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Strategically situated beside St Mary's River, the
tortuous link between lakes Superior and Huron, industrial SAULT
STE MARIE - more popularly the SOO -
sits opposite the Michigan town of the same name and sees constant
two-way traffic, with two sets of tourists keen to see how the
other lot lives. The Soo is northern Ontario's oldest community,
originally settled by Ojibwa fishing parties who gathered here
beside what was then - before the river was canalized - a set
of rapids. The French called these Ojibwa Saulteux - "people
of the falls" - and the Jesuit missionaries who followed
added the Christian sobriquet to give the town its present name.
Initially, the Soo flourished as a gateway to the fur-rich regions
inland, but it was the construction of a lock and canal
in the nineteenth century that launched its career as a Great
Lakes port and industrial centre, churning out pulp, paper and
steel. Actually, the American locks were always bigger and better
- and indeed the Canadian locks have only just been reopened after
overcoming a catalogue of engineering difficulties.
Too industrial to be pretty, the Soo rustles up
a reasonable range of attractions and motels, but its real appeal
is as the starting point for a splendid wilderness train ride
on the Algoma Central Railway .
