Erie (disambiguation)

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Erie may refer to:

[edit] General

  • Erie (tribe), 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 Railroad Co. v. Tompkins (1938), often referred to as Erie, a United States Supreme Court case which set forth the Erie doctrine
    • Erie doctrine, which provides that a federal court sitting in diversity jurisdiction over a state law claim must apply state substantive common law in resolving the dispute

[edit] Places

[edit] North America

[edit] Canada

British Columbia
Ontario

[edit] United States

Colorado
Illinois
Indiana
Kansas
Michigan
Minnesota
New York
North Dakota
  • Erie, North Dakota, an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Cass County
Ohio
Pennsylvania

[edit] Organizations

[edit] Railroads

[edit] Canals

[edit] Other

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] Sport

[edit] See also

  • 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 English, 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