Ermatinger House
1814
Text from the plaque
This house, built between 1814 and 1823 by Charles Ermatinger of the North West Company, is the oldest surviving house in northwestern Ontario. Constructed when Sault Ste. Marie was still a small fur trading post on the Upper Lakes, this fine house soon became the centre of the district's business and social life, and was noted by such visitors as Lord Selkirk, Anna Jameson, Sir John Richardson, Paul Kane and George Catlin.
Transcribed from the marker, not summarised.
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The District of Algoma
The City of Sault Ste. Marie
On a stone cairn on St. Thomas Street
just west of Pim Street south of Queen Street East
N 46 30.349 W 84 19.499
Recorded October 2011. Check current access before visiting.
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