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The Migration of the French-Canadian Diaspora from the United States to Alberta<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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These are the words of a song composed by Mathilda Plamondon, matriarch of the family that in 1908 founded the village of Plamondon in northeastern Alberta. Although light-hearted and even a little humorous, this song is a testimonial that allows us to imagine certain aspects of life in these new communities.

The story of this family \u2013 and, by extension, of this village \u2013 was linked to the remarkable mobility of French Canadians from the 1850s to the 1920s. During this period, over a million of them left the St. Lawrence Valley to earn a better living, forming a diaspora of continental proportions. Everywhere \u2013 from the industrial cities of New England to the settlements of Western Canada, from the farming villages of the American Midwest to the railroads of Northern Ontario \u2013 these migrants brought with them their language, culture, and traditions.

Some families even moved several times over several generations. Such was the case for Mathilda\u2019s husband Joseph. In 1867, while a young child, he left Quebec for Michigan with his parents. As an adult, he managed to lead a fairly comfortable life in Michigan: he had a large farm, where he raised a family of nine children, all of whom attended a Catholic school, of which he was one of the trustees.

However, at the turn of the 20th.<\/sup> century, faced with repeated invitations from the Canadian government, the Catholic clergy, and the colonization companies, who were recruiting Franco-Americans to populate the Canadian West, the man affectionately known as \u201cFather Joe\u201d couldn\u2019t resist the call. In 1908, at the age of 47, he and his family moved nearly 3,000 kilometres to create a village where they could \u201cperpetuate the French-Canadian language and culture\u201d (Cadrin and Dub\u00e9, p. 96). The Plamondons and their neighbours succeeded, notably by allying themselves with the local M\u00e9tis community and welcoming new French-speaking migrants from Eastern Europe.

Joseph had won his bet, but as the song says, it would not be without leaving his two eldest daughters in Michigan... nor without giving his wife a taste for travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Title of the document :<\/strong> \u00ab J\u2019aime mieux les \u00c9tats que l\u2019Alberta \u00bb (paroles de chanson)

Date : <\/strong>unknown (probably during the 1910s, received in 1981)

Source :<\/strong> Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 historique francophone de l\u2019Alberta<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

\u00ab\u00a0L\u2019exode des Canadiens fran\u00e7ais aux \u00c9tats-Unis entre 1840 et 1930\u00a0\u00bb, Aujourd\u2019hui l\u2019histoire<\/em>, Radio-Canada Ohdio.<\/a><\/span>

Bordeleau, Martine. \u00ab\u00a0Les Plamondon dans l\u2019Ouest. Le nom de famille, tout un h\u00e9ritage!\u00a0\u00bb, WebOuest<\/em>, 8\u00a0octobre 2022.<\/a><\/span>

Poirier, Marc, \u00ab Plamondon, le tout petit village albertain qui voit grand \u00bb, L-express<\/em>, 3 mars 2024<\/span><\/a>

Mellott, Denny. \u00ab\u00a0Plamondon Branch\u00a0\u00bb, A link to the past<\/em>.<\/a><\/span>

Motut, Roger, et Kenneth Munro. \u00ab\u00a0Canadiens fran\u00e7ais dans l\u2019Ouest\u00a0\u00bb, The Canadian Encyclopedia<\/em>.<\/a><\/span>

Vermette, David. \u00ab\u00a0Franco-Am\u00e9ricains\u00a0\u00bb, The Canadian Encyclopedia<\/em>.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

Cadrin, Gilles, et Paul Dub\u00e9. \u00ab Traditions orales de Plamondon, un village franco-albertain \u00bb, Francophonies d\u2019Am\u00e9rique<\/em>, no<\/sup> 2 (1995), p. 93-106.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frenette, Yves, et Jean Lamarre. \u00ab Le contexte de fondation des communaut\u00e9s de la diaspora canadienne-fran\u00e7aise \u00bb, dans Yves Frenette, \u00c9tienne Rivard et Marc St-Hilaire (dir.), La francophonie nord-am\u00e9ricaine<\/em>, Qu\u00e9bec, Presses de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 Laval, 2013, coll. \u00ab Atlas historique du Qu\u00e9bec \u00bb.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frenette, Yves, Marcel Martel and John Willis (eds.). Envoyer et recevoir. Lettres et correspondances dans les diasporas francophones<\/em>, (Qu\u00e9bec: Presses de l\u2019Universit\u00e9 Laval, 2006).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lalonde, A.-N. \u00ab L\u2019intelligentsia du Qu\u00e9bec et la migration des Canadiens fran\u00e7ais vers l\u2019Ouest canadien, 1870-1930 \u00bb, Revue d\u2019histoire de l\u2019Am\u00e9rique fran\u00e7aise<\/em>, volume 33, num\u00e9ro 2, septembre 1979, p. 163-185.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mimeault, Mario. L\u2019exode qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois, 1852-1925. Correspondance d\u2019une famille dispers\u00e9e en Am\u00e9rique<\/em>, Qu\u00e9bec, Septentrion, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Painchaud, Robert. Un r\u00eave fran\u00e7ais dans le peuplement de la Prairie,<\/em> Saint-Boniface (Man.), \u00c9ditions des Plaines, 1987.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Une diaspora canadienne-fran\u00e7aise, des \u00c9tats \u00e0 l\u2019Alberta Ce sont les paroles d\u2019une chanson compos\u00e9e par Mathilda Plamondon, matriarche de la famille qui a fond\u00e9 le village de Plamondon, dans le nord-est de l\u2019Alberta, en 1908. Bien que l\u00e9g\u00e8re et m\u00eame un brin humoristique, cette chanson constitue un t\u00e9moignage qui permet d\u2019imaginer certains aspects de la […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60472210,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-399","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Pfdu74-6r","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parolefranco.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/399","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=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/parolefranco.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2321,"href":"https:\/\/parolefranco.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/399\/revisions\/2321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parolefranco.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}