In the 1800s, New England drove the industrialization of the USA; cotton textile manufacturing drove New England’s industrialization; and Franco-Americans, after 1865, drove the New England cotton textile industry. But why would almost one million Canadien Français (French Canadians) migrate from Canada to New England, the North American epicenter of antipathy towards francophone Catholics? Le Grande Hémorragie (the great hemorrhage) between the 1840s and the 1930s was the only ethnically based, mass migration to the USA that was accomplished by train. In this course we will explore the emergence of the ethno-culturally cohesive Canadien français; the reasons for their migration from Canada to the USA; their lives as immigrants; their transformation into Franco-Americans despite the ideology of la survivance; and, finally, their assimilation into the English-speaking, Protestant dominated, capitalist oriented culture of New England. There will be both required and suggested readings concerning this unique migration of North Americans within North America. The class will include both lecture and discussion.