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
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
Erie Canal
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The Erie Canal is a historic canal in upstate New York that runs east–west between the Hudson River and Lake Erie. Completed in 1825, the canal was the first navigable waterway connecting the Atlantic
Welland Canal
…compared with the 40 locks of the First Canal. The Welland Canal eclipsed other, narrower canals in the region, such as the Trent-Severn Waterway and the Erie Canal (which linked the Atlantic and Lake Erie via New York City and Buffalo, New York), by providing a shorter, more direct connection from Port Colborne…
The Erie Canal in North Tonawanda, NY
The Mohawk Valley, running east and west, cuts a natural path between the Catskill Mountains to the south and the Adirondack Mountains to the north.
Portrait of DeWitt Clinton by Rembrandt Peale, 1823. Clinton was Governor of New York and a champion of the canal
Profile of the original canal