Season 3, Episode 10 - The Maine That Almost Was: British Plans for Downeast Maine, 1775-1815
Guest: Patrick Callaway, PhD
Air Date: November 3, 2022
Host: Jenna Jandreau
This episode explores two key turning points in the late 1700s and early 1800s where the fate of the MDI region could have easily resulted in it becoming a province of British North America.
About Our Guest
Patrick Callaway - in addition to his collections work here at the Society - is a lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Maine. He earned his Ph.D. in Canadian-American history at the University of Maine, and was a Fulbright exchange student to Dalhousie University in Halifax. His research focuses on the economic connections between the United States and British North American in the late 1700s-early 1800s.
Chebacco articles by Patrick Callaway, PhD:
- An Uncertain Trumpet: Coastal Mainers, Nova Scotians, and the War of 1812 (2020)
- The Maine That Almost Was: British Plans for Downeast Maine, 1775-1815 (2022)
Previous Chebacco Chat appearances
- No. 42: From the Collections: The MDI Committee for Peace
- No. 41: When Spanish Flu Came to Bangor
- No. 24: The Civilian Conservation Corps on Mount Desert Island
- No. 9: “An Uncertain Trumpet: Coastal Mainers, Nova Scotians, and the War of 1812”