The Roman Catholic Diocese Boundary and American Madawaska, 1842-1870

Mount, Graeme S.;Stevenson, Michael D.

Article discussing the impact of the 1842 Webster-Ashburton Treaty on the remapping of Roman Catholic diocesan boundaries in the New Brunswick and northern Maine border region. How Maine and Canadian political geography figured into the organization of Catholic space in the 19th century, and the question of whether diocesan boundaries should be figured according to political border or ethnicity. Other factors playing into Catholic Church decisions on the organization of border dioceses.

1993-01 (winter, spring)

en

Journal Article

22663768;607696548

1840s; Maine and New Brunswick

3 & 4

Maine Historical Society Quarterly

0163-1152

32