There are two islands known as Bois Blanc in North America:
- Bois Blanc Island (Michigan) located near Mackinac Island
- Bois Blanc Island (Ontario) commonly called Boblo Island and had an amusement park.
Famous quotes containing the words bois and/or island:
“This spirit it was which so early carried the French to the Great Lakes and the Mississippi on the north, and the Spaniard to the same river on the south. It was long before our frontiers reached their settlements in the West, and a voyageur or coureur de bois is still our conductor there.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“That island of England breeds very valiant creatures; their
mastiffs are of unmatchable courage.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)