Soo Canals

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plural noun

the Soo Canals
the two ship canals linking Lakes Superior and Huron. There is a canal on the Canadian and on the US side of the rapids of the St Mary's River See also Sault Sainte Marie

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The annual flow of tonnage through the "Soo" canals is several times that through the Panama, and includes, besides iron, coal and wheat, a miscellany containing among other things thousands of automobiles and a large percentage of the butter and eggs with which the East is fed.

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Nowhere in the world is there such a spectacle of maritime activity, nowhere such a continuous procession of busy cargo-ships as in the Detroit River, and through the colossal locks of the "Soo" canals.

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