Massacre Island
Massacre Island, Ontario is a small island in Lake of the Woods, a large lake between the United States and Canada. It is believed that this island was the site where, on June 6, 1736, a mixed group of Teton-Lakota, Dakota, and Ojibwa killed 21 Frenchmen from New France including Jesuit missionary Jean-Pierre Aulneau as well as Jean Baptiste de La Vérendrye.Massacre Island
- Type: Islet
- Description: island in Ontario, Canada
- Categories: island, forest, locality, and landform
- Location: Ontario, Canada, North America
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Latitude
49.27621° or 49° 16′ 34″ north
Longitude
-94.77067° or 94° 46′ 14″ west
Elevation
320 metres (1,050 feet)
Open location code
86X776GH+FP
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=wood
OpenStreetMap feature
place=islet
GeoNames ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Massacre Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Massacre Island (pulo sa Canada, Ontario)”
- Cebuano: “Massacre Island”
- Dutch: “Massacre Island”
- French: “Massacre Island”
- Japanese: “マサカー島”
- Swedish: “Massacre Island”
- Turkish: “Massacre Adası, Ontario”
- Turkish: “Massacre Adası”
- Turkish: “Massacre Island, Ontario”
- Turkish: “Massacre Island”
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