{"id":395,"date":"2023-11-23T15:49:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T20:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parolefranco.ca\/?page_id=395"},"modified":"2024-02-28T18:08:27","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T23:08:27","slug":"25-septembre-1910","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/parolefranco.ca\/en\/25-septembre-1910\/","title":{"rendered":"September 25, 1910"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At the beginning of the 20th.<\/sup> century, governments paid little attention to the well-being of the population. There was no health insurance, workmen\u2019s compensation, employment insurance, or social assistance. Solidarity was a matter of family, neighbours, and fellow parishioners helping each other by means of personal sacrifice, exchanges of services, collections, and chores.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, these traditional forms of help were becoming less and less successful in reaching Acadians. Many Acadians had already migrated to cities, often those located in New England, to take up industrial jobs far from their original rural communities. That\u2019s why, in the summer of 1902, during an Acadian patriotic convention held in Massachusetts, physician Lucien Belliveau proposed the formation of an Acadian fraternal association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following year, the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 l\u2019Assomption de bienveillance et de secours mutuels<\/em> was founded in Waltham, Massachusetts. Its mandate? \u201cTo unite all Acadians under the same flag; to assist its sick members; to provide financial assistance to the legal heirs of deceased members; to preserve our language, our customs and our religion.\u201d These initial objectives were soon joined by support for schoolchildren and students. By 1913, the year its head office moved to Moncton, New Brunswick, the Society already had 115 chapters in the United States and Canada, with a combined 7,520 members.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Acadians were quick to set up their own fraternal association, not only because the model had proved successful with other ethnic groups in the United States and Canada, but also because leaders of community organizations wanted to discourage them from joining these \u201cforeign\u201d organizations. As early as 1864, French-Canadian workers in Ottawa had adopted the same strategy, founding the Union Saint-Joseph.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These societies were not exactly \u201cinsurance companies\u201d as we know them today given they had a patriotic and religious mission. That\u2019s why the applicant had to declare solemnly that he or she belonged to the cultural group when applying for membership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As evidenced by the \u201cminute book\u201d of one of the Assumption chapters, decisions regarding the admission of members and the provision of assistance were made on a case-by-case basis at meetings of local branch leaders. Assumption gradually became a modern insurance company, and is still in business today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Title of the document<\/strong> <\/strong>: Requ\u00eate du candidat \u2013 Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 l\u2019Assomption

Date : <\/strong>September 25, 1910

Reference : <\/strong> Universit\u00e9 de Moncton, Centre d\u2019\u00e9tudes acadiennes Anselme-Chiasson (CEAAC), Dossier \u00ab Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 l\u2019Assomption, Succursale de Grand-Pr\u00e9, 86, 2. \u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To learn more about this topic:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Online<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHistory,\u201d Assumption Life website.<\/span><\/a>

\u00ab L\u2019histoire d\u2019Assomption Vie \u00bb, L\u2019heure de pointe en Acadie<\/em>, Radio-Canada Ohdio, 4 janvier 2023.<\/a><\/span>

\u201cL\u2019Union Saint-Joseph,\u201d The French Presence in Ontario: 1610, passport for 2010.<\/a><\/span>

Chiasson, Paulette M. \u201cBeno\u00eet, R\u00e9mi,\u201d in Dictionary of Canadian Biography<\/em>, vol. 14, Toronto, Universit\u00e9 Laval\/University of Toronto, 2003.<\/a><\/span>

Robichaud, Daniel. \u00ab La soci\u00e9t\u00e9 mutuelle l\u2019Assomption \u00bb, CyberAcadie : l\u2019histoire acadienne, au bout des doigts<\/em>.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Printed sources<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L\u00e9ger, Antoine J., Les Grandes lignes de l\u2019histoire de la Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 l\u2019Assomption,<\/em> Qu\u00e9bec, Imprimerie franciscaine missionnaire, 1933.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Une bonne \u00e9toile pour faire face aux risques et malheurs \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e8re industrielle Au d\u00e9but du XXe si\u00e8cle, les gouvernements s\u2019occupent peu du bien-\u00eatre de la population. Il n\u2019y a ni assurance-sant\u00e9, ni r\u00e9gimes d\u2019indemnisation pour les accidents de travail, ni assurance-emploi, ni assistance sociale. La solidarit\u00e9, c\u2019est une affaire de famille, de voisins et […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60472210,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-395","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pfdu74-6n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parolefranco.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parolefranco.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parolefranco.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parolefranco.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60472210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parolefranco.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/parolefranco.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2149,"href":"https:\/\/parolefranco.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/395\/revisions\/2149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parolefranco.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}