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	Republic of Madawaska - MicroWiki - A Wikia wiki
		Republic of Madawaska - MicroWiki - A Wikia wiki
		The Republic of Madawaska occupies the northwest corner of Madawaska County, New Brunswick (also known as the "New Brunswick Panhandle"), and lies partially in adjacent areas of Quebec and Aroostook County in the American state of Maine.
		The origins of the republic lie in the 1783 Treaty of Paris, which established the border between the United States of America and the British North American colonies.
	micronations.wikia.com /wiki/Republic_of_Madawaska (406 words)

	Republic of Madawaska - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Republic of Madawaska was a small, unrecognized state in the northwest corner of Madawaska County, New Brunswick (also known as the "New Brunswick Panhandle") and adjacent areas of Aroostook County in the American state of Maine and of Quebec.
		The origins of the unorganized republic lie in the Treaty of Paris (1783), which established the border between the United States of America and the British North American colonies.
		A flag of the republic was created in 1938, bearing an American eagle and an arc of six red stars on a white field.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Republic_of_Madawaska (385 words)

	Republic of Indian Stream - MicroWiki - A Wikia wiki
		The Republic of Indian Stream was a small, self-declared, constitutional republic in North America that existed from July 9, 1832 to 1835.
		The Republic covered the northern reaches of what is now the state of New Hampshire, Lake Saint Francis and the four Connecticut Lakes.
		The double taxation in particular caused ire among the population, and the republic was formed to put an end to the issue until the U.S. and Britain could settle on the borderline.
	micronations.wikia.com /wiki/Republic_of_Indian_Stream (671 words)

	Madawaska (Canada - USA)
		The flag was made for the opening of the bicentennial (1785-1985) of Madawaska, adopted by the Council of Saint-Basile (New Brunswick) and approved by the Société historique du Madawaska.
		In the center, a porcupine recalls the oldest origins of Madawaska, to perpetuate the memory of the Amerindians who welcomed in 1785 the founders of Madawaska.
		In the evening, a ball at the home of James Bacon [whose house was on the Eastern side of the confluence of Baker Brook and the Saint John River], at which by invitation many of the French settlers were present, concluded the festivities of the day.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/ca-nb-mw.html (715 words)

	Footnotes to History- M
		Madawaska, Republic of- Northern Maine and southern New Brunswick, while seldom mentioned today as a potential powderkeg, were hotly contested by the US and Great Britain until the current border was agreed upon in 1842.
		Manchuria, Republic of- Zhang Zuolin (formerly known as Chang Tso-Lin) was a general in the Chinese Republican Army during the early years of the twentieth century.
		Manitoba, Republic of- In 1868, the province of Manitoba was still under the control of the Hudson's Bay Company, rather than the Confederation of Canada.
	www.buckyogi.com /footnotes/natm.htm (4940 words)

	N.E.J.V.-FLAGS IN MADAWASKA
		Madawaska is a country largely settled by French-speaking people that lies at the very northern tip of Maine and extends somewhat into Canada, being parts of eastern Québec and western New Brunswick.
		The Fief of Madawaska was granted by the French Crown in 1683 to Sieur Charles-Aubert de la Chenaye.
		Madawaska was largely unsettled prior to the mid-1700s.
	www.midcoast.com /~martucci/neva/madawask.html (2819 words)

	Feature article No. 3 / New Brunswick Day 2006 (06/08/04)
		Known as the George Washington of the Republic of Madawaska, he defied New Brunswick authorities in many ways, and was twice arrested and jailed in Fredericton.
		Their flag represented the Republic of Madawaska, and featured an American eagle on a white background, surrounded by a half-circle of red stars.
		The date of Aug. 10 was set for the declaration of a constitution for the American Republic of Madawaska, and their village was to become the capital.
	www.gnb.ca /cnb/news/wcs/2006e1056wc.htm (782 words)

	Office du Tourisme Edmundston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		On the border between New Brunswick, Quebec and Maine, the Republic of Madawaska nestles in the comfort of the Appalachians that skirt the picturesque Saint-John River Valley.
		A short while later, at the close of the eighteen century, French-Canadian colonists from Quebec came to Madawaska and also settled to farm the lowlands.
		One historical footnote of important to be mentioned here: the lone campaign of John Baker, an American colonist, who demanded that Madawaska become part of the American Republic.
	www.republiquemadawaska.com /index_en.php (373 words)

	madawaska - Ask.com Web Search
		•Madawaska is opposite Edmundston in Madawaska County in New Brunswick, Canada.
		•Madawaska was at the centre of the bloodless...
		Madawaska is a town in Aroostook County, Maine, United States.
	search.ask.com /web?q=madawaska (232 words)

	History of Madawaska Territory
		Below is the article "Flags in Madawaska: Then and Now," a short history of the Madawaska Territory, written by David B. Martucci and published in the New England Journal of Vexillology.
		The focus is on the two flags of Madawaska, but in telling the history of those flags, Martucci also tells the history of the Madawaska Settlement, though from a decidedly US point of view.
		As no census of Madawaska had been taken, Ebenezer Greely of Dover was sent to take one so that the town could have its apportionment of the funds.
	www.upperstjohn.com /history/madterritory.htm (4239 words)

	Edmundston, Canada. Travel guide & tourist information by Hostelbookers.com
		Lying at the confluence of the Saint John and Madawaska rivers, wood-pulping EDMUNDSTON is the largest town in the north of New Brunswick, with a population of nearly twelve thousand.
		Edmundston is mainly French-speaking and, curiously, regards itself as the capital of the enclave known as the Republic of Madawaska, the snout-shaped tract of Canadian territory jutting out into the state of Maine.
		While the idea of an independent state here is preposterous, the "Republic" is more than a publicity stunt: it signifies the frustration of a people over whom the British and Americans haggled for thirty years until 1842, and who still feel ignored by Fredericton.
	www.hostelbookers.com /guides/canada/edmundston (272 words)

	New Brunswick
		The flag of the République du Madawaska is, as its name suggests, hoisted in a tongue-in-cheek homage to the independence of this region of northern New Brunswick and Maine.
		The President of the Republic, who also holds the clearly less prestigious position of Mayor of Edmunston, notes that the flag is more of a regional flag than a municipal one.
		The Madawaska region seems to have adopted the guise of a mythical republic during the border dispute between Britain and the U.S. in the early nineteenth century.
	fraser.cc /FlagsCan/Provinces/NB.html (2378 words)

	Secessionist movements of Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Main article: Republic of Madawaska The Republic of Madawaska occupies the northwest corner of New Brunswick, and lies partially in Quebec and the American state of Maine.
		The origins of the Republic lie in the 1783 Treaty of Versailles, which established the border between the United States of America and the British North American colonies.
		To mark their independence, the "Republic of Rathnelly" elected a queen, organized a parade, and issued Republic of Rathnelly passports to everyone in the neighbourhood.
	secessionist-movements-of-canada.iqnaut.net (1276 words)

	CANOE -- TRAVEL: - A Madawaska meander
		Flying over the New Brunswick tourism information centre near the Quebec border is a decidedly odd-looking flag: White, with six red stars forming a semi-circle over an eagle.
		It symbolizes the Republic of Madawaska, the name Acadian settlers gave this wedge of land at a time when, thanks to an unresolved border issue, they didn't know whether they belonged to the U.S., Acadia or Quebec.
		Madawaska's main town is Edmundston, separated from the U.S. by the Saint John River.
	slam.canoe.ca /Travel/Canada/AtlanticCanada/2006/07/09/pf-1677368.html (432 words)

	Edmundston, New Brunswick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The six stars are probably a reference to the Legendary Republic of Madawaska and its flag with six stars representing the six founding people of Madawaska.
		Currently, Madawaska is a New Brunswick county, but historically the French seigneury included what is today Aroostook county in Maine and Temiscouata county in Quebec.
		Blue represents the St. John and Madawaska rivers, while green represents the importance of the foresting resource.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/ca-nb-ed.html (236 words)

	The Republic of East Vancouver - Amazon
		It was with heavy hearts and deep concern that officials from Whitewater Canada this weekend accepted a request by the Brazilian Canoe Confederation to move the Pan-American Whitewater Slalom Canoe and Kayak Championships from Brazil to the Madawaska Kanu Center (MKC), south of Algonquin Park, Ontario, on August 19—20.
		The race was originally scheduled for September, deep in the jungle, on the border between Argentina and Brazil on the Itaipu Whitewater Canal, just opened in May this year on a part of the outflow from the massive Itaipu Hydroelectric Dam.
		We hope to afflict the comfortable, both materially and intellectually, and comfort the afflicted—of both kinds as well, and we are trying to do both things at the same time.
	www.republic-news.org /archive/145-repub/145_joseph_potvin_amazon.htm (1067 words)

	Madawaska - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Madawaska can refer to any of the following:
		Madawaska (CDP), Maine, the Census Designated Place of the above town
		Madawaska River (Saint John), in Quebec and New Brunswick
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Madawaska (104 words)

	History of the Madawaska Acadians
		Louis Mercure and Simon Joseph Daigle, as experienced "express carriers", organized the 24 leading families, including the Martin, Cyr, Lizotte and Dubé families, to petition the government for permission to sell their lands for the promise of two hundred acres on the upper St. John River to the head of each family.
		By the time of their 1831 survey for the State of Maine, Deane and Kavanagh reported that "Almost all of [the Madawaska settlers] tan their own leather, make their own shoe-packs and Canada boots, and make also their implements of husbandry, which are of rude construction and poor.
		This is a composite of the three local flags of the Madawaska Republic -- the yellow Star of Mary of the 1884 Acadian flag, the porcupine and gold stars of the Madawaska Historical Society's 1985 bicentennial, and the eagle and red stars of John Baker's 1827 Aroostook Republic.
	members.tripod.com /~Scott_Michaud/Madawaska-history.html (2471 words)

	Amazon.com: "Madawaska Republic": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Park 78 Mactaquac Provincial Park 161 Madawaska, Republic of 159 Magog 136, 137 St.-Benot-du-Lac 137 Manicouagan 151 Manitoulin Island 82 Maple Leaf Trail 146 Mara Provincial Park 88...
		Known as Brayons, their domain is the Madawaska Republic, centered at Edmundston on the upper Saint John River near the Maine border.
		Sir Allan Napier 167 MacNeil, Rita 104 Mactaquac 213 Madawaska, Republic of 212 Madawaskans 212 Magog 191 Mahone Bay (Nova Scotia) 226, 227 Maine 211 Maison du Sir Georges-Etienne Cartier (Montral)...
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Madawaska-Republic (411 words)

	Talking Travel Destination Canada When's A Cajun and Acadian?
		Edmundston and the region surrounding it are sometimes half-humorously referred to as the “Republic of Madawaska”.
		As a result of the confusion, loggers and their families living near the Madawaska were not really sure whether they were Americans or subjects of Great Britain.
		When one local resident was asked what his nationality was, he proudly declared that he was a citizen of “la république de Madawaska,” the republic of Madawaska, and the name stuck.
	www.ttrn.com /dcpeterflahertycajun.htm (5098 words)

	Calvin Coish, College of the North Atlantic - Exploring The Atlantic Provinces - Page 99 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		They wanted their own identity, so they called the area the Republic of Madawaska.
		The mayor of Edmundston still carries the title of honorary president of Madawaska.
		The republic has its own flag and coat of arms.
	www.nald.ca /CLR/Atlantic/page99.htm (312 words)

	"Under His Own Flag: John Baker's Gravestone Memorial in Retrospect" by George L Findlen
		When they got to the mouth of the Madawaska River, Deane and Kavanagh, wrote, "The first lot, bounded Easterly by the Madawaska and Southerly by the St. John, is the place where John Harford began to clear and which John Baker claims, as is mentioned in the former part of this report.
		The grants describe the land as part of "a plantation called and known by the name of Madawaska Settlement, in the county of Penobscot, and State [of Maine]." Baker tells Coffin that the majority of the 2,000 Madawaska inhabitants want to be part of Maine.
		The population of the Madawaska Settlement (Penobscot County) was 2,487 people in the US census of 1830.
	www.upperstjohn.com /people/JohnBakerMemorial.htm (17171 words)

	Acadian Genealogy Homepage; Madawaska 'Down East'!
		Despite these complications, the three border crossings along the upper Saint John River - at Van Buren, Madawaska, and Fort Kent - are among the busiest along the entire length of the United States-Canada boundary.
		In 1979 Madawaska, Maine, celebrated its second annual Acadian Festival Week, simultaneously commemorating June28 - declared Acadian Day by the state of Maine in 1978 - and the 375th anniversary of the landing of the Acadians in North America.
		He was referring to the original name for the territory, borrowed from the Malecite word meaning "land of the porcupines," an apt image for the sometimes prickly valley characters.
	www.acadian.org /downeast.html (4383 words)

	Decades of Light - Alternate History Discussion Board
		After news of Greene defeat reached Vermont, the young republic decided to change its neutral stance and throw in its lot with the United States.
		While much of Madawaska was over run by the British late in 1783.
		With aid of the Green Mountain Boys the interior of Madawaska remained under Patriot control until the whole state was ceded to the US after the Second War for American Independence.
	www.alternatehistory.com /discussion/showthread.php?t=28565 (7018 words)

	Sample text for Library of Congress control number 2004484858
		It’s rare to remember exactly where you were when an idea first occurred to you–or at least, it’s rare for me. I usually wander through life gathering notions and hunches the way trouser pockets gather bits of lint; I’m not really sure how they got there, but there they are.
		In this case, though, I can recall vividly where I was when it dawned on me that Canada is not a country but a collection of outposts: it was while I drove through a night of heavy rain, into the realm of a legendary republic, a sleeping child and drowsy spouse beside me.
		A self-proclaimed independent state, Madawaska is wedged between the provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick and the state of Maine.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/enhancements/fy0621/2004484858-s.html (1246 words)

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	Bakers Pride
		Baker operated a gristmill and a sawmill on the north bank of the St. John River, and was the leading American in the disputed territory.
		He was dissatisfied with the official borders, and in 1827 declared his village to be capital of the "American Republic of Madawaska".
		Though he was American by birth, Baker ultimately settled in Canada after his imprisonment by the Crown and died at his home in the Baie des Chaleurs region of New Brunswick in 1868.
	www.breadlike.com /pages7/7/bakers-pride.html (2089 words)

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