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91 relations: Anthony of Padua, Atlantic Ocean, Barge, Barque, Bateau, Boy Scouts of America, Boys' Life, Brass, Canoe, Cayuga Island, Christmas, Clare of Assisi, Depth sounding, Detroit River, Diplomatic mission, Escanaba, Michigan, Espionage, Fairbanks Township, Michigan, Federal government of the United States, Fort Frontenac, French franc, French Louisiana, Fur trade, Gale, Ganondagan State Historic Site, Government of France, Government of Michigan, Great Lakes, Green Bay (Lake Michigan), Griffin, Henri de Tonti, HuffPost, Hull (watercraft), Illinois Confederation, Iroquois, Keel, Lake Erie, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Lake Ontario, Lake St. Clair, Long Point, Ontario, Louis de Buade de Frontenac, Louis Hennepin, Mackinac Island, Maiden voyage, Main deck, Manitoulin Island, Maritime pilot, Mast (sailing), ..., Michigan, Monopoly, Murder, Musket, Mutiny, Native Americans in the United States, Navigation, New World, Niagara River, Northwest Passage, Odawa, Old Presque Isle Light, Pirogue, Poverty Island, René de Bréhant de Galinée, René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, Rigging, Rochester, New York, Rock Island (Wisconsin), Rope, Sabotage, Saginaw Bay, Sailing ship, Saint Lawrence River, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, Seneca people, Society of Jesus, St. Clair River, St. Ignace, Michigan, Straits of Mackinac, Topmast, Trading post, Traverse City Record-Eagle, Tribal chief, Tugboat, United States dollar, Victor, New York, Washington Island (Wisconsin), West Indies, Windward and leeward, Wyandot people. Expand index (41 more) »
Anthony of Padua
Saint Anthony of Padua (St.), born Fernando Martins de Bulhões (15 August 1195 – 13 June 1231), also known as Anthony of Lisbon, was a Portuguese Catholic priest and friar of the Franciscan Order.
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Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.
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Barge
A barge is a flat-bottomed ship, built mainly for river and canal transport of heavy goods.
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Barque
A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing vessel with three or more masts having the fore- and mainmasts rigged square and only the mizzen (the aftmost mast) rigged fore-and-aft.
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Bateau
A bateau or batteau is a shallow-draft, flat-bottomed boat which was used extensively across North America, especially in the colonial period and in the fur trade.
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Boy Scouts of America
The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) is one of the largest Scouting organizations in the United States of America and one of the largest youth organizations in the United States, with more than 2.4 million youth participants and nearly one million adult volunteers.
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Boys' Life
Boys' Life is the monthly magazine of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA).
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Brass
Brass is a metallic alloy that is made of copper and zinc.
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Canoe
A canoe is a lightweight narrow vessel, typically pointed at both ends and open on top, propelled by one or more seated or kneeling paddlers facing the direction of travel using a single-bladed paddle.
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Cayuga Island
Cayuga Island is a small island in the Niagara River in Niagara County, New York, a few miles upstream of the Niagara Falls.
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Christmas
Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ,Martindale, Cyril Charles.
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Clare of Assisi
Saint Clare of Assisi (July 16, 1194 – August 11, 1253, born Chiara Offreduccio and sometimes spelled Clair, Claire, etc.) is an Italian saint and one of the first followers of Saint Francis of Assisi.
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Depth sounding
Depth sounding refers to the act of measuring depth.
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Detroit River
The Detroit River (Rivière Détroit) flows for from Lake St. Clair to Lake Erie as a strait in the Great Lakes system and forms part of the border between Canada and the United States.
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Diplomatic mission
A diplomatic mission or foreign mission is a group of people from one state or an organisation present in another state to represent the sending state/organisation officially in the receiving state.
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Escanaba, Michigan
Escanaba is a port city in Delta County in the U.S. state of Michigan, located on Little Bay de Noc in the state's Upper Peninsula.
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Espionage
Espionage or spying, is the act of obtaining secret or confidential information without the permission of the holder of the information.
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Fairbanks Township, Michigan
Fairbanks Township is a civil township of Delta County in the U.S. state of Michigan.
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Federal government of the United States
The federal government of the United States (U.S. federal government) is the national government of the United States, a constitutional republic in North America, composed of 50 states, one district, Washington, D.C. (the nation's capital), and several territories.
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Fort Frontenac
Fort Frontenac was a French trading post and military fort built in 1673 at the mouth of the Cataraqui River where the St. Lawrence River leaves Lake Ontario (at what is now the western end of the La Salle Causeway), in a location traditionally known as Cataraqui.
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French franc
The franc (sign: F or Fr), also commonly distinguished as the (FF), was a currency of France.
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French Louisiana
The term French Louisiana refers to two distinct regions.
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Fur trade
The fur trade is a worldwide industry dealing in the acquisition and sale of animal fur.
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Gale
A gale is a strong wind, typically used as a descriptor in nautical contexts.
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Ganondagan State Historic Site
Ganondagan State Historic Site, (pronounced ga·NON·da·gan) also known as Boughton Hill, is a Native American historic site in Ontario County, New York in the United States.
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Government of France
The Government of the French Republic (Gouvernement de la République française) exercises executive power in France.
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Government of Michigan
Michigan has a republican form of government with three branches of government: the executive branch consisting of the Governor of Michigan and the other independently elected constitutional officers; the legislative branch consisting of the House of Representatives and Senate; and the judicial branch consisting of the one court of justice.
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Great Lakes
The Great Lakes (les Grands-Lacs), also called the Laurentian Great Lakes and the Great Lakes of North America, are a series of interconnected freshwater lakes located primarily in the upper mid-east region of North America, on the Canada–United States border, which connect to the Atlantic Ocean through the Saint Lawrence River.
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Green Bay (Lake Michigan)
Green Bay is an arm of Lake Michigan, located along the south coast of Michigan's Upper Peninsula and the east coast of Wisconsin.
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Griffin
The griffin, griffon, or gryphon (Greek: γρύφων, grýphōn, or γρύπων, grýpōn, early form γρύψ, grýps; gryphus) is a legendary creature with the body, tail, and back legs of a lion; the head and wings of an eagle; and an eagle's talons as its front feet.
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Henri de Tonti
Henri de Tonti (1649/50 – August 1704) was an Italian soldier, explorer, and fur trader in the service of France.
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HuffPost
HuffPost (formerly The Huffington Post and sometimes abbreviated HuffPo) is a liberal American news and opinion website and blog that has both localized and international editions.
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Hull (watercraft)
The hull is the watertight body of a ship or boat.
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Illinois Confederation
The Illinois Confederation, sometimes referred to as the Illiniwek or Illini, was a group of 12–13 Native American tribes in the upper Mississippi River valley of North America.
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Iroquois
The Iroquois or Haudenosaunee (People of the Longhouse) are a historically powerful northeast Native American confederacy.
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Keel
On boats and ships, the keel is either of two parts: a structural element that sometimes resembles a fin and protrudes below a boat along the central line, or a hydrodynamic element.
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Lake Erie
Lake Erie is the fourth-largest lake (by surface area) of the five Great Lakes in North America, and the eleventh-largest globally if measured in terms of surface area.
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Lake Huron
Lake Huron is one of the five Great Lakes of North America.
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Lake Michigan
Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of North America and the only one located entirely within the United States.
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Lake Ontario
Lake Ontario is one of the five Great Lakes of North America.
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Lake St. Clair
Lake St.
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Long Point, Ontario
Long Point is a sand spit and medium-sized hamlet on the north shore of Lake Erie, part of Norfolk County in the province of Ontario, Canada.
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Louis de Buade de Frontenac
Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac et de Palluau (May 22, 1622November 28, 1698) was a French soldier, courtier, and Governor General of New France from 1672 to 1682 and from 1689 to his death in 1698.
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Louis Hennepin
Father Louis Hennepin, O.F.M. baptized Antoine, (12 May 1626 – 5 December 1704) was a Roman Catholic priest and missionary of the Franciscan Recollet order (French: Récollets) and an explorer of the interior of North America.
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Mackinac Island
Mackinac Island is an island and resort area, covering in land area, in the U.S. state of Michigan.
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Maiden voyage
The maiden voyage of a ship, aircraft or other craft is the first journey made by the craft after shakedown.
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Main deck
The main deck of a ship is the uppermost complete deck extending from bow to stern.
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Manitoulin Island
Manitoulin Island is a Canadian lake island in Lake Huron, in the province of Ontario.
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Maritime pilot
A maritime pilot, also known as a marine pilot, harbor pilot or bar pilot and sometimes simply called a pilot, is a sailor who maneuvers ships through dangerous or congested waters, such as harbors or river mouths.
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Mast (sailing)
The mast of a sailing vessel is a tall spar, or arrangement of spars, erected more or less vertically on the centre-line of a ship or boat.
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Michigan
Michigan is a state in the Great Lakes and Midwestern regions of the United States.
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Monopoly
A monopoly (from Greek μόνος mónos and πωλεῖν pōleîn) exists when a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular commodity.
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Murder
Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse, especially the unlawful killing of another human being with malice aforethought.
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Musket
A musket is a muzzle-loaded, smoothbore long gun that appeared in early 16th century Europe, at first as a heavier variant of the arquebus, capable of penetrating heavy armor.
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Mutiny
Mutiny is a criminal conspiracy among a group of people (typically members of the military or the crew of any ship, even if they are civilians) to openly oppose, change, or overthrow a lawful authority to which they are subject.
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Native Americans in the United States
Native Americans, also known as American Indians, Indians, Indigenous Americans and other terms, are the indigenous peoples of the United States.
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Navigation
Navigation is a field of study that focuses on the process of monitoring and controlling the movement of a craft or vehicle from one place to another.
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New World
The New World is one of the names used for the majority of Earth's Western Hemisphere, specifically the Americas (including nearby islands such as those of the Caribbean and Bermuda).
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Niagara River
The Niagara River is a river that flows north from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario.
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Northwest Passage
The Northwest Passage (abbreviated as NWP) is, from the European and northern Atlantic point of view, the sea route to the Pacific Ocean through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.
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Odawa
The Odawa (also Ottawa or Odaawaa), said to mean "traders", are an Indigenous American ethnic group who primarily inhabit land in the northern United States and southern Canada.
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Old Presque Isle Light
The Old Presque Isle Light was the first lighthouse in the Presque Isle, Michigan area, built in 1840, supported physically by two-thirds stone and one-third brick, and supported financially by funds appropriated by Congress two years earlier of $5,000.
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Pirogue
A pirogue, also called a piragua or piraga, can refer to various small boats, particularly dugouts and native canoes.
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Poverty Island
Poverty Island is a small island in the U.S. state of Michigan.
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René de Bréhant de Galinée
René Bréhant de Galinée was a member of the Society of Saint-Sulpice (Sulpician Order) at Montreal and an explorer and missionary to the Native Americans.
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René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle
René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, or Robert de La Salle (November 22, 1643 – March 19, 1687) was a French explorer.
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Rigging
Rigging comprises the system of ropes, cables and chains, which support a sailing ship or sail boat's masts—standing rigging, including shrouds and stays—and which adjust the position of the vessel's sails and spars to which they are attached—the running rigging, including halyards, braces, sheets and vangs.
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Rochester, New York
Rochester is a city on the southern shore of Lake Ontario in western New York.
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Rock Island (Wisconsin)
Rock Island is a wooded island off the tip of Wisconsin's Door Peninsula at the mouth of Green Bay, in Door County, Wisconsin.
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Rope
A rope is a group of yarns, plies, fibers or strands that are twisted or braided together into a larger and stronger form.
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Sabotage
Sabotage is a deliberate action aimed at weakening a polity, effort or organization through subversion, obstruction, disruption or destruction.
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Saginaw Bay
Saginaw Bay is a bay within Lake Huron located on the eastern side of the U.S. state of Michigan.
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Sailing ship
The term "sailing ship" is most often used to describe any large vessel that uses sails to harness the power of wind.
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Saint Lawrence River
The Saint Lawrence River (Fleuve Saint-Laurent; Tuscarora: Kahnawáʼkye; Mohawk: Kaniatarowanenneh, meaning "big waterway") is a large river in the middle latitudes of North America.
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Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan
Sault Ste.
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Seneca people
The Seneca are a group of indigenous Iroquoian-speaking people native to North America who historically lived south of Lake Ontario.
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Society of Jesus
The Society of Jesus (SJ – from Societas Iesu) is a scholarly religious congregation of the Catholic Church which originated in sixteenth-century Spain.
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St. Clair River
The St.
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St. Ignace, Michigan
Saint Ignace, usually written as St.
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Straits of Mackinac
The Straits of Mackinac is a series of narrow waterways in the U.S. state of Michigan, between Michigan's Lower and Upper Peninsulas.
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Topmast
The masts of traditional sailing ships were not single spars, but were constructed of separate sections or masts, each with its own rigging.
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Trading post
A trading post, trading station, or trading house was a place or establishment where the trading of goods took place; the term is generally used, in modern parlance, in reference to such establishments in historic Northern America, although the practice long predates that continent's colonization by Europeans.
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Traverse City Record-Eagle
The Traverse City Record-Eagle is a daily morning newspaper based in Traverse City, Michigan.
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Tribal chief
A tribal chief is the leader of a tribal society or chiefdom.
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Tugboat
A tug (tugboat or towboat) is a type of vessel that maneuvers other vessels by pushing or pulling them either by direct contact or by means of a tow line.
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United States dollar
The United States dollar (sign: $; code: USD; also abbreviated US$ and referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, or American dollar) is the official currency of the United States and its insular territories per the United States Constitution since 1792.
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Victor, New York
Victor is a town in Ontario County, New York, United States.
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Washington Island (Wisconsin)
Washington Island lies about northeast of the tip of Door Peninsula in Door County, Wisconsin.
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West Indies
The West Indies or the Caribbean Basin is a region of the North Atlantic Ocean in the Caribbean that includes the island countries and surrounding waters of three major archipelagoes: the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles and the Lucayan Archipelago.
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Windward and leeward
Windward is the direction upwind from the point of reference, alternatively the direction from which the wind is coming.
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Wyandot people
The Wyandot people or Wendat, also called the Huron Nation and Huron people, in most historic references are believed to have been the most populous confederacy of Iroquoian cultured indigenous peoples of North America.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Griffon
