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unusual facts about Sault Ste. Marie Airport


Sault Sainte Marie Air Force Station

In November 1950, the 753d Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron was activated by Air Defense Command at a temporary "Lashup" radar site located at Sault Sainte Marie Airport, to provide radar defense coverage for the area.


2 Area Support Group Signal Squadron

Base Information Technology Support Units (BITSUs) at Ottawa, Kingston, Toronto, London, North Bay and Sault Ste. Marie were amalgamated with the Squadron to create a single unit within LFCA, which would provide consolidated information systems support to all Army units in Ontario.

49th Field Artillery Regiment, RCA

49th (Sault Ste. Marie) Field Artillery Regiment, R.C.A. is a Canadian Forces Primary Reserve regiment based in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.

Barrage balloon

In 1942 Canadian and American forces began joint operations to protect the sensitive locks and shipping channel at Sault Ste. Marie along their common border among the Great Lakes against possible air attack.

Cambrian College

It was originally established with campuses in Sudbury, North Bay and Sault Ste. Marie; the North Bay and Sault campuses became the independent Canadore College and Sault College in 1972 and 1973, respectively.

CFS Armstrong

The community was the site of a detachment of the US Army's 671st Signal Aircraft Warning Company (Reporting), established to detect an enemy air attack on the locks at Soo Locks in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.

Charles Fenn Pretty

However, he lost everything after building several hundred houses in Sault Ste. Marie for a contractor who went broke and couldn't pay.

Chippewa Indians of Montana

Supposedly the name refers to the falls in the Sault Ste. Marie region of Michigan and Ontario.

Cirsium pitcheri

The Pitcher's thistle was first identified by Dr. Zina Pitcher, an amateur naturalist and U.S. Army field surgeon stationed at Fort Brady, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.

Edward Fenlon

He was instrumental in getting several civic projects off the ground for Northern Michigan, including the Blue Water Bridge and Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge.

Fairchild F-11 Husky

Both the Western Canada Aviation Museum in Winnipeg, Manitoba and the Canadian Bushplane Heritage Centre in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario have restored examples in their collections.

Fort Chevalier de Repentigny

Fort Chevalier de Repentigny was a French Fort in what is now Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan that was established in 1750.

Francis Clergue

Francis Hector Clergue (August 28, 1856 – January 19, 1939) was an American businessman who became the leading industrialist of Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario in Canada, at the turn of the 20th century.

Greiling

It is the home of Ontario Hockey League star Simon Fischhaber, who currently plays for the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds

Ivan Boldirev

Ivan Boldirev (Serbian Cyrillic: Иван Болдирев; born August 15, 1949 in Zrenjanin, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia (now Serbia) and raised in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario) is a retired Serbian-Canadian professional ice hockey centre who played 15 seasons in the NHL from 1970 through 1985.

Kevin Gregson

Gregson did missionary work for the church from 1989 to 1991 and later took jobs as an orderly — first at the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre and then the Riverview Hospital in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.

Kincheloe, Michigan

Kincheloe is at the eastern end of Kinross Charter Township, just east of Interstate 75 and about 20 miles southwest of Sault Ste. Marie and 37 miles north of St. Ignace.

Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa

As the Ojibwe Nation divided into two and expand westward from Sault Ste. Marie region, the southern branch of Ojibwe came to the area now known as Lac Vieux Desert.

Lake Huron

Lake Superior drains into the St. Marys River at Sault Ste. Marie which then flows southward into Lake Huron.

Little Brown Jug of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan

The Little Brown Jug of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan is a trophy awarded each year to the winner of the high school football game played between Sault Ste. Marie and Newberry.

Mississippi River Band of Chippewa Indians

According to the oral history of the Mississippi Chippewa, they were primarily of the southern branch of Ojibwe who spread from the "Fifth Stopping Place" of Baawiting (Sault Ste. Marie region) along Lake Superior's southern shores until arriving at the "Sixth Stopping Place" of the St. Louis River.

Murray MacPherson

MacPherson's coaching career including the Winnipeg Monarchs, Winnipeg Clubs, Portage Terriers, Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds, Jersey Aces/Hampton Aces, Richmond Rifles, New Westminster Bruins, Drumheller Miners, Burnaby Bluehawks and the Langley Eagles.

North West Company

The destruction of the North West Company post at Sault Ste. Marie by the Americans during the War of 1812 was a serious blow during an already difficult time.

Raco Army Airfield

Its use was likely to provide air service to the locks at Sault Sainte Marie.

The mission of Raco AAF was to serve as a refueling stop for aircraft headed for Alaska as well as to defend the locks of Sault Ste. Marie.

Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge

The truck route, known as Carmen's Way in memory of the city's former federal MP Carmen Provenzano, was officially opened in September 2006.

Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan

Whereas the modern saut means simply "(a) jump", sault was also applied to cataracts, waterfalls and rapids in the 17th century, hence the placenames Grand Falls/Grand-Sault, New/Nouveau Brunswick and Sault-au-Récollet on the Island of Montreal in Canada; and Sault-Saint-Remy and Sault-Brénaz, in France.

The Saulteaux (rapids in French) branch of the Ojibwa was named by French colonists after this region.

Seven fires prophecy

From the cultural center on Manitoulin Island, the Ojibwe moved to the area about Sault Ste. Marie, where there was the next "turtle-shaped island" marked by miigis shell.

Shaw TV

Sault Ste. Marie City Council - Live or taped coverage of local City Council meetings every 2nd Monday.

Shingabawossin

In 1822, Henry Schoolcraft met with the Chief and established the US Indian Agency in Sault Ste. Marie.

Shingwauk Kinoomaage Gamig

Shingwauk Kinoomaage Gamig (University) is a proposed Anishinaabe (Ojibwa) university to be run in conjunction with a newly independent Algoma University in Sault Ste. Marie and the Shingwauk Education Trust.

Skysweeper

By the end of 1957 Skysweeper battalions remained at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, to protect the Soo Locks (one battalion), Savannah River Site (two), and one 90mm and two Skysweeper battalions at Thule Air Base, Greenland (all were removed by 1959).

St. Ignace, Michigan

The Americans and British-Canadians operated a larger trading center at Sault Ste. Marie, on both sides of the northern border, until the decline of the fur trade in the 1830s.

Steelback

Steelback Centre, former name of the Essar Centre, a sports and entertainment facility located in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario


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