Alderney Airport other destinations such as Brighton, Bournemouth, Cherbourg, Exeter, Plymouth and Jersey were abandoned over the years due to what Blue Islands for example claimed was 'lack of interest'. These routes had been operated on and off by Aurigny and Blue Islands but also Alderney Air Ferries, Air Sarnia and Air Camelot during the 1970s and 1980s. The number of air routes to the island is at its lowest since the Second World War except for a brief intermission during the 1967-8 period, when another airline (Glos Air, later to be Aurigny Air Services) was found to fill the void (see
Mackinac Island, Michigan island. To commemorate this tribe, the Ottawa and Chippewa (Ojibwe) named the island as "Mi-shi-ne-macki-nong," also known as "Michilimackinac" by the 18th century. In 1654 Jesuit missionaries recorded French traders at the island, who were with a large party of Huron and Ottawa heading to Three Rivers. Another trader was said to have made a canoe voyage to the island in 1665. The French colonists continued in the fur trade, which became extremely lucrative; they operated out of Montreal and established posts on "Mi-shi-ne-macki-nong" and throughout the Great Lakes area. After the French ceded their territory in North America to