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The Six Bones on Manitoulin: Could This Be Le Griffon?
The Six Bones on Manitoulin: Could This Be Le Griffon?
Bones wrapped in birchbark and a seventeenth-century silver watch were dug near Manitoulin Island in 1887 - six skeletons found in two groups, the same number last seen aboard Le Griffon when it sailed on September 18, 1679. Could those remains and the metal tokens stamped with French markings be the only human trace of the largest vessel ever to sail the upper Great Lakes?
In this episode, we lay out the known facts from the 1679 voyage, the 1887 discovery, and the decades of artifact scavenging on the shoreline to ask whether those six…
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