. Lake Superior to the Sea. The First of a Comprehensive Chain that Links the Canadian West to Tide water. Built at a Cost of $5,000,000 Lake Superior to the Sea 23 as Port Colborne, meaning a water route for freight from the westernend of Lake Superior to Europe, with but a single transfer. Passing out of the Sault Ste. Marie Canal, which, in the season of1912-13, locked 3,279 vessels and carried an aggregate freight ofapproximately forty-two million tons, or a figure larger than that ofthe famous Suez waterway, we dock at Sault Ste. Marie, one of theoldest settlements in the Dominion, and ra
. Lake Superior to the Sea. The First of a Comprehensive Chain that Links the Canadian West to Tide water. Built at a Cost of $5,000,000 Lake Superior to the Sea 23 as Port Colborne, meaning a water route for freight from the westernend of Lake Superior to Europe, with but a single transfer. Passing out of the Sault Ste. Marie Canal, which, in the season of1912-13, locked 3,279 vessels and carried an aggregate freight ofapproximately forty-two million tons, or a figure larger than that ofthe famous Suez waterway, we dock at Sault Ste. Marie, one of theoldest settlements in the Dominion, and rapidly becoming animportant industrial center. Here are located the great works ofthe Superior Corporation, and across the river, on the American side,the huge plant of the Union Carbide Company, where is manufacturedcalcium carbide, the basic source of acetylene, now used so extensivelyfor lighting and other purposes, both of these plants having beenmade possible by the great hydro-electric power development of therapids of the St. Marys River. Sault Ste. Marie is one of the most historic towns in Can
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