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Item 18412

Montagnard Band, Lewiston, 1947

Contributed by: Franco-American Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries Date: 1947-06-22 Location: Lewiston Media: Photographic print

Item 25280

Le Montagnard Band, Lewiston, 1960

Contributed by: Franco-American Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries Date: 1960 Location: Lewiston Media: Photographic print

Item 25282

Montagnard Snowshoe Club members, Lewiston, ca. 1930

Contributed by: Franco-American Collection, University of Southern Maine Libraries Date: circa 1930 Location: Lewiston Media: Photographic print

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Les Raquetteurs

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.