Acadian Archives/Archives acadiennes at UMFK: Environmental Studies

Two videodiscs: one, by Alphie Clavette, concerns logging (also includes section on working draft horses in the woods); the second, interviews by Dawn Clavette with the assistance of Annie Conners Dow, on oral history of Castonguay Settlement, Maine, with Eunice Walker, Lucy Gardner, Emily Mullins. Both videotapes submitted for a course at the University of Maine at Fort Kent in Fall 1986.

Videotape compilation of home movie footage of lumber camp and sawmill operations near Eagle Lake, Maine, including scenes shot at First Wallagrass, Rowe, and Ben Lakes. Original footage shot by A. L. LeBoeuf between 1943 and 1952; videotape compiled by Lucius and Elaine Marin in Spring 1992 for a course at the University of Maine at Fort Kent. Narrated by Lou Marin.

This collection consists of a photocopy of a logging contract between Ranseford Kelley of Allagash, Maine, and St. Francis Lumber Company of St. Francis, Maine, dated December 1, 1936. The contract states that the company is hiring Kelley as a contractor to cut, haul, mark, and deliver spruce, fir, cedar, and pine logs cut from lands owned by the company in T17 R11, Wheatland and Coe.

"This collection consists of interviews conducted by Jacqueline Chamberland Blesso for her Master's thesis at Montclair State University, New Jersey. Blesso interviewed a variety of Saint John Valley residents, including Roger Paradis, Ida Pelletier Morin, Catherine Morneault, Don Cyr, Gerard Chamberland, Gilman St. Pierre, Alzared Gagnon, Ida Roy, Alfred Marin, Fernand Sirois, and David Raymond. She also recorded Ida Roy singing a song written by Maria B. Chamberland. Blesso's thesis concentrated on "complaintes" (laments), a form of song, and their relation to the Saint John Valley, particularly St. Agatha, Maine. A large portion of the interviews concern the music of the region and the history of the music. In addition, the recordings include singing by Fernand Sirois, Ida Roy, Catherine Morneault, Gilman St. Pierre, and Alzared Gagnon. The interview subjects also include the history of St. Agatha and the St. John Valley region, including farming, potato harvests, buckwheat, forestry, hunting, the history of the Acadians and the Deportation, and the history of the Maliseet."

This collection consists of one black and white copy of a map by Jacques Nicolas Bellin. It depicts landmarks of eastern Canada and part of northeast America extending from Newfoundland to the borders of Lake Ontario and south to Cape Cod. The map is extremely detailed, showing regions, borders, cities, settlements, Native American lands, portages, mountains, lakes, and rivers. Annotations appear throughout the map.

This map, originally issued in 1744, became the foundation on which numerous cartographers based or copied their maps of the northeastern region. This map was reissued by Jonathan Sheppard Books, Albany, NY. The engraver is showing as F. Desbruslins.