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CanAm map featured in new book!

The new best-selling volume Map: Exploring the World, published by Phaidon Press, features a map published by the Canadian-American Center. They Would Not Take Me There: People, Places, and Stories from Champlain’s Travels in Canada created by Michael James Hermann and Margaret Wickens Pearce can be found on page 115. To learn more about our Champlain map or to […]

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Canadian Consul General David Alward to visit CanAm!

We are excited to welcome the David Alward, Consul General of the Canadian consulate in Boston, on November 12. He will discuss the recent Canadian elections with CanAm faculty and students. For more information, click here or contact the Center!

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U.S. Department of Education awards funding to Can-Am Center

The U.S. Department of Education has awarded a four-year grant of $1,448,000 to the Canadian-American Center, University of Maine, to support a National Resource Center (NRC) on Canada and to provide Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships for graduate students studying North American French.  The Canadian-American Center will use the NRC funds to further […]

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U.S. Department of Education awards funding to Can-Am Center

The U.S. Department of Education has awarded a four-year grant of $1,448,000 to the Canadian-American Center, University of Maine, to support a National Resource Center (NRC) on Canada and to provide Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) fellowships for graduate students studying North American French.  The Canadian-American Center will use the NRC funds to further […]

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Historical Atlas of Maine featured in UMaine Today

Discovering Maine New atlas offers a unique perspective on the state’s history by Margaret Nagle, UMaine Today, University of Maine Maine’s North Woods first called Henry David Thoreau in 1846, when he traveled the West Branch of the Penobscot in a bateau and scaled Mount Katahdin. Over the next 11 years, the philosopher-naturalist made two […]

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Historical Atlas of Maine featured in Bangor Daily News & Portland Press Herald

From ice age to digital age, ‘Historical Atlas of Maine’ completed after 15 years of work by Emily Burnham, Bangor Daily News After 15 years, the creation of more than 300 maps, countless hours spent pouring over old documents and lots of careful editing, the “Historical Atlas of Maine,” a colorful, fact-packed volume detailing 15,000 […]

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