“Fais ce que dois...advienne que pourra!”
The Story of Wilfrid Beaulieu’s Le Travailleur
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19423948 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark Richard (0000-0002-8630-9097, State University of New York, corresponding author), Mark Paul Richard (State University of New York at Plattsburgh) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 80 |
| Pages | 77-98 |
| Publication date | 2025-12-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Quebec Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0737-3759 • E-ISSN: 2052-1731 |
| Publisher | Liverpool University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3828/qs.2025.15 |
| OpenAlex | W7116764819 |
| Language | FR |
| References cited | 6 |
U.S.-born, Québec-educated Wilfrid Beaulieu founded the newspaper, Le Travailleur , in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1931. He went on to publish the French-language newspaper for nearly five decades. When Le Travailleur ceased publication in 1978, the year before Beaulieu’s death, it was the last remaining Franco-American weekly newspaper in the United States. This article traces the evolution of this French-language newspaper over nearly half a century to shed light on the struggles of an ethnic press in the United States. To do so, it taps into Wilfrid Beaulieu’s records, donated by his widow to the Boston Public Library, to provide rare insight into a Franco-American newspaper business. While many French-language newspapers in the U.S.A. were short-lived, this article demonstrates how one French-language newspaper was able to survive for five decades in New England
Ethnic group · Newspaper · Publishing · Canadian Identity and History · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · Literature and Culture Studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |