The Saint John River is a 673-kilometre-long river flowing from headwaters in the Notre Dame Mountains near the Maine–Quebec border of the United States and Canada through northern Maine and western N
Saint John River in Madawaska, Maine
2018 flooding in Fredericton
The large yellow disputed area is in the drainage of the Saint John. The international boundary established in 1842 is the dashed green line.
A plaque describing the river in Fredericton
Aroostook County, Maine
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Aroostook County is the northernmost county in the U.S. state of Maine, located along the Canada–United States border. As of the 2020 census, the population was 67,105. The county seat is Houlton, wit
Saint John River (Bay of Fundy)
…road along the north bank of the river through the disputed portion of the drainage. Most of the Saint John drainage on the disputed south bank became Aroostook County, Maine, where the town of Madawaska still shares the Acadian French dialect with Edmundston across the river. Historic isolation has helped preserve the…
Aroostook County Courthouse
Children gathering potatoes on a large farm in Aroostook County, 1940. Schools did not open until the potatoes were harvested. Photo by Jack Delano.