In this edition of Remember This, we look back at a bi-national bid to have the newly-formed United Nations headequartered in our backyard
After the Second World War, the decision was made at a conference in San Francisco on June 26, 1945, to replace the League of Nations with a new organization called the United Nations. One of the first decisions that needed to be made was where the headquarters of this new organization would be located.
The mayors of both cities, Maurice Hunt, of Sault, Mich., and William J. McMeeken, of Sault, Ont., along with the councils in the twin cities put their full support behind the bid. In a cable to the selection committee, Mayor Hunt wrote: “We offer 33,000 acres, an entire island in the St. Mary’s River, halfway on the 4,000 mile unfortified frontier of Canada and the United States.”
The twin Soos had a strong backer for their proposal in Justice Frank Murphy of the United States Supreme Court, who was also a former governor of Michigan. Murphy was asked to present the proposal to the selection committee in London, which also included changing the name of the Island from Sugar Island to International Island. However, Sugar Island was not the only Canadian-American border placing a bid; others included a Maine-New Brunswick site and Navy Island at Niagara Falls.
With an American location now guaranteed, it made Sugar Island’s bid even more real. Unfortunately, Sugar Island’s bid to become the United Nations Headquarters was eliminated from consideration. In a Sault Star article from Jan.
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