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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 2 of 2

"The Champlain Society Champlain Society Camp Pemetic, Mount Desert Island, 1881Mount Desert Island Historical Society Significance of the…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Champlain Society - Page 1 of 2

"… Schmitt Creation of the Champlain Society Champlain Society, Mount Desert Island, 1881Mount Desert Island Historical Society The origins of…"

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Biddeford History & Heritage Project - II. Ripples of change: European exploration & settlement at Winter Harbor - Page 1 of 2

"… Martin Pring, Sieur de Monts and Samuel de Champlain noted and mapped the area from 1602-1606. John Smith passed through in 1614."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Activities for Rusticators

"… for Rusticators Climbing Newport (Champlain) Mountain, 1886Abbe Museum Bar Harbor comes as near affording universal satisfaction to…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 1 of 5

"… led by Pierre Dugua, Sieur de Mons and Samuel de Champlain, the founder of Québec. They named the island they camped on that first winter “St."

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Beginnings

"Champlain had renamed it Isle des Monts Desert, "Island of Barren Mountains" -- a name that stuck. And various European powers had squabbled for a…"

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Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - About Us

"… of Mount Desert - Sam McGee & Betsy Hewlett Champlain Society - Catherine Schmidt & Maureen Fournier Economic History of Main Street in Northeast…"

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 5 of 5

"1 (Winter 2014): 1-35. Champlain, Samuel de. "Les Voyages de La Nouvelle-France Occidentale," Dicte Canada. Paris, 1632. Fischer, David Hackett."

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Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 3 of 5

"Champlain map copy, St. Croix or Bone Island, ca. 1799Maine Historical Society The border work of the 1790s, skillfully assessed by David Demeritt…"

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Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - II. Pinkies, wherries, skiffs and chebaccos: Early Settlement

"Champlain voyaged along this coast in 1604, naming islands as he traveled. Champlain’s early map gives this island the name “Brule-Cote,” meaning…"

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Life on a Tidal River - Narrative

"… the fall, the river is beautiful..." Samuel de Champlain, 1604 Champlain's pleasing description underscores Bangor's natural physical attributes…"