Niagara Escarpment
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The Niagara Escarpment is an approximately 1,050-kilometre-long discontinuous, arc-shaped, but generally northward-facing escarpment, or cuesta, in Canada and the United States. The escarpment begins
Rattlesnake Point near Milton, Ontario
The Niagara River has carved the Niagara Gorge through the Niagara Escarpment over thousands of years.
Niagara Escarpment in Grimsby, Ontario, from about 1060 metres (3,500 feet) above sea level
A section of escarpment cliff, seen from the Bruce Trail in Ontario
Welland Canal
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The Welland Canal is a ship canal in Ontario, Canada, and part of the St. Lawrence Seaway and Great Lakes Waterway. The canal traverses the Niagara Peninsula between Port Weller on Lake Ontario and Po
Niagara Escarpment
…the Erie Canal in New York and was traversed by a series of locks; the community which grew up at the site thus became known as Lockport, New York. The Welland Canal allows ships to traverse the escarpment between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario on the Niagara Peninsula of Ontario. The canal also allowed Sea Lamprey, an…
A ship in Lock 3 of the Welland Canal in St. Catharines, just south of the Homer Lift Bridge and Garden City Skyway
A lock of the second Welland Canal
Aerial photo of Port Dalhousie from the third canal era. 3rd canal lock at left, 2nd canal lock at right. Note 3rd canal towpath at upper left and Muir brothers' ship yard centre right.
Abandoned locks of the third canal