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4 unusual facts about Algonquin


Abitibi River

The name is from the Algonquin words abitah, meaning middle and nipi meaning water.

Chicago United Breeze

The team plays its home games in the stadium on the campus of Harry D. Jacobs High School in the city of Algonquin, Illinois, 45 miles north-west of downtown Chicago.

Huntley High School

Space has already been dedicated for an additional high school at the Square Barn Road Campus in Algonquin, IL.

The catchment area includes Consolidated School District 158, which includes all of Huntley as well as parts of Lake in the Hills, Algonquin, and other surrounding communities and rural areas.


1995 Fox River Grove bus–train collision

On October 25, 1995, at 7:10 am CDT, Metra train number 624, traveling approximately 50 mph (80 km/h) at the time of impact, collided with the back of a school bus carrying students to Cary-Grove High School at the intersection of Algonquin Road, Northwest Highway (U.S. Highway 14) and a double-tracked mainline belonging to the Union Pacific Railroad.

Algonquin language

Other than Algonquin, languages considered as particularly divergent dialects of the Anishinaabe language include Mississauga (often called "Eastern Ojibwe") and Odawa.

Algonquin Provincial Park

Algonquin Experience Camp, a now-defunct YMCA camp that was on the north shore of Whitefish Lake;

Algoriphagus

A. machipongonensis ( Alegado et al. 2012, ; Algonquin noun "Machipongo", Hog Island, Virginia, USA; Latin suff. -ensis, of or belonging to; New Latin masculine gender "machipongonensis", of or belonging to Machipongo/Hog Island).

Barrington Hills, Illinois

In 1867, land was purchased at the southwest corner of Church and River - Algonquin roads, and construction was started on St. John Nepomucene Chapel, named after the patron saint of Bohemia.

Barrington United Methodist Church

The site for the new building was chosen at the corner of Illinois Route 59 and Algonquin Road in Barrington Hills, and the ground breaking was celebrated on July 1, 2001.

Double Zero Records

Double Zero Records is a record label from Algonquin, Illinois formed in 1999.

Étienne Brûlé

Champlain made the arrangement to do so and in return, the chief Iroquet (an Algonquin leader of the Petite nation who wintered his people near Huronia), requested that Champlain take Savignon, a young Huron, with him to teach him the customs and habits of the French.

Frank Archibald MacDougall

From his first days in Algonquin Park he was provided with his own plane, a Fairchild KR-34 open cockpit biplane, together with a mechanic and maintenance personnel.

Gatineau River

While it has been said that the river's name comes from Nicolas Gatineau, a fur trader who is said to have drowned in the river in 1683, the local Indian tribe, the Algonquin Anicinabek, assert that the name comes from their language.

Illinois Route 62

Illinois 62 is called Algonquin Road for its entire length, and is a northern parallel to Interstate 90.

Indian Neck, Virginia

Indian Neck is also home to the Rappahannock tribe of Algonquin Native Americans, who incorporated in 1921 and achieved recognition as a tribe from the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1983, but do not yet have Federal recognition.

Josephine Dunn

She starred in sixteen films through 1932, and at the peak of her career in 1933 she married Eugene J. Lewis, whom she divorced in 1935 to marry Carroll Case, whose father Frank Case owned the Algonquin Hotel in New York City, which housed the now famous "Algonquin Round Table".

Kamouraska Regional County Municipality

The name "Kamouraska" comes from an Algonquin word meaning "where rushes grow at the water's edge".

Kittamaqundi

The Piscataway (later called the Piscataway-Conoys), who although speaking a related Algonquin tongue were not under Powhatan's control, remained willing to trade foodstuffs with the English who sailed to their village, since they sought assistance against Susquehannock and Seneca raiders.

Mary Alicia Owen

She became inspired to record the disappearing folk tales after reading Algonquin Legends of New England, beginning a correspondence with Charles Godfrey Leland.

Ojibwe dialects

Recognized Algonquin communities include: Amos (Pikogan), Cadillac, Grand Lac Victoria, Hunter's Point, Kipawa (Eagle Village), Notre Dame du Nord (Timiskaming), Rapid Lake (Barriere Lake), Rapid Sept, Lac Simon, Québec, Winneway (Long Point).

Treaty of Fort Niagara

The 1764 Treaty of Fort Niagara was signed by Sir William Johnson for The Crown and 24 Nations from the Six Nations, Seneca, Wyandot of Detroit, Menominee, Algonquin, Nipissing, Ojibwa, Mississaugas, and others who were part of the Seven Nations of Canada and the Western Lakes Confederacy.


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