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Author: Mitchell Harris
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Future of the Sault: What Our Water Powers Will Be (3 of 9)
In part three of this future-looking text from 1909, T. Norman Dean turns his attention to canals and the hydroelectric potential of the St. Marys River
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The Ermatinger Old Stone House was Algoma’s first courthouse
The first session of the District was held on 11 December 1860 by John Prince following instructions from John A. MacDonald
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Future of the Sault: The Economic Results of Our Situation (2 of 9)
T. Norman Dean predicted in 1909 that railways would be the most important factor to Sault Ste. Marie becoming Canada’s wheat centre
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Sault Ste. Marie was the setting of a lost film from 1922
Despite many attempts, a surviving copy of The Rapids, based on a novel about Francis Clergue by Alan Sullivan, has never been found
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Future of the Sault: Prefatory Note (1 of 9)
This predictive treatise from 1909 was written by T. Norman Dean, son of alderman and later mayor, Thomas Dean
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Sault Museum releases teaser of local map database
Archivist behind new Repository for Cartography and Planning asks locals to lend maps to Museum
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The 1881 Stewart Survey was free because the land belonged to the Hudson’s Bay Company
The Deed of Surrender of 1870-1 included a clause that surveys on Company land, like the “block of land” in Sault Ste. Marie and later Steelton, would be free of charge
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Francis Clergue’s mansion, Montfermier, burned down in 1934
Resident custodian, Charles Kirk, made short trip for errands and returned to find house ablaze, suspected arsonist never caught
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The word Tarentorus comes from the Kanienʼkéha language
Meaning “tree-splitter” in Kanienʼkéha, also known as Mohawk, Tarentorus first appeared on a provincial land survey by A. P. Salter in 1859
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Italians first arrived in Sault Ste. Marie around 1902
Most were migrant labourers looking for jobs at the Consolidated Lake Superior Company under Francis Clergue, who was ousted the following year by a riot