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East Providence Senior Center (Meeting Room)
East Providence, RI
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Woonsocket stands as one of the best examples in the United States of a predominantly French-speaking city. Its French-Canadian immigrants began to arrive in the Blackstone Valley in the years around the American Civil War. Beginning in the 1880s and continuing through the 1920s, men, women, and children from Quebec came to the Valley, leaving unsustainable family farms behind them, and flooded into the Valley looking for factory work in the region's booming mill towns. But the French Canadians were not the only people coming here to seek work. Irish, Italian, Jewish, Polish and African-American migrants came, as well. As the 20th century progressed, more people from different parts of the world, such as Asia and Latin America, also made this their home.The Museum of Work & Culture is a true community museum, managed by the Rhode Island Historical Society, supported by volunteers, the city of Woonsocket, and the John H. 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Woonsocket stands as one of the best examples in the United States of a predominantly French-speaking city. Its French-Canadian immigrants began to arrive in the Blackstone Valley in the years around the American Civil War. Beginning in the 1880s and continuing through the 1920s, men, women, and children from Quebec came to the Valley, leaving unsustainable family farms behind them, and flooded into the Valley looking for factory work in the region's booming mill towns. But the French Canadians were not the only people coming here to seek work. Irish, Italian, Jewish, Polish and African-American migrants came, as well. As the 20th century progressed, more people from different parts of the world, such as Asia and Latin America, also made this their home.The Museum of Work & Culture is a true community museum, managed by the Rhode Island Historical Society, supported by volunteers, the city of Woonsocket, and the John H. 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