Timeline for Sault Ste. Marie
Mentioned in: Globe and Mail, Postmedia sue Anthropic
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Sault Ste. Marie is a city in northern Ontario, Canada, beside the St Marys River. The river carries water from Lake Superior towards Lake Huron, with rapids marking the difference in their levels. This geography made the area important to travel and trade through the Great Lakes.
The Canadian canal was built to bypass those rapids and opened in 1895, completing a Canadian shipping route from The Atlantic to the upper Great Lakes. Its construction and later preservation form part of the city's industrial and transport history. Parks Canada manages the canal as a national historic site. A smaller recreational lock allows boats through, while paths, historic buildings and islands preserve the setting of the older waterway. [Parks Canada history](https://parks.Canada.ca/lhn-nhs/on/ssmarie/culture/histoire-history).
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Written with AI from Lowdown's published reporting. Not individually reviewed by an editor. Updated 22 October 2026. Editorial standards.