34 resources

• [Woods & Waters: Bob and Greg Jalbert]
  
  Bud Leavitt travels to Fort Kent and canoes the Fish River with Bob Jalbert, Greg Jalbert, and Don Michaud. Leavitt speaks with the men in canoes beside the River about river canoeing, paddles, setting poles, canoes, navigating whitewater rapids, the use of the Allagash Wilderness Waterway, and recommended steps for preserving the rivers. Many shots of Leavitt and the men canoeing in the River.
• Porte Ouverte sur le Bilinguisme/Bilingualism...Church and Reform
  
  Bilingual education programs in Vermont and New Hampshire secondary schools. Father Nicknair of Fort Kent (Me.), Father Pelletier of Van Buren, (Me.), Auxiliary Bishop Amedee Proulx of Portland (Me.) on the role of priests.
• [Lowell Mills]
  
  Lowell (Ma.) talk with Irene Simoneau, Franco-American historian and authority on the role of women in the mills. Professor Roger Paradis of Fort Kent (Me). talks about Franco-American folklore and music.
• Du Mais Family Collection - Finding Aid
  
  Collection contains [Du Mais--home movies] with a mix of family events such as vacations, holiday rituals, and sporting activities. It also captures regional subjects such as Colby College’s Mayflower Hill campus when it opened, construction activities from the early 1950s, parades, fires, summer camps in Maine, herring catches in the Sheepscot River, travel footage from Guatemala in 1954, New York City scenes, and amateur footage of the Mayo Clinic.
• Morin, Daniel [Peoples French Canadian]
  
  Interview between Gerald Mountain and Daniel Morin.
• Archambault, Phillip , August 14, 1998
  
  In this interview Dr. Archambault discusses several topics including: his experiences as a Bates student living off campus; reminiscences of chapel, Winter Carnival, and cabin parties; interactions and impressions of several faculty members and administrators including President Gray, Harry Rowe and Dr. William Sawyer; town gown relationship; changes at Bates from his student days and impressions of Bates today; his experiences in the U.S. Army Medical Corp and as the physician to the Bates athletics department.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: John Martin
  
  Interview includes discussions of: family history; legislative career overview; teaching and other early jobs; family involvement in politics; childhood experiences with ethnicity; social cliques at college; anti-French professor at UMO; political activism at UMO; influences before college; summer work after high school; Floyd Powell; influences at Orono; friends at Orono; Democratic state legislators in the ‘60s and ‘70s; early memories of Muskie, dual membership in Young Democrats and Young Republicans; Chubb Clark’s loyalty test; early work for Muskie; confrontation with Howard Hughes’ aide; liaison work with Secret Service; Muskie’s ‘68 campaign; ‘70 and ‘72 campaigns; impressions of other members of Muskie’s staff; Dickey Lincoln and Allagash Waterway projects; and his work in Connecticut.
• Edmund S. Muskie Oral History Collection: Anne (Desjardins) Freeman
  
  Interview includes discussion of : Northern Maine during the Depression; Joe Freeman; getting into the restaurant business; operating a Presque Isle restaurant during WWII; becoming a Pepsi bottler; registering Democrat in Northern Maine; 1954 Democratic campaigns; Ed Muskie’s progression in politics; Joe Freeman’s political ambitions; and meeting the Muskies in Washington.
• Interview with John Martin by Mike Hastings
  
  Interview includes discussion of: working on Muskie’s campaign; the Dubord decision; working with Mitchell on Muskie’s staff; Mitchell’s 1974 gubernatorial campaign; Martin being elected speaker of the house in Maine state legislature; 1968 Muskie Vice Presidential campaign; 1970 Muskie Senate reelection campaign as treasurer; Martin working with Jim Longley; Martin’s reaction when Mitchell was appointed to replace Muskie; Mitchell’s ascent to leadership in the Senate; the importance of the Dickey-Lincoln project to northern Maine; the future of Aroostook County; the size of the legislature and the possibility of a unicameral legislature; and thoughts on Mitchell’s work in the Middle East.
• Helen Leidy Hamlin Correspondence
  
  Entries include letters, a biography, newspaper clippings including photographic images of Hamlin's family from her first marriage, a publisher advertisement, and notes about a new marriage partner. Date range: 1944-1948
• Faye Jordan, interviewed by Marcella Sorg and Steffan Duplessis
  
  1669 Faye Jordan, interviewed by Marcella Sorg and Steffan Duplessis, February 18, 1981, Auburn, Maine. Tape: 1 1/2 hrs. w/ partial trans. Jordan talks about her life as a Franco-American; celebrating Christmas in Canada with her grandparents; running away to marry a "swamp yankee;" jobs she worked; being bilingual and speaking "true French;" sewing, making clothes for her daughter; crochet work. No notes taken from side 2. Text: 7 pp. partial transcript. Recording: T 1788, CD 2089 1-1/2 hours.
• [Michaud Weather Journal] 1952-1953
  
  This weather journal describes the temperature and daily weather observations written by Maurice Michaud who lived in Van Buren, Maine. The author also included events and feelings about the day. Looking through these journals you will also find loose receipts and places he went to such as St. Agatha, Madawaska, and Fort Kent which are all towns in northern Maine.
• [Michaud Weather Journal] 1948-1949
  
  This weather journal describes the temperature and daily weather observations written by Maurice Michaud who lived in Van Buren, Maine. The author also included events and feelings about the day. Looking through these journals you will also find loose receipts and places he went to such as St. Agatha, Madawaska, and Fort Kent which are all towns in northern Maine.
• [Michaud Weather Journal] 1950-1951
  
  This weather journal describes the temperature and daily weather observations written by Maurice Michaud who lived in Van Buren, Maine. The author also included events and feelings about the day. Looking through these journals you will also find loose receipts and places he went to such as St. Agatha, Madawaska, and Fort Kent which are all towns in northern Maine.
• Marc Chassé scrapbook collection - Finding Aid
  
  This collection consists of four scrapbooks and 1 folder containing newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and images from the St. John Valley and beyond. It covers the period from 1947 through 2017. A wide range of topics are included in the collection but Mr. Chassé paid particular attention to sports in the St. John Valley in his volume 3 scrapbook, such as, snowmobiling, biathlon, skying, Can-Am dog races etc. Album 4 was dedicated to the history of the Church during a crisis. Most of the articles in this collection are undated.
• Theodore Paillard papers - Finding Aid
  
  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.
• Leon A. Guimond collection - Finding Aid
  
  This collection primarily consists of genealogical materials collected by Leon Guimond on numerous families in Northern Maine and Canada. The collection contains materials on the following names: Albert; Beaupre; Blondeau; Bosse; Caron; Cayouette; Chasse; Clifford; Cote; Curtis; Cyr; Daigle; Demers; Deom; Deschenes; Drouin; Dube; Dubois; Dufour; Gagnon; Giguere; Guimond; Jean; Jimmo; Kovacs; Lagace; Landry; Leach; Martin; Michaud; Morin; Ouellette; Pellerin; Perrault; Plourde; Raymond; Rossignol; Roy; Saucier; Sirois; Soucy; Talbot family; Tallard family; Talon; Tanguay; Tardif; Tellier; Tessier; Tetreault; Theberge; Thibodeau; Violette; and Voisine. Also included in the collection are maps, images, newspaper clippings, and some personal materials, including correspondence.
• Marc Chassé oral histories - Finding Aid
  
  This collection consists of video recordings of oral histories collected by Marc Chassé. These histories document the Franco-American culture of the Saint John Valley. Most of his interviewees are from the St. John Valley, Maine.
• Mae Ann Gagnon collection - Finding Aid
  
  This collection consists of one matted black and white photograph and one exercise booklet (missing) of the 1914 graduating class at the Madawaska Training School. The photo dimensions are 20 cm x 24 cm. The dimensions of the decorative mat board with photo are 29.5 cm x 34.5 cm. The mat board has a grayish colored core with a blue gray decorative frame. There are 20 females dressed in white either sitting or standing and 2 males, standing, dressed in suits and neck ties. The man in the middle of the photo has been identified as George F. Martin
• Joseph Francis Cyr papers - Finding Aid
  
  39 items consisting of certificates, report cards, correspondence, and other documents related to Joseph Cyr’s training and career as a common school teacher and as a school superintendent. Also included: copies of his baptismal certificate and marriage record, and some personal correspondence.
• Correspondence of Fathers Joseph Marcoux and Aimé Giguere with the Little Franciscans of Mary - Finding Aid
  
  This collection consists of copies of han+N7:N17dwritten and typescript letters between Father Joseph Marcoux, Pastor of Wallagrass and Eagle Lake, the Little Franciscans of Mary of Baie-Saint-Paul, Bishop Louis S. Walsh of the Diocese of Portland, and Father Aimé Giguère of Fort Kent. The correspondence, starting in 1906 through 1949, requesting the Little Franciscans of Mary to administer and staff Father Marcoux’s hospital (Northern Maine General Hospital) and the Convent School (St. Mary’s Convent) in Eagle Lake and Father Aimé Giguère’s hospital in Fort Kent, Maine. Note that the ArchivesSpace record and the finding aid for this collection identify it, incorrectly, as MCC-00434 and MCC-00434.
• Emma Almira Jones collection - Finding Aid
  
  The Emma Almira Jones Collection spans the years 1910 - 1939 and documents commencement ceremonies, certification, alumni activities, and memorial exercises related to the Madawaska Training School in Fort Kent, Maine (now the University of Maine at Fort Kent). It includes a program for the 1926 fourth annual commencement of the Fort Kent High School, then a department of the Madawaska Training school, and memorial exercises for Miss Mary P. Nowland, who served as principal at the School from 1896 through 1926. These documents shed light on the institutional culture of the Madawaska Training School. Alumni Day programs provide clues to the type of entertainment which organizers thought would attract a large turn-out from their largely local alumni in the early 1930s.
• Marcella Bélanger Violette scrapbooks - Finding Aid
  
  The items in this collection were gathered throughout Mrs. Violette’s lifetime and archivally duplicated by her daughter-in-law, Holly Ramsdell Violette. Materials in this collection include newspaper articles, church programs, photos, letters, cards, telegrams, postcards, brochures, and other items. This collection will be of interest to historians, politicians, educators, St. John Valley and Maine residents, and others.
• Gerry Morin collection - Finding Aid
  
  This collection consists of materials collected by Gerry Morin concerning various people, businesses, and events in Aroostook County. Included are correspondence, financial records (including accounts, bills of sale, and telephone bills), land documents, images, and maps. The financial records are for many businesses, both in Aroostook County and elsewhere, many in retail and agriculture, including American Agricultural Chemical Co. The telephone bills are from three separate telephone companies: White Mountain Telephone Company, New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, and Aroostook Telephone and Telegraph Company. Also included are twenty-two issues from various newspapers, 1837-1841, containing articles on the Northeastern Boundary dispute. Included in the images are cabinet cards of Major William Dickey and Hannibal Hamlin. A large portion of the correspondence and the financial records concerns Horace G. Richards of Fort Fairfield, Maine, and his brother, George W. Richards of Houlton, Maine, as well as A.S. Richards of Van Buren, Maine. George W. Richards owned G.W. Richards and Co., a merchant of dry goods and other "small wares." The collection also contains sheet music for "Come to the Heart that is Thine," from an opera based on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, Evangeline. Note that the Archives hold other collections associated with Gerry Morin.
• Nora Marquis Baker collection - Finding Aid
  
  For the most part, this collection is made up of personal letters, photographs, cards, notebooks, and scrapbooks. There are maps of and documents about New Canada. Other non-personal documents: Will of Georgiana Bourgoin, Naturalization papers of Alfred Bourgoin, and a description of the plot of land in New Canada that Nora and Joe Baker bought from Joseph Daigle in 1949.
• Paul D. Thibodeau collection - Finding Aid
  
  This collection consists of a scrapbook, photographs, Thibodeau family genealogy, Thibodeau’s Insurance documents, stenographer/shorthand booklet, newspaper articles. The scrapbook belonging to Mr. Paul D. Thibodeau contains correspondence, meeting minutes, resolutions, and newspaper articles regarding the organization of the First National Bank of Fort Kent in Fort Kent, Maine. The correspondence is mostly between the President of the bank, Mr. Paul D. Thibodeau and the office of Currency at the Treasury Department in Washington, D.C. The bank was organized by Paul D. Thibodeau on July 7, 1919. The officers elected were as follows: President, Paul D. Thibodeau; 1st vice president, Henry W. Nadeau; 2nd vice president, Fred E. Michaud; cashier Arthur A. Hebert; directors, Paul D. Thibodeau, Henry W. Nadeau, Fred E. Michaud, Irenee Cyr, Ulderic Dumond, Maxime P. Gagnon, Albert R. Michaud, Saul Michaud, T. T. Michaud, Cleophas Nadeau, Philip A. Roy, William L. Savage, T. A. St. John, Frank A. O’Connell, Henry W. Theriault. The photographs are from the Thibodeau, Nadeau, and Collin families. The collection is divided into 4 series: Series I: The First National Bank of Fort Kent; Series II: Thibodeau’s Insurance Agency; Series III: images; Series IV: Thibodeau family
• Carleen Violette manuscript
  
  20-page handwritten report on interviews with Fred Morneault, Llewellyn Despres, and Modeste Despres of Eagle Lake, Maine. Topics include, pig butchery, Eagle Lake "monster", blood and fire stopping, lutins and other folklore. Submitted for a course at the University of Maine at Fort Kent in Spring 1974.
• Alphonsine Kent Photograph Collection - Finding Aid
  
  The 59 black and white nitrate negatives in this collection date circa 1915-1920. They consist of 39 informal portraits of unidentified individuals and groups; 17 outdoor scenes (mostly images of Fort Kent, Maine and Clair, New Brunswick); 4 interior/exterior images identified on the negatives as Eagle Lake Camps; and 3 images of a parlor room with musical instruments.
• Alphie Marquis papers 1931 to 1982 - Finding Aid
  
  This collection consists of manuscript and typescript materials created or collected by Father Alphie Marquis. Most of the materials pertain to either his studies for the priesthood or preparation for sermons. Included are newspaper clippings, correspondence, handwritten study and research notes, publications, typescripts of study materials, and a typescript of Marquis’ memoir, Among My Souvenirs, published in 1980. The materials in this collection are primarily in French and Latin, with some English. They have been processed and foldered in the original order in which they were received by the archives, and titles from the original containers have been transcribed to the new folders.
• Alphée Marquis photographs newspaper clippings and other materials circa 1929 to1994 - Finding Aid
  
  This collection consists of photographs and newspaper clippings originally placed in scrapbooks and photograph albums by Rev. Alphée Marquis. Most of the photographs were taken by Rev. Marquis; the clippings represent subjects of interest to their collector. Of note in the photograph albums are images of Father D. Surette and Mme Armand Marquis, Mount Katahdin, and a number of local people and locations. The collection also includes a number of funeral cards and photographic slides. The original photograph albums and scrapbooks have been dismantled; the clippings are not in their original order. They have been arranged by subject.
• Allen R. Guerrette oral histories - Finding Aid
  
  Audio taped interviews with Mr. and Mrs. Joe Gendreau of Madawaska, Maine consisting of oral histories and stories about medicine, recipes, myths, and burial practices. Further interviews with Mrs. Eva Corriveau and Mrs. Irma Dionne about past experiences regarding food, clothing and superstitions are included on the tapes. Mrs. Corriveau sings 2 songs, one lullaby and one song called "Black Joe". Also recorded are songs played on the piano by Mrs. Leslie Cyr of Madawaska.
• Allen Jalbert, Music Recording of Samuel Jalbert
  
  This collection consists of 1 audio cassette of tape-recorded harmonica music of waltz medley performed before 1980 by Samuel Jalbert of Fort Kent, Maine. Duration, 14 minutes 23 seconds.
• Albert Daigle oral histories - Finding Aid
  
  5 C-90 audio cassettes containing oral history interviews with Rose Anna Roy of Sinclair, Maine, Arthur Daigle of Madawaska, Maine, Albert Lucas of Fort Kent Maine and Victor Theriault of Edmundston New Brunswick. Submitted for a course at the University of Maine at Fort Kent in Fall 1974. 5 C-90 audio cassettes containing oral history interviews with Rose Anna Roy of Sinclair, Maine, Arthur Daigle of Madawaska, Maine, Albert Lucas of Fort Kent Maine and Victor Theriault of Edmundston New Brunswick. Submitted for a course at the University of Maine at Fort Kent in Fall 1974.
• Exes H. Minet Civil War diary
  
  Diary kept by Exes H. Minet, who enlisted from Mount Tabor, Vermont, in Company E, of the 2nd Sharpshooter Regiment. The entries are short and concern the weather, his duties as corporal, and brief descriptions of battles and troop movements. Of note, in his entry dated 22 February, Minott mentions that a woman dressed in men's clothing was found in one of the barracks. The diary entries stop on 3 July and resume on 22 August. Included are two photographs of Exes H. Minet, one in uniform and one as a civilian. As well, there is a color photograph of his gravestone. Finally, there is also included a small Catholic prayer book in French. Note that Exes' surname was spelled three different ways, Minet, Minett, and Minette.