Overview

Franco American Digital Archives/Portail franco-américain (FADA/PFA) is an online portal to Franco-American archival collections. 

FADA/PFA addresses the need for online access to Franco-American cultural history by: locating and identifying archival materials that concern French-Canadian, Québécois(e), and Acadian diaspora communities in the US Northeast–wherever these materials have been collected around the world; bringing together information about these collections and their contents in an organized, searchable, and culturally conscientious way; and making accessible these collections and their contents by directing the public toward their digital presence and the institutions that collect and preserve them

FADA/PFA is sustained by the members of the Franco American Collections Consortium (https://facconsortium.org), a collaboration between UMaine, University of Southern Maine, University of Maine at Fort Kent, Assumption University, and Saint Anselm College. We are five institutions in Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts that coordinate Franco-American research and work together to make accessible the history and culture of Franco Americans of the Northeast and beyond.