Keywords: Montreal Island
Item 136053
Barclay Collection Receipts and Vouchers, August, 1823
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1823 Location: Montreal Media: Ink on Paper
Item 136059
Barclay Collection Receipts and Vouchers, March, 1824
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1824 Location: Montreal Media: Ink on Paper
Exhibit
Immigration is one of the most debated topics in Maine. Controversy aside, immigration is also America's oldest tradition, and along with religious tolerance, what our nation was built upon. Since the first people--the Wabanaki--permitted Europeans to settle in the land now known as Maine, we have been a state of immigrants.
Exhibit
From Sewers to Skylines: William S. Edwards's 1887 Photo Album
William S. Edwards (1830-1918) was a civil engineer who worked for the City of Portland from 1876-1906. Serving as First Assistant to Chief Engineer William A. Goodwin, then to Commissioner George N. Fernald, Edwards was a fixture in City Hall for 30 consecutive years, proving indispensable throughout the terms of 15 Mayors of Portland, including all six of those held by James Phineas Baxter. Edwards made significant contributions to Portland, was an outstanding mapmaker and planner, and his works continue to benefit historians.
Site Page
"Champlain map copy, St. Croix or Bone Island, ca. 1799Maine Historical Society The border work of the 1790s, skillfully assessed by David Demeritt…"
Site Page
"… Struggle: Histories of Canadian Democratization (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021), 87-115 Online Resources Avalon…"
Story
John Coyne from Waterville Enlists as a Railroad Man in WWI
by Mary D. Coyne
Description of conditions railroad men endured and family background on John Coyne.
Story
A Maine Family's story of being Prisoners of War in Manila
by Nicki Griffin
As a child, born after the war, I would hear these stories - glad they were finally written down
