People on train platform wave to camera. Many are children. A sign in background advertises the Movie Queen. A parade on the main street is led by policemen and Boy Scouts carrying flags, followed by a band. This film was shot in warm weather. Many cars pass the camera, their occupants waving for the camera. Sign on truck: "Van Buren Goes Hollywood. Pictures Are Now Being Taken for the Movie Queen, Gayety Theatre, Aug. 7-8. See Yourself on the Silver Screen. Benefit for the Boy Scouts." Views of city officials greeting the "Movie Queen" as she gets out of car with her male companion and several others. Several pose in the doorway. Queen and Boy Scouts in uniform pose for the camera. Young teen boys pose with sign for the "Movie Queen". More shots of the parade in town, including the Silver Bell Band. Views of the Town Office building, where on the steps, the Movie Queen receives a key to the town. Scouts, band, children watch and wave. Pan the window of the Northern National Bank of Presque Isle, Van Buren Branch. The Queen greets several women, two men chat in the bank. Views of Findlen's Drug Store with Ex-Lax advertisements in the window. Druggist creating a fizzy drink on the store steps as a woman drinks a soda. Overexposed shots of a wood mill, Cities Service filling station with attendant checking oil and washing a car window. At Watson Bros. IGA store, the Movie Queen enters and departs with employee carrying a bag of groceries. She shakes their hands. Camera pans store advertisements in window. Harris Tailor with goods in window, and tailor fitting a sport coat. Woman looks at stockings. Queen and her companion exit store. Views of circus set up with tent. Truck says "Hunt Circus" Potential customers listen to barker or chat with each other. Shots of many faces. John S. Plourde General Merchandise store with pans of front of store and truck. Produce is advertised in window. Horse-drawn wagon marked " JJ Plourde Meats" drives by. A family checks out couches in the window. Staff puts a baby crib on the truck for delivery. Richards Pharmacy has window advertisements for Vinco Herb Tablets (a stomach remedy). An employee gives the Movie Queen a kiss. Long sequence of exteriors of church as parishioners leave. We see many faces in the large crowd. Women work at E.E. Dionne Insurance and a man gives the Queen a paper to sign. Woman puts dog in toy car. At Cormier Bros. Garage, the Queen looks over a car as if to buy it. It has a 1935 license plate. She looks at a DeSoto advertisement. Pan the front of the Banque Provinciale du Canada, and a woman entering. Views of U.J. Daigle, an insurance agent outside his home speaking with the Queen. Views of Martin Bros. Builders, a shoe store, hardware store, and a swimming hole with lots of activity and spectators on the shore (overexposed and dirt in frame). Various shots of a softball game in an open lot. Queen exits at an auto garage, pretending to have had a breakdown, and the garage man tows the car away. Hotel Cyr sign on building. Bus stops by hotel. Policemen check car at the Canada border crossing. Views of the W. Vailancourt garage. People pose by truck and building. Views of sign at Gayety Theatre and exterior of kids coming out of theater, followed by crowds of others. At Parent Bros., men fill cars with gas and clean windows. Hammond Auto Company garage with car driving out. Queen examines features of car with her male companion. In a lumber yard, men move lumber around, and the Movie Queen looks around. Finished planks come down a conveyor belt. In the river, logs are moved around and start up a conveyor into the mill.
A letter from Élie Vézina, secretary of the USJB, to Félix Gatineau, 12 August 1925. The letter invites Gatineau to take part in the 25th anniversary of the organization.
A souvenir booklet for the Fete St-Jean-Baptiste, held in Calumet, Michigan, 23 June 1910. The event was held in conjunction with the 25th anniversary of the founding of St. Anne's Parish, also in Calumet, MI.
A speech given in Gatineau's honor, 21 November 1909. The event honored Gatineau's work with the USJB, particularly his years as president of the organization.
A dinner program for the Banquet Annuel de la Fête Nationale Française, 14 July 1926. Hosted by the Société de Secours Mutuels de Langue Française, at the Cafe Seville on Boylston Street in Boston, MA.
A souvenir multi-page booklet titled, Programme-Souvenir au XXVIième Congrès des Franco-Américains du Connecticut. The event was held in Putnam, CT, 2-3 June 1924.
Dinner program for the 25ième Anniversaire de La Société des Artisans Canadiens-Français aux Etats-Unis. Held at the Hotel Bancroft in Worcester, MA on 9 October 1921.The back cover of the program includes committee members' names.
A souvenir program of Notre Dame Parish. It was produced in recognition of a visit from friends, as well as a Union Saint-Jean-Baptiste congress held in Holyoke.
A letter from a wine and spirits syndicat, to S. Alphonse Daudelin. The letter expresses the well wishes of the Syndicat upon the news that Daudelin was to become a chevalier in the Legion d'Honneur.
A letter to Dr. Daudelin, from Ferdinand Gagnon's widow Malvina Lalime. In the letter she expresses her gratitude for the memorial planned for her late husband.
An invitation to a banquet honoring Dr. Daudelin upon his return from Europe. The Banquet was to be held at the Restaurant Putnam & Thurston, in Worcester.
The dinner was hosted by M. Emile Bertin, and was held at the Restaurant des Sociétés Savantes in Paris. The program includes the menu, wine list, and speakers.
Program for a dinner hosted by the Russian representative to the International Maritime Exposition. The program includes both the menu and list of wines.
Program for a dinner hosted by Dr. Daudelin in his role as High Commissioner of the U.S. to the International Maritime Exposition. The program includes both the menu and list of wines. An image of President Theodore Roosevelt is on the front cover, and an image of the U.S. Pavilion at the exposition is on the back cover.
This bill from the Franco-American Regalia and Novelty Co. documents various expenses incurred by the Comité Executif de la Demonstration commemorative Fr. Gagnon. In includes such supplies as stamps and electric lights purchased for the memorial and banquet held in Ferdinand Gagnon's honor.
This bill from Belisle Printing & Publishing Co. of Worcester, Massachusetts documents expenses incurred by the Comité d'Organisation Memorial Fr. Gagnon. The expenses include various print matter that was created for the memorial and banquet held in Ferdinand Gagnon's honor.
The collection includes the secretary's records, correspondence, financial records, newspapers and clippings, banquet programs, and French holiday music.
The majority of the collection consists of French-language newspapers and clippings pertaining to prominent members of the Fall River community, Franco-American organizations, and medical associations. The collection also contains notes, correspondence, and speeches from the various organizations of which Dr. Boivin was a member; programs for conferences and celebrations from The French Cultural Association and The St. Anne School; and a black and white photograph of the Lafayette Monument on Eastern Avenue in Fall River. The most notable item in the collection is a large 18x13x4 indexed scrapbook which contains newspaper clippings on local doctors, lawyers, church and school leaders of French Canadian descent, as well as events, organizations, and associations within the French Canadian community of Fall River. The bulk of these clippings date from 1935-1977. The scrapbook also contains thank you notes, cards, and photographs which are attached to the inside covers.
This collection consists of seven colored postcards and one colored magazine clipping depicting paintings by Mr. Claude Picard. Six of the postcards are a representation of paintings illustrating the Deportation and losses of the Acadians from their lands. They hang in the Grand-Pré Memorial Church at Grand-Pré, Nova Scotia, One postcard is of a Christmas Nativity scene at the Cathedral in Edmundston, New Brunswick that Mr. Picard painted. Not dated. The colored magazine clipping is of a fresco titled La vie au Madawaska 1785-1985 which is located at the Edmundston City Hall.
Many Franco-Americans were in the U.S. military during WWII. Marvin Haines married into a Franco-American family and was adopted by a Franco-American family, the Daigneaults.
A series of photographs featuring participants in the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day Parade on Congress Street in Cohoes. The "French Church," St. Joseph's, appears in the background.
