Since sometimes people need that extra motivation and worthy event to travel a bit farther than usual, let five Tall Ships, which will be docking in Marquette at the Ellwood A. Mattson Lower ...

In 1671, the French priest Jacques Marquette founded St. Ignace when he ... Over the years, many ships wrecked in the Straits of Mackinac due to unfavorable weather conditions.

On March 30, 1675, Father Jacques Marquette and his party left their ... In 1923 the Cunard liner Laconia became the first passenger ship to circumnavigate the world, arriving in New York after ...

Had Jacque Marquette and Louis Joliet made their famous voyage 350 million years ago, they would have been sipping mai tais and overlooking prime oceanfront real estate in what is now Pere ...

The story of Father Jacques Marquette, the 17th-century French Jesuit whose Upper Peninsula mission became St. Ignace, will now be told from the perspective of Native Americans as a national ...