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An important part of Franco-American history is the Quebec Diaspora of the 1840s - 1930s , in which hundreds of tens of thousands of French Canadians moved to the United States, principally to the New England states and Michigan. They also moved to different regions within Canada, namely Ontario and Manitoba. Many of the early male migrants worked in the lumber industry in both regions, and to lesser degree in the burgeoning mining industry in the upper Great Lakes .