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2022 Speaker Series

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David Vermette, author

Thank You
​David Vermette
April 26, 2022

A wonderful presentation on French-Canadian immigration with over 100 attendees. 

Thank you to the Vaillancourt family for the use of Blaxton Hall.

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The venue for this presentation is the historic Manchaug Mills in which hundreds of French-Canadian immigrants worked during the late      19th and early 20th century.  The Village of Manchaug, recently named to the National Register of Historic Places, was a company-owned Village with over 1600 residents, mostly of French-Canadian descent, living and working in the one-square mile village at the turn of the 20th century.  Manchaug, a surviving example of the hundreds of similar textile-manufacturing villages throughout New England, boasts period architecture including a company-store building, the mill office building which currently houses the post office, the Mill agent’s home with a distinct mansard roof, as well as many original tenement houses.

The Village of Wilkinsonville in Sutton also boasted a large Franco-American population.  These immigrant workers were employed by the Sutton Manufacturing Company which was under the umbrella of Slater & Sons.  The company founded by Samuel Slater (b. 1768 d.1835), continued operations in Wilkinsonville from 1829 through 1907. Samuel Slater was an early American industrialist known as the "Father of the Industrial Revolution" and the "Father of the American Factory System".

Images of Manchaug's Franco-Americans

Asterie Bourgeois and fellow male workers in Manchaug Mill
1907 Manchaug Baseball Team
Circa 1900 Manchaug school children. Mumford Hill in background
Weaving Room, Manchaug Mills
Main Street Store circa 1909 - Laura Matte - Blanche Bessette - Naoemi Couillard
Manchaug Mills farm workers with wagons
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    • "Big Ben" and Cannon Shed
    • General Rufus Putnam Memorial
    • Eight Lots School House
    • First Town Meeting Marker
    • Mile Markers to Boston
    • Manchaug Diorama