Growing Up During the Great Depression How Neighborhood Families Survived
Edmond Theriault, "Growing Up During the Great Depression How Neighborhood Families Survived"
English | ISBN: 0991006941 | 2021 | 78 pages | EPUB | 8 MB
English | ISBN: 0991006941 | 2021 | 78 pages | EPUB | 8 MB
The Great Depression created difficulties for almost all the people of Fort Kent, Maine. Most of the people were Frenchmen with a few Englishmen, and one Native Americans (Dennis' and Trombleys'). The French came from Nova Scotia and Quebec. Most of the Frenchmen had never gone to school. They had to learn to survive. They suffered many hardships and mistreatments in the war between France and England. The English came from downstate and seemed to have all the money to start businesses, especially cutting the virgin timber. We were thankful that our land and forest produced plants and animals to help us survive. My family and neighbors endured.
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