Eastport and Passamaquoddy: A Collection of Historical and Biographical Sketches


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The Maritime Provinces


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Eastport and Passamaquoddy


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Excerpt from Eastport and Passamaquoddy: A Collection of Historical and Biographical Sketches Passamaquoddy. A post town in the district of Maine situated in Washington County, on a bay of its own name at the mouth of St. Croix River. It is three hundred and seventy-eight miles from Boston and seven hundred and twenty-six from Philadelphia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.




A Passamaquoddy-Maliseet Dictionary


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This dictionary of Passamaquoddy-Maliseet, an aboriginal language spoken in New Brunswick and Maine, is the result of more than thirty years of collaboration among native speakers, educators, and linguists. The first of its kind in Canada, the volume contains more than 18,000 entries over 1,200 pages, including a comprehensive English index that will guides readers to discover shades of meaning and to better understand pronunciation and grammatical structure. This unprecedented book is, in many ways, more than a dictionary. An important cultural document, it contains detailed knowledge of the physical, intellectual, social, spiritual, and emotional environments of the Maliseet and Passamaquoddy people. Sample sentences, taken from both oral tradition and contemporary conversation, reveal details of Passamaquoddy-Maliseet thought and culture, personal attitudes, and humour as well as a linguistic ingenuity.




Contribution to Passamaquoddy Folklore


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Reproduction of the original: Contribution to Passamaquoddy Folklore by J. Walter Fewkes




The Canoe Maker


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