Victor Arthur Desjardins was an American ice hockey player. He played 87 games in the National Hockey League with the Chicago Black Hawks and New York Rangers during the 1930–31 and 1931–32 seasons. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1919 to 1938, was spent in various minor leagues. He was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in 1974. He was born in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan and was the nephew of Hockey Hall of Fame inductee Didier Pitre.
Vic Desjardins
Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan
Sault Ste. Marie is a city in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. It is the county seat of Chippewa County and is the only city within the county. With a population of 13,337 at the 2020 census, it is the second-most populated city in the Upper Peninsula, behind Marquette. It is the primary city of the Sault Ste. Marie, MI Micropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all of Chippewa County and had a population of 36,785 at the 2020 census. Sault Ste. Marie was settled by mostly French colonists in 1668, making it the oldest city in Michigan.
View of Sault Ste. Marie from the Canadian side of the St. Marys River
After being replaced, the Old Federal Building was used by the city for the River of History Museum. It has been renovated for use as the City Hall. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Satellite image from June 2007.
Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan Saint Marys Falls Hydropower Plant generation station.