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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM201K_nicolas-perrot_Sault-Ste.-Marie-Ontario.html
Explorer, interpreter, fur trader and diplomat, French-born Perrot played an important role in the establishment and protection of New France's western frontier during the last four decades of the 17th century. In 1671 he was with Saint-Lusson at …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/tmp-3f93d_shingwauk-hall_Sault-Ste.-Marie-Ontario.html
Shingwauk Hall was erected in 1935 to house a residential training school established in 1873 by the Reverend Edward F. Wilson. Under this Anglican missionary's tutelage the institution, named after the well-known Ojibway Chief Augustin Shingwauk …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/tmp-1e95d_col-john-prince_Sault-Ste.-Marie-Ontario.html
Here, on a portion of his former estate, is buried Col. Prince who emigrated from England in 1833 and settled at Sandwich, Upper Canada. As commanding officer of the Essex Militia, he stirred up a violent controversy by ordering the summary execut…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/tmp-791cf_ripple-rock_Desbarats-Ontario.html
The ripple marks on the adjacent rock face were made some two billion years ago by waves in a shallow body of water. Buried by later deposition of silt and then subjected to great pressure, the rippled sand became sandstone. The formation was subs…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/tmp-a5030_the-bruce-mines_Bruce-Mines-Ontario.html
The original claim to the Bruce Mine location was filed in September, 1846 by James Cuthbertson. It was acquired the following year by the Montreal Mining Company, and production commenced in 1847-48 at what became the first commercially successfu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1MCO_capture-of-tigress-and-scorpion_Thessalon-Ontario.html
Some 25 miles southwest of here lies the Detour Passage between Drummond Island and Michigan's upper peninsula. In August, 1814, it was occupied by the armed U.S. schooners "Tigress" and "Scorpion", whose intention it was to prevent supplies reach…
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