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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20BI_the-first-sault-ste-marie-canal_Sault-Ste.-Marie-Ontario.html
The French explorers who first reached this favoured Ojibway hunting and fishing ground were soon followed by fur traders and missionaries who built a post and mission. By 1762 the region had come under British control and the trade eventually fel…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20BH_dr-roberta-bondar_Sault-Ste.-Marie-Ontario.html
Dedicated at the official opening ofRoberta Bondar ParkIn honour of our hero, Dr. Roberta Lynn Bondar, O.C., O.ONT., M.D., PH.D., F.R.C.P.(C), neurologist, biologist, pilot and researcher. Canada's first female astronaut was a crew member on the U…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20AB_the-chicora-incident_Sault-Ste.-Marie-Ontario.html
In May, 1870, Col. Garnet Wolseley arrived here with an expeditionary force of British regulars and Canadian militia aboard the steamer "Chicora". They were travelling to Fort Garry on the Red River to put down an uprising led by Louis Riel. The c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20AA_the-north-west-company-post_Sault-Ste.-Marie-Ontario.html
Travellers on the canoe route to the West had to make a portage around the St. Mary's rapids. The North West Company established a fur-trading post south of the river by 1791. After the British abandoned their occupation of the American midwest, t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20A8_francis-hector-clergue_Sault-Ste.-Marie-Ontario.html
A Maine-born promoter, Clergue transformed Sault Ste. Marie into a major industrial centre. He purchased an unfinished hydroelectric station and canal at the Sault in 1894; then, lacking markets for his electric power, he created his own interdepe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM205V_sault-ste-marie-ship-canal_Sault-Ste.-Marie-Ontario.html
Completed in 1895, this canal formed the last link in an all-Canadian navigation system stretching from the St. Lawrence River to Lake Superior. Designed and built by Canadians, the canal incorporated several engineering innovations. It was the wo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM201P_passenger-and-packet-freighters-on-the-upper-great-lakes_Sault-Ste.-Marie-Ontario.html
Until the mid-20th century, passenger and packet freighters were the most efficient means for transporting goods and people to and from isolated communities of the Upper Great Lakes. Essential to early regional development and instrumental in the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM201O_anna-jameson_Sault-Ste.-Marie-Ontario.html
Born in Dublin, Ireland, and raised in London, this famous 19th century author, illustrator and social reformer joined her husband, Robert Jameson, Attorney General of Upper Canada, at Toronto in 1836. The following June, unescorted, Mrs. Jameson …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM201M_precious-blood-cathedral_Sault-Ste.-Marie-Ontario.html
This church was constructed in 1875 and dedicated in 1876 as the Parish Church of The Sacred Heart by Bishop Jean-Francois Jamot. It replaced a wooden building constructed in 1846 which had served as a Jesuit missionary post for this region. Built…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM201L_ermatinger-house_Sault-Ste.-Marie-Ontario.html
This house, built between 1814 and 1823 by Charles Ermatinger of the North West Company, is the oldest surviving house in northwestern Ontario. Constructed when Sault Ste. Marie was still a small fur trading post on the Upper Lakes, this fine hous…