Panel discussion on 'Quebec and the Federal Option' and future of French-speaking Canada. Panelists: Marcel Pepin, editor, Le Soleil (Quebec City newspaper); Rosemary Nelson, UMO student; Robert Lecker, UMO Canadian literature professor.
Acadian history through an interview with school principal Guy Dubay of Madawaska (Me.). Visits to the Acadian Village near Van Buren (Me.) and 'Le Village Acadien' in Caraquet, New Brunswick, Canada. A short visit to Quebec City.
This program focuses on the deportation of the Acadians from Nova Scotia, and the descendents of the Acadians who settled in the St. John Valley in northern Maine. It focuses on the resurgence of Acadian culture and identity in northern Maine, Acadian history and the lives of Acadian-Americans in the present day. The program features interviews with Guy Dubay from Madawaska, Dick Corbin of Madawaska, Bob Hebert of Madawaska, Ben Talbot of Madawaska, Martine Pelletier of the Acadian Village in Van Buren, and Bernette Albert of the Tante Blanche Museum. An Acadian author is also interviewed.
This program focuses on the deportation of the Acadians from Nova Scotia, and the descendents of the Acadians who settled in the St. John Valley in northern Maine. It focuses on the resurgence of Acadian culture and identity in northern Maine, Acadian history and the lives of Acadian-Americans in the present day. The program features interviews with Guy Dubay from Madawaska, Dick Corbin of Madawaska, Bob Hebert of Madawaska, Ben Talbot of Madawaska, Martine Pelletier of the Acadian Village in Van Buren, and Bernette Albert of the Tante Blanche Museum. An Acadian author is also interviewed.
This map was Undertaken with the Approbation and at the Request of the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations; and is chiefly composed from Draughts, Charts, and Actual Surveys of different parts of His Majesties Colonies and Plantations in America; Great part of which have been lately taken by their Lordship’s Orders and transmitted to this office by the Governors and said colonies and others. Plantation Office, Feb 13, 1755 John Pownall Secretary
Map with the adjacent parts of New England and Canada, composed from a great number of actual surveys; and other materials regulated by many new astonomical observations of the longitude as well as the latitude.
With the Bason and part of the Adjacent country shewing the principal encampments and works of the British Army commanded by major General Wolfe, and those of the French Army commanded by Lieut General the Marquis of Montcalm during the siege of that place in 1759
And the district of Gaspe Exhibiting the true range of highlands dividing the waters of the St. Lawrence and the Atlantic and the imaginary ranges claimed by the British for the boundary of the state of Maine.
From the best existing materials; by authority of the provincial legislature with Adjacent parts of Canada, Nova Scotia and Maine compile and drawn by John Wilkinson, surveyor and civil engineer, associate of the Institution of Civil Engineers. A.D. 1859
This collection consists of photocopies of correspondence primarily between Mr. Theodore Paillard and Canada Department of Customs in Ottawa, Frederation, St. John, amd Woodstock, N.B from 1913 to 1922.Also included are family correspondence, personal materials, newspaper clippings and a musical score of the song "fete de Ste-marguerite". The documents are in French and English and are either typescript or handwritten.
This is one of two known manuscript collections created by Prudent L. Mercure sometime between 1890 and 1913. Deposited in 1985 at the Centre de documentation et d’étude madawaskayennes (CDEM), Centre universitaire St-Louis-Maillet, Edmundston, New Brunswick. The other collection is deposited at the Manuscript Division of the National Archives of Canada (N.A.C.) in Ottawa, Ontario. (N.A.C. Collection MCC,96- 00134) (See also "Prudent L. Mercure Papers, and MCC,00146)
This collection consists of research materials collected and transcribed by Beatrice Craig. Included are notes on the Haldimand papers with references to the Saint John Valley and people who moved to the Valley; notes on "Cour des Playdoyers Communs" vs. the district of Quebec, arranged by docket number and included transcription of the trial to 1790; notes on the trial of an "Indian murderer;" notes on microfilm concerning New Brunswick Crown Land papers, land petitions, and Kennebecassis and the lower Saint John Valley; a list of contents and transcription of an account of Acadians by Simon, Hazen, and White; and miscellaneous notes. Also included are transcriptions by former Acadian Archives/Archives acadiennes archivist, Nick Hawes, as well as his general notes on the articles originally included in the collection, "info about people who went to Madawaska or people connected to Madawaska."
The research collection of Béatrice Craig (b. 1949), historian, professor, and author, consists of data on the history of the Upper St. John Valley for the period ca. 1785-1870. In 1992, Béatrice Craig offered to loan the Acadian Archives her collection for the purpose of creating a photocopy version. Additional materials were added the following year.
Consists of 16 manuscripts, Professor Craig’s scholarship on the Upper Saint John River Valley of Maine and New Brunswick. Includes publications, working papers and research data.
From left to right Eugenie (Therriault) Donnelly, William Donnelly, Eva (Therriault) Hanrahan, John Thomas Donnelly, and Thomas Lionel Donnelly picnic on the way to Canada.
John Louis Rainville recounts his experience growing up on a farm in the border town of Highgate, Vermont. He discusses his French-Canadian community and cross-border commerce, among other subjects.
