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SAULT STE. MARIE CANADA
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OF INTEREST

Agawa Canyon Tour Train and Snow Train. 114 miles up into the wilderness, with panoramas viewed from the comfort of a passenger train ... more

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 ... more

Lock Tours Canada. A 2-hour boat tour past not just the locks but eerily looming Algoma Steel Works ... more

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 ... more

Canadian Bushplane Heritage Centre. In a 1940s hanger, see the planes that pioneered fighting forest fires from the air ... more

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 ... more

Art Gallery of Algoma. Stimulating art (24 shows/year) and a cool museum shop and sculpture garden in a beautiful riverfront setting. ... more

Sault Ste. Marie Museum. In an unusual and interesting 1906 post office, tour a museum that illuminates local Indian, maritime, military, and industrial history ... more

SAULT STE. MARIE CANADA

St. Mary's River Boardwalk

A beautiful downtown boardwalk, dotted with fishing platforms and interpretive markers about key events in area history, extends along the riverfront for a mile. The entire route is suitable for wheelchairs, rollerblades, strollers, etc. The boardwalk goes east past the striking, Ojibwa-inspired tent roofs of the Roberta Bondar Pavilion, named for Canada's first woman astronaut, a Sault native. One claim to fame is the world's largest back-lit mural, in which 10 area artists have depicted local landscapes and cultures with key events in area history and pre-history. The Pavilion is the scene of summer concerts on Tuesday and Thursday evenings and of farmers' markets Wednesdays and Saturdays.

The boardwalk starts near the ship canal and locks on St. Mary's Island beneath the International Bridge and continues a mile to Brock St., almost to Pim. Wheelchair-accessible.

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