Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan ("rapids" in French). In 1668, French missionaries Claude Dablon and Jacques Marquette founded a Jesuit mission at this site. Sault Ste. Marie developed as the fourth-oldest European city in the United States west of the Appalachian Mountains, and the oldest permanent settlement in contemporary Michigan state. On June 4, 1671, Simon-François Daumont de Saint-Lusson, a colonial agent, was dispatched from Quebec to the distant tribes, proposing a congress of Indian nations at the Falls of St. Mary between Lake Huron and Lake Superior. Trader Nicolas Perrot helped attract the principal chiefs, and representatives of 14 Indigenous nations were invited for
Sault Ste. Marie City Council and across the province: Council elected in the 2006 municipal election: Council elected in the 2010 municipal election: Council elected in the 2014 municipal election: The 2018-2022 Council is the first term of the Sault Ste. Marie City Council with 10 Councillors representing five wards. The Council was elected in the 2018 municipal election: The youngest city councillor in Sault Ste. Marie history is Robert Gernon, who was elected in 1976 in Ward 6 at the age of 25. Gernon served two terms on council. The oldest city councillor in Sault Ste. Marie's history is Frank Manzo, whose last term