[Magdalen] Quebec City.

[ME Michaud]

My father was born in Andover  MA and grew up in Newburyport
and he didn't learn to speak English until grammar school.

His was the generation that was beaten by the teachers if they
lapsed into French on the playground.

He was also of the generation of paratroopers dropped into
France because they could speak da lingo.

Skills. Can't live with them. Can't live without them.

I think there's still a French language radio station in Fall River
or Providence. Picked it up one afternoon driving up from Rhode
Island.

I love the road signs on Cape Breton:

    Rue
Prudence
    Road

-M

On Saturday, January 10, 2015, Joseph Cirou <romanos at mindspring.com> wrote:

> There are English speaking villages between the St Lawrence and Us border.
> You go close to the border in Vermont (as I remember) and Maine and the
> signs are bilingual English and French--probably elsewhere. There are a
> number French Canadian settlements in Mass and NH. Our lead at the IRS
> didn't speak English until she went to first grade. Now this is  a 100
> years ago; but my father did not speak English as his first language altho
>
>