Before borderlands: Yankees, British, and the St John Valley French

New England and the Maritime Provinces: Connections and Comparisons

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 74-93

  Craig, Beatrice ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

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References (23)

1. Patrick Campbell, Travels in the Interior Inhabited Parts of North America in the Year 1791 and 1792 (Edinburgh, 1793), 80-110;.
2. John Mann, Travels in North America, Particularly in the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada and New Brunswick and in the States of Maine, Massachusetts and New York (Glasgow, 1824; Reprinted Fredericton, 1978), 36-41;.
3. Lieutenant E.T. Coke, A Subaltern's Furlough: Descriptive of Scenes in Various Parts of the United States, Upper and Lower Canada, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia during the summer and autumn of 1832 (London, 1833), 349-64, in Gerald M. Craig, ed., Early Travellers in the Canadas, 1791- 1867 (Toronto: Macmillan, 1955), 97-110.
4. Park Holland, Surveyor of the Bingham Purchase. Park Holland, Life and Diary (Bangor Historical Society, 1790). Another traveller who did not think the St John Valley's ethnic makeup deserved more than a passing mention was George Head, Forest Scenes and Incidents in the Wilds of North America, being a Diary of a Winter's Route from Halifax to the Canadas (London, 1829), 63-136. Head made his trip in 1815.
5. Donald E. Graves, ed., The War Journal of Lieut. John Le Couteur, 104th Foot: "Merry Hearts Make Light days" (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1993), 99.
6. Peter Fisher, History of New Brunswick (Saint John: New Brunswick Historical Society, 1921; first published 1825), 52-7.
7. [Peter Fisher] Notitia of New Brunswick for 1836, and extending into 1837, comprising Historical, Geographical, Statistical and Commercial Notices of the province, by an inhabitant (Saint John, 1838).
8. Edward Kavanagh, "Wilderness Journal," Maine History News, vol. 16, no. 2, 3, 4 (April, July, October 1980), 3-7, 8-11, 15-16.
9. W.O. Raymond, ed., "State of the Madawaska and Aroostook settlements in 1831, Reports of John G. Deane and Edward Kavanagh to Samuel Smith, Governor of the State of Maine," New Brunswick Historical Society, Collections, 9 (1914), Descriptive part, 452-84; original, at the Maine State Archives. Reprinted in Thomas Albert's Histoire du Madawaska (Québec: Imprimerie franciscaine missionnaire, 1921).
10. "Report of the Committee upon Education in the New Settlements, 1847," in Legislative Documents of the State of Maine, 1847, 52-7.
11. "Final report of the Superintendent and Instructor of School in the Madawaska Settlement for the year 1844," in Legislative documents of the State of Maine, 1844, 2. The "Report of the land commissioners" for 1844 expressed the same belief.
12. "It will be a long time before they accustom themselves to the machinery of our institutions and a longer time before their distinct nationality is effaced or lost." Republican Journal, 29 December 1843.
13. "Report of the Commissioners on the Settlement of the Public Land of Maine," (Augusta, Maine: Sprague-Owen and Nash, 1870), 7 and 72.
14. "Final Report of the Superintendent... for the year 1844," 8.
15. James Doyle, North of America: Images of Canada in the Literature of the United States, 1775-1900, (Toronto: ECW Press, 1983), 17-18, 21-6, 31, 67.
16. Beatrice Craig, "Le developpement agricole dans la haute vallee du St. Jean en 1860," Revue de la Societe historique du Canada, 3 (1993), 13-26.
17. Charles Hallock, "Aroostook on the Madawaska," Harper's Monthly Magazine, vol. 27 (1863), 688-98.
18. "Report of the Commissioners on Claims of Settlers on Proprietors' Land," 62.
19. "Report of the Commissioners on Claims of Settlers and Proprietors," 7.
20. Edmund Ward, An Account of the St. John and its Tributary Rivers and Lakes (Fredericton, 1841), 84-9.
21. James Finlay Weir Johnston, Report on the Agricultural Capabilities of the Province of New Brunswick (Fredericton, 2nd ed., 1850).
22. Charles S. Lugrin, Victoria County, Appendix to the Journal of the House of Assembly of New Brunswick, 1972.
23. Reginald Horsman, Race and Manifest Destiny: The Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981), esp. chaps. 3, 5, and 6.