Sault Sainte Marie, city, seat of Algoma District, southern Ontario, Canada. It is located on the Saint Marys River at the Sault Sainte Marie Canals, opposite Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan. The city is a busy port and is also a manufacturing and tourist center. Major products include steel, lumber, and paper. Sault Sainte Marie is home to several educational institutions, including Algoma University College, and to forest research facilities. Attractions include the Agawa Canyon Train Tour, the Sault Canal National Historic Site, the Canadian Bushplane Heritage Centre, the Sault Sainte Marie Museum, the Art Gallery of Algoma, and the Ermatinger/Clergue Heritage Site, which features the former homes of two fur traders. The dock at Roberta Bondar Park is the departure point for the Lock Tours Canada cruises of the Saint Marys River. Annual events include the Algoma Fall Festival and the Bon Soo Winter Carnival.
The site was settled by Europeans in 1783 when the North West Company built a fur-trading post. During the War of 1812, United States troops destroyed much of the settlement and the canals. In the late 19th century the community grew as a canal port and a railroad center. Sault Sainte Marie incorporated as a city in 1912.
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