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Visitors at a Sault Ste. Marie
train station, awaiting the
Agawa Canyon Tour Train

Visitors are drawn to Sault Ste. Fort William Historical Park, Goderich possesses two
Marie’s main tourist attraction, a replica of the old fur-trading excellent museums. The first,
the Agawa Canyon Tour post, with costumed traders, the Huron County Museum
Train, which offers day-long French explorers, and First houses a large collection of
rail tours from the city into the Nations peoples. Fort William antique farm implements,
surrounding wilder ness. The was amalgamated with the as well as a military gallery,
train weaves north through adjacent town of Port Arthur steam-driven thresher, and
dense forest and over yawn- to form Thunder Bay in 1970. a recon struction of a 19th-
ing ravines to reach the century town street. The
spectacular scenery of Agawa Fort William Historical Huron Historic Gaol National
Canyon, where there is a Park Historic Site, built between
90-minute break for lunch. " '-= ⌂ 1350 King Rd 1839 and 1842, is a preserved
# Mid-May–mid-Sep: 10am– Victorian prison. Fascinating
Agawa Canyon Tour Train 5pm daily ∑ fwhp.ca tours are available of its dank
" ⌂ 129 Bay St # Mid-Jun– cells, the jailers’ rooms, and
mid-Oct: once daily ∑ agawa the governor’s house.
train.com
30 Huron County Museum
Goderich " ⌂ 110 North St # Times
29 ~ n 91 Hamilton St; www. vary, check website ∑ huron
countymuseum.ca
Thunder Bay goderich.ca
Goderich is a charming town Huron Historic Gaol
k ~ @ n Terry Fox National Historic Site
Information Centre, Hwy overlooking Lake Huron at the
11/17 E; www.visit­ mouth of the Maitland River. " ⌂ 181 Victoria St N
thunderbay.com It was founded by the British- § (519) 524 6971 # May–
owned Canada Company in Aug: 10am–4:30pm Mon–Sat,
On the northern shore of 1825, which had persuaded 1–4:30pm Sun; Sep & Oct:
Lake Superior, Thunder Bay is the Ontario government to 1–4pm Mon–Fri, 10am–
Canada’s third-largest fresh- part with 2.5 million acres 4:30pm Sat, 1–4:30pm Sun
water port, with its massive (1 million ha) of fertile land in
grain elevators dominat ing the their province for just 12 cents
city’s waterfront. Grain is an acre, a bargain of such HIDDEN GEM
brought here from the prairies proportions that there was Stone Hunt
farther west, before being talk of corrup tion. Eager to There are several
shipped to the rest of the attract settlers, the company open-pit amethyst
world via the Great Lakes. built the Huron Road from mines around Thunder
The town was originally Cambridge to Goderich. Bay that allow you
established as a French The town’s main streets to look for your own
trading post in 1679. These radiate out from the octagon- purple gems for a fee.
early days are celebrated at shaped center.
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