manitoulins

Updated: May 13, 2025

Clair and out upon Lake Huron, passed within sight of the Manitoulins, and finally came to anchor in the cove of Mackinaw Strait, where were the famous trading-post and mission-station of Michillimackinac. At Green Bay La Salle found some of his men who had remained faithful and had collected a large store of furs. This circumstance caused him new perplexity.

William Henry Johnson - French Pathfinders in North America

Now the sun shone forth on woody islands, Bois Blanc and Mackinaw and the distant Manitoulins, on the forest wastes of Michigan and the vast blue bosom of the angry lake; and now her port was won, and she found her rest behind the point of St. Ignace of Michillimackinac, floating in that tranquil cove where crystal waters cover but cannot hide the pebbly depths beneath.

Francis Parkman - France and England in North America; a Series of Historical Narratives — Part 3