AATF FRENCH ADVOCACY FACT PACK FOR VERMONT

 

 

RELEVANT FRANCOPHONE GOVERNMENT ADDRESSES

 

Belgian Consular Reprehensive for Vermont

 

Mr. Alan MARCUSE, Honorary Consul

Home Network Assets LLC

11 Foster Street

Brighton, MA 02135

Phone (617) 779-8700

Fax (617) 779-7923

E-mail: Boston@diplobel.org

 

 

Canadian Consulate

 

The Consulate General of Canada

Three Copley Place, Suite 400

Boston, MA 02116

Tel: (617) 262-3760,

Fax: (617) 262-3415

e-mail: boston.commerce@international.gc.ca

http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/can-am/boston/menu-en.asp

 

 

Consulat de France

 

Consulat GŽnŽral de France ˆ Boston

31 Saint James Avenue

Suite 750

Boston, MA 02116

Tel. (617) 542 7374

consulat@consulfrance-boston.org

http://www.consulfrance-boston.org/

 

Consul Honoraire pour le Vermont

Mr. Patrick Buffet

16 Peacham Lane

Essex Junction, VT 05452

Tel : (802)878 09 92

Fax : (802) 878 09 92

 

 

QuŽbec Delegation, Boston

One Boston Place

201 Washington Street, Suite 1920

Boston, MA 02108

Tel: (617) 482-1193

Fax: (617) 482-1195

http://www.mri.gouv.qc.ca/usa/en/boston/qui_sommes_nous/index.asp

 

 

Vermont Foreign Language Association

http://www.vfla.org/events.htm

 

Vermont Foreign Language Association Advocacy Page

http://www.vfla.org/film.htm

 

 

 

IMPORTANT EDUCATIONAL ADDRESSES:

 

L'Ecole Franaise de Middlebury

http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/ls/french/

 

Canadian Studies Program - University of Vermont

http://www.uvm.edu/~canada/

 

School for International Training (Brattleboro)

http://www.sit.edu/

 

Kaplan Center for Languages and Cultures (Bennington College)

http://kaplan.bennington.edu/

 

 

 

AATF in Vermont

 

 

Hildegun E. Schaefer, President

E-mail: pgrant@together.net

 

Barbara Andres, Treasurer

P.O. Box 18

Salisbury, VT 05769

E-mail: andres@middlebury.edu

 

 

Alliance Franaise

 

Alliance Franaise of the Lake Champlain Region

P.O. Box 2087

MILTON (Georgia), VT 05468-2087

Tel. 802-524-3291

E-mail: mmartin@smcvt.edu

President: Mme Monique MARTIN

 

 

Gail Kilkelly, Vermont Representative to

National Council of State Supervisors of Foreign Languages

gailkilkelly@education.state.vt.us

Vermont Department of Education

120 State Street

Montpelier, VT 05620-2501

Phone: 802-828-6560

Fax: 802-828-6563

 

 

CULTURAL NOTES

 

Franco-American singer song writer, Michele Choiniere, was born in northern Vermont.

 

http://www.michelechoiniere.com/

 

Chimney Point State Historic Site has a Museum of Native American and French Heritage.  Hardwick Vermont has an annual French Heritage Festival.

 

         Hardwick, USA : le franais en hŽritage (Le Franais dans le monde)

         http://www.fdlm.org/fle/article/333/hardwick.php

 

The Barre VT fiddler's contest often features Acadian French music.  The New World Festival in Randolph, VT  also features French Canadian music

 

Woolfson, Peter A.  The French in Vermont: Some Current Views. Burlington, VT : Center for Research on Vermont, UVM, 1983.

 

 

Francophone Media in Vermont

 

South Burlington, VT  RETN  / 130 000 - France Feelings & CanapŽ

http://www.retn.org/

 

 

 

 

VERMONT'S FRANCOPHONE DEMOGRAPHIC DATA

 

In Vermont, nearly 14,700 of its 574,842 residents speak French, French Creole or Cajun French.  This is actually a relatively large percentage of the population.

 

there is a large enough French-speaking population in the Winooski area that the local cable TV system absolutely must carry two French stations out of Montreal.

 

At 14.5% (88,100), French is the 3rd largest ancestry group in Vermont. French-Canadian is 5th at 8.8% (53,800).

 

 Nearly half of Colchester, VT's population is of French Canadian descent.

 

Vermont (L'amŽnagement linguistique dans le monde)

http://www.tlfq.ulaval.ca/axl/amnord/vermont.htm

 

Vermont French-Canadian Genealogical Society

http://www.vt-fcgs.org/

 

Tracing French-Canadiana from Vermont back to Quebec in the 19th Century

http://www.rootsweb.com/~vermont/FrenchCanadianMigration.html

 

 

 

VERMONT'S FRANCOPHONE PLACE NAMES

 

Vermont, Montpelier, Beaulieu's Corner, Granville, Fayetteville, Fayville, Calais, Belvidere, Belmont, Fee Fee Point, French Settlement, Grand Isle, Orleans, Danville, Tarbeville, Vergennes, La Platte River, Isle La Motte, Lamoille County, Orleans County, Bordoville, Grand Isle County, Niquette Bay, Barre, Winooski (French Village), Valcour, Bellevue Hill, Hectorville, Lake Champlain, Ecole Champlain, La Moille River

 

The British named Chimney Point in 1759 after a remaining French farmstead cimney

 

 

 

FRENCH AND FRANCOPHONE MOMENTS IN VERMONT HISTORY

 

1609 - Samuel de Champlain sailed into what is now known as Lake Champlain, and named the area "Verde Mont", claiming the land in the name of France. Later French visitors called it "Les verts monts"

 

1646 - French Jesuits discovered Lake George (naming it "St. Sacrament")

 

1666 - First attempt at a French permanent settlement in fort and a shrine to Ste Anne on the Isle La Motte in Lake Champlain. It was constructed by Pierre de St. Paul, Sieur de la Motte and garrisoned by 300 troops of the Carignan Regiment.

 

1731 - small temporary wooden stockade (Fort de Pieux or Fort Pointe ˆ la Chevelure) on what was Chimney Point

 

1734 - construction of more permanent Fort St FrŽderic began in the same spot.

 

1734 - (July 20,) Sieur Philippe-RenŽ le Gardeur de Beauvais, Jr was granted territory, including what is now Swanton Falls.

 

1740s - Nicholas-RenŽ Levasseur, a naval contractor, sent to New France to build ships for the King, visited the settlement at Missisquoi.

 

1755 - French constructed Fort Carillon on the Vermont/New York boarder.

 

1759 - French were defeated and driven out of Fort St FrŽderic by the English after 4 tries and a combined force of 12,000 British regular and provincial troops

 

1777 - With reinforcements from the Vermont militia, American forces routed the British at the Battle of Saratoga, convincing the French to aid the Americans.

 

1783 - Charles Gravier, Comte de Vergennes (for whom Vergennes is named) negotiated the 1783 Treaty of Paris that formally brought the Revolutionary War to a close.  It was also Gravier established a dummy company through which the Americans received nearly 80% of their military supplies from France.

 

1839 - A newspaper called Le Patriote canadien published in Burnlington.

 

1840s-1860s: Huge influx of French Canadians to to work in the forests and lumber yards

 

1860s-1930: Very large French-Canadian immigrant influx to work in the new shoe and woollen factories

 

Movement and Settlement - The French Settlement Of Vermont: 1609-1929

http://www.flowofhistory.org/themes/movement_settlement/french.php

 

Sources for French-Canadians in the United States, Vermont, and Winooski

http://personalweb.smcvt.edu/winooskimills/socialhistory/frcansources.htm

 

French Forts Along the Richelieu River

http://historiclakes.org/canada/richelieu_forts.htm

 

French Fort Ste Anne

http://historiclakes.org/explore/ste_anne.htm

 

Lake Champlain and Lake George History Timeline

http://historiclakes.org/Timelines/timeline1.html

 

"Nos anctres les Gaulois": Ethnicity and History in Vermont

http://www.vermonthistory.org/journal/71/vt711_205.pdf

 

Rev. of  One Came Bavk (Un Revenant)

http://www.fawi.net/OneCameBackUnRevenant.html

 

Movement and Settlement Immigration to Vermont: 1840 to 1930

http://www.flowofhistory.org/themes/movement_settlement/immigration.php

 

 

VERMONT'S ROLE IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS

 

Foreign Direct Investments

 

With 4.1% of its total workforce employed by foreign companies in Vermont, the state ranks 27th in this aspect of foreign-direct investment

 

In 1995, foreign investors owned 86,532 acres of Vermont farm land.

 

Trade:

 

The Value of Vermon's exports in 2004:  $3,283,100,000

 

In millions of dollars

Canada                         1,516.1

France                          22.1

Switzerland                  6.7

Belgium                        5.8

Luxembourg                5.0

 

47.38%  of Vermont's export income derives from trade with French-speaking countries.  One fifth of Vermont's top 25 trading partners are French-speaking countries.

 

In a statement by Vermont governor Jim Douglas released March 24, 2005 he stated that "VermontÕs trade with Quebec is approximately $850 million and represents 80 percent of all of the stateÕs trade with Canada...Vermont is QuebecÕs fifth largest trading partner with nearly $2 billion in product shipped into Vermont."

 

http://www.vermont.gov/tools/whatsnew2/index.php?topic=GovPressReleases&id=1200&v=Article

 

 

Canada is extremely important to Vermont tourism.

 

 

Canadian Embassy State Trade Fact Sheet for Vermont

http://www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca/can-am/washington/state_trade_2005/vermont-en.asp

 

 

Transborder Freight Data between Vermont and all of Canada from June 2004 to June 2005:

 

         All Canadian Provinces to Vermont         $4,130,235,245

         Vermont to All Canadian Provinces         $1,982,199,666

 

 

Vermont's International Trade Alliance

http://www.vermonttrade.com/

 

ThinkVermont.com (Importing & Exporting)

http://www.thinkvermont.com/import/trade.cfm

 

Vermonters in International Trade and Services

http://www.uvm.edu/~vits/vi.html

 

Vermont Chamber of Commerce - International Trade

http://www.vtchamber.com/business/intltrade.html

 

Vermont International Trade News

http://www.einnews.com/vermont/newsfeed-VermontInternationalTrade

 

 

Vermont Business in France

 

Fibermark, Inc. , in  Brattleboro, VT is one Vermont-based company with a subsidiary in France.

 

 

POLITICAL ADVOCACY POSSIBILITIES IN VERMONT

 

 

Contacting members of the US Congress from Vermont

http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/cgi-bin/newseek.cgi?site=ctc&state=vt

 

The Vermont Legislature - Legislative Directory

http://www.leg.state.vt.us/legdir/legdir2.htm

 

TIPS FOR ADVOCATING FOR WORLD LANGUAGES

http://www.mctlc.org/newvisions/advguide.html