I have enjoyed visiting the Twin Cities and hope to again, but I am writing about the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League moving the Sherbrooke Castors to Lewiston and renaming them the Maineiacs.

Growing up in Houlton, I learned that anyone from Maine was a Maineiac. It was in the “Maine Times” newspaper a few years ago that I first read Mainer, which sounded like a UMaine alumnus or someone from Southern Maine. A librarian at Houlton’s Cary Library has confirmed the latter.

“I think maybe they use Mainer down on the coast because it sounds like mariner, but up here to put up with all this cold and snow, you have to be a Maineiac.”

Canadian team members may call themselves Maineiacs, meaning from the team, but I claim first rights, as I was born to use the word. No one will ever think that the Canadians are originally from Maine, and no way will anyone mistake me for a hockey player.

Byrna Porter Weir,

Rochester, N.Y.