Maine Memory Network

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."

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 - 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 - 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…"

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…"

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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."

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…"

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…"

Strong, a Mussul Unsquit village - Other Recreation

"… made the Maine guides had to row wooden boats and canoes a lot around the local ponds and lakes. The biggest trout caught during this time period…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 3 of 5

"… documented in the map of the interior canoe route between the St. John (Wolostoq) and Penobscot rivers that Chief Francis Joseph Neptune shared…"

Guilford, Maine - Special Events

"… Some other events were oxen pulling, barbeque, canoe races, log chopping contest, magic show, chalk talk, and street dance."

Farmington: Franklin County's Shiretown - Stephen Titcomb and the Settlement of the Sandy River Valley

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

New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future - New Portland: Bridging the Past to the Future

"… Brook (today known as the Carrabassett River) by canoe late in the fall of 1783. He headed an adventurous family that for some reason chose not to…"

Cumberland & North Yarmouth - "Main Streets" of North Yarmouth and Cumberland

"… travel was preferably done by water in canoes and small boats, following the example of Native Americans."