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

Languages and peoples

Algonquian languages The Algonquian languages ( or ; also Algonkian) are a subfamily of Indigenous languages of the Americas, indigenous American languages that include most languages in the Algic languages, Algic language family. The name of the Algonquian language f ...

, 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 language closely related to the Ojibwe language or a particularly divergent Ojibwe dialect. It is spoken, alongside French and to some extent English, by th ...

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

Algonquian peoples The Algonquian are one of the most populous and widespread North American native language groups. Historically, the peoples were prominent along the Atlantic Coast and into the interior along the Saint Lawrence River and around the Great Lakes. T ...

, 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. They speak the Algonquin language, which is part of the Algonquian language family. Culturally and linguistically, they are closely related to the Odawa, Potawato ...

, 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 is comprised of either imprints: Workman, Workman Children’s, Workman Calendars, Artisan, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill and Algon ...

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

Manhattan Manhattan (), known regionally as the City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is also coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state ...

, in the video game '' Grand Theft Auto IV'' *A dog from the 1988 film '' Elvira: Mistress of the Dark''

Buildings and institutions

* The Algonquin, a hotel in St. Andrews, New Brunswick *

Algonquin Club The Algonquin Club of Boston, also known as The Quin House, is a private social club in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 1886. Originally a business-themed gentlemen's club, it is now open to men and women of all races, religions, and national ...

, Boston, Massachusetts *

Algonquin Hotel The Algonquin Hotel 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 Goldwin Starrett for the Puritan Realty Company. The hotel has hosted numer ...

, 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, 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 serves the National Capital Region and the outlying areas of Eastern Ontario, Western Quebec, and Upst ...

, 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 located in North Bay, Ontario, and B Company is located in Timmins, Ontario. The regiment fall ...

, 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, 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, Ontario, a township * South Algonquin, Ontario, a township * Algonquin Provincial Park, a provincial park in Ontario *Algonquin Island, one of the Toronto Islands 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, Louisville, 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 A ...

* Algonquin, Michigan *

Algonkian Regional Park Algonkian Regional Park is located on the Potomac River in Sterling, Virginia at Cascades, Virginia. The 838-acre park is owned and operated by the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority (NOVA Parks) and contains open fields, picnic shelters, ren ...

, Virginia *

Algonquin Peak Algonquin Peak is in the MacIntyre Range in the town of North Elba, in Essex County, New York. It is the second highest mountain in New York,Goodwin, Tony, and David Thomas-Train, Editors. ''High Peaks Trails'', 14th Edition. Lake George, NY ...

, 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