Tourism

Entrepreneur Jim Hilsinger would never have guessed that when he opened Algoma Water Tower Inn in Sault Ste. Marie 35 years ago that it would grow to become one of the city's leading hotels.

A total of 37 boats took part on the sixth annual Mackinac to Manitoulin International Yacht Race, July 23-25.

Flying fighter jets over Europe during World War II, Richard Arthur Watson could not have known that his idea for Pine Portage Lodge, 150 kilometres north of Wawa, would still be thriving nearly 60 years later.

Efforts to promote tourism in the City of Temiskaming Shores are getting a boost from a local developer on the verge of building a $9-million Holiday Inn Express & Suites.

Great Lakes cruise ships are making another comeback in Thunder Bay. The luxury yacht Clelia II made its inaugural visit to the Lakehead city, July 3, the first of 11 scheduled stops this summer.

The revitalization of Sault Ste. Marie's Agawa Canyon tour train with new locomotives and passenger coaches is being hailed by the city's tourism czar as a “renaissance” for the local hospitality sector.

Patricia Mills, Publisher Northern Ontario Business and Jim Cronin, Director of Community and Public Relations ( OLG ).

Former Ontario cabinet Greg Sorbara was in Sault Ste. Marie March 17 to discuss ways to boost the region's sagging tourism industry.

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An unmistakeable glint shines in Marc Lafrance's eye as he tells how his grandfather, Adelaird, would make the arduous trek up the Pagwa River during the First World War to purchase raw furs in Fort Albany.