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The Canadian Heritage Rivers System
February 2000

Connecting three of North America’s Great Lakes – Superior, Huron and Michigan – the St. Marys River is the key hydrological, ecological and transportation link in the Great Lakes system. Since…

This church was constructed in 1875 and dedicated in 1876 as the Parish Church of The Sacred Heart by Bishop Jean-François Jamot. It replaced a wooden building constructed in 1846 which had served as a Jesuit missionary post for this region. Build of…

Until the mid-20th century, passenger and packet freighters were the most efficient means for transporting goods and people to and from isolated communities of the Upper Great Lakes. Essential to early regional development and instrumental in the…

Explorer, interpreter, fur trader and diplomat, French-born Perrot played an important role in the establishment and protection of New France’s western frontier during the last four decades of the 17th century. In 1671 he was with Saint-Lusson at…

This house, built between 1814 and 1823 by Charles Ermatinger of the North West Company, is the oldest surviving house in northwestern Ontario. Constructed when Sault Ste. Marie was still a small fur trading post on the Upper Lakes, this fine house…