Bangor, Maine
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Bangor (/ˈbæŋɡɔːr/ BANG-gor) is a city in and the county seat of Penobscot County, Maine, United States. The city proper has a population of 31,753,[3] making it the state's third-most populous city, behind Portland (68,408) and Lewiston (37,121). Bangor is known as the “Queen City.”
Modern Bangor was established in the mid-19th century with the lumber and shipbuilding industries. Lying on the
Bangor has a
Bangor has a humid continental climate, with cold, snowy winters, and warm summers.
Name and pronunciation
Founded as Kendeskeag Plantation in 1791, Bangor was incorporated as a town in 1834. The name Bangor is said to have been taken from a Welsh tune.[4] it is also the name of Bangor, Gwynedd, the oldest city in Wales.
The final syllable is pronounced gor. In 2015, local celebrities and business owners recorded the YouTube video "How to Say Bangor",[5] which was sung to the tune of "We Are the World".
History
European settlement
The
In 1769, Jacob Buswell founded a settlement at the site. Then known as Norumbega, by 1772, there were 12 families, along with a sawmill, store, and school. By 1787, the population was 567. It was known as Sunbury until incorporation as Bangor in 1791.[10]
Wars of Independence, 1812, and Civil War
In 1779, the rebel Penobscot Expedition fled up the Penobscot River and ten of its ships were scuttled by the British fleet at Bangor. The ships remained there until the late 1950s, when construction of the Joshua Chamberlain Bridge disturbed the site. Six cannons were removed from the riverbed, five of which are on display throughout the region (one was thrown back into the river by area residents angered that the archeological site was destroyed for the bridge's construction).[11]
During the War of 1812, Bangor was briefly occupied in 1814 by British forces under Robert Barrie after the Battle of Hampden.[12]
Maine was part of the
In 1861, a mob ransacked the offices of the Democratic newspaper the Bangor Daily Union, threw the presses and other materials into the street and burned them. Editor Marcellus Emery escaped unharmed and it was only after the war that he resumed publishing.[13]
During the
Bangor was near the lands disputed during the Aroostook War, a boundary dispute with Britain in 1838–1839. The passion of the Aroostook War signaled the increasing role lumbering and logging played in the Maine economy, particularly in the state's central and eastern sections. Bangor arose as a lumbering boom-town in the 1830s, and a potential demographic and political rival to Portland. Bangor became for a time the largest lumber port in the world, and the site of furious land speculation that extended up the Penobscot River valley and beyond.[15]
Industrialization: lumbering, shipping, and manufacturing
The
By 1860, Bangor was the world's largest lumber port, with 150 sawmills operating along the river. The city shipped over 150 million boardfeet of lumber a year, much of it in Bangor-built and Bangor-owned ships. In the year 1860, 3,300 lumbering ships passed by the docks.[11]
Many of the
In addition to shipping lumber, 19th-century Bangor was the leading producer of
Bangor had certain disadvantages compared to other East Coast ports, including its rival Portland, Maine. Being on a northern river, its port froze during the winter, and it could not take the largest ocean-going ships. The comparative lack of settlement in the forested hinterland also gave it a comparatively small home market.[19]
In 1844 the first ocean-going iron-hulled steamship in the U.S. was named The Bangor. She was built by the Harlan and Hollingsworth firm of Wilmington, Delaware in 1844, and was intended to take passengers between Bangor and Boston. On her second voyage, however, in 1845, she burned to the waterline off Castine. She was rebuilt at Bath, returned briefly to her earlier route, but was soon purchased by the U.S. government for use in the Mexican–American War.[20]
Modern era
Bangor continued to prosper as the
Bangor's Hinkley & Egery Ironworks (later Union Ironworks) was a local center for invention in the 19th and early 20th centuries. A new type of
Geography
Bangor is located at 44°48′N 68°48′W / 44.8°N 68.8°W.[24] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 34.59 square miles (89.59 km2), of which 34.26 square miles (88.73 km2) is land and 0.33 square miles (0.85 km2) is water.[25]
A potential advantage that has always eluded exploitation is the city's location between the port city of
Urban development
Fires
Major fires struck the downtown in 1856,[27] 1869,[28] and 1872,[29] the last resulting in the erection of the Adams-Pickering Block. In the Great Fire of 1911 Bangor lost its high school, post office & custom house, public library, telephone and telegraph companies, banks, two fire stations, nearly a hundred businesses, six churches, and synagogue and 285 private residences over a total of 55 acres (23 ha.) The area was rebuilt, and in the process became a showplace for a diverse range of architectural styles, including the Mansard style, Beaux Arts, Greek Revival and Colonial Revival,[11] and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Great Fire of 1911 Historic District.
Urban renewal
The destruction of downtown landmarks such as the old city hall and train station in the late 1960s urban renewal program is now considered to have been a mistake. It ushered in a decline of the city center that was accelerated by the construction of the Bangor Mall in 1978 and subsequent big-box stores on the city's outskirts.[30] Downtown Bangor began to recover in the 1990s, with bookstores, café/restaurants, galleries, and museums filling once-vacant storefronts. The recent re-development of the city's waterfront has also helped re-focus cultural life in the historic center.[31]
Hydrology
Bangor is on the banks of the Penobscot River, close enough to the Atlantic Ocean to be influenced by tides. Upstream, the Penobscot River drainage basin occupies 8,570 square miles (22,200 km2) in northeastern Maine. Flooding is most often caused by a combination of precipitation and snowmelt. Ice jams can exacerbate high flow conditions and cause acute localized flooding. Conditions favorable for flooding typically occur during the spring months.[32]
In 1807 an ice jam formed below Bangor Village, raising the water 10 to 12 feet (3 to 3.7 m) above the normal highwater mark
In the Groundhog Day gale of 1976, a storm surge went up the Penobscot, flooding Bangor for three hours.[35] At 11:15 am, waters began rising on the river and within 15 minutes had risen a total of 12 feet (3.7 m), flooding downtown. About 200 cars were submerged and office workers were stranded until waters receded. There were no reported deaths during this unusual flash flood.[36]
Climate
Bangor has a humid continental climate (Köppen: Dfb), with cold, snowy winters, and warm summers, and is in USDA hardiness zone 5a.[37] The monthly daily average temperature ranges from 18.5 °F (−7.5 °C) in January to 69.5 °F (20.8 °C) in July.[38][39] On average, there are 20 nights annually that drop to 0 °F (−18 °C) or below, and 55 days where the temperature stays below freezing, including 49 days from December through February.[38] There is an average of 6.1 days annually with highs at or above 90 °F (32 °C), with the last year to have not seen such temperatures being 2014.[38][39] Extreme temperatures range from −32 °F (−36 °C) on February 10, 1948, up to 104 °F (40 °C) on August 19, 1935.[38]
The average first freeze of the season occurs on October 7, and the last May 7, resulting in a freeze-free season of 152 days; the corresponding dates for measurable snowfall, i.e. at least 0.1 in (0.25 cm), are November 23 and April 4.[38] The average annual snowfall for Bangor is approximately 74.6 inches (189 cm), while snowfall has ranged from 22.2 inches (56 cm) in 1979–80 to 181.9 inches (4.62 m) in 1962−63; the record snowiest month was February 1969 with 58.0 inches (147 cm), while the most snow in one calendar day was 30.0 inches (76 cm) on December 14, 1927.[38] A snow depth of at least 3 in (7.6 cm) is on average seen 66 days per winter, including 54 days from January to March, when the snow pack is typically most reliable.[39]
Climate data for Bangor International Airport, Maine (1991–2020 normals,[a] extremes 1925–present) | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Record high °F (°C) | 63 (17) |
65 (18) |
84 (29) |
90 (32) |
96 (36) |
98 (37) |
99 (37) |
104 (40) |
99 (37) |
92 (33) |
75 (24) |
65 (18) |
104 (40) |
Mean maximum °F (°C) | 48.9 (9.4) |
47.7 (8.7) |
57.9 (14.4) |
73.0 (22.8) |
84.6 (29.2) |
90.2 (32.3) |
91.5 (33.1) |
90.3 (32.4) |
86.0 (30.0) |
73.8 (23.2) |
63.5 (17.5) |
54.1 (12.3) |
93.9 (34.4) |
Mean daily maximum °F (°C) | 28.1 (−2.2) |
31.2 (−0.4) |
40.1 (4.5) |
53.2 (11.8) |
65.7 (18.7) |
74.7 (23.7) |
80.4 (26.9) |
79.4 (26.3) |
71.0 (21.7) |
58.2 (14.6) |
45.8 (7.7) |
34.5 (1.4) |
55.2 (12.9) |
Daily mean °F (°C) | 18.5 (−7.5) |
21.0 (−6.1) |
30.6 (−0.8) |
42.8 (6.0) |
54.5 (12.5) |
63.6 (17.6) |
69.5 (20.8) |
68.2 (20.1) |
59.9 (15.5) |
48.2 (9.0) |
37.3 (2.9) |
25.9 (−3.4) |
45.0 (7.2) |
Mean daily minimum °F (°C) | 9.0 (−12.8) |
10.9 (−11.7) |
21.1 (−6.1) |
32.4 (0.2) |
43.3 (6.3) |
52.6 (11.4) |
58.6 (14.8) |
57.0 (13.9) |
48.8 (9.3) |
38.2 (3.4) |
28.8 (−1.8) |
17.3 (−8.2) |
34.8 (1.6) |
Mean minimum °F (°C) | −14.1 (−25.6) |
−11.2 (−24.0) |
−2.1 (−18.9) |
20.3 (−6.5) |
30.8 (−0.7) |
40.7 (4.8) |
48.4 (9.1) |
45.2 (7.3) |
33.5 (0.8) |
24.3 (−4.3) |
12.6 (−10.8) |
−3.2 (−19.6) |
−16.9 (−27.2) |
Record low °F (°C) | −29 (−34) |
−32 (−36) |
−16 (−27) |
4 (−16) |
23 (−5) |
29 (−2) |
37 (3) |
29 (−2) |
23 (−5) |
11 (−12) |
−3 (−19) |
−27 (−33) |
−32 (−36) |
Average precipitation inches (mm) | 3.17 (81) |
2.38 (60) |
3.22 (82) |
3.61 (92) |
3.34 (85) |
3.87 (98) |
3.16 (80) |
3.06 (78) |
3.76 (96) |
4.58 (116) |
3.84 (98) |
3.72 (94) |
41.71 (1,059) |
Average snowfall inches (cm) | 18.6 (47) |
17.5 (44) |
15.2 (39) |
3.7 (9.4) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.6 (1.5) |
4.3 (11) |
14.7 (37) |
74.6 (189) |
Average extreme snow depth inches (cm) | 14.5 (37) |
16.3 (41) |
14.2 (36) |
4.0 (10) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.0 (0.0) |
0.1 (0.25) |
2.3 (5.8) |
8.0 (20) |
18.7 (47) |
Average precipitation days (≥ 0.01 in) | 11.2 | 9.9 | 11.3 | 11.6 | 12.4 | 12.2 | 10.9 | 9.8 | 9.4 | 11.4 | 11.3 | 12.6 | 134.0 |
Average snowy days (≥ 0.1 in) | 8.0 | 7.6 | 5.4 | 1.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 2.0 | 6.4 | 31.3 |
Average relative humidity (%)
|
84 | 85 | 84 | 77 | 77 | 79 | 79 | 79 | 79 | 79 | 78 | 81 | 80 |
Mean daily sunshine hours | 4.6 | 4.0 | 5.1 | 7.0 | 7.9 | 8.6 | 9.6 | 9.9 | 8.2 | 6.2 | 4.9 | 4.4 | 6.7 |
Mean daily daylight hours | 9.3 | 10.5 | 12.0 | 13.5 | 14.9 | 15.5 | 15.2 | 14.0 | 12.5 | 10.9 | 9.6 | 8.9 | 12.2 |
Average ultraviolet index | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
Source 1: | |||||||||||||
Source 2: Weather Atlas (UV and humidity)[40] |
Demographics
Census | Pop. | Note | %± |
---|---|---|---|
1800 | 277 | — | |
1810 | 850 | 206.9% | |
1820 | 1,221 | 43.6% | |
1830 | 2,867 | 134.8% | |
1840 | 8,627 | 200.9% | |
1850 | 14,432 | 67.3% | |
1860 | 16,407 | 13.7% | |
1870 | 18,289 | 11.5% | |
1880 | 16,856 | −7.8% | |
1890 | 19,103 | 13.3% | |
1900 | 21,850 | 14.4% | |
1910 | 24,803 | 13.5% | |
1920 | 25,978 | 4.7% | |
1930 | 28,749 | 10.7% | |
1940 | 29,822 | 3.7% | |
1950 | 31,558 | 5.8% | |
1960 | 38,912 | 23.3% | |
1970 | 33,168 | −14.8% | |
1980 | 31,643 | −4.6% | |
1990 | 33,181 | 4.9% | |
2000 | 31,473 | −5.1% | |
2010 | 33,039 | 5.0% | |
2020 | 31,753 | −3.9% | |
sources:[41] |
As of 2008, Bangor is the third most populous city in Maine, as it has been for more than a century. As of 2012, the estimated population of the Bangor Metropolitan Area (which includes Penobscot County) is 153,746, indicating a slight growth rate since 2000, almost all of it accounted for by Bangor.[42]
Historically Bangor received many immigrants as it industrialized. Irish-Catholic and later Jewish immigrants eventually became established members of the community, along with many migrants from Atlantic Canada. Of the 205 Black citizens who lived in Bangor in 1910, over a third were originally from Canada.[43]
2010 census
As of the census
There were 14,475 households, of which 24.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 32.8% were married couples living together, 12.6% had a female householder with no husband present, 4.2% had a male householder with no wife present, and 50.4% were non-families. 37.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 12.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.10 and the average family size was 2.76.
The median age in the city was 36.7 years. 17.8% of residents were under the age of 18; 16% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 26% were from 25 to 44; 25.8% were from 45 to 64; and 14.4% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 48.2% male and 51.8% female.
2020 census
As of the census
The median age in the city was 39.0 years. 18.0% of residents were under the age of 18.
Economy
Major employers in the region include:[46]
- Services and retail: Hannaford Supermarkets, Shaw's and Star Market, Bangor Savings Bank, Walmart.
- Finance: The Bangor Savings Bank, founded in 1852, is Maine's largest independent bank; as of 2013, it had more than $2.8 billion in assets[47] and the largest share of the 13-bank Bangor market.[48]
- Healthcare: Eastern Maine Medical Center (now Northern Light Healthcare), Acadia Hospital, St. Joseph's Healthcare, Community Health & Counseling Services.
- Education: University of Maine, Beal University, Husson University, Eastern Maine Community College
- Manufacturing: General Electric.
Bangor is the largest market town, distribution center, transportation hub, and media center in a five-county area whose population tops 330,000 and which includes Penobscot,
counties.Bangor's city council has approved a resolution opposing the sale of
Tourism
Outdoor activities in the Bangor City Forest and other nearby parks, forests, and waterways include hiking, sailing, canoeing, hunting, fishing, skiing, and snowmobiling.
Bangor Raceway at the Bass Park Civic Center and Auditorium offers live, pari-mutuel
Military installations
In 1990, the USAF East Coast Radar System (ECRS) Operation Center was activated in Bangor with over 400 personnel. The center controlled the
Arts and culture
Events
- One of the country's oldest fairs, the Bangor State fair has occurred annually for more than 150 years. Beginning on the last Friday of July, it features agricultural exhibits, rides, and live performances.
- The annual KahBang Music and Art Festival (now defunct).
- The annual American Folk Festival (now defunct).
Venues
- The Cross Insurance Center (which replaced the Bangor Auditorium in 2013)
- Darling's Waterfront Pavilion
Cultural institutions
- The University of Maine Museum of Art and the Maine Discovery Museum, a major children's museum was founded in 2001 in the former Freese's Department Store.
- The Bangor Symphony Orchestra.
- The Penobscot Theatre Company
- The Collins Center for the Arts
Architecture
Many buildings and monuments are listed on the
- The shingle stylestructure.
- The Hammond Street Congregation Church.
- The St. John's Catholic Church.
- The Bangor House Hotel, now converted to apartments, is the only survivor among a series of "Palace Hotels" designed by Boston architect Isaiah Rogers, which were the first of their kind in the United States.[51]
- The country's second oldest garden cemetery is the Mount Hope Cemetery, designed by Charles G. Bryant.[50]
- Gothic Revivalstyle, received some of his first commissions in Bangor, including the Isaac Farrar House (1833), Samuel Farrar House (1836), Thomas A. Hill House (presently owned by the Bangor Historical Society), and St. John's Church (Episcopal, 1836–1839).
- Bangor Public Library by Peabody and Stearns.
- The Eastern Maine Insane Hospital, now Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center, by John Calvin Stevens.[52]
- The William Arnold House of 1856, an Italianate style mansion and home to author Stephen King. Its wrought-iron fence with bat and spider web motif is King's own addition.[50]
Public art and monuments
The bow-plate of the battleship
Bangor has a large fiberglass-over-metal statue of mythical lumberman Paul Bunyan by Normand Martin (1959).
There are three large bronze statues in downtown Bangor by sculptor Charles Eugene Tefft of Brewer, including the Luther H. Peirce Memorial, commemorating the Penobscot River Log-Drivers; a statue of Hannibal Hamlin at Kenduskeag Mall; and an image of "Lady Victory" at Norumbega Parkway.
The abstract aluminum sculpture "Continuity of Community" (1969) on the Bangor Waterfront, formerly in West Market Square, is by the Castine sculptor Clark Battle Fitz-Gerald.
The U.S. Post Office in Bangor contains Yvonne Jacquette's 1980 three-part mural "Autumn Expansion".
A 1962 bronze commemorating the
A memorial has been placed by Bangor
Sports
From 2002 to 2017, Bangor had been home to Little League International's Senior League World Series.
Bangor was home to two
Vince McMahon promoted his first professional wrestling event in Bangor in 1979. In 1985, the WWC Universal Heavyweight Championship changed hands for the first time outside of Puerto Rico at an IWCCW show in Bangor.[56]
The Penobscot is a salmon-fishing river; the Penobscot Salmon Club traditionally sent the first fish caught to the President of the United States. From 1999 to 2006, low fish stocks resulted in a ban on salmon fishing. Today, the wild salmon population (and the sport) is slowly recovering. The Penobscot River Restoration Project is working to help the fish population by removing some dams north of Bangor.[57]
The
Government
Bangor is the county seat of Penobscot County.
Since 1931, Bangor has had a
In 2007, Bangor was the first city in the U.S. to ban smoking in vehicles carrying passengers under the age of 18.[59]
In 2012, Bangor's city council passed an order in support of same-sex marriage in Maine. In 2013, the City of Bangor also signed an amicus brief to the United States Supreme Court calling for the federal Defense of Marriage Act to be struck down.[60]
In the United States House of Representatives, Bangor is included in Maine's 2nd congressional district and is currently represented by Democrat Jared F. Golden.[61]
Voter Registration and Party Enrollment as of October 2022[62] | |||||
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Party | Total Voters | Percentage | |||
Unenrolled/Independent
|
5,113 | 28.67% | |||
Democratic | 7,245 | 40.62% | |||
Republican | 4,913 | 27.55% | |||
Green Independent | 524 | 2.94% | |||
Libertarian | 39 | 0.22% | |||
Total | 17,834 | 100.00% |
Law and order
In 2008 Bangor's crime rate was the second-lowest among American metropolitan areas of comparable size.[63] As of 2014 Bangor had the third highest rate of property crime in Maine.[64]
The arrival of Irish immigrants from nearby Canada beginning in the 1830s, and their competition with locals for jobs, sparked a deadly sectarian riot in 1833 that lasted for days and had to be put down by militia. Realizing the need for a police force, the town incorporated as The City of Bangor in 1834.[65] In the 1800s, sailors and loggers gave the city a reputation for roughness; their stomping grounds were known as the "Devil's Half Acre".[66] The same name was also applied, at roughly the same time, to The Devil's Half-Acre, Pennsylvania.
Although Maine was the first "dry" state (i.e. the first to prohibit the sale of alcohol, with the passage of the "
In October 1937, "public enemy"
Education
- Universities and colleges
- The University of Maine (originally The Maine State College) was founded in Orono in 1868. It is part of the University of Maine System.
- The Bangor campus of the University of Maine at Augusta.
- Husson University enrolls about 3,500 students a year in a variety of undergraduate and graduate programs.
- Beal University was founded in 1891 and offers degrees in nursing, healthcare, business and more.
- The Bangor Theological Seminary, founded in 1814, was the only accredited graduate school of religion in northern New England. Closed in 2013.
Bangor School Department operates public schools, including Bangor High School, the only public high school in the municipality.[72]
Private schools include:
- The private John Bapst Memorial High School. In 2012 it was ranked in the top 20% nationally by the Washington Post High School Challenge.[73]
- The private Bangor Christian Schools
- All Saints Catholic School, of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland, is in Bangor.[74]
Media
The Bangor region has a large number of media outlets for an area its size. The city has an unbroken history of newspaper publishing extending from 1815. Almost thirty dailies, weeklies, and monthlies had been launched there by the end of the Civil War.[13]
The Bangor Daily News was founded in the late 19th century, and is one of the few remaining family-owned newspapers left in the United States. The Maine Edge is published from Bangor.
Bangor has more than a dozen radio stations and seven television stations, including
Infrastructure
Road
Bangor sits along interstates
Daily intercity bus service from Bangor proper is provided by two companies. Concord Coach Lines connects Bangor with Augusta, Portland, several towns in Maine's midcoast region, and Boston, Massachusetts. Cyr Bus Lines provides daily service to Caribou and several northern Maine towns along I-95 and Route 1.[75] The area is also served by Greyhound, which operates out of the Park and Ride lot at 360 Odlin Road. West's Bus Service provides service between Bangor and Calais.[76]
In 2011, Acadian Lines ended bus service to Saint John, New Brunswick, because of low ticket sales.[77]
The Community Connector system offers public transportation within Bangor and to adjacent towns such as Orono. There is also a seasonal (summer) shuttle between Bangor and Bar Harbor.
Rail
Freight service is provided by
Passenger rail service was provided most recently by the New Brunswick Southern Railway, which in 1994 discontinued its route to Saint John, New Brunswick.
For historic Bangor trolley service see Bangor Railway and Electric Company.
Rail accidents
- 1869: The Black Island Railroad Bridge north of Old Town, Maine collapsed under the weight of a Bangor and Piscataquis Railroad train, killing 3 crew and injuring 7–8 others.[78]
- 1871: A bridge in Hampden collapsed under the weight of a Maine Central Railroad train approaching Bangor, killing 2 and injuring 50.[79]
- 1898: A Maine Central Railroad train crashed near Orono killing 2 and fatally injuring 4. The president of the railroad and his wife were also on board in a private car, but escaped injury. Train Wrecked in Maine
- 1899: The collapse of a gangway between a train and a waiting ferry at Mount Desertsent 200 members of a Bangor excursion party into the water, drowning 20.
- 1911: A head-on collision of two trains north of Bangor, in Grindstone, killed 15, including 5 members of the Presque Isle Brass Band.[80]
Air
Healthcare
Hospitals
Bangor is home to two large hospitals, the Eastern Maine Medical Center and the Catholic-affiliated St. Joseph Hospital.
Pandemics
In 1832, a
Popular culture
Bangor is mentioned in the songs
In 1977, tourist Erwin Kreuz mistook the city for San Francisco.
Marvel Comics villain MODOK is from Bangor, Maine.
Julie "The Cat" Gaffney from The Mighty Ducks film franchise is from Bangor, Maine.
Bangor International Airport is the main set for the TV series The Langoliers.
Stephen King's novels mention Bangor many times. See his bibliography.
Sister cities
- Harbin, Heilongjiang, China[84]
- Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
Notable people
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