Maritime Peninsula

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The Maritime Peninsula is a region of eastern North America that extends from the Kennebec River in the U.S. state of Maine northeast to the Maritime provinces of Canada (New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia) and Quebec's Gaspé Peninsula.{{r|Sanger}}{{r|Sanger & Renouf}} It is bounded by the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the north and the Gulf of Maine to the south.{{r|Bourque 1994}}

The region has been inhabited for about 11,000 years, beginning in the Paleo-Indian period.{{r|Sanger}} Contact between native populations and Europeans occurred as early as 1600 in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.{{r|Bourque 1989}} Indigenous peoples at the time of European contact included the ancestors of the modern St. Francis (Odanak), Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, Maliseet, and Miꞌkmaq peoples, along with other Algonquian speakers referred to by French explorers as Abenaki, Etchemin, and Souriquois.{{sfnp|Bourque|1989|p=257}}

The French colony of Acadia occupied roughly the same area.{{r|Bourque & LaBar}}

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{{cite journal |last=Bourque |first=Bruce J. |title=Ethnicity on the Maritime Peninsula, 1600–1759 |journal=Ethnohistory |date=1989 |volume=36 |issue=3 |doi=10.2307/482674 |issn=0014-1801 |page=260 |jstor=482674 }}

{{cite book |last=Bourque |first=Bruce J. |editor1=Baugh, T.G. |editor2=Ericson, J.E |title=Prehistoric Exchange Systems in North America |date=1994 |publisher=Springer Science+Business Media |location=New York |isbn=978-1-4419-3240-2 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tcDVBwAAQBAJ&q=%22maritime+peninsula%22 |doi=10.1007/978-1-4757-6231-0_2 |chapter=Evidence for Prehistoric Exchange on the Maritime Peninsula |page=23 |series=Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology }}

{{cite book |last1=Bourque |first1=Bruce J. |last2=LaBar |first2=Laureen A. |title=Uncommon Threads: Wabanaki Textiles, Clothing, and Costume |date=2009 |publisher=Maine State Museum |location=Augusta |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=061MAQAAMAAJ&q=%22maritime+peninsula%22 |isbn=978-0-29-598870-2 |chapter=The Native Peoples of the Maritime Peninsula |page=11 }}

{{cite book |last=Sanger |first=David |editor1-last=Hornsby |editor1-first=S.J. |editor2-last=Reid |editor2-first=J.G. |title=New England and the Maritime Provinces: Connections and Comparisons |date=2005 |publisher=McGill-Queen's University Press |isbn=0-77-352865-2 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aIxmyWo6o94C&q=%22maritime+peninsula%22 |chapter=Pre-European Dawnland: Archaeology of the Maritime Peninsula |page=15 }}

{{cite book |editor1-last=Sanger |editor1-first=David |editor2-last=Renouf |editor2-first=M.A.P. |title=The Archaic of the Far Northeast |date=2006 |publisher=University of Maine Press |isbn=978-0-89-101113-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GxMWAQAAIAAJ&q=%22maritime+peninsula%22 |page=224 }}

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Category:Geography of North America

Category:Peninsulas of North America

Maritime Peninsula

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