Keywords: Little Canada
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Site Pages
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Historic Clothing Collection - Early Twentieth Century
"The family moved from Ontario, Canada, to Lewiston in 1885. Dating into the mid 1890s her couture quality wine velvet and cream figured silk double…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Borderland Essays
"… northeast boundary between the United States in Canada, and the "borderland" region known between what is today the American state of Maine and the…"
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"… polities of New Brunswick, Upper and Lower Canada, which were fused as the Province of Canada in 1841 (previously Quebec), and Maine that all came…"
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"… primary legacy of these efforts prior to the US-Canada northeast border commissions of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century was one of…"
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"… arising from the Rebellions in Lower and Upper Canada in 1837-38 and conflict over access to timber in the Aroostook “War” of 1838-39, encouraged…"
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"… of Norridgewock now in our Nations in the US and Canada at Penobscot, Odanak, Tobique, and others—so our responsibilities to these places remain…"
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"Indeed, as documents in the Barclay collection reveal, they were ultimately the basis on which the modern US-Canada border was determined."
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"… lines between the United States and Great Britain Canada. A few years later in 1820 Maine separated from Massachusetts to become a state and agreed…"
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"… Benjamin. A Line of Blood and Dirt: Creating the Canada-United States border across Indigenous Lands (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021)…"
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"… John Ogilvy (1769-1819) of Scotland and Upper Canada, US commissioner James Sullivan (1744-1808) of Massachusetts and Maine, loyalist Robert Pagan…"
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"… de La Nouvelle-France Occidentale," Dicte Canada. Paris, 1632. Fischer, David Hackett. "Champlain’s Dream." New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008."
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Maine's Road to Statehood - After the War: The First Victory for Separationists
"… in the Union, and a shared a border with British Canada, Mainers largely shifted their focus from separation to the war effort."
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"… and Washington Counties, as well as parts of Canada and New England. Todd Dill "How does this topic connect to you in your life today?" Railroads…"
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Skowhegan Community History - Abenakis in the Norridgewock/Skowhegan Area
"The Abenakis went back to Canada after that but returned years later. However, the village was never the same, and eventually they all went to other…"
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"… evacuated by the British • Boundary between Canada and U.S.; Campobello and Lubec established 1820 • Maine separates from Mass."
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Skowhegan Community History - A Brief History of the Skowhegan Area
"… faithful Father Rasle sent to them from Quebec, Canada. It was his love and affection that created a bond broken only by the brutal massacre."
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Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Railroad into the Village
"… but a few weeks; has a wife and five children in Canada to whom he was intending to return in about a week. Oct."
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Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland
"… was of little use for trade, but the road to Canada became very valuable; goods and produce could be sent overland for trade."
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Mantor Library, University of Maine Farmington
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