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Eddy in the St. Mary's Rapids


The St. Marys River (French:rivière Sainte-Marie), sometimes written as the St. Mary's River, drains Lake Superior, starting at the end of Whitefish Bay and flowing 120 km (74.5 miles) southeast into Lake Huron. For its entire length it is an international border, separating Michigan in the United States from Ontario, Canada. See here for a Map.

The most important area along the river are the rapids and the twin cities of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario and Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. The rapids of the St. Mary's (Sault Sainte Marie in French) are just below the river's exit from Lake Superior. Before Europeans arrived, native Americans fished, traded, and maintained a portage around the rapids. French explorer Étienne Brûlé was the first european to travel up the rapids in about 1621. In 1641 Jesuit priests Isaac Jogues and Charles Raymbault ventured the same route as Brûlé finding many Ojibwa at the rapids and named it Sault Ste. Marie (sault meaning "rapids" in French).

Fort St. Joseph was built on the Canadian shore in 1796 to protect a trading post, and ensure continued British control of the area. The fort fulfilled its role in the War of 1812. The first modern lock was completed in May 1855 by Erastus Corning's St. Mary's Falls Ship Canal Company, and is known as the American Lock. Competitive pressure led to the construction of a Canadian Lock in 1895. The locks were made a part of the Great Lakes Waterway system in 1959 known as the Soo Locks.

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Rapids on the St. Marys River
The Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge takes road traffic across the river. Just to the west is the Sault Ste. Marie Bridge, carrying rail traffic.

Tributaries of this river include the:

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Including these other Canadian rivers: Root River, Garden River, Little Carp River, Big Carp River, Lower Echo River Desbarats River, and the Two Tree River. The American tributaries to the St. Mary's River are: Gogomain River, Munuscong River, Little Munuscong River, Brimley River, and the Charlotte River.

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Whitefish Bay is a large bay on the eastern end of Lake Superior between Michigan and Ontario. It begins in the north and west at Whitefish Point in Michigan, about 10 miles north of Paradise, Michigan and ends at the St. Marys River at Sault Ste. Marie on the southeast.
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Étienne Brûlé (c. 1592 (Champigny-sur-Marne, France) – c. June 1633 (Toanche, on the Penetanguishene peninsula, Ontario))[1] was a French explorer in Canada in the 17th century.
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Charles Raymbault (1602 in France - 1643 in Quebec) was a Jesuit missionary.

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Sault Sainte Marie — pronounced "Soo Saint Marie" (IPA /su seɪnt məˈɹi/) — is the name of two cities on the Saint Marys River, which forms part of the boundary between the United States and Canada.
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Fort St. Joseph is a former British outpost on the southernmost point of St. Joseph Island in what is now Ontario, Canada on Lake Huron. Situated on approximately 325 hectares on the St. Mary's River, Fort St.
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Sault Locks (usually called the Soo Locks) allow ships to travel between Lake Superior and the lower Great Lakes. The locks are the busiest in the world, passing an average of 12,000 ships ("boats" in Great Lakes parlance) per year.
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International Bridge, or, more properly, the Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge, spans the St. Marys River between the United States and Canada connecting the twin cities of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.
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