"Since the first Sault Ste. Marie locks opened in 1855, that "giant step" from Lake Huron to Lake Superior past the roaring rapids of the St. Mary's has been a prime sightseeing attraction. From the 1880's on, thousands of tourists and transcontinental travelers saw the locks from the decks of Canadian Pacific Great Lakes liners, plying between Port McNichol on Georgian Bay and the Canadian Lakehead at Fort William, Ontario. The Assiniboia, one of the two steamers on the route today, is a historical phenomenon in her own right. Though designed on Great Lakes lines, with the "engines-aft" silhouette of most screw-propelled lake vessels, she was built in Scotland. She and her sister Keewatin crossed the Atlantic over half a century ago and were cut in half at Montreal to pass through the small locks of the pre-Seaway canals. Reassembled on fresh water, they have plied the lakes ever since."

PHOTO BY EDWARD O. CLARK

Card #30. Description on back. Measures approximately 5-3/4 x 3-1/2 inches.

Minor corner tip wear. Very shallow pressure crease at center of left edge and near center of bottom edge.