A report on Quebec and Maine

A depiction of Jacques Cartier by Théophile Hamel, 1844
Maine State House, designed by Charles Bulfinch, built 1829–1832
Three Huron-Wyandot chiefs from Wendake. New France had largely peaceful relations with the Indigenous people, such as their allies the Huron. After the defeat of the Huron by their mutual enemy, the Iroquois, many fled from Ontario to Quebec.
Montcalm leading his troops into battle. Watercolour by Charles William Jefferys.
Misty Morning, Coast of MaineArthur Parton (1842–1914). Between 1865 and 1870, Brooklyn Museum.
The Province of Quebec in 1774
A map of Maine and surrounding regions
The Battle of Saint-Eustache was the final battle of the Lower Canada Rebellion.
The Maine coast and Portland Head Light
George-Étienne Cartier, creator of the Quebec state and premier of Canada East
Rocky shoreline in Acadia National Park
Maurice Duplessis, premier of Quebec from 1936 to 1939 and during the Grande Noirceur
Autumn in the Hundred-Mile Wilderness
"Maîtres chez nous" was the electoral slogan of the Liberal Party during the 1962 election.
Köppen climate types of Maine, using 1991-2020 climate normals.
René Lévesque, one of the architects of the Quiet Revolution, and the Premier of Quebec's first modern sovereignist government
Winter in Bangor
Map of Quebec
Maine population density map
Michel's falls on Ashuapmushuan River in Saint-Félicien, Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean
Bath Iron Works naval shipbuilding
Köppen climate types of Quebec
Lobstering in Portland
Baie-Saint-Paul during winter
Maine blueberries. The U.S.'s only commercial producers of wild blueberries are located in Maine.
The Parliament Building in Quebec City
Portland International Jetport
The seventeen administrative regions of Quebec.
The Penobscot Narrows Bridge, carrying U.S. Route 1 and Maine State Route 3 over the Penobscot River
The Édifice Ernest-Cormier is the courthouse for the Quebec Court of Appeal in Montreal
A southbound Downeaster passenger train at Ocean Park, Maine, as viewed from the cab of a northbound train
The Basilica of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré
Treemap of the popular vote by county, 2016 presidential election
The University of Maine is the state's only research university.
Map of aboriginal communities in Quebec, this includes reserves, settlements and northern villages.
Colby, Bates, and Bowdoin (pictured) Colleges form the Colby-Bates-Bowdoin Consortium
The Institut national de la recherche scientifique helps to advance scientific knowledge and to train a new generation of students in various scientific and technological sectors.
College hockey being played at the Cross Insurance Center
Quebec's exports to the international market. The United States is the country which buys the most Québécois exports by far. (2011)
Two moose in the Aroostook National Wildlife Refuge. The moose is Maine's state mammal.
The Beauharnois generating station, operated by Hydro-Québec
1. Portland
A mockup of the Airbus A220 (formerly the Bombardier CSeries), originally developed by Bombardier Aerospace
2. Lewiston
The Château Frontenac is the most photographed hotel in the world.
3. Bangor
In 1969, Héroux-Devtek designed and manufactured the undercarriage of the Apollo Lunar Module.
4. South Portland
The ferry N.M. Camille-Marcoux, of the Société des traversiers du Québec
5. Auburn
The show Dralion, Cirque du Soleil, introduced in 2004
6. Biddeford
La chasse-galerie (1906) by Henri Julien, showing a scene from a popular Quebec folk legend.
7. Sanford
La Cavalière by Charles Daudelin, 1963, installed in front of the pavilion Gérard Morisset of the Quebec National Museum of Fine Arts in Quebec City
8. Brunswick
Maison Routhier in Sainte-Foy. This kind of Canadien-style house remains a symbol of Canadien nationalism.
9. Saco
A classic poutine from La Banquise in Montreal
10. Scarborough
The Montreal Canadiens at the Bell Centre
11. Westbrook
St-Jean-Baptiste Day celebrations at Maisonneuve park in Montréal
12. Augusta
The Fleurdelisé flying at Place d'Armes in Montreal
Party registration by county: (November 2020)
Canada in the 18th century.
The Province of Quebec from 1763 to 1783.
Lower Canada from 1791 to 1841. (Patriots' War in 1837, Canada East in 1841)
Quebec from 1867 to 1927.
Quebec today. Quebec (in blue) has a border dispute with Labrador (in red).
Different forest areas of Quebec. 1. Middle Arctic Tundra
2. Low Arctic Tundra
3. Torngat Mountain Tundra
4. Eastern Canadian Shield Taiga
5. Southern Hudson Bay Taiga
6. Central Canadian Shield Forests
7. Eastern Canadian Forests
8. Eastern Forest/Boreal Transition
9. Eastern Great Lakes Lowland Forests
10. New England/Acadian Forests
11. Gulf of St. Lawrence Lowland Forests

Maine is a state in the New England region of the United States, bordered by New Hampshire to the west; the Gulf of Maine to the southeast; and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Quebec to the northeast and northwest, respectively.

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Located in Central Canada, the province shares land borders with Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, New Brunswick to the southeast, and a coastal border with Nunavut; in the south it borders Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York in the United States.

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New Brunswick

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One of the ten provinces (and three territories) of Canada.

One of the ten provinces (and three territories) of Canada.

Fort Beauséjour at the Isthmus of Chignecto. The French built the fort in 1751 in an effort to limit British expansion into continental Acadia.
A romanticized depiction of the arrival of the Loyalists in New Brunswick
An Intercolonial Railway bridge, 1875. The railway was established as a result of Confederation.
A provincial welcome sign in English and French, the two official languages of the province
Topographic map of New Brunswick
Furbish's lousewort is a herb endemic to the shores of the upper Saint John River.
The Hopewell Rocks are rock formations located at the upper reaches of the Bay of Fundy, near Hopewell Cape.
View of the Appalachian mountains from Mount Carleton Provincial Park
Population density of New Brunswick
The province's distribution of English and French is highly regional.
Uptown Saint John is a commercial hub and seaport for the province.
A New Brunswick pulp mill owned by J. D. Irving
Sir Howard Douglas Hall at the University of New Brunswick is the oldest university building still in use in Canada.
The New Brunswick Legislative Building serves as the meeting place for the provincial legislative assembly.
The Imperial Theatre in Saint John hosts the productions of the Atlantic Ballet Theatre of Canada and Theatre New Brunswick.
The Owens Art Gallery at Mount Allison University is the oldest university-operated art gallery in Canada.
Administrative areas of New Brunswick (historic county borders also shown):
Local service district
Rural community
Municipality
Indian reserve

New Brunswick is bordered by Quebec to the north, Nova Scotia to the east, the Gulf of Saint Lawrence to the northeast, the Bay of Fundy to the southeast, and the U.S. state of Maine to the west.

New England

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Indigenous territories, circa 1600 in present-day southern New England
Soldier and explorer John Smith coined the name "New England" in 1616.
A 1638 engraving depicting the Mystic massacre
An English map of New England c. 1670 depicts the area around modern Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
The New England Ensign, one of several flags historically associated with New England. This flag was reportedly used by colonial merchant ships sailing out of New England ports, 1686 – c. 1737.
New England's Siege of Louisbourg (1745) by Peter Monamy
The Slater Mill Historic Site in Pawtucket, Rhode Island
Bread and Roses Strike. Massachusetts National Guard troops surround unarmed strikers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1912.
Autumn in New England, watercolor, Maurice Prendergast, c.1910–1913
Cambridge, Massachusetts, has a high concentration of startups and technology companies.
A political and geographical map of New England shows the coastal plains in the southeast, and hills, mountains and valleys in the west and the north.
A portion of the north-central Pioneer Valley in Sunderland, Massachusetts
Köppen climate types in New England
The White Mountains of New Hampshire are part of the Appalachian Mountains.
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Montpelier, Vermont, is the smallest state capital in the United States.
Largest self-reported ancestry groups in New England. Americans of Irish descent form a plurality in most of Massachusetts, while Americans of English descent form a plurality in much of the central parts of Vermont and New Hampshire as well as nearly all of Maine.
World's largest Irish flag in Boston. People who claim Irish descent constitute the largest ethnic group in New England.
Southeastern New England is home to a number of Lusophone ethnic enclaves.
The Port of Portland in Portland, Maine, is the largest tonnage seaport in New England.
The Hartford headquarters of Aetna is housed in a 1931 Colonial Revival building.
A plowed field in Bethel, Vermont
Seabrook Station Nuclear Power Plant in Seabrook, New Hampshire
A New England town meeting in Huntington, Vermont
Flag of the New England Governor's Conference (NEGC)
Alumni Hall at Saint Anselm College has served as a backdrop for media reports during the New Hampshire primary.
New England is home to four of the eight Ivy League universities. Pictured here is Harvard Yard of Harvard University.
Phillips Exeter Academy and Phillips Academy are two prestigious New England secondary schools founded in the late 18th century
Flag of New England flying in Massachusetts. New Englanders maintain a strong sense of regional and cultural identity.
A classic New England Congregational church in Peacham, Vermont
Boston's Symphony Hall is the home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra—the second-oldest of the Big Five American symphony orchestras.
New England regionalist poet Robert Frost
Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom is set on a fictional New England island and was largely filmed in Rhode Island
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
A Hartford Line Train at Hartford Union Station
The MBTA Commuter Rail serves eastern Massachusetts and parts of Rhode Island, radiating from downtown Boston, with planned service to New Hampshire. The CTrail system operates the Shore Line East and Hartford Line, covering coastal Connecticut, Hartford, and Springfield, Massachusetts.
1. Boston, Massachusetts
2. Worcester, Massachusetts
3. Providence, Rhode Island
4. Springfield, Massachusetts
5. Bridgeport, Connecticut
6. Stamford, Connecticut
7. New Haven, Connecticut
8. Hartford, Connecticut
9. Cambridge, Massachusetts
10. Manchester, New Hampshire
Harvard vs. Yale football game in 2003
Fenway Park
Bill Russell and Red Auerbach of the Boston Celtics
The New England Patriots are the most popular professional sports team in New England.
The Middlebury College rowing team in the 2007 Head of the Charles Regatta
Köppen climate types in New England

New England is a region comprising six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont.

It is bordered by the state of New York to the west and by the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick to the northeast and Quebec to the north.

New Hampshire

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State in the New England region of the United States.

State in the New England region of the United States.

The historical coat of arms of New Hampshire, from 1876
Site of first house in New Hampshire, present mansion constructed in 1750, by Gov. W. B. Wentworth, New York Public Library
Fort William and Mary in 1705
1922 map of New Hampshire published in the bulletin of the Brown Company in Berlin
Köppen climate types of New Hampshire, using 1991-2020 climate normals.
Map of New Hampshire, with roads, rivers, and major cities
Shaded relief map of New Hampshire
Mount Adams (5774 ft) is part of New Hampshire's Presidential Range.
Lake Winnipesaukee and the Ossipee Mountains
Autumn leaves on many hardwood trees in New Hampshire turn colors, attracting many tourists
Downtown Manchester
Main Street, Nashua
Largest reported ancestry groups in New Hampshire by town as of 2013. Dark purple indicates Irish, light purple English, pink French, turquoise French Canadian, dark blue Italian, and light blue German. Gray indicates townships with no reported data.
Farmers' market of Mack's Apples
The New Hampshire State House in Concord
Saint Anselm College has held several national debates on campus.
Dartmouth College before a debate in 2008
Manchester–Boston Regional Airport from the air
Dartmouth College's Baker Library
Thompson Hall, at UNH, was built in 1892.

It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Gulf of Maine to the east, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the north.

Vermont

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State in the New England region of the United States.

State in the New England region of the United States.

The Old Constitution House at Windsor, where the Constitution of Vermont was adopted on July 8, 1777
A circa 1775 flag used by the Green Mountain Boys
The gold leaf dome of the neoclassical Vermont State House (Capitol) in Montpelier
1791 Act of Congress admitting Vermont into the Union
Vermont in 1827. The county boundaries have since changed.
Map of Vermont showing cities, roads, and rivers
Population density of Vermont
Mount Mansfield
Western face of Camel's Hump Mountain (elevation 4079 ft).
Fall foliage at Lake Willoughby
Köppen climate types of Vermont, using 1991–2020 climate normals.
Silurian and Devonian stratigraphy of Vermont
The hermit thrush, the state bird of Vermont
A proportional representation of Vermont exports, 2020
Fall foliage seen from Hogback Mountain, Wilmington
Lake Champlain
Autumn in Vermont
Stowe Resort Village
The Lyndon Institute, a high school in Lyndon, Vermont
The University of Vermont
Old Mill, the oldest building of the university
Vermont welcome sign in Addison on Route 17 just over the New York border over the Champlain Bridge
Amtrak station in White River Junction
The Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, in Vernon
The Vermont Supreme Court's building in Montpelier
Vermont towns hold a March town meeting for voters to approve the town's budget and decide other matters. Marlboro voters meet in this building.
Senators Bernie Sanders and Patrick Leahy and Representative Peter Welch greet supporters in 2017.
Vermontasaurus sculpture in Post Mills, in 2010

It borders the states of Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, and New York to the west, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the north.

As of the 2010 census, Vermont was the second-whitest state in the U.S. after Maine.

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Abenaki

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Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands of Canada and the United States.

Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands of Canada and the United States.

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<center>Eastern Abenaki (Penobscot, Kennebec, Arosaguntacook, Pigwacket/Pequawket)</center>
Abenaki teepee with birch bark covering.
Flag of Missisquoi Abenaki Tribe, a state-recognized tribe in Vermont
Statue of Keewakwa Abenaki Keenahbeh in Opechee Park in Laconia, New Hampshire (standing at 36 ft.)
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The Eastern Abenaki language was predominantly spoken in Maine, while the Western Abenaki language was spoken in Quebec, Vermont, and New Hampshire.

Nova Scotia

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One of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.

One of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.

Topographic map of Nova Scotia
Köppen climate types of Nova Scotia
Mi'kmaq family in Tuft's Cove, 1871. The Mi'kmaq inhabited Nova Scotia when the first Europeans arrived.
French forces withdrawing from Port-Royal after being defeated by the British in 1710
Expulsion of the Acadians in Grand-Pré. More than 80 per cent of the Acadian population was expelled from the region between 1755 and 1764.
A Black Loyalist wood cutter, at Shelburne, Nova Scotia, in 1788
leading the captured USS Chesapeake (1799) into Halifax during the War of 1812
Inauguration of the Sebastopol Monument in 1860. The monument was built to honour Nova Scotians who fought in the Crimean War.
The Bluenose in 1921. The racing ship became a provincial icon for Nova Scotia in the 1920s and 1930s.
Population density map of Nova Scotia (c. 2016) with county and regional municipality borders shown.
Languages in Nova Scotia: red – majority anglophone, orange – mixed, blue – majority francophone
Distribution of Scottish Gaelic in the Maritimes
Lobster traps on a dock in Sheet Harbour. The province is the world's largest exporter of lobsters.
A farm in Grafton. Agriculture remains an important sector of the economy in the Annapolis Valley.
A cruise ship docked at the Port of Halifax. The port sees more than 200,000 cruise passengers each year.
Peggys Point Lighthouse in Peggys Cove is a tourist attraction in the province.
Map of Nova Scotia's 18 historical counties by their current organization or municipal status.
Performers at Halifax Pop Explosion, an annual music festival in Halifax
The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia is the provincial art gallery of Nova Scotia.
Symphony Nova Scotia performing at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax
An ice hockey game between the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles, and the Halifax Mooseheads, two Major Junior hockey teams in Nova Scotia
Université Sainte-Anne is a Francophone university situated in Pointe-de-l'Église.
Kluskap monument, Millbrook First Nation, Sipekni'katik, Mi'kma'ki
Map of Acadia in 1757.

In 1848, Nova Scotia became the first British colony to achieve responsible government, and it federated in July 1867 with New Brunswick and the Province of Canada (now Ontario and Quebec) to form what is now the country of Canada.

The province includes regions of the Mi'kmaq nation of Mi'kma'ki (mi'gama'gi), the territory of which extends across the Maritimes, parts of Maine, Newfoundland and the Gaspé Peninsula.

Bottled maple syrup

Maple syrup

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Syrup usually made from the xylem sap of sugar maple, red maple, or black maple trees, although it can also be made from other maple species.

Syrup usually made from the xylem sap of sugar maple, red maple, or black maple trees, although it can also be made from other maple species.

Bottled maple syrup
A sugar maple tree
"Sugar-Making Among the Indians in the North" (19th-century illustration)
Sugar Making in Montreal, October 1852
A bucket used to collect sap, built circa 1820
Two taps in a maple tree, using plastic tubing for sap collection
Traditional bucket tap and a plastic-bag tap
Pouring the sap
A "sugar shack" where sap is boiling.
Regions of maple syrup production in Southeastern Canada and the Northeastern United-States according to the Maple Syrup Producers' Association of Ontario.
Old US maple syrup grades, left to right: Grade A Light Amber ("Fancy"), Grade A Medium Amber, Grade A Dark Amber, Grade B
The motif on the flag of Canada is a maple leaf.

The Canadian province of Quebec is the largest producer, responsible for 70 percent of the world's output; Canadian exports of maple syrup in 2016 were C$487 million (about US$360 million), with Quebec accounting for some 90 percent of this total.

In 2019 it led with over 2.07 e6USgal, followed by New York with 820000 USgal and Maine with 580000 USgal.

Newfoundland and Labrador

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Easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region.

Easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region.

The Long Range Mountains on Newfoundland's west coast are the northernmost extension of the Appalachian Mountains.
Köppen climate types of Newfoundland and Labrador
An artistic depiction of the Maritime Archaic culture, at the Port au Choix Archaeological Site. The Maritime Archaic peoples were the first to settle Newfoundland.
Depiction of the Inuit of Labrador, c. 1812
A Beothuk encampment in Newfoundland, c. 18th century
A statue of John Cabot at Cape Bonavista. The cape is officially cited as the area where Cabot landed in 1497, by the governments of Canada, and the United Kingdom.
Plaque in St. John's commemorating the English claim over Newfoundland, and the beginning of the British overseas empire
French forces sacking English settlements in Newfoundland in 1696
A French invasion of the Newfoundland was repulsed during the Battle of Signal Hill in 1762.
People in front of the Colonial Building protesting against economic conditions, 1932. In the next year, the government of Newfoundland collapsed, and the British government resumed direct control over Newfoundland.
Joey Smallwood signing a document bringing Newfoundland into the Canadian Confederation, 1948
Population density of Newfoundland and Labrador
Fishing boats and lobster traps in Salvage, Newfoundland
The Hebron oil platform, before being towed out to the Grand Banks
The Voisey's Bay Mine is one of several mines located in the province.
The Confederation Building serves as the meeting place for the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly.
Photograph of an artist sketching St. John's harbour and skyline, c. 1890
The Rooms is a provincial cultural facility that houses the provincial art gallery.
Michael Crummey is a contemporary novelist from Newfoundland and Labrador.
E. J. Pratt wrote a number of poems describing maritime life and the history of Canada.
The Newfoundland Tricolour is an unofficial flag used by a number of Newfoundlanders.
The unofficial Flag of Labrador, used by a number of Labradorians
Mile One Centre is an indoor arena in St. John's.
The Trans-Labrador Highway is the primary highway for Labrador.
MV Atlantic Vision is one of several ships that provides inter-provincial ferry service to Newfoundland.

Labrador is also roughly triangular in shape: the western part of its border with Quebec is the drainage divide of the Labrador Peninsula.

They engaged in long-distance trade, using as currency white chert, a rock quarried from northern Labrador to Maine.

Maliseet, Passamaquoddy

Maliseet

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Algonquian-speaking First Nation of the Wabanaki Confederacy.

Algonquian-speaking First Nation of the Wabanaki Confederacy.

Maliseet, Passamaquoddy
Miꞌkmaq
Eastern Abenaki (Penobscot, Kennebec, Arosaguntacook, Pigwacket/Pequawket)
Western Abenaki (Arsigantegok, Missisquoi, Cowasuck, Sokoki, Pennacook)

Their territory extends across the current borders of New Brunswick and Quebec in Canada, and parts of Maine in the United States.

French Americans

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French Americans or Franco-Americans (Franco-Américains), are citizens or nationals of the United States who identify themselves with having full or partial French or French-Canadian heritage, ethnicity and/or ancestral ties.

French Americans or Franco-Americans (Franco-Américains), are citizens or nationals of the United States who identify themselves with having full or partial French or French-Canadian heritage, ethnicity and/or ancestral ties.

Map of New France about 1750 in North America
The Marquis de Lafayette, known as “The Hero of the Two Worlds” for his accomplishments in the service of the United States in the American War of Independence.
The Statue of Liberty is a gift from the French people in memory of the American Declaration of Independence.
Distribution of Franco Americans according to the 2000 census
Creole girls, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, 1935
St. Philip Street at Royal Street, French Quarter, New Orleans

The state with the largest proportion of people identifying as having French ancestry is Maine, while the state with the largest number of people with French ancestry is California.

These immigrants mainly settled in Québec and Acadia, although some eventually inhabited Ontario and Manitoba.