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Exploring the Canada Road : Delving into his past leads man along ghostly route

Author: Weber, Tom

Date: 1997 July 19-20

Publication: Bangor Daily News

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8818350

Article on geographer and anthropologist Barry Rodrigue's exploration and excavation of the Old Canada Road, or the stretch of land between central Maine and the Canadian border that traverses the northwestern part of the state. This route is known…

Tags: Bingham ME, Canada, Emigration and Immigration, Ethnicity and Collective Identity, Genealogy, Jackman ME, Kennebec River Valley, Lewiston ME, Maine, Moose River Valley, QuÃ©bec, Social History, Travel and Movement

Canada Road artifacts find a home

Author: Cousins, Christopher

Date: 2010 March 3

Publication: Bangor Daily News

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8818350

Article on the Old Canada Road Historical Society's purchase of an aged home in Bingham, Maine, as a location to publicly display historical artifacts from the upper Kennebec River Valley region.

Tags: Bingham ME, Boston MA, Emigration and Immigration, Kennebec River Valley, Maine, Massachusetts, Native Americans, QuÃ©bec, Skowhegan ME, Solon ME, War

Down Memory Lane

Author: Rhoda, Erin

Date: 2010 May 24

Publication: Kennebec Journal

Language: English

Find in a Library: 8814143, 60630676

Article about a granddaughter - now in her sixties - who enjoys traveling the same pass her grandmother rode from Canada to Central Maine on Route 201. The author recounts the history of emigration from Canada to the US down this route, and talks…

Tags: Bingham ME, Caratunk ME, Emigration and Immigration, Family, Kennebec River Valley, Labor History, Mills and Mill Work, QuÃ©bec, Waterville ME, Winslow ME

Dawn Over the Kennebec

Author: Calvert, Mary

Date: 1983

Language: en

Find in a Library: 10864362

Find Online: OL2769967W

Historical piece on the European explorers of the Kennebec River Valley and the Abenaki people of that Maine region. Highlights the relationships among British, French, and Native American, and their confrontations from the 17th century onward. The…

The Kennebec Wilderness Awakens

Author: Calvert, Mary

Date: 1986

Language: en

Find in a Library: 15523085

Find Online: OL2769969W

Historical piece on the Kennebec River and its surrounding valley towns, from the end of the American Revolution until the river's final log drive in the second half of the twentieth century. Relationships between early settlers and Native Americans.…