Algonquin or Algonquian—and the variation Algonki(a)n—may refer to:

Languages and peoples

Algonquian languages The Algonquian languages ( ; also Algonkian) are a family of Indigenous languages of the Americas and most of the languages in the Algic language family are included in the group. The name of the Algonquian language family is distinguished from ...

, a large subfamily of Native American languages in a wide swath of eastern North America from Canada to Virginia **

Algonquin language Algonquin (also spelled Algonkin; in Algonquin: or ) is either a distinct Algonquian languages, Algonquian language closely related to the Ojibwe language or a particularly divergent Ojibwe language dialects, Ojibwe dialect. It is spoken, alon ...

, the language of the Algonquin people in Canada, for which the Algonquian languages group is named *

Algonquian peoples The Algonquians are one of the most populous and widespread North American indigenous peoples of the Americas, indigenous American groups, consisting of the peoples who speak Algonquian languages. They historically were prominent along the East ...

, Indigenous tribes of North America composed of people who speak the Algonquian languages **

Algonquin people The Algonquin people are an Indigenous people who now live in Eastern Canada and parts of the United States. They speak the Algonquin language, which is part of the Algonquian language family. Culturally and linguistically, they are closely ...

, a subgroup of Algonquian people who speak the Algonquin language and live in Quebec and Ontario, Canada

Arts and media

* ''Algonquin'' (film), a 2013 Canadian film *

Algonquin Books Workman Publishing Company, Inc., is an American publisher of trade books founded by Peter Workman. The company consists of imprints Workman, Workman Children's, Workman Calendars, Artisan, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill and Algonquin Young R ...

, an imprint of Workman Publishing Company *Algonquin, a fictional island, based on

Manhattan Manhattan ( ) is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the Boroughs of New York City, five boroughs of New York City. Coextensive with New York County, Manhattan is the County statistics of the United States#Smallest, larg ...

, in the video game ''

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'' *A dog from the 1988 film '' Elvira: Mistress of the Dark''

Buildings and institutions

The Algonquin The Algonquin Resort is a Canadian coastal resort hotel in the Tudor Revival style, located in St. Andrews, New Brunswick. An architectural icon of New Brunswick, the hotel is the most famous symbol of St. Andrews and one of the most photograp ...

, a hotel in St. Andrews, New Brunswick * Algonquin Club, Boston, Massachusetts *

Algonquin Hotel The Algonquin Hotel (officially The Algonquin Hotel Times Square, Autograph Collection) is a hotel at 59 West 44th Street in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, United States. The 181-room hotel, opened in 1902, was designed by architect Goldwi ...

, New York City **

Algonquin Round Table The Algonquin Round Table was a group of New York City writers, critics, actors, and wits. Gathering initially as part of a practical joke, members of "The Vicious Circle", as they dubbed themselves, met for lunch each day at the Algonquin Hotel ...

, a group of New York writers, critics, actors and wits who regularly congregated at the Algonquin Hotel *

Algonquin Power & Utilities Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. is a Canadian regulated utility company with assets across North America, Bermuda, and Chile. Algonquin provides water, wastewater, natural gas, and electricity services through its operating subsidiaries: Libert ...

, a utility company operating in North America *

Algonquin Radio Observatory The Algonquin Radio Observatory (ARO) is a radio observatory located in Algonquin Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada. It opened in 1959 in order to host a number of the National Research Council of Canada's (NRC) ongoing experiments in a more ra ...

, a radio telescope research facility in the Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada *

Algonquin Regional High School Algonquin Regional High School is a public high school located in Northborough, Massachusetts, United States. The school serves the students of the Northborough-Southborough Regional School District (NSRSD) comprising both Northborough and neigh ...

, located in Northborough, Massachusetts *

Algonquin College Algonquin College of Applied Arts and Technology is a publicly funded English-language college located in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The college has three campuses, all in Ontario: a primary campus in Ottawa, and secondary campuses in Perth and ...

, a college in Ontario, Canada

Military

* French ship ''Algonquin'' (1753), ship built in Quebec City, New France *

The Algonquin Regiment (Northern Pioneers) The Algonquin Regiment (Northern Pioneers) is a primary reserve infantry regiment of the Canadian Army comprising two companies. A Company is in North Bay, Ontario, and B Company is in Timmins, Ontario. The regiment falls under the com ...

, an infantry regiment in the Canadian Forces * HMCS ''Algonquin'', at least two ships of the Canadian Navy * USAHS ''Algonquin'', a 1926 hospital ship of the United States Army Transportation Service * USS ''Algonquin'', at least three ships of the United States Navy

Places

Glacial Lake Algonquin Lake Algonquin was a prehistoric proglacial lake that existed in east-central North America at the time of the last ice age. Parts of the former lake are now Lake Huron, Georgian Bay, Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Nipigon, and Lake Nipissin ...

, a North American proglacial lake at the time of the last ice age

Canada

* Algonquin, Ontario, a community in the township of Augusta *

Algonquin Highlands Algonquin Highlands is a township located in Haliburton County, Ontario, Canada. It has a population of 2,351. The northeastern section of the township is included in Algonquin Provincial Park. The township was formed on January 1, 2001, throug ...

, Ontario, a township *

South Algonquin, Ontario South Algonquin is a Township (Canada)#Ontario, township municipality in Nipissing District, Ontario, Canada. Located south of Algonquin Provincial Park, it is the sole populated portion of the district that lies south of the traditional dividin ...

, a township *

Algonquin Provincial Park Algonquin Provincial Park is an Ontario Ontario Parks, provincial park located between Georgian Bay and the Ottawa River, mostly within the Nipissing, Unorganized, South Part, Ontario, Unorganized South Part of Nipissing District. Established i ...

, a provincial park in Ontario *Algonquin Island, one of the

Toronto Islands The Toronto Islands are a chain of 15 small islands in Lake Ontario, south of mainland Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Comprising the only group of islands in the western part of Lake Ontario, the Toronto Islands are located just offshore from the ...

in Ontario

United States

Algonquin, Illinois Algonquin is a village in McHenry and Kane counties, Illinois, in the United States. It is a suburb of Chicago, located approximately northwest of the Loop. As of the 2020 census, the village's population was 29,700. The village is known as ...

Algonquin Township, McHenry County, Illinois Algonquin Township is located in McHenry County, Illinois Illinois ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern United States. It borders on Lake Michigan to its northeast, the Mississippi River to its west, a ...

Algonquin, Louisville Algonquin is a neighborhood in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. Its boundaries are Hill street to the north, Cypress Street to the west, CSX CSX Transportation , known colloquially as simply CSX, is a Railroad classes, Class I freight ra ...

, Kentucky *

Algonquin, Maryland Algonquin is a census-designated place (CDP) in Dorchester County, Maryland, United States. The population was 1,241 at the 2010 census. The community was named for the Algonquin people, one of the Native American tribes in the East. Geography ...

* Algonquin, Michigan * Algonkian Regional Park, Virginia *

Algonquin Peak Algonquin Peak is a mountain in the MacIntyre Range of the Adirondacks in the U.S. state of New York. It is the second-highest mountain in New York, with an elevation of , and one of the 46 Adirondack High Peaks. It is located in the town of N ...

, the second highest mountain in New York state *"Algonquin", A 12,574' peak in the Indian Peaks Wilderness, Colorado *"Algonquin", also a small Northwestern community located in the city limits of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan