The analysis for this paper was completed in Excel. I was planning on
The above images create a story of the Lewiston-Auburn area during the mill era. We chose to break down each of our three groups (U.S./Canada, U.S., and Canada) into the four groups seen above. We find that if your parents are both born in the U.S., there is a higher probability that you will finish High School and individuals with both parents born in Canada, there remains a high chance you will graduate from college. If your parents are both born in the U.S., you may have fewer siblings. We would expect 4 children to be born in each U.S. family. Further, we know that there were no mills in Canada, so we would expect that if your parents were both born in Canada, you may be the first in your family to work in the mills. We see this as there effect taking place in the above analysis. And finally, we find that language spoken at home remains most intuitive. If both parents are born in the U.S. there is a 93% chance English is spoken at home. Whereas with some forms of Canadian parents, French is spoken more often is these households. What remains interesting, however, is that French is spoken in 7% of U.S. born households, meaning a person with U.S. parents will return home to a French-speaking household. The French language never died off in these homes.
In conclusion, it remains interesting to see the personal stories of so many people used to tell a general picture of Lewiston-Auburn. It would be awesome to see how these findings relate to other regions during this time period. Do these findings align with what would find in other regions or even counties during the early 1900s? The people at the LA Museum were very interested in this question. Maybe we can explore this at a later date!