Francis Hector Clergue (1856-1939), a native of Maine, arrived in Sault Ste. Marie in 1894 to develop a hydroelectricity plant and stayed to create what remains the industrial infrastructure of the city. Photograph: Archives of Ontario

The Clergue family maintained a summer home on an island at Michipicoten Harbour. A cable car (not visible in this photograph) connected the island with the mainland. Photograph: Sault Ste. Marie Public Library.