Michigan Playlist: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-X5t9afbEGIc.html Upper Peninsula Playlist: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SY72e2bXT6s.html USA Small Towns Playlist: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Dm81ynWvUsM.html Tourist Town Playlist: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-X5t9afbEGIc.html 0:00 - 1:55 Intro 1:55 - 3:28 Sault Ste. Marie History Rundown 3:28 - 10:25 Downtown Sault Ste. Marie 10:25 - 11:20 Historic Water Street 11:20 - 13:19 More downtown (Portage Avenue) 13:19 - 14:14 Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge 14:14 - 16:25 Soo Locks 16:25 - 17:05 Chippewa County Courthouse 17:05 - 18:00 Tower of History 18:00 - 18:44 SS Valley Camp 18:44 - 19:30 Saint Mary's Falls Hydro Power Plant 19:30 - 23:25 Sault Ste. Marie residential areas 23:25 - 24:58 Lake Superior State University 24:58 - 30:00 More residential areas 30:00 - 30:30 Sault Ste. Marie Area High School 30:30 - 31:46 Outskirts of town 31:46 - 32:30 Kewadin Casino 32:30 - 34:55 More outskirts of town ==================================================================== EVERYTHING THAT I USE IN THE FIELD: Main Camera: amzn.to/3iS4vvF Side Cameras: amzn.to/2WuCYIs Media Mod for Camera: amzn.to/3j7CMGF Lav Mic: amzn.to/3lsMkz9 Drone: amzn.to/3ITcKBV SD Cards: amzn.to/3C2co9O Camera Mounts: amzn.to/2UXVR6p Cables Required for Longer Recordings: amzn.to/3BYnr3Q Computer: amzn.to/3787b2j External Hard Drive: amzn.to/3lb23Tf WHAT I USE AT HOME: Computer: amzn.to/3rKIdiN Sound Mixer: amzn.to/3C15Ubx Microphone: amzn.to/2VaCjvo Microphone Accessories: amzn.to/3v7A35Z INTERACTIVE MAP that shows you all of the places that I've made videos on: (Doesn't always work on mobile devices. Will always work on PC.) www.google.com/maps/d/u/2/edit?hl=en&mid=1Lhzf04ocimPu-ROkg4cfXEYEvKMNnlI5&ll=43.06219876674538%2C-83.82163216337808&z=10 SOCIAL MEDIA & CONTACT INFO: Email: ChrisHardenYT@Gmail.com On Twitter: twitter.com/Chris_Harden55 On Instagram: instagram.com/c_harden7/?... On Facebook: facebook.com/ChrisHardenYT/ DISCLAIMER: Links included in this description might be affiliate links. If you purchase a product or service with the links that I provide I may receive a small commission. There is no additional charge to you. As an Amazon Associate I do earn a small commission on qualifying purchases. As always, thank you for supporting my channel!
Another nice fact for you: The reason Portage street is Portage street is that because before the locks were made there was still shipping that happened. What would happen in the old days is the boats would be hauled up onto land and portaged across. This would take days/weeks/months sometimes depending the size of the ship. This is why all the bars and hotels were first down on Portage street as the crews would need places to stay and drink and have fun and what not. I think this fact is overlooked when trying to discern the meaning/origin of the word 'sault'. It always seems to be either related to some form of 'jump in, jump here' as well as can refer to the rapids themselves. I think it is probably a combination of the two. The Sault, before any locks, was the best location in the area to "jump" over the rapids via portage over the land.
The next time you're up there, at 14:19 hang a right and you'll run into the West Pier Drive-In (seasonally closed in the Winter). It's a tiny hole in the wall, but it has good food, huge portions and friendly yoopers inside. We always stop by when we're in the UP. Also, at 17:47, if you hang a left you'll go into Brady Park. Over by the Credit Union, there is a small group of (pruned) Elm trees.
I was born and raised in Sault Ste. Marie( or the Soo as we call it).. It has grown quite a bit through the years, I remember it being the last place in Michigan that still only sold glass bottle pop.. I liked the video and I think most Yooper's would..
Spent a year living in the Pt Iroquois Lighthouse as caretakers. It's about 17 miles west of the Soo where we had to go weekly for groceries. Loved living in the U.P.
My understanding is that "Sault" is an archaic French term for rapids or falls and that the name originates from that rapids that flow from Lake Superior to Lake Huron. There is a town called Grand Falls in New Brunswick, Canada and it's French version is Grand-Sault.
Sault is indeed an Old French term, from the French Provençal word "saut", meaning to jump; to leap. It's ultimately derived from Latin, "saltus". See saltation, noun, "the action or process of leaping or jumping". We understand that it was used for the rapids themselves, referencing how the water leaps over the rocks! You can see the term also in the word somersault. Thus, Sault Sainte Marie roughly means "the rapids of Saint Mary". 😊
I was in the Soo visiting family just a week before this video was filmed. I always include Brimley/Bay Mills and Tahquamenon Falls/Whitefish Point/Paradise when I tell people about the Soo and things to do in the area.
Actually hydroelectric is very efficient. The power produced uses no fuel, just the difference in elevation of Lake Superior and Lake Huron to generate from falling water.
I think the part about jumping into the river, more like it the rapids made you haul out and walk around and you "jumped back into the boat" to continue on. Also you had a jumping off point to travel westward. that's why they had all the trade there, they already had everything out of the boats going around the rapids
Great job, Chris! So interesting. You are a great orator and so funny. I visited the Sault Ste. Marie a lifetime ago and obviously missed a lot. I enjoy rotating your Detroit area videos with those of Upper Michigan (and the towns across the State of Michigan). Thank you for all your research, you really put a lot of work into each of them.
The air is so crisp and fresh up there. The UP is quite a different culture from down state due to drastically more French-Canadian and Obijwe/Chippewa culture in the eastern half and the Finns pretty much influence an entire dialect in the western UP.
The power canal is no place to jump in, yes I know about the area. If you do you better be a really good swimmer. My Grandpa worked on the big ships. my Mom lived there, she lived on Easterday but the house is gone because that is where 75 is now. They used to sled on Easterday Hill. Nice long coverage of the area, well done.
Thanks for making my hometown look pleasant, and welcoming. This is really cool to hear you spout off facts about such rich history here. You should have had a Clyde's burger for the full experience. Next time you are up this way you can have one on me. Thanks for the great content.
I was stationed in the Soo in the 90's. I loved the Clyde's Burger. I forgot what it was called, but I remember it was on Riverside, I believe across from the golf course.
@@BONACCI92 there was another restaurant, I think close to the power plant on Riverside, that offered a bowl of grease on the menu. Cant remember the name of it.
Thank you Chris for explaining the Sault part lol. I swear I was wondering about that for the longest time. I wouldn’t want to go up there and say it the wrong way lol. I love it. You giving REAL travel information.
I lived on Kincheloe AFB not far from the Soo back in 1962 and 1963 and absolutely loved it. I am a rural loving person and have lived in rural North Central Florida since 1965. We, AFB kids, went to school in Rudyard and I attended Rudyard Jr. High School. The little town of Rudyard was just right for me because it had an old restaurant with booths and soda/ice cream counter. We could smell the french fries and hamburgers on a winter day and it was so inviting. I'm 74 now and some of my very best memories are of the time I spent living so close to the Soo and little Rudyard, Michigan.
You should do Grand Rapids sometime. It's going to be famous in a couple years for the Supreme Court expanding what is "lawful" police conduct, extending from an undercover police brutality incident at Leonard and Tamarack in July 2014. But right now it's much more famous and justifiably so for being known as Beer City USA and the new economic engine of Michigan.
The ski hill is called Minneapolis Woods and it is not owned by the school system, it is owned by the city. And also you said you showed pretty much the entire town but that's not true, you missed the entire west side (west of I-75) except for Meijer. Sherman Park is out that way and that's what passes for a swimming beach in the Summer in the Sault, but since the water is flowing from Lake Superior, even in the heat of August it's rarely warm enough to stay in the water for long. There's a nicer residential neighborhood adjacent to Sherman Park, and also a golf course that was built in the early 90's. You also didn't go past the airport which is right behind the (former?) K-mart, and you really didn't show much of the Sault Tribe of Chippewa Indians reservation (you drove through it but only pointed out the casino!). But your unpardonable sin was that you didn't go by Clyde's Drive-In, right on the St. Mary's River next to the Sugar Island Ferry crossing. There you can buy a burger, sit at a picnic table, and watch as a sea gull swoops down and steals it right out of your hand if you aren't careful (those gulls can be pretty aggressive!) but it is also a great place to watch the big lake freighters go by (as is an adjacent public park), they get relatively close to the shore in that area. Anyway, even though the Sault doesn't have a large population, it is quite large geographically (a good part of the area within the city limits is still totally undeveloped) so to when you said we'd seen pretty much the whole town you weren't even close to being right.
i agree, Im from Detroit area and go up to the Soo almost every year to visit family that lives there. And what you just described is the epitome Soo experience! Unfortunate he missed most of the reservation, Sherman Park area, and of course the PROPER way to watch the freighters pass by!
I'm laughing so hard every time u say PURE MICHIGAN ROAD we must have the lousiest roads in AMERICA. I'm in Ann Arbor area getting ready to move to the SOO. This was wonderful thank u.
The UP just has winters, real winters, where it snows, gets cold, and long nights. The winters in the UP and the northern lower peninsula are grand, bright sunshine, cold brisk days and beautiful scenery. With the advent of climate change, places like the Up, northern Wisconsin, northern Minnesota are going to become climate havens. With abundant fresh water, beautiful moderate summers, and less severe winters, people from the heat soaked south will look on in envy.
Chris will you be making any other videos of cities in the U.P. of Mich., like in the Keweenaw Peninsula? Marquette or Calumet for instance. Hey, just found Marquette in your U.P. playlist👍
Great video again Chris. I've always wanted to see what this area is like. Did you get the Canada side? Also, do you plan on doing Canada videos in the future? I'm curious what downtown Toronto is like if you ever travel there.
I pushed like because of the name. What you showed me makes me sad. When I was a child living in Traverse City. My mother took me north on one trip to Canada. Drove up 75. Went across the bridge. I was so scared. Brought tears to my eyes writing that. Drove through St Ignace. My sister Connie owned the gas Station as you got off the bridge. I can just imagine what society has done to that town. But just before you got to cross over there was this strange looking town. Like out of the old west. But outside of the town. There was HEAVEN. My Lord it was the greatest world I had ever seen or have seen since then. I walked through those woods like I had always been there. I just ran through the trees. I must have ran a 1/2 mile away and looked at this creek that ran through there. 3 years ago I took a DNA test. My McSauba family where brought down from Canada for the promise of a better life. When they got there. They started taking the children to Indian Boarding Schools. Little did they know the Natives were already trading with the French and Scottish on Mackinaw Island. Whe.... opps TMI?
You said its the first Michigan city. I grew up in Detroit and in Civics class we were taught that the UP was awarded to the state for them giving up Toledo, which used to be part of Michigan.
An often misconception, The Eastern UP was always part of Michigan. Wisconsin Territory was was split off from Michigan Territory. So just less went to Wisconsin in exchange for The Toledo strip
Great video and format. I enjoyed it quite thoroughly. Hydro power is much more popular in Canada with our abundance of water. in fact most Ontarians call their power bill the Hydro bill.
@@LadyAnalicia Thanks Jennifer, So sad that K Mart couldn't stay in business to keep that other mart on there toes with competition. I also wish Chris would have shown the I-500 snowmobile track.
Good informative video I’ve been there twice n it’s always cold n windy there, My dad n I would watch the soo locks when a ship was in, it takes a while 2 😂
American version of History. Both side of the river were British / Canadian, it was one community or Town. After the war of 1812 around 1814 a treaty was signed giving the area south of the river to the Americans. LOL It was the British / Canadians that were Afraid of American expansion and stealing and taking over the forts and territory. this was the period of American Expansionism and 54/ 40 in the west and the lost of British territorial claims of what became American territory and states all the way down south to Seattle.... Explains why parts of Michigan and Ontario and BC and state of Washington feel the same
after seeing the title i thought this was going to cover one of the 5k cross-country races held in town too, got to the end of the video and realize i have no idea why 5k is in the title
The corporate, cookie cutter, homogeneous restaurants and stores break my heart. Even off the beaten path, dollar stores, KFC, and subway sneaks in and makes every town the same.
Chris, you said that Sault STE MARIE is the largest city in Canada in between time 1:07 and 1:10. Toronto is the largest city in Canada. you probably said that in reference to the 2 Sault Ste Maries meaning that Sault Ste Marie in Canada is the largest.
I don't remember were but I was in some U.P. town were in some places the sidewalks were about 3 ' higher than the street to allow for winter snow buildup.
My son graduated from LSSC in 2018, the last time I was there. End of May and still snow on the ground. Glad I still had my wool suit! You've driven by so many of the places I've been. I love your videos.
Sarnia - Sar knee ahh Lol British Canadian held until 1817. First Europeans were French. Early 1600s. Wayne Gretzky played junior on the Canadian side... That casino is so much fun. Drink for dirt cheap, the only place you can smoke cigarettes along the Canadian border for 1800 km or 1100 miles.
I'm from the Ontario Soo. Sault Ste Marie is french for 'The Falls of St. Mary', both cities are located on the St Mary's river along the rapids (its more of a rapids than a waterfall). The St. Marys river is a beautiful waterway with great lakes freighter traffic. The new American lock upgrades currently going on are a massive engineering project via US Army Corp of Engineers.
Born in Sault Ste. Marie, ON and visited the area many times after moving to Ottawa a few years after I was born because I had relatives there. Loved visiting the Michigan side from time to time. Last time I was there was summer 2007 on a road trip from Calgary to Ottawa and it was quite an emotional moment. Not long after moving to Calgary, I had eye surgery to remove cataracts in the 1990's. Distance and depth was a major hindrance for me during my childhood and teenage years. To admire the view of both Soo's from the bridge was finally amazing and yet emotional once again. I love how you show the streets you travelled on in your videos. I wish I could remember where the old Woolworth's and JCPenney stores were on Ashmun in downtown but it's nice to see the old movie theatre still has their marquee in pristine condition. There are a couple of movie theatres on the Canadian side that sadly dismantled their marquees. I wonder if that casino was where KISS performed back in July of 2007?
I think your history is wrong. 1817 was the year when the Americans invaded and took the south side of the river, which belonged to Canada. No declaration of war.
