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Immigration to America was not just from overseas. Cross border immigration, including the northern border between Canada and New York has long been a source of new populations. The flourishing textile mills springing up along the northeast border of the United States, including along the Troy River near Albany, Troy and Cohoe, offered employment and economic opportunity for Canadians, many of them French Canadians from the Quebec region in the latter half of the nineteenth century. The French language and Catholic religion of these new arrivals made them especially suspect to many Americans, particularly the Know Nothings.