Iron County Record | 1936-04-16 | Page 7 | Isle of the Ottawas is Largest in Fresh Water

Isle hie of the 0 Is II s Largest in Fresh Water The largest Island in the world lying In III fresh water is the Cana Cana- dlan Grand Orand the Isle lale of ot the In Lake Huron It Itla Its la s nearly a hundred miles long and has ma an area of 1073 1013 square miles It has also been call called d the Isle ofa of ofa ofa a Hundred Bundred Lakes for many beautiful beautiful beau beau- lakes lakel both large and small are to be found within Its borders The spirit Manitou the Great Master of Life was believed by the Ottawa Indians to have created theIr heir ancestors and placed them on on the he island In much the same manner manner man man- ner as Adam and Eve came to the Garden of Eden Champlain was the first Euro 1 peso known to have visited these natives DatIves When be arrived at the mouth of French river In 1015 1010 he found bund some of them drying blueberrIes blueberries blue- blue berrIes and because of the way they hey wore their hair he referred to them hem as aI the people with their hall hair done up lie He said they were unusually unusually ally aUy neat and clean and had their hair lair more elegantly dressed than thaD had iad the gentlemen of Paris Pari