The North Channel and St. Mary's River: A Guide to the History

About this book

For centuries Lake Hurons North Channel and St. Marys River have provided an essential passageway first for native peoples and then for successive waves of Europeans. The footprints of Indians explorers missionaries and fur traders soldiers and settlers entrepreneurs and scoundrels are ever visible. Brimming with stories folklore and eccentric frontier characters the book pulls you along on an engaging journey of discovery stretching from the ancient quartzite hills of La Cloche west along Manitoulin Island and the North Channel to the St. Marys River and the two Saults. Includes over 125 sites maps and archival photographs.