Pending a last-minute miracle, the local YMCA is shutting down after 125 years. We take a trip down memory lane, exploring how a Christian boys club became a city institution
It would take two hands to count the number of generations who have walked through the doors of the YMCA in Sault Ste. Marie.
On New Year’s Day in 1901, a public meeting was held and the first fundraising began, generating $85 to equip the boarding rooms in a building on the south side of Queen Street, near Spring Street. The next year, the Y purchased two pieces of property at 123 March Street, where the Soo Centre is located today.
Women were still excluded from the facility until November 1914, when they gained limited access. They had to wait another year to be allowed full use of the facilities. Construction began the following year, and the new location opened its doors in September of 1965. Since then, a number of large additions and renovations to the YMCA have taken place.
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