Keywords: canoes
Item 76328
Canoes on Pleasant Lake, Stetson, ca. 1909
Contributed by: Stetson Historical Society Date: circa 1909 Location: Stetson Media: Photographic print
Item 15343
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1900 Media: Lantern slide
Item 85596
316-328 Westbrook Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Stroudwater Canoe Company Use: Storage for canoes
Item 85597
Assessor's Record, 316-328 Westbrook Street, Portland, 1924
Owner in 1924: Stroudwater Canoe Company Use: Store and Restroom
Exhibit
Visitors to the Maine woods in the early twentieth century often recorded their adventures in private diaries or journals and in photographs. Their remembrances of canoeing, camping, hunting and fishing helped equate Maine with wilderness.
Exhibit
After the canoe, steamboats became the favored method of transportation on Moosehead Lake. They revolutionized movement of logs and helped promote tourism in the region.
Site Page
John Martin: Expert Observer - Canoe race, Kenduskeag Stream, Bangor, 1865
"Canoe race, Kenduskeag Stream, Bangor, 1865 Contributed by Maine Historical Society and Maine State Museum Description In the evening…"
Site Page
"Canoes and Clamshells: The Pre-European Settlement Years Text by Kate Webber Images from the Swan's Island Historical Society Carrying Place X…"
Story
Passing the time during the Pandemic
by Don V
Building a strip canoe
Story
Langdon Burton and the Cold, Wet Tourists
by Phil Tedrick
A father and son have their vacation experience totally changed by an encounter with a fisherman
Lesson Plan
Wabanaki Studies: Stewarding Natural Resources
Grade Level: 3-5
Content Area: Science & Engineering, Social Studies
This lesson plan will introduce elementary-grade students to the concepts and importance of Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and Indigenous Knowledge (IK), taught and understood through oral history to generations of Wabanaki people. Students will engage in discussions about how humans can be stewards of the local ecosystem, and how non-Native Maine citizens can listen to, learn from, and amplify the voices of Wabanaki neighbors to assist in the future of a sustainable environment. Students will learn about Wabanaki artists, teachers, and leaders from the past and present to help contextualize the concepts and ideas in this lesson, and learn about how Wabanaki youth are carrying tradition forward into the future.
Lesson Plan
Grade Level: 3-5
Content Area: Health Education & Physical Education, Social Studies
This lesson plan will introduce students to myriad communities in Maine, past and present, through the universal lens of sports and group activities. Students will explore and understand the history of many of Maine’s recreational pastimes, what makes Maine the ideal location for some outdoor sports, and how communities have come together through team activities throughout Maine’s history.