Justice de Biddeford (La)

Notes et remarques

« La Justice de Biddeford was a French-language weekly newspaper first published on May 14, 1896, by Alfred Bonneau in Biddeford, Maine. On its inaugural publication, the newspaper was known simply as La Justice, a name shared by several other French-language newspapers in New England, until adding the city name to its title in 1907. La Justice de Biddeford lasted 54 years, making it the longest running of a dozen French newspapers and periodicals published in Biddeford alone between 1880 and 1960. The Thursday weekly was eight pages long; an annual subscription cost $1.00 in the United States and $1.50 in Canada. The newspaper’s audience was made up of Biddeford’s many French-speaking residents from Canada, most of whom migrated to the southern Maine coastal town from Québec in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries seeking work in the textile and shoe manufacturing industries. Biddeford’s many French readers also had access to other regional francophone news publications like Lewiston, Maine’s Le Messager and Montréal’s La Presse, signaling the porousness of political borders in the late nineteenth century for this transnational francophone community. » (Fiche de la Maine State Library disponible sur la notice de la LOC pour La Justice de Biddeford mentionnée plus haut. Voir cette notice pour la suite du texte)