Sault Ste Marie (pron. Soo), a port of Ontario, on the St Mary River, near the outlet of Lake Superior, 622 miles by rail W. of Montreal. A canal avoids the obstruction caused by the rapids (sault), and nearly three times as many boats pass as through the Suez Canal (annual tonnage, 8,500,000 tons). A fine iron bridge connects the C. P. Railway with lines to Duluth, St Paul, &c., U.S.A. Here are Indian schools for boys and girls. Pop. 1000.
Sault Ste Marie
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 172
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