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Item 15787
Title: Calais-Canada border, 1944
Contributed by: Bangor Public Library
Date: 1944
Location: Calais; St. Stephen
Media: Photograph
Item 9536
Title: Map of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society
Date: circa 1860
Media: Ink on paper
Item 10910
Title: New Brunswick and Canada Railroad steam engine.
Contributed by: Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum
Date: circa 1880
Location: Houlton; St. John
Media: monochrome photograph
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In Canada During the Civil War
One surviving letter from the family of Francis Pratt to the young man who was in Canada in 1865 suggests that going to Canada to escape military service during the Civil War was not unheard of. The letter also suggests money was removed to Canada to protect it.
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From French Canadians to Franco-Americans
French Canadians who emigrated to the Lewiston-Auburn area faced discrimination as children and adults -- such as living in "Little Canada" tenements and being ridiculed for speaking French -- but also adapted to their new lives and sustained many cultural traditions.
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Bowdoin College Scientific Expedition to Labrador
"The Bowdoin Boys" -- some students and recent graduates -- traveled to Labrador in 1891 to collect artifacts, specimens, and to try to find Grand Falls, a waterfall deep in Labrador's interior.
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Kings Landing Historical Settlement
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Old Canada Road Historical Society
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