Erie

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[edit] General

  • Erie (tribe) (or Eriez or the "Cat People"), the name of a tribe of Native Americans whose name is used for various locations. The word was borrowed into English from French which had previously borrowed the word (and gallicized it) from a neighboring Iroquoian language (such as Huron.)
  • Erie County Fair aka "America's Fair", is a fair held in Hamburg, NY every August
  • Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins (1938), often referred to as Erie, a United States Supreme Court case which set forth the Erie doctrine
    • Erie doctrine, provides that a federal court sitting in diversity jurisdiction over a state law claim must apply state substantive common law in resolving the dispute
Locomotives
  • Erie L-1, 0-8-8-0 steam locomotives of the Erie Railroad built in 1907 by ALCO
  • FM Erie-built, the first streamlined, cab-equipped dual service diesel locomotive built by Fairbanks-Morse
Ships

[edit] Events

  • Battle of Fort Erie (1866), a bloody skirmish in 1866, in Canada West
  • Battle of Lake Erie (1813), sometimes called the Battle of Put-in-Bay, fought in Lake Erie off the coast of Ohio during the War of 1812
  • Capture of Fort Erie, an incident in the War of 1812 between United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the United States
  • Erie Canal Soda Pop Festival, a rock festival held on the Labor Day weekend of 1972 near Griffin, Indiana on Bull Island, Illinois
  • Siege of Fort Erie, one of the last engagements between British and American forces during the Niagara campaign of the War of 1812

[edit] People

  • Edward Erie Poor (1837-1900), Vice-President and then President of the National Park Bank from 1895-1900
  • Erie Chapman, President and CEO of the Baptist Healing Trust in Nashville, Tennessee
  • Erie Resurreccion, Filipino voice-actor for ABS-CBN

[edit] Places

NORTH AMERICA
CANADA
British Columbia
Ontario
  • Erie (electoral district), a federal electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1979 to 1997, in the province of Ontario
  • Erie—Lincoln, a former federal electoral district in Ontario, Canada
  • Fort Erie, Ontario, a town on the Niagara River in the Niagara Region, Ontario, Canada
    • Fort Erie (now National Historic Site), the first British fort to be constructed as part of a network after the Treaty of Paris (1763)
    • Fort Erie Airport, located near Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada
  • Grand Erie District School Board, a school board that has legal jurisdiction over Norfolk County, Haldimand County, and Brant County in the province of Ontario
UNITED STATES
Colorado
Illinois
Indiana
Kansas
  • Erie, Kansas, a city in Neosho County, Kansas, United States
Michigan
Minnesota
New York State
North Dakota
  • Erie, North Dakota, an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Cass County, North Dakota, U.S.
Ohio
Pennsylvania

[edit] Organisations

Railroads
Canals
Other

[edit] Sport

[edit] Also see

  • Eerie, a magazine of horror comics introduced in 1966 by Warren Publishing
  • Eerie, Indiana, a fictional town in the NBC television series of the same name. Note: "Eerie" and "Erie" are pronounced identically in Standard American, and are occasionally confused. Three of the four U.S. states bordering Indiana have well-known towns called Erie.
  • Éire, meaning Republic of Ireland in the Irish language
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