Aroostook County is a county in the U.S. state of Maine along the Canada–U.S. border. As of the 2010 census, the population was 71,870. Its seat is Houlton with offices in Caribou and Fort Kent.
Edmundston is a city in Madawaska County, New Brunswick, Canada.
Madawaska County, also known as the "New Brunswick Panhandle", is located in northwestern New Brunswick, Canada. Over 90% of the county's population speaks French. Its Francophone population are known as "Brayons." Forestry is the major industry in the county.
The Republic of Madawaska was a putative republic in the northwest corner of Madawaska County, New Brunswick and adjacent areas of Aroostook County in the US state of Maine and of Quebec. The word "Madawaska" comes from the Miꞌkmaq words madawas (porcupine) and kak (place). Thus, the Madawaska is "the country of the porcupine". The Madawaska River which flows into the Saint John River at Edmundston, New Brunswick, and Madawaska, Maine, flows through the region.
The Madawaska School Department in Madawaska, Maine serves the area of Madawaska, St. David, and Grand Isle. There are two schools that serve the student population: The Madawaska Elementary School and the Madawaska Middle/High School.
U.S. Route 1 in the U.S. state of Maine is a major north–south state highway serving the eastern part of the state. It parallels the Atlantic Ocean from New Hampshire north through Portland, Brunswick, and Belfast to Calais, and then the St. Croix River and the rest of the Canada–US border via Houlton to Fort Kent. The portion along the ocean, known as the Coastal Route, provides a scenic alternate to Interstate 95 (I-95).
The Edmundston–Madawaska Bridge is an international bridge which connects the cities of Edmundston, New Brunswick, in Canada and Madawaska, Maine, in the United States, across the Saint John River. The bridge consists of four steel through truss spans, each 70.71 metres (232.0 ft) in length, for a total length of 287.12 metres (942.0 ft), which carries a two lane open steel grid deck roadway.
Madawaska is a town in Aroostook County, Maine, United States. The population was 4,035 at the 2010 census. Madawaska is opposite Edmundston, Madawaska County in New Brunswick, Canada, to which it is connected by the Edmundston–Madawaska Bridge over the Saint John River. The majority of its residents speak French; 83.4% of the population speak French at home. Madawaska is the northernmost town in the contiguous United States.
Madawaska Valley District High School (MVDHS) is a public high school situated in the village of Barry's Bay, Ontario. It is managed by Renfrew County District School Board. The school was opened in 1967, and has been operating as the public high school for the area ever since. M.V.D.H.S. is one of few high schools in the area, and as of 2012, is attended by 419 students, offering classes for students in grades 9-12. Some of the faculty are M.V. Graduates.
Education in Maine consists of public and private schools in Maine, including the University of Maine System, the Maine Community College System, private colleges, and secondary and primary schools.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the U.S. state of Maine:
The Little Madawaska River is a 42.6-mile-long (68.6 km) river in northern Maine. From its source in Maine Township 14, Range 5, WELS, it runs northeast and southeast to its confluence with the Aroostook River at Grimes Mill, about 3 miles (5 km) downstream from Caribou.
The Little River is a short river in Madawaska, Maine, about 4 miles (6 km) from the Canada–United States border. The river flows west 5.1 miles (8.2 km) from its source to Long Lake. The lake drains — via Mud Lake, Cross Lake, Square Lake, and Eagle Lake — into the Fish River, a tributary of the Saint John River.
Madawaska is a census-designated place (CDP) comprising the main village within the town of Madawaska in Aroostook County, Maine, United States. The population of the CDP was 2,967 at the 2010 census, out of a population of 4,035 for the entire town.
The Maine Northern Railway Company Limited is a 258 mi (415 km) U.S. and Canadian short line railroad owned by the New Brunswick Railway Company, a holding company that is part of "Irving Transportation Services", a division within the industrial conglomerate J.D. Irving Limited.
Judy Ayotte Paradis is an American politician from Maine. From 1986 to 1994, she represented Madawaska, Maine while serving in the Maine Legislature as a member of the Maine House of Representatives (1986-1992) and the Maine Senate (1992-1994). In 1991, she won the Toll Fellowship from the National Council of State Legislatures.
Raynold Theriault Sr. was an American politician from Maine. Theriault served six terms in the Maine Legislature. He was first elected as a Democrat to the Maine House of Representatives in November 1980, where he spent three terms. In 1986, Theriault was elected to the Maine Senate as a Democrat. Theriault joined the Maine Republican Party on December 31, 1991. He did not seek re-election in 1992. He also served terms on the SAD 27 School Board of Directors and the Fort Kent Town Council.
Wolastoq “the Beautiful River”; changed in 1604 by Samuel de Champlain to "Fleuve Saint-Jean" is a river flowing approximately 418 miles (673 km) from headwaters in the Notre Dame Mountains near the Maine-Quebec border through New Brunswick to the northwest shore of the Bay of Fundy. The river and its tributary drainage basin formed the territory of the Wolastoqiyik and Passamaquoddy First Nations prior to European colonization. As the longest river between Chesapeake Bay and the Gulf of Saint Lawrence the Saint John offered one of the best transportation corridors for First Nations refugees to retreat from the English colonization of North America's Atlantic coast. The Wolastoqiyik and their Acadian allies retreated upstream after English victories in the French and Indian War to establish the Republic of Madawaska on the remote upper river. Inhabitants of the upper river rejected both Canada and United States sovereignty until the present Canada–United States border was established by the Webster-Ashburton Treaty of 1842. The lower river has been developed for agriculture and industry, while the United States portion of the river upstream of Madawaska remains the sparsely populated North Maine Woods. The historic isolation of Madawaska has helped preserve the Acadian French dialect.
Grand Isle is a census-designated place (CDP) and the primary village in the town of Grand Isle, Aroostook County, Maine, United States. It is in the northwest corner of the town, situated on high ground overlooking the St. John River, which forms the Canada–United States border. The Canadian province of New Brunswick is to the northeast across the river.
