wintorbos' photos with the keyword: sault ste. marie

Card by Novelty Manufacturing & Art Printing Co. of Montreal. Likely 1920s. Numbered 425 and 49024 in the stamp box. Unused. Showing the U.S. side of the locks so the reference to Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario seems slightly misleading.

Mailed May 23, 1914 from the Sault (Ont.) to P. Sanger, Trenton, Mich. with the note: "In Dry town where they only play Rum & Crib for a whole week. Be home Monday."

Card 2097 for M. Denman of Sault Ste. Marie. Nice double view showing the original lock and the modern lock "largest in the world".

Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada, with the International Bridge and the Railway Bridge in the background.

Here is the International Road Bridge (white) with the Railway Swing Bridge (black, opened here to allow canal traffic to pass) and the amazing red bridge, which is actually an emergency control for the canal. In 1909 it was used ... it swings across the canal in case the lock collapses (as it did then) and holds the water back by means of a series of battens that are lowered one by one from the bridge to stop the rushing water. I took a picture of the sign that explains this (better) which I will upload at some point.