(Aug 2008)
Summer season.... Trip to Sault Saint Marie, Ontario
Day 1
Day 2
Canyon Floor
Train descends over 500ft/152.4m in 12 miles to reach the Canyon Floor.
The granitic bedrock underlying this area, formed 2.5 billion years ago,
is amongst the oldest rock in the world. Agawa Canyon was created through faulting which occurred 1.2 billion years ago.
A series of ice ages subsequently abraded and altered the Canyon over a period of 1.5 million years
with the last ice cover retreating about 10,000 years ago.
These ice sheets, over one mile thick, widened the Canyon walls and deposited sediments on the Canyon floor -
creating the present terraced surface above the Agawa River nand below the canyon walls.
(Reference: Sault Ste. Marie Visitors Guide 2008: Publication produced by Tourism Sault Saint)
Day 3
(Aug 2008)
Trip to Sault Saint Marie, Ontario. Link: Sault Saint Marie Tourism