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The Ermatinger and Clergue houses are thought to be the oldest buildings northwest of Toronto. [2] The Heritage Discovery Centre's construction was completed in 2014; this space was designed to provide additional interpretive and programming space for the historic site.
Clergue had lasting popularity in Sault Ste. Marie, and in 1937 a portrait of him was placed in its city hall. [3] Things in the city named after him include: Clergue Park - a small city park; Clergue Street - short residential street; French immersion school (F.H. Clergue Public School) Clergue was inducted into Sault Ste. Marie's Walk of Fame ...
As of 2016 the archives holds over 170 unique archival fonds or collections. [2] Areas of strength include the history of higher education in Sault Ste. Marie; faculty, staff and student associations at the university, university programming, the industrial history of the Great Lakes region; the railroad history of northern Ontario; the history of the fur trader Charles Oakes Ermatinger and ...
Algoma Central Railway telephone car, Algoma District, Ontario, [ca. 1925] The Algoma Central Railway was first owned by Francis H. Clergue, who required a railway to haul resources from the interior of the Algoma District to Clergue's industries in Sault Ste. Marie; specifically, to transport logs to his pulp mill and iron ore from the Helen Mine, near Wawa, to a proposed steel mill (which ...
Algoma District is a district and census division in Northeastern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario. The name was created by an American ethnologist, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft (1793–1864), who was appointed Indian agent to the Ojibwe in Sault Ste. Marie region in 1822. "Al" is derived from Algonquin, while "goma" is a variant of gomee ...
Algoma (formerly Algoma Steel; Essar Steel Algoma) is the largest single employer, with 3,500 employees at the main plant and approximately 553 (440 unionized and 113 non-unionized) at an adjacent tube mill operated by Tenaris. During the 1940s, the steel and chromium operations were of substantial importance to the war effort in Canada and the ...
Ermatinger-Clergue National Historic Site: Sault Ste. Marie: Algoma District: Northeastern: Historic house: 19th century period house and summer kitchen, and turn-of-the-20th-century blockhouse and gardens: Essex County Steam & Gas Engine Museum: McGregor: Essex County: Southwestern: Agriculture: antique engines, tractors and farm machinery ...
St. Luke's Cathedral is the Anglican cathedral of the Diocese of Algoma. [1] It is located in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, [2] and was built in 1870. [3] St. Luke's was the first Anglican church built in Sault Ste. Marie. The building was consecrated on October 18, 1870.