Why Does Northern Maine Feel So Different Than The Rest Of The Northeast? (Portland: camp, living in)

[slyfox2]

A little known fact is that the USA borrowed Maine from Canada in 1820, and just never gave it back, hoping that Canada would just forget. And they did forget. And the USA made up this story that it exploded out of Massawhatsists.

And so, Maine is different because Maine really isn’t Maine, its Ontario and New Brunswick.

And the roots are still here. People find that they desperately want to change to Atlantic Time from Eastern standard time. We all know that it is the Main part of something. Its certainly not the main part of the USA, but it could easily be the main part of Canada.

[slyfox2]

Originally Posted by tarragon

Hopefully, the area will not get ruined by people coming into the area that wants to build it up and make it more commercialized.

I live in a house that was built in 1900, before Maine was ruined by people moving here from Europe.

[G1..]

Originally Posted by slyfox2

I live in a house that was built in 1900, before Maine was ruined by people moving here from Europe.

First time in Maine was in 1975 I was hiking Katahdin and we drove from the Berkshires of Mass to Baxter St. park and it seem like forever. The lumber companies were still going strong and all the homes in Millinocket were built just like that ,all from 1900's or earlier. I fell in love with N.Maine then it was like a world I never knew before.Sad things must change.

[maineguy8888]

Originally Posted by G1..

First time in Maine was in 1975 I was hiking Katahdin and we drove from the Berkshires of Mass to Baxter St. park and it seem like forever. The lumber companies were still going strong and all the homes in Millinocket were built just like that ,all from 1900's or earlier. I fell in love with N.Maine then it was like a world I never knew before.Sad things must change.

Millinocket area has changed some. The rest of northern Maine has not changed much.

[East of the River]

Originally Posted by slyfox2

I live in a house that was built in 1900, before Maine was ruined by people moving here from Europe.

Well the French first hit traveled to Maine in 1604 so it's been happening a while.

[East of the River]

Originally Posted by maineguy8888

Millinocket area has changed some. The rest of northern Maine has not changed much.

Washington County hasn't changed much. I lived their in the late 90's I drove thru again a couple years ago. Not much different. It's kind of Funny over the last 20 years I have driven thru Maine many times for school and work (and went there on vacation since I was born). The changes do seem to creep further North. I was amazed around 2012 how much central Maine had changed in 15 years but then once I got past Bangor it went back to what it always was, which honestly was very comforting.

[slyfox2]

Originally Posted by East of the River

Well the French first hit traveled to Maine in 1604 so it's been happening a while.

Champlain.

My wife read a fab book about him.

[kellysmith]

Originally Posted by slyfox2

A little known fact is that the USA borrowed Maine from Canada in 1820, and just never gave it back, hoping that Canada would just forget. And they did forget. And the USA made up this story that it exploded out of Massawhatsists.

And so, Maine is different because Maine really isn’t Maine, its Ontario and New Brunswick.

And the roots are still here. People find that they desperately want to change to Atlantic Time from Eastern standard time. We all know that it is the Main part of something. Its certainly not the main part of the USA, but it could easily be the main part of Canada.

A little bit of the story you missed. Canada became a country in 1867. The Aroostook War was a dispute between the American Colonists and the British. What is now Canada was a British Colony in 1820 when Maine became a State. The Northern border had been established by the Treaty of Paris in 1763, but where exactly that established the border was disputed. It was the Webster Ashburn Treaty in 1842 that established the border where it is today. Actually the American Colonists claimed much more territory than what was established by that settlement, so one could say the Brits took part of Maine and that area is now Canada rather than the US. It was more than 20 years after Webster Ashburn before Canada became a country.

[Kracer]

A German POW camp was situated in Houlton in the 1940s and a likely source of German settlement in Aroostook.

[Northern Maine Land Man]

"Yeah....things change. Nothing is the same as it was in the 1950’s. Sorry."

My wife and I went to Newfoundland for our 25th anniversary back in 1989. It was just like Maine in 1949. As chance would have it, I worked in Newfoundland in the 1990s and that same image of Maine a half century earlier impressed me on a daily basis.

I was recently given a real Old Town boat made in 1947. It is built like a canoe and was canvas covered when it left the factory. It was sold to a sporting camp on Millinocket Lake, probably Twin Pines. The boat needs work. I will replace the transom and the knee braces. The knee braces in the boat are made of apple wood. I intend to do the same. I can find a dead apple tree and saw wood with the grain bending through the grain just as the Navy did with the naval oaks that grew on Santa Rosa Island off Pensacola. Those oaks were pruned to grow ships knees. It was a skill passed down through the generations of shipwrights.

My boat had a drawer under the seat at the stern. I will recreate the missing drawer.