Les Raquetteurs

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Franco-American Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries

At the first International Snowshoe Congress convention in Lewiston in 1925, more than 800 French-Canadians traveled to the event.

Many arrived on chartered train cars at the Grand Trunk station on Lincoln Street. They arrived wearing their colorful costumes.

In 1950, some 3,800 people attended the convention in Lewiston.

The 1955 convention was expected to attract 6,000 people, owing in part to the more than 30 newly formed Canadian clubs.

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