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Manitoulin Island, the Glossary

Manitoulin Island is an island in Lake Huron, located within the borders of the Canadian province of Ontario, in the bioregion known as Laurentia.^[1]

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Alkali

In chemistry, an alkali (from lit) is a basic, ionic salt of an alkali metal or an alkaline earth metal.

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The Anishinaabe (alternatively spelled Anishinabe, Anicinape, Nishnaabe, Neshnabé, Anishinaabeg, Anishinabek, Aanishnaabe) are a group of culturally related Indigenous peoples present in the Great Lakes region of Canada and the United States.

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Archaeology

Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture.

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Archaic period (North America)

In the classification of the archaeological cultures of North America, the Archaic period in North America, taken to last from around 8000 to 1000 BC in the sequence of North American pre-Columbian cultural stages, is a period defined by the archaic stage of cultural development.

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Artifact (archaeology)

An artifact or artefact (British English) is a general term for an item made or given shape by humans, such as a tool or a work of art, especially an object of archaeological interest.

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Assiginack

Assiginack is a township in the Canadian province of Ontario, located on Manitoulin Island.

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Autumn Peltier

Autumn Peltier (born September 27, 2004) is an Anishinaabe Indigenous rights advocate from the Wiikwemkong First Nation on Manitoulin Island, Ontario, Canada.

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Band government

In Canada, an Indian band (bande indienne), First Nation band (bande de la Première Nation) or simply band, is the basic unit of government for those peoples subject to the Indian Act (i.e. status Indians or First Nations).

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Beaver Wars

The Beaver Wars (Tsianì kayonkwere), also known as the Iroquois Wars or the French and Iroquois Wars (Guerres franco-iroquoises), were a series of conflicts fought intermittently during the 17th century in North America throughout the Saint Lawrence River valley in Canada and the Great Lakes region which pitted the Iroquois against the Hurons, northern Algonquians and their French allies.

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Billings, Ontario

Billings is a township in the Canadian province of Ontario, as well as the name of a community within that township.

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Bioregion

A bioregion is a geographical area, on land or at sea, defined not by administrative boundaries but by distinct communities of characteristic plant and animal species, ecological systems, and topographic features.

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Bioregionalism

Bioregionalism is a philosophy that suggests that political, cultural, and economic systems are more sustainable and just if they are organized around naturally defined areas called bioregions, similar to ecoregions.

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Black Canadians

Black Canadians, also known as African Canadians (French: Canadiens Africains) or Afro-Canadians (French: Afro-Canadiens), are Canadians of full or partial sub-Saharan African descent.

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Blue Jay Creek (Lake Huron tributary)

Blue Jay Creek is a river on Manitoulin Island in Central Manitoulin and Tehkummah townships, Manitoulin District in northeastern Ontario, Canada, and a tributary of Lake Huron.

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Blueberry

Blueberry is a widely distributed and widespread group of perennial flowering plant with blue or purple berries.

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Bruce Peninsula

The Bruce Peninsula is a peninsula in Ontario, Canada, that divides Georgian Bay of Lake Huron from the lake's main basin. Manitoulin Island and Bruce Peninsula are Niagara Escarpment.

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Burpee and Mills

Burpee and Mills is a township in the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Carl Beam

Carl Beam (May 24, 1943 – July 30, 2005), born Carl Edward Migwans, made Canadian art history as the first artist of Native Ancestry (Ojibwe), to have his work purchased by the National Gallery of Canada as Contemporary Art.

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Carleton University

Carleton University is an English-language public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Census geographic units of Canada

The census geographic units of Canada are the census subdivisions defined and used by Canada's federal government statistics bureau Statistics Canada to conduct the country's quinquennial census.

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Central Manitoulin

Central Manitoulin is a township in the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Christian mission

A Christian mission is an organized effort to carry on evangelism or other activities, such as educational or hospital work, in the name of the Christian faith.

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Christianity

Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Council of Three Fires

The Council of Three Fires (in Niswi-mishkodewinan, also known as the People of the Three Fires; the Three Fires Confederacy; or the United Nations of Chippewa, Ottawa, and Potawatomi Indians) is a long-standing Anishinaabe alliance of the Ojibwe (or Chippewa), Odawa (or Ottawa), and Potawatomi North American Native tribes.

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Coureur des bois

A coureur des bois or coureur de bois (plural: coureurs de(s) bois) were independent entrepreneurial French Canadian traders who travelled in New France and the interior of North America, usually to trade with First Nations peoples by exchanging various European items for furs.

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Crataegus

Crataegus, commonly called hawthorn, quickthorn, thornapple,Voss, E. G. 1985.

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Crystal Shawanda

Crystal Shawanda (born July 26, 1983) is a Canadian blues and country music artist.

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Daphne Odjig

Daphne Odjig, (September 11, 1919 – October 1, 2016), was a Canadian First Nations artist of Odawa-Potawatomi-English heritage.

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Dolomite (rock)

Dolomite (also known as dolomite rock, dolostone or dolomitic rock) is a sedimentary carbonate rock that contains a high percentage of the mineral dolomite, CaMg(CO3)2.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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Escarpment

An escarpment is a steep slope or long cliff that forms as a result of faulting or erosion and separates two relatively level areas having different elevations.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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French language

French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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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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Georgian Bay

Georgian Bay (Baie Georgienne) is a large bay of Lake Huron, in the Laurentia bioregion.

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German language

German (Standard High German: Deutsch) is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, mainly spoken in Western and Central Europe. It is the most widely spoken and official or co-official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, and the Italian province of South Tyrol.

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Gordon/Barrie Island

The Municipality of Gordon/Barrie Island is a township in Manitoulin District in north central Ontario, Canada.

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Gore Bay-Manitoulin Airport

Gore Bay-Manitoulin Airport is located west southwest of Gore Bay, in the township of Gordon/Barrie Island, Ontario, Canada.

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Haweater

Haweater is a designation given to a person born on Manitoulin Island, Ontario.

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Hemiboreal

Hemiboreal means halfway between the temperate and subarctic (or boreal) zones.

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Hokkaido

is the second-largest island of Japan and comprises the largest and northernmost prefecture, making up its own region.

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Humid continental climate

A humid continental climate is a climatic region defined by Russo-German climatologist Wladimir Köppen in 1900, typified by four distinct seasons and large seasonal temperature differences, with warm to hot (and often humid) summers, and cold (sometimes severely cold in the northern areas) and snowy winters.

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Indian reserve

In Canada, an Indian reserve (reserve indienne) is defined by the Indian Act as a "tract of land, the legal title to which is vested in Her Majesty, that has been set apart by Her Majesty for the use and benefit of a band." Reserves are areas set aside for First Nations, one of the major groupings of Indigenous peoples in Canada, after a contract with the Canadian state ("the Crown"), and are not to be confused with Indigenous peoples' claims to ancestral lands under Aboriginal title.

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Indigenous land claims in Canada

Indigenous peoples in Canada demand to have their land rights and their Aboriginal titles respected by the Canadian government.

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Indigenous peoples in Canada

Indigenous peoples in Canada (Peuples autochtones au Canada, also known as Aboriginals) are the Indigenous peoples within the boundaries of Canada.

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Iroquois

The Iroquois, also known as the Five Nations, and later as the Six Nations from 1722 onwards; alternatively referred to by the endonym Haudenosaunee are an Iroquoian-speaking confederacy of Native Americans and First Nations peoples in northeast North America.

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Isabel Paterson

Isabel Paterson (January 22, 1886 – January 10, 1961) was a Canadian-American libertarian writer and literary critic.

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Island

An island or isle is a piece of subcontinental land completely surrounded by water.

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Jesuits

The Society of Jesus (Societas Iesu; abbreviation: SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits (Iesuitae), is a religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rome.

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Joseph Poncet

Joseph Anthony de la Rivière Poncet (b. at Paris, 17 May 1610; d. at Martinique, 18 June 1675) was a French Jesuit missionary to Canada.

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Kagawong River

The Kagawong River is a river on Manitoulin Island in Manitoulin District, Ontario, Canada which flows from Lake Kagawong to empty into Mudge Bay on the North Channel Lake Huron.

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Kevin Closs

Kevin Closs (born 1963) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and author,Mary Bonenfant,.

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Lake Huron

Lake Huron is one of the five Great Lakes of North America.

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Lake Kagawong

Lake Kagawong is the second largest lake on Manitoulin Island in Ontario, Canada.

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Lake Manitou

Lake Manitou is the largest lake on Manitoulin Island in Ontario, Canada.

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Lake Mindemoya

Lake Mindemoya is a lake in Ontario, Canada, located within Manitoulin Island which is the world's largest island in a freshwater lake (Lake Huron).

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Lake Superior

Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface areaThe Caspian Sea is the largest lake, but is saline, not freshwater.

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List of Canadian islands by area

This is a list of Canadian islands as ordered by area.

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List of census divisions of Ontario

The Province of Ontario has 51 first-level administrative divisions, which collectively cover the whole province.

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List of islands by area

This list includes all islands in the world larger than.

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Little Current Swing Bridge

The Little Current Swing Bridge is a swing bridge in the Canadian province of Ontario, located at the community of Little Current in the town of Northeastern Manitoulin and the Islands.

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Long weekend

A long weekend is a weekend that is at least three days long (i.e. a three-day weekend), due to a public or unofficial holiday occurring on either the following Monday or preceding Friday.

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Lucky Thompson

Eli "Lucky" Thompson (June 16, 1924 – July 30, 2005) was an American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist whose playing combined elements of swing and bebop.

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Lugano

Lugano (Lügán) is a city and municipality within the Lugano District in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland.

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M'Chigeeng First Nation

M'Chigeeng First Nation, also known as West Bay, is an Ojibwe First Nation band government in the Manitoulin District of Ontario, Canada.

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Manitou River (Manitoulin Island)

The Manitou River is a river of the Manitoulin Island, flowing in the township of Central Manitoulin and Tehkummah, in Manitoulin District, in Northern Ontario region, in the province of Ontario, Canada.

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Manitoulin District

Manitoulin District is a district in Northeastern Ontario within the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Manitoulin Streams Improvement Association

The Manitoulin Streams Improvement Association is a nonprofit group based on Manitoulin Island, Ontario, Canada, that works to rehabilitate the streams, rivers, and creeks on the island, which is the largest lake island in the world. They partner with the entire community, including farmers, fishermen, and local lake and fish associations.

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Mindemoya River

The Mindemoya River is a river on Manitoulin Island in Ontario, Canada, which flows about from Lake Mindemoya to empty into Providence Bay on Lake Huron.

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Nameless Lake (Manitoulin District)

Nameless Lake is a small, spring-fed endorheic lake on Manitoulin Island in Lake Huron approximately south of the town of Gore Bay in the municipality of Gordon/Barrie Island, Manitoulin District in Northeastern Ontario, Canada.

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National museums of Canada

The national museums of Canada (musées nationaux du Canada) are the nine museums in Canada designated under the federal Museums Act and operated by the Government of Canada.

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New York (state)

New York, also called New York State, is a state in the Northeastern United States.

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Niagara Escarpment

The Niagara Escarpment is a long escarpment, or cuesta, in Canada and the United States that starts from the south shore of Lake Ontario westward, circumscribes the top of the Great Lakes Basin running from New York through Ontario, Michigan, and Wisconsin.

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Niagara Falls

Niagara Falls is a group of three waterfalls at the southern end of Niagara Gorge, spanning the border between the province of Ontario in Canada and the state of New York in the United States. Manitoulin Island and Niagara Falls are Niagara Escarpment.

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North Channel (Ontario)

The North Channel is the body of water along the north shore of Lake Huron, in the Canadian province of Ontario and the state of Michigan in the United States of America. Manitoulin Island and north Channel (Ontario) are Landforms of Manitoulin District.

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Northeastern Manitoulin and the Islands

Northeastern Manitoulin and the Islands is a municipality with town status in Manitoulin District in Northeastern Ontario, Canada, approximately south of Espanola.

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Northern Ontario

Northern Ontario is a primary geographic and quasi-administrative region of the Canadian province of Ontario, the other primary region being Southern Ontario.

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Odawa

The Odawa (also Ottawa or Odaawaa) are an Indigenous American people who primarily inhabit land in the Eastern Woodlands region, now in jurisdictions of the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada.

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Ojibwe

The Ojibwe (syll.: ᐅᒋᐺ; plural: Ojibweg ᐅᒋᐺᒃ) are an Anishinaabe people whose homeland (Ojibwewaki ᐅᒋᐺᐘᑭ) covers much of the Great Lakes region and the northern plains, extending into the subarctic and throughout the northeastern woodlands.

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Ojibwe language

Ojibwe, also known as Ojibwa, Ojibway, Otchipwe,R.

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Ontario

Ontario is the southernmost province of Canada.

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Ottawa dialect

Ottawa or Odawa is a dialect of the Ojibwe language spoken by the Odawa people in southern Ontario in Canada, and northern Michigan in the United States.

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Paleo-Indians

Paleo-Indians were the first peoples who entered and subsequently inhabited the Americas towards the end of the Late Pleistocene period.

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Potawatomi

The Potawatomi, also spelled Pottawatomi and Pottawatomie (among many variations), are a Native American people of the Great Plains, upper Mississippi River, and western Great Lakes region.

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Prehistory

Prehistory, also called pre-literary history, is the period of human history between the first known use of stone tools by hominins million years ago and the beginning of recorded history with the invention of writing systems.

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Protestantism

Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.

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Provinces and territories of Canada

Canada has ten provinces and three territories that are sub-national administrative divisions under the jurisdiction of the Canadian Constitution.

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Salmon

Salmon (salmon) is the common name for several commercially important species of euryhaline ray-finned fish from the genera Salmo and Oncorhynchus of the family Salmonidae, native to tributaries of the North Atlantic (Salmo) and North Pacific (Oncorhynchus) basins.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manitoulin_Island

Also known as Demographics of Manitoulin Island, History of Manitoulin Island, Manitoulin Island, Canada, Manitoulin Islands, Mnidoo Mnis, Mnidoo Mnising.

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Manitoulin Island, the Glossary

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See also

Dark-sky preserves in Canada

Islands of Lake Huron in Ontario

Lake islands of Ontario

Landforms of Manitoulin District

Niagara Escarpment

Sacred islands

References