The records of the Western Massachusetts locals and district councils of the UBCJA documents the rise of unionization among carpenters in the Connecticut River Valley since the 1880s. This collection represents a merger of separate accessions for the District Councils in Springfield (MS 110), the Pioneer Valley (MS 231), and Holyoke (MS 108), along with post-merger records for Local 108. In general, each has been maintained as a distinct series.
Collection includes statutes and by-laws, minutes, administrative records, correspondence, financial records and receipts, scholarship records, publications, records of programs and events, and artifacts and ephemera.
Giguère's prepared remarks for the Summer Institute at Bates College, Adaptation and Continuity: From Canadien to American via Franco-American and American of French Heritage Stages.
Presentation "Motivation and Careers" prepared by Giguère for the Conference on Cultural Identity in French-Speaking Lowell at the University of Lowell.
Madeleine Giguere gave a presentation titled Le Franco-Americain: Vers Demain, at the Payrolls or Pickerel Conference c. 1970.
This conference was sponsored by the Institute of French-Canadian Culture at St. Francis College in Biddeford, Maine, The Maine Humanities Council, and the National Endowment of the Arts.
