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Keywords: Snowshoe Clubs
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Item 33300
Title: Le Boucanier Snowshoe Club, Biddeford, 1927
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society/MaineToday Media
Date: 1927-03-05
Location: Biddeford; Brunswick
Media: Glass negative
Item 25287
Title: Snowshoe club presidents, Quebec
Contributed by: Franco-American Collection
Date: circa 1940
Media: Photograph
Item 25290
Title: Jacques Cartier snowshoe club, ca. 1925
Contributed by: Franco-American Collection
Date: circa 1925
Location: Lewiston
Media: Photograph
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In the early 1600s, French explorers and colonizers in the New World quickly adopted a Native American mode of transportation to get around during the harsh winter months: the snowshoe. Most Northern societies had some form of snowshoe, but the Native Americans turned it into a highly functional item. French settlers named snowshoes "raquettes" because they resembled the tennis racket then in use.