (Qué.)]]> ]]> Jobin, Joseph]]> 1890 August 30]]> Letter from Joseph Jobin, Boston, MA, September 17, 1890.]]> English translation available]]> Lewiston (Me.)]]> Lewiston (Me.)--Newspapers]]> Franco-Americans--Lewiston (Me.)]]> Second row: F. X. Guay; Albert Bedard; Odule Laplante; Joseph Belanger; N. L. Gendreau; Mr. Runneau.
Back row: Corine Gauthier (Dumais); Loretta Vachon; Blanche Verville (Sutton); Camile Lessard (Bissonnette).

Camile Lessard would go on to write the book "Canuck", which was printed by Le Messager.

Le Messager was the oldest and longest-running French newspaper in New England. It began printing in 1880 and ran through 1966. The later paper moved to a larger location at 223 Lisbon Street in Lewiston, where the outlines of the name "Le Messager" can still be seen on the façade.]]> Unknown]]> 1890]]> Lewiston (Me.)]]> Boxing]]> Press ID card for Muhammed Ali/Sonny Liston Heavyweight Championship boxing match held at St Dominic's Arena in Lewiston, Maine. The card belonged to Paul Labbé, himself a known local boxer, who was to serve as an additional judge for the match.

Sonny Liston became world heavyweight champion in 1962. The first match between Liston and Clay in February of 1964 was highly anticipated, with Liston the favorite to win. However, Clay won when Liston forfeited due to an injury - the first time a heavyweight championship fight had been forfeited since 1919.

The controvesial nature of Clay's win led the World Boxing Council to seek a re-match, and the Boston Garden was originally chosen, but pulled out due to licensing concerns. The Central Maine Youth Arena (formerly St Dominic's Arena) in Lewiston, Maine, was selected as the venue - one of the smallest ever to host a heavyweight championship.

Muhammed Ali had already changed his name from Cassius Clay by the time this match was scheduled, but promoters billed it as the "Clay-Liston" fight nonetheless. 

Rather than the 15 rounds promised on this card, the fight lasted only a few seconds. In the middle of the first round, Liston was felled by a punch that the crowd didn't see, and Ali was unsure if it had connected. There were allegations of match-fixing by Liston, but these were never proven. The match did result in a celebrated photo of an angry Ali standing over the fallen Liston, exhorting him to get up and fight.]]> Intercontinental Promotions, Inc.]]> 1965]]> Maine--History]]> Franco-Americans--History]]> University of Maine]]> Doty, C. Stewart (Charles Stewart)]]> Southbridge (Mass.)]]> Correspondence]]> Franco-Americans--Southbridge (Mass.)]]> Sansoucy, Napoleon]]> Sansoucy, Corinne (Harpin)]]> 1909]]> English translation available]]>