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The St. Lawrence Seaway Unveils New Figures That Demonstrate Its Resilience, Predictability and Sustainability. Seaway Visitor Center at Eisenhower Lock to Transition to Off-season Hours After Labor Day. Great Lakes Seaway Announces Port Winners of 2023 Season “Pacesetter Award”.
The St. Lawrence Seaway (French: la Voie Maritime du Saint-Laurent) is a system of locks, canals, and channels in Canada and the United States that permits oceangoing vessels to travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes of North America, as far inland as Duluth, Minnesota, at the western end of Lake Superior.
The Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway is a deep draft waterway extending 3,700 km (2,340 miles) from the Atlantic Ocean to the head of the Great Lakes, in the heart of North America. The St. Lawrence Seaway portion of the System extends from Montreal to mid-Lake Erie.
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St. Lawrence Seaway, continuous navigable deep waterway project from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes, undertaken jointly by Canada and the United States and completed in 1959. The St. Lawrence Seaway opened North America’s industrial and agricultural heartlands to deep-draft ocean vessels.
The binational St. Lawrence Seaway’s 15 locks (13 Canadian and 2 American) serve as the linchpin within the broader waterway, connecting the lower St. Lawrence River to the Great Lakes, enabling ships to transit between Montreal and Lake Erie, a difference in elevation of 168 metres.
The Seaway Visitor Center at Eisenhower Lock, located just off Route 37 in Massena, New York, has served as a major tourist attraction for St. Lawrence County residents and tourists since 1961, drawing in over 100,000 people every year.
The St Lawrence Seaway (Great Lakes Waterway) is the system of locks, canals and channels linking the Great Lakes and the St Lawrence River with the Atlantic Ocean. The construction of progressively larger canals along the St Lawrence River began as early as 1783.
The opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway in 1959 saw the fulfillment of a project that had been envisaged from the times of the earliest settlements in Canada. A waterway from the Atlantic to the Great Lakes was the obvious route for opening up the interior of North America, but various natural