THE STORY OF SAULT STE. MARIE and CHIPPEWA COUNTY
by
Stanley Newton
Published at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan
1923
The Sault News Printing Company
~Transcribed for this site by V.L. Quick and Ronnie Aungst~


 Opening Page:
THE LAND OF THE NORTH.
There is a glamor in thy singing pines,
There is a glint upon thy hardy flowers,
A lusty beauty in the forest vines
Proclaims the magic of thy sunny hours;
Thou subtle North! where diverse spells beguile
And land and lake conspire to tease the eye,
So it might rove from witching wile to wile,
From hill to wave, from stream to sapphire sky;
Bring to this pageant all the glorious past,
Blend with these charms tradition's rosy glow;
Cherish thy gallants, heroes first to last, --
It is thy richer crown, the lore of long ago!

                                                       CONTENTS

Bowating in Immemorial Times pp. 1-38

Le Saut de Gaston---The Seventeenth Century pp. 38-78 Le Saut de Sainte Marie---The Eighteenth Century pp. 79-98 Sault Ste. Marie--The Nineteenth Century pp. 99-175 "The Soo"---The Twentieth Century pp. 176-199

  Closing Page:

THE SOO LOCKS AT EVENING.
I like the locks at evening best,
When suns grow golden in the west
And linger on their outward quest.
The searching suns, who scan the sphere,
Nor match from swinging year to year
The loveliness unfolded here,
They linger, as if loath to sink
Beyond old Gitchi Gumi's brink.
When they grow golden-pink and white,
Halting the squadrons of the night,
They ring the clouds with chrysolite,
And crown these roofless channeled halls
Whose guests are ships, these gates and walls,
A field for fairy festivals.
When suns grow golden in the west,
I love the locks at evening best.

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