Hype for the Future 62P: Kings Landing, New Brunswick

Introduction

Kings Landing is located west of the City of Fredericton in the Province of New Brunswick, Canada. The historical significance of the United Empire Loyalist migrations, though also impacting the areas nearer Fredericton, Saint John, Annapolis Royal (Nova Scotia), the Eastern Township of Québec, and numerous areas in both Northern and Southern Ontario, has largely been associated with the migrations from the New York area to the Province of New Brunswick and surrounding provinces. Though Prince Edward Island was initially treated separately, even PEI had entered Confederation as of 1873.

Hype for the Future 62G: More on the Saint John Valley

Introduction

The Saint John Valley is located at the northern edge of the State of Maine and traversed by United States Route 1 in a relatively west-to-east direction, with Fort Kent at the northern terminus of the highway. Infrastructure is rarely maintained in excess of two lines, and the population of the region is quite minimal with respect to the populations elsewhere in the State.

Tante Blanche Museum

The Tante Blanche Museum is located in the eastern part of the Town of Madawaska in Aroostook County, Maine. The Acadian Landing Site is located adjacent to the museum, and the Acadian Cross Historic Shrine is located immediately overlooking the Saint John River opposite the Edmundston area of New Brunswick, Canada 🇨🇦. The museum site is named for Marguerite Blanche Thibodeau Cyr, respecting her heroic actions following the 1797 famine in the region.

Adjacent historical sites to the Tante Blanche Museum include the old schoolhouse area and the Fred Albert Museum from the history of François Albert Jr.

Musée Culturel du Mont-Carmel

Located in rural Grand Isle, Maine, along the Saint John River opposite the Province of New Brunswick, Musée Culturel du Mont-Carmel represents the Acadian heritage, so for visitors, Welcome to Acadia! Bienvenue à l’Acadie!

The former Roman Catholic Church hosting the Acadian heritage museum has officially been listed in the National Register of Historic Places since circa 1973 followed by the 1984 cessation of services from the Notre-Dame du Mont-Carmel. Apart from Acadian heritage sites, Québecois cultural traits can also be featured, perhaps quite surprisingly, at the museum site.

Hype for the Future 62E: Town of Madawaska, Maine

Introduction

The Town of Madawaska is located in Aroostook County, Maine, and is smaller than the Canadian City of Edmundston, Madawaska County, New Brunswick, on the opposite side of the Saint John River.

Acadian Heritage

Like much of Aroostook County, and especially the Saint John Valley, the Madawaska area is largely determined by the Acadians and their cultural influence and heritage throughout the region. Influence also comes from the United Empire Loyalists, many of whom had previously settled in Saint John, New Brunswick, or in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, during the Loyalist migration to British North America.

Heritage Sites

Though a mostly residential and small-scale commercial community without much in terms of business opportunities, the Town of Madawaska does not have much in terms of sites associated with heritage, unlike the Canadian city opposite the Saint John River. In Madawaska itself, the Inn of Acadia is a two-star hotel, and the Martin Acadian Homestead and Learning Center is located further west and also defines culture in the region.

Infrastructure

While the United States Customs 🛃 and Border Protection of the Department of Homeland Security maintain an official border crossing in the area between Madawaska and Edmundston, the only internal highway of the United States serving the Madawaska area is United States Route 1, serving west-to-east as a north-to-south route.

Hype for the Future 58C: The Complexities between Maine 🇺🇸 and New Brunswick 🇨🇦

Roosevelt Campobello

The Roosevelt Campobello summer home was most notably associated with the family of Franklin Delano and Eleanor Roosevelt specifically, with the International Park area being jointly serviced by the United States 🇺🇸 and Canada 🇨🇦 in spite of physically being located on Campobello Island, entirely within the Canadian Province of New Brunswick.

Grand Manan

Though the island may occasionally appear closer to the mainland of the United States by way of Maine, the Island of Grand Manan is located entirely within New Brunswick, Canada. Interestingly, even in spite of the Canadian heritage of the entire region, Machias Seal Island, located relatively nearby, is effectively stuck in a border dispute between Canada and the United States, though the island is currently publicly accessible regardless of nationality at this time.

Machias Seal Island

Commonly associated with birdwatching heritage is Machias Seal Island, which even contains a lighthouse in the area, but does not actually maintain a significant permanent settlement and is more of a research settlement disputed between the United States and Canada. According to the United States, Machias Seal Island is rightfully part of the State of Maine, while according to Canada, the exact same island is rightfully part of New Brunswick. The maritime border of the United States and Canada overall is also more directed toward separating Maine from Nova Scotia by way of effectively dividing the Bay of Fundy from the remainder of the Gulf of Maine.

Important Notes about Maine

Maine is a very heavily identified multicultural state, which may be quite a surprise to individuals, groups, and entire communities not from the State. While much of Southern Maine and into the Down East region, where mountains continue all the way into the Atlantic Ocean (a unique feature of Maine amongst the East Coast states, more typically identified along the West/Pacific Coast), is identified as the location of numerous art colonies, most notably Ogunquit and Kennebunkport, the interior of the State of Maine is quite different. While much of the interior is authentically identified as firmly typical for the State, Aroostook County may also hold quite a few surprises. Despite the small population for a relatively large footprint of over twenty percent of statewide land area, the County offers a solar system model along U.S. Route 1, thanks to the University of Maine at Presque Isle. There are also just a few attractions in Aroostook County that may contain a glimpse of the past, even comparable to much of the Canadian Maritimes, thanks to the historic Webster-Ashburton Treaty. Also of interest is the Aroostook River for which the County is named: The river actually flows into the Saint John River at the former Canadian village of Aroostook, Victoria County, New Brunswick (Nouveau-Brunswick), which in turn flows into the Bay of Fundy.