Fraser's 3,700 employees worked in several pulp and paper mills in North America, including in Madawaska, Maine and in New Hampshire in the US, and Thurso, Quebec, and Edmundston, New Brunswick in Canada.
Clavette was first elected to the New Brunswick legislature in the 1967 provincial election representing Madawaska.
From 1979 to 1987, he owned and operated a restaurant and night club in Madawaska, Maine.
The district includes all of the County of Madawaska (except Saint-André) and all of the County of Restigouche except the extreme eastern part.
A ploye is a pancake type mix of buckwheat flour, wheat flour, baking powder and water which is extremely popular in the Madawaska region (New Brunswick), Canada and northern Maine, United States.
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"Al Capone's Hideout", an Upper Madawaska Theatre Group production, is a musical comedy based on the true story of Al Capone's stay in the area in 1942, when he and his gang hid out near Quadeville, Ontario.
The town is economically and culturally linked to the Canadian towns of Clair and Saint-François-de-Madawaska, both in Madawaska County, New Brunswick, directly across the St. John River.