History in Our Everyday Lives

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 15.03.04

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. Rationale
  3. Content Objectives
  4. Other French Pioneers in Santa Clara Valley
  5. Teaching Strategies
  6. Activities
  7. Resources
  8. Appendices
  9. Notes

French History in Your City: San Jose, California - the Pellier Brothers

Glenn Davis

Published September 2015

Tools for this Unit:

Resources

Bibliography for Teachers

Bentel, Dwight, and Dolores Freitas. Stories of Santa Clara Valley. San Jose, CA: The   Rosicrucian Press, 1942.

Bryant, Edwin. Voyage en Californie. Bruxelles: Delevingne et Callewaert, 1849.

Butler, Phyllis Filiberti, The Valley of Santa Clara: Historic Buildings, 1792-1920. San   Jose, CA: The Junior League of San Jose, Inc., 1975.

Cipriano, Crecia. “Land and People: French Canadian Immigration to the United States   and Describing Family Members Through Role-Play and Letter Writing.” Yale-  New Haven Teachers Institute. 2013.

http://teachersinstitute.yale.edu/curriculum/units/2013/2/13.02.02.x.html#e.

Declarations of Intention for Naturalization. Santa Clara County, CA.

Derbec, Etienne. A French Journalist in the California Gold Rush. Georgetown, CA: The Talisman Press, 1964.

Douglas, Jack. “The Historic Almaden Winery.” Historical Footnotes of Santa Clara   Valley. San Jose: History Museums of San Jose, 2003.

Farrell, Harry. San Jose – And Other Famous Places. The San Jose Historical Museum   Association, 1983.

Ferry, Jules, “Speech Before the French Camber of Deputies, March 28, 1884,”   Discours et Opinions de Jules Ferry. Paris: Armand Colin & Cie., 1897,   https://web.viu.ca/davies/H479B.Imperialism.Nationalism/Ferry.Fr.imperia lism.1884.htm

Hall, Frederic. History of San Jose and Surroundings. San Francisco: Printing House of   A. L. Bancroft and Co., 1871.

Hayden, Dolores. Power of Place: Urban Landscape as Public History. Cambridge and   London: The MIT Press, 1997.

Hedrick, U.P. “The Plums of New York.” Documents of the Assembly of the State of   New York, v. 21, Albany: J.B. Lyon Company, 1909, 31.

Hirsch, Julia. Family Photographs: Content, Meaning and Effect. New York and   Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981.

Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara. Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage.   Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

Kyvig, David E., and Myron A. Marty. Nearby History: Exploring the Past Around You.   Lanham: AltaMira Press, 2010.

Lévy, Daniel. Les Français en Californie. San Francisco: Grégoire, Tauzy et Cie, 1884.

Loomis, Patricia. Signposts. San Jose, CA: San Jose Historical Museum Association,  1982.

Rohrbough, Malcolm J. Rush to Gold: The French and the California Gold Rush, 1848-  1854. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2013.

Sawyer, Eugene T. History of Santa Clara County. California: Historic Record Co.,   1922.

Shepherd, Thomas J., and Clarice Mondo Cooks. A Century of Pioneers: The California   Pelliers. North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014.

So, Julie, Imigration and Migration: My Family and My Community, YNI Curriculum  unit Vol. 3, 2014.

Reading List for Students

“Assimilation (French colonialism)”   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assimilation_(French_colonialism)

Calvary Catholic Cemetery, 2650 Madden Ave, San Jose, CA.

Carlson, Eric. “Pellier Park – Home to Fallon?”   http://www.sanjose.com/underbelly/unbelly/Pale/Fallon/pellier.html

Chaput, Donald. La Participation des Canadiens français à la Conquête de l’Ouest   américain: notes biographiques. Los Angeles: Délégation du Québec: 1985.

Courrier des Etats-Unis, Newspaper in New York City.

De Saisset Archives and Manuscripts, Santa Clara University Library.

Foucrier, Annick. Le Rêve Californien. Paris: Belin, 1999.

History Park, 635 Phelan Ave, Kelly Park, San Jose, CA.

Journal des Débats, Newspaper.

Lamontagne, Sophie-Laurence. Canadiens Français et Québécois en Californie.   Québec: Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, April 2002.

Lebris, Michel. Quand la Californie Était Française. Paris: Le Pré aux Clercs, 1999.

Massicotte, É-Z. “Nos chansons historiques: la recherche de l’or en Californie.”   Bulletin dse Recherches Historiques, repris par Guildo Rousseau, op. cit., 148.

Pellier, Louis. Documents from the California Room, King Library, San Jose State   University

Pellier Park, W. Saint James St, San Jose, CA.

Pomerleau, Jeanne. Les Chercheurs d’Or. Editions J.-C. Dupont, 1996.

Reflections of the Past, 1996

Santa Clara County Historical and Genealogical Society, 2635 Homestead Rd, Santa   Clara, CA (Early Settlers Round-up, San Jose Mercury News)

Sourisseau Academy, King Library, San Jose, CA.

Zetterquist, Jim. “The Pellier Jinx.” Trailblazer 53 no. 1 (2012): 1-10.

List of Materials for Classroom Use

1860 United States Federal Census.

1870 United States Federal Census.

1880 United States Federal Census.

1900 United States Federal Census.

1910 United States Federal Census.

California State Census, 1852.

Chalmers, Claudine. Images of America: French San Francisco. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2007.

Christian Amblard. “History of the Prune Industry.” Sutter Foods. http://www.sutterfoods.com/history.htm

“De la Prune d’Ente au Pruneau d’Agen.” Last modified Dec. 15, 2011.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AOsgyeO0ms

“de Saisset Family History.” De Saisset Museum. Santa Clara University.  http://www.scu.edu/desaisset/about/family-history.cfm

Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York. One Hundred and Thirty-second   Session, 1909, vol 21, no. 29 part 5. Albany, J. B. Lyon Company, p. 31.

Foley, Bill. The Story of Louis Pellier. Edited segment from “A Fortune in Two Trunks.”   1951. https://vimeo.com/31450269

“French Colonization.” http://www.discoverfrance.net/Colonies/

Hensley, Sara L. City of San Jose Memorandum. Approved Aug. 2, 2005.   http://www3.sanjoseca.gov/clerk/Agenda/08_16_05docs/081605_02.06.pdf

“History in Three Dimensions.” http://www.cmhpf.org/kids/TopicalEssays/y-study-it.html

https://casls.uoregon.edu/mosaic/FR_mosaic/africa/FR_U4A3/LaFranceColoniale.html

Laurie Collier Hillstrom. “French Americans.” Countries and Their Cultures.   http://www.everyculture.com/multi/Du-Ha/French-Americans.html

Laws, David. “Pellier Park, San Jose.” California Gardens. Last updated Sept. 9, 2011,   http://northerncaliforniagardens.sutromedia.com/pellier-park-san-jose.html

“Le Français au Grand Siècle.”   http://www.axl.cefan.ulaval.ca/francophonie/HIST_FR_s6_Grand-Siecle.htm

Leonard McKay. “Louis Pellier.” Sanjoseinside. Last modified September 25, 2006.   http://www.sanjoseinside.com/2006/09/25/louis_pellier/

Mitschke, Cherie. Imaginez: le francais sans frontiers. Boston: Vista Higher Learning,   2012.

“`Paroles de pruniculteurs’: le portail d’information du G.E.D.” Syndicat du pruneau   d’Agen. Last modified 2010.   https://parolesdepruniculteurs.wordpress.com/pruneau-dagen-igp/histoire-du-   pruneau-dagen/

“Pellier Celebration.” California Pioneers.   http://californiapioneers.com/Pellier/PellierCelebrationInvite_10-24-2011.pdf

Robert Cartier and Christopher Morgan. “The Kell Cemetery: An Historic Cemetery in   San Jose.” Archaeological Resource Management.   http://www.scahome.org/publications/proceedings/Proceedings.15Cartier2.pdf

“Prune d’Ente.” Great Ciao. http://www.greatciao.com/prune-dente-of-agen/

“School Profile.” William C. Overfelt High School.   http://www.wcohs.schoolloop.com/SchoolProfileb

Urban Programmers. “An Analysis of the Historical and Architectural Significance of the   Almaden Winery Site.” Almaden Winery Neighborhood Association. Last   modified May 4, 1988.   http://www.awna.org/history/Analysis_Historical_and_Architecutral/analysis_of_  the historica_&_architectural_significance.htm

Valette, Jean-Paul and Rebecca M. Valette. Discovering French Today! Orlando: Holt   McDougal, 2013.

Zetterquist, Jim. “Pellier Jinx Continues.” Trailblazer 53 no. 2 (2012): 3-4,   http://californiapioneers.com/Trailblazers/June2012Trailblaz.pdf

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