Keywords: Northeast border
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Site Pages
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Presque Isle: The Star City - Northeast Airlines DC-3, Presque Isle, ca. 1945
"Northeast Airlines DC-3s (as redesignated C-47s) and Northeast Airlines air crews performed survey and rescue flights from Presque Isle from…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Home
"… 1731Maine Historical Society The Beyond Borders: Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary project, a two and half year initiative (2020-2022)…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Project Background
"… most significant archival collections, the Beyond Borders project digitally draws together information and tools traditionally used by academic…"
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"In reality, the northeast border turned out to be quite ambiguous. The confusion grew problematic in the years that followed, as loyalists, loggers…"
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"Beyond Borders: an historical overview Essay by Michael A. Blaakman, PhD, Fall 2022 Michael A. Blaakman, PhD, is an assistant professor of history…"
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"Nonetheless, the long-lasting international border of 1842 is not as all powerful as it sometimes seems."
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"Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 St."
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Borderland Essays
"… menu at right, pertaining to the drawing of the northeast boundary between the United States in Canada, and the "borderland" region known between…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - People
"… the Pejepscot and Kennebec Proprietors, and the Northeast Boundary (Barclay) collections. Map by Francis Joseph Neptune, Cobscook River, 1798…"
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"… of these efforts prior to the US-Canada northeast border commissions of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century was one of jurisdictional…"
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"… the sharp differences of opinion about where the border should run as it shows proposed borders by the British, US, and a neutral arbiter in 1831…"
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"However, its mostly riverine border for Maine did not account for the highlands designated in the 1783 treaty."
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"Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective Darren J. Ranco, PhD (Penobscot), Fall 2022 The collections in the Beyond Borders project are important and…"
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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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"Beyond Borders: an historical overview This improvisational system for claiming land as legal property sprouted a thicket of conflicts."
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"Beyond Borders: an historical overview Before the Seven Years War (1756-1763), the land companies’ efforts to coax Scotch-Irish migrants and New…"
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"Beyond Borders: an historical overview All these newcomers would quickly learn that it was a common experience in Maine to be harangued for payment…"
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"Beyond Borders: an historical overview In the early eighteenth century, Massachusetts merchants, lawyers, and political leaders increasingly saw…"
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"Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective Self Determination What strikes me as similar between the past and contemporary times is not only that we—as…"
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"Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective What is not questioned, it seems, in either the 18th century, or the late 20th and early 21st centuries, is…"
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"Beyond Borders: A Wabanaki Perspective Past meets Present I am particularly struck by how similar the Proprietors’ documents and actions feel to…"
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"Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 British survey highlands map, ca."
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Search the Collections
"The initial goal for the Beyond Borders project was to transcribe 10,000 pages of manuscript, but because of the incredible response and work done by…"
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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Pejepscot Proprietors Papers, 1627‐1866
"… murdered French Jesuit missionary Father Rasle of Norridgewock; and reports of the Massachusetts and New York Border Commission, 1773 and 1787."
