Family, Kinship and Community Formation on the Canadian-American Border : Madawaska, 1785-1842

Family, Kinship and Community Formation on the Canadian-American Border : Madawaska, 1785-1842

From the author: "The Madawaska settlement, on the Upper St. John Valley in Northern Maine and North West New Brunswick was started in 1785 by a group of Acadian and French-Canadian families for New Brunswick, and a group of French Canadians from the St. Lawrence Valley. They were subsequently joined by other migrants from French Canada. The settlers lived off subsistence farming till 1824, when lumbercamps opened in the region. They were isolated as no road connected the Upper St. John Valley with other settled region until the 1830s. The only means of communication between Madawaska and the outside world was through the St. John and Madawaska Rivers and through portages to the St. Lawrence. This study examines the interaction between family, kinship networks and the process of community formation over the first sixty years of this settlement. It is based primarily on quantitative sources: parish registers, censuses, land records, but also uses existing traditional evidence. Consequently, it extensively uses quantitative and demographic techniques."

Craig, Béatrice (Chevalier)

1983

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Thesis

1785-1842; Madawaska, Maine; New Brunswick

227

Orono, Maine

Ph. D., History

University of Maine at Orono

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