Maine Memory Network

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…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - I. Canoes and Clamshells: The Pre-European Settlement Years

"Canoes and Clamshells: The Pre-European Settlement Years Text by Kate Webber Images from the Swan's Island Historical Society Carrying Place X…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Guiding Services for Sport Hunters

"… Canoeing at Bar Harbor, 1886Abbe Museum Canoe Club Boasting as many as 300 members, the Mount Desert Island Canoe Club encouraged “cooing…"

John Martin: Expert Observer - Part 6, pages 97-113

"Ten members of the Penobscot tribe paddled the canoes.   Part 6, pages 97-113 Topics and personalities include: Irish immigrants Brig. Gen."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Activities for Rusticators

"Richards, fascinated with these canoes, purchased this canoe before disembarking the steamer. Tudor and John Richards II, grandsons of Henry…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Arriving in Bar Harbor

"Others rode the same trains, steamboats, and stagecoaches as everyone else, placing their belongings—including canoes—in the cargo holds."

Scarborough: They Called It Owascoag - Scarborough Marsh: "Land of Much Grass" - Page 3 of 4

"… a variety of guided and self-guided walks and canoe tours as well as canoe rentals, a nature trail and exhibits."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Big Thunder

"He rented canoes, often with himself or his son Mitchell as paddler and guide. Every visitor to Bar Harbor knows ‘Big Thunder’ the ancient Indian…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Learn More

"Prins, Downeast Press, 2009. Canoe Indians of Down East Maine, by William H. Haviland, The History Press, 2012."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Indian Encampment

"Visitors also stopped by the encampment to hire Indian guides for canoe outings or sport-hunting, to place special orders for items such as…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - In the beginning, there were the Wabanaki…

"… between seacoast and inlands by way of ancient canoe routes. Penobscot snowshoes, ca. 1850Abbe Museum With the Europeans came new diseases…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - The Railroad

"… and for visitors to enjoy hunting, fishing and canoeing. Railroad commissioners learned immediately that building a standard gauge railroad would…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Rusticators on the Rise

"… and an array of clubs which included swimming, canoe, and golf. And then there were the “cottages,” growing in number and opulence with each…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Indians & Rusticators: Wabanakis & Summer Visitors on Mount Desert Island 1840s-1920s

"… now marketed their traditional arts, crafts, and canoeing skills to rusticators who visited their tented encampments."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - …then came the settlers…

"His family traded with Wabanakis who canoed to the area to fish, trap, and hunt as they always had. Abraham’s son John recalled that during his…"

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Measuring Rock

"The party canoed up the Kennebec River as far as Hallowell, which was known as Bombahook at that time."

Presque Isle: The Star City - Native Americans

"… believed to reflect the innovation of birchbark canoe construction from the prior heavy dugout canoes, and presaged a period of increased mobility…"

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - I. Headwaters of a community: Sowacatuck, Chouacoet, and the sea

"… for thousands of years - fishing its waters, canoeing to the headwaters each summer, and living in villages farther up river each winter."

Biddeford History & Heritage Project - III. An undercurrent of danger: Colonial Biddeford

"… been caused by the intentional overturning of a canoe in the middle of the river by a pair of Europeans."

Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center

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Frye Island Historical Society

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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Brief History

"… through the broad and fertile valley with canoe connections to the Belgrade\Kennebec Lake system.” (Above the Gravel Bar: The Indian Canoe Routes…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"… the ocean, rivers, lakes and ponds in birch bark canoes, making seasonal journeys to hunt and gather wild animal and plant foods."

Lincoln, Maine - The Stanislaus Family

"… Bangor in September 1859, the couple traveled by canoe to Lincoln. They soon built a house on Mattanawcook Island, which is on the Penobscot River…"