Keywords: Canadian border
Item 18161
Canadian Customs, Woodstock, N.B., ca. 1920
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Date: circa 1920 Location: Woodstock; Houlton Media: Postcard
Item 103726
Plane pulled across Canadian border in Houlton, 1940
Courtesy of Henry Gartley, an individual partner Date: 1940-06-02 Location: Houlton Media: Photograph
Exhibit
In the early 1600s, French explorers and colonizers in the New World quickly adopted a Native American mode of transportation to get around during the harsh winter months: the snowshoe. Most Northern societies had some form of snowshoe, but the Native Americans turned it into a highly functional item. French settlers named snowshoes "raquettes" because they resembled the tennis racket then in use.
Exhibit
A Convenient Soldier: The Black Guards of Maine
The Black Guards were African American Army soldiers, members of the segregated Second Battalion of the 366th Infantry sent to guard the railways of Maine during World War II, from 1941 to 1945. The purpose of the Black Guards' deployment to Maine was to prevent terrorist attacks along the railways, and to keep Maine citizens safe during the war.
Site Page
Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Home
"… as well as the establishment of the American-Canadian border (ca. 1843.) Topics included Maine’s role in the American historic narrative, including…"
Site Page
"… A Good and Wise Measure: The Search for the Canadian-American Boundary, 1783-1842 provides the best top-down view of border-formation in the wake…"
Story
Where are the French?
by Rhea Côté Robbins
Franco-Americans in Maine
Story
Too Small to Have a Town Drunk
by Scott Maker
Vignettes from Downeast Maine
