U.S. Census...make your mark as a French heritage person!

please forward throughout Franco-America!

hello, I am writing to ask that each person who has French heritage ancestry mark your census form with this information so that the French heritage population does not *disappear* as so many are fond of saying--which, of course, is a myth.

On the census form, choose "white" as race but also fill out the "other" further down the form with either French-Canadian or Franco-American. BE COUNTED!

In memory of Madeleine Giguere who worked so hard to have the French designation printed on the census forms...let us do a write-in ballot for the culture!

Info on her work at the Franco-American Women's Institute site:
*Madeleine Giguère, statisticienne
[ http://www.fawi.net/Statisticsf.html ]http://www.fawi.net/Statisticsf.html
also,
[ http://www.fawi.net/madgig.html ]http://www.fawi.net/madgig.html

merci, Rhea

Rhea
Rhea Cote Robbins, M.A.
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Author of Wednesday's Child
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Canuck and Other Stories
Rhea Côté Robbins, Editor
Canuck, by Camille Lessard Bissonnette, (1883-1970),
translated by Sue Huseman and Sylvie Charron
La Jeune Franco-Américaine, The Young Franco-American
by Alberte Gastonguay, (1906-1978),
translated by Madeleine C. Paré Roy
Françaises d'Amérique, Frenchwomen of North America
by Corinne Rocheleau Rouleau, (1881-1963),
translated by Jeannine Bacon Roy

Franco-American Women's Institute
online since 1996
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