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LaBonte is now the general manager in training of Famous Soo Locks Boat Tours, a private tour guide company that has been operating in Sault Ste. Marie for decades.
The boat tours began in 1934 when Milo Beechwood Welch, a local tugboat captain, fulfilled his dream of showing the history of the locks. Original Soo Locks Boat Tours celebrates 90 years on the ...
The locks share a name (usually shortened and anglicized as Soo) with the two cities named Sault Ste. Marie, in Ontario and in Michigan, located on either side of the St. Marys River. The Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge between the United States and Canada permits vehicular traffic to pass over the locks. A railroad bridge crosses the St ...
The twin cities of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, and Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan are connected across the St. Marys River by the Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge. The St. Marys Rapids are just below the river's exit from Lake Superior and can be bypassed by huge freight ships through the man-made Soo Locks and the Sault Ste. Marie Canal.
The Great Lakes Waterway (GLW) is a system of natural channels and artificial locks and canals that enable navigation between the North American Great Lakes. [1] Though all of the lakes are naturally connected as a chain, water travel between the lakes was impeded for centuries by obstacles such as Niagara Falls and the rapids of the St. Marys ...
Used as a storage barge until 2003, a group tried to save her; however, poor communications within the company saw the ship sold in 2004 and scrapped in Sault Ste. Marie by Purvis Marine. The majority of the hull was fed to the Algoma Steel Mill but the forecastle was saved as a summer cottage at Detour, Michigan.
SAULT STE. MARIE — U.S. Senator Gary Peters visited the Soo Locks on Thursday to discuss the importance of funding for the New Lock project and to see the ongoing construction in person.
St. Marys Falls Canal (Soo Locks) Sault Ste. Marie: MI: 2 mi (3.2 km) Part of the Great Lakes Waterway: Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal: Door County: WI: 1.3 mi (2.1 km) Tennessee–Tombigbee Waterway: Northeast Mississippi MS: 234 mi (377 km) Southwest Alabama AL: Victoria Barge Canal: Victoria County, Calhoun County: TX: 35 mi (56 km) West Neebish ...