• Tonquin may refer to: Tonquin (1807), an American merchant vessel destroyed on Vancouver Island in 1811 Tonquin (1845), a later American commercial vessel...
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    Tonquin was a 290-ton American merchant ship initially operated by Fanning & Coles and later by the Pacific Fur Company (PFC), a subsidiary of the American...
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  • The Tonquin was a 496-ton merchant vessel built in 1845 by Waterman & Ewell in Medford, Massachusetts, and owned by George R. Minot and Nathaniel Hooper...
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    semi-deciduous. Its seeds are known as tonka beans (sometimes tonkin beans or tonquin beans). They are black and wrinkled and have a smooth, brown interior....
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    Company (PFC). A maritime contingent of PFC staff was sent on board the Tonquin, while another party traveled overland from St. Louis. This land based...
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    Tonquin is an unincorporated locale in Washington County, Oregon, United States. Tonquin was a station on the Oregon Electric Railway, named for the Pacific...
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  • Tonquin Pass, 1948 m (6393 ft), is a mountain pass in the Canadian Rockies, linking Tonquin Valley in Jasper National Park, Alberta, to Mount Robson Provincial...
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    Sino-French War (redirect from Tonquin War)
    The Sino-French War, also known as the Tonkin War, was a limited conflict fought from August 1884 to April 1885 between the French Third Republic and Qing...
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  • Tonquin Hill is located on the northern side of Tonquin Pass, north of Mount Fraser, on the Continental Divide marking the Alberta-British Columbia border...
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    The Tonquin Valley is located in Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada, next to the border of the provinces of Alberta and British Columbia, an area which...
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  • Tonkin, also spelled Tongkin, Tonquin or Tongking, is an exonym referring to the northern region of Vietnam. During the 17th and 18th centuries, this...
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    (present-day Astoria, Oregon). The destruction of the company vessel the Tonquin later that year off the shore of Vancouver Island took with it the majority...
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  • bark, the Tonquin, owned by John Jacob Astor. The Tonquin was to sail to the Pacific Northwest to establish a fur trading post. The Tonquin left New York...
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    1811 involving the Tla-o-qui-aht natives of the Pacific Northwest and the Tonquin, an American merchant ship of the Astor Expedition. The vessel had traveled...
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    subsequently sold to French owners who chartered her to the French Government as Tonquin to carry troops from Marseille, France, to Tonkin. However, en route to...
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    in India 128 "Soy comes in Tubbs from Japan, and the best Ketchup from Tonquin; yet good of both sorts are made and sold very cheap in China." 1727, Eliza...
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    planned by Astor: one sent to the Columbia River aboard the merchant ship Tonquin, the other dispatched overland under an expedition led by Wilson Price...
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    Astoria two months after the departure of John Jacob Astor's ill-fated Tonquin. The Oregon Country was originally claimed by Great Britain, France, Russia...
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  • ship Tonquin in 1807, sailed her around the world several times and sold her for $37,000 to John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company. Later the Tonquin was...
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    Muncho North Kananaskis Palliser Pine Simpson Sinclair Summit Sunwapta Tonquin Vermilion Wapiti White Man Yellowhead Glaciers Athabasca Bow Columbia Icefield...
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  • previous day by Tla-o-qui-aht on board the Pacific Fur Company's ship Tonquin, intentionally detonate a powder magazine on the ship, destroying it and...
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    Metzger Greenburg Tigard Bonita Durham Tualatin branch to McMinnville Nasoma Tonquin Mulloy Wilsonville Prahl Butteville Fargo Donald Fellers Broadacres West...
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    Dorion Joseph Gervais Michel Laframboise Étienne Lucier Ovide de Montigny Naukane François Payette François Benjamin Pillet Ships Tonquin Beaver Albatros...
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    Shipwrecks 3 Jan: Mary Celeste 15 Jan: Admiral Moorsom 15 Feb: Yuyuen 5 Mar: Tonquin 8 May: Mary E. Fish 2 Jun: SMS Augusta 10 Jun: Kreml 24 Jun: City of Tokio...
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    two months after the Pacific Fur Company's ship, the Tonquin. The fort constructed by the Tonquin party established Astoria as a U.S., rather than a British...
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    Stuart was age 25 when he sailed aboard a Pacific Fur Company ship, the Tonquin, on its voyage to the Falkland Islands. He held a pistol to the head of...
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    Spokane-Coeur d'Alene-Paloos War Fraser Canyon War Puget Sound War Chilcotin War Tonquin incident Nicola's War Court cases and treaties Boldt Decision Sohappy v...
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  • described in Astoria, the expedition involved a sea journey by the ship, Tonquin, as well as overland journeys that blazed what would ultimately become...
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    Spokane-Coeur d'Alene-Paloos War Fraser Canyon War Puget Sound War Chilcotin War Tonquin incident Nicola's War Court cases and treaties Boldt Decision Sohappy v...
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