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SAULT STE. MARIE CANADA
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Agawa Canyon Tour Train and Snow Train. 114 miles up into the wilderness, with panoramas viewed from the comfort of a passenger train ...
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Sault Ste. Marie Canal National Historic Site. A close-up look, with historical and technological perspective, at the 1895 Canadian canal, built next to but well after the American locks ...
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Lock Tours Canada. A 2-hour boat tour past not just the locks but eerily looming Algoma Steel Works ...
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St. Mary's River Boardwalk. A beautiful mile-long downtown riverfront boardwalk, dotted with fishing platforms and interpretive markers about key events in area history ...
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Canadian Bushplane Heritage Centre. In a 1940s hanger, see the planes that pioneered fighting forest fires from the air ...
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Ermatinger/Clergue Heritage Site. An 1814 stone house, once a fur trading post, has been brought back to life with period furnishings and costumed interpreters ...
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Art Gallery of Algoma. Stimulating art (24 shows/year) and a cool museum shop and sculpture garden in a beautiful riverfront setting. ...
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Sault Ste. Marie Museum. In an unusual and interesting 1906 post office, tour a museum that illuminates local Indian, maritime, military, and industrial history ...
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Sault Ste. Marie Museum
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"Ontario eclectic" is the architectural label for this former post office. It opened in 1906, built of sandstone excavated when the Canadian locks were dug. The bulbous corner clock tower was a 1912 addition. No building like this will likely be found in the United States. Interior details like the staircase and the three-story skylight are interesting in their own right.
At the museum are a First Nations (i.e., Native American) birchbark dwelling, maritime and other history exhibits about the Algoma District, a hands-on children's Discovery Gallery with a vintage dress-up corner, and galleries for industrial history, sports, and military history, plus art shows and changing exhibits. Display techniques are low budget, sometimes irritatingly so. This museum is for people already interested in the history of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario; the River of History Museum on the U.S. side does a much better job of communicating to outsiders.
690 Queen St. at East St. (705) 759-7278. Open year-round. From June thru Sept open Mon-Sat 10-6, Sun 12:30-4:30. Off-season hours Tues-Sat 9:30-4:30. $5/adult ($4 U.S.), $3/senior, students 13-19, $2/children 7-12, under 7 free. $10/family rate (around $8 U.S.) Wheelchair access: rear entrance. Ring bell
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