River Sainte-Marie (Michigan-Ontario)
The river Sainte-Marie ( St Marys To rivet in English) comes from the lake Supérieur, starting at the end of Whitefish Bay and running 120 kilometers (74.5 miles) of south-east in the Lake Huron. For its whole length it is an international border, separating the Michigan with the the United States from Ontario to the Canada.
The most important field along the river are the rapids and the twin cities of Sault co. Marie (Ontario) and of Sault co. Marie (Michigan). To allow boats to travel of lake Higher than Lake Huron, the Écluses of Sault were built.
Before arrived of Europeans, the Amerindians fished, traded, and maintained a bearing around the rapids. The French explorer Etienne Brûlé was the first European to travel to the top of the rapids approximately 1621. In 1641, priests Jesuits Isaac Jogues and Charles Raymbault made the same route as Brûlé finding much the Ojibwé to the rapids and called it Sault co. Marie .
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