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The river forms from the Chiputneticook Lakes (North Lake, East Grand Lake, Mud Lake, and Spednic Lake) along the Canadian–U.S. border. U.S. Geological Survey topographic maps show the St. Croix River as beginning at the 1.0-mile-long (1.6 km) outlet stream from East Grand Lake, then flowing through the short Mud Lake and entering Spednic Lake, extending 20 miles (32 km) to its outlet at ...
Saint Croix Island (French: Île Sainte-Croix), long known to locals as Dochet Island (/ ˈ d u ʃ eɪ /), is a small uninhabited island in Maine near the mouth of the Saint Croix River that forms part of the Canada–United States border separating Maine from New Brunswick.
The Devils Head Site, designated Site 97.10 by the Maine Archaeological Survey, is a prehistoric and historic archaeological site in Calais, Maine.Located on the banks of the St. Croix River, it is a shell midden site with evidence of multiple periods of human habitation, from the Middle Ceramic Period (c. 200-600 CE) to the Late Contact Period (mid-18th century) and beyond.
The Passamaquoddy have an oral history supported with visual imagery, such as birchbark etching and petrographs prior to European contact. Among the Algonquian-speaking tribes of the loose Wabanaki Confederacy, they occupy coastal regions along the Bay of Fundy, Passamaquoddy Bay, and Gulf of Maine, and along the St. Croix River and its ...
St. Croix Island, on the US side of the St. Croix River 45°07′42″N 67°08′02″W / 45.128333°N 67.133889°W / 45.128333; -67.133889 ( St. Croix Island International Historic St. Croix Junction
Passamaquoddy Bay (French: Baie de Passamaquoddy) is an inlet of the Bay of Fundy, between the U.S. state of Maine and the Canadian province of New Brunswick, at the mouth of the St. Croix River. [1] Most of the bay lies within Canada, with its western shore bounded by Washington County, Maine.
The 1783 Treaty of Paris that ended the American Revolutionary War ceded western Sunbury County (west of the St. Croix River) from Nova Scotia to Massachusetts, which had an overlapping claim. The treaty was ambiguous about the inland boundary between what came to be known as the District of Maine and the neighboring British provinces of New ...
The Passamaquoddy people are federally recognized in the United States as the Passamaquoddy Tribe in Maine. No Passamaquoddy First Nation has been recognized in Canada. The PRGI has around 350 members. In 2018, the Canadian federal government purchased 2,500 acres of land along the St. Croix River (Skutik River) and handed over the land to the ...