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Canadian Flag, Pirate Flag Flying From Fishing Shack Blown From Northern Maine Town

January 17, 2018

Canadians are giving up their so-called “salvage rights” to a portion of the last herring smokehouse in the United States, which during a storm earlier this month blew off its pilings in Lubec, Maine across the water to Campobello Island, which is in New Brunswick in Canada. Some Canadians went at the shack with chainsaws, treating it as driftwood, leading a Lubec selectman who is head of the nonprofit group trying to restore the shack to call them “vandals”; but the Lubec woman has since apologized, and more history-accommodating heads on the New Brunswick side have apparently prevailed — contractors are working out the details of taking it back to Lubec.