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Canal Days is a marine heritage festival held in Port Colborne, Ontario, Canada. The festival has been held annually since it was started in 1979 by the Port Colborne Historical & Marine Museum. Port Colborne is located on the north-east shore of Lake Erie, on the southern portion of the Niagara Peninsula, and is about 30 minutes drive from the ...
Port Colborne is a city in Ontario, Canada that is located on Lake Erie, at the southern end of the Welland Canal, in the Niagara Region of Southern Ontario.The original settlement, known as Gravelly Bay, dates from 1832 [7] and was renamed after Sir John Colborne, a British war hero and the Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada at the time of the opening of the (new) southern terminus of the ...
Lake Ontario: Port Weller: Port Dalhousie ... Lock #8 at Port Colborne: 39.3. Lake Erie: 43.5. This is a route-map template for the Welland Canal, a waterway in ...
Canal Days (August Civic Holiday Weekend - Port Colborne) Carassauga (May - Mississauga) ... Map all coordinates in "Category: ...
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 Port Colborne on Lake Erie, and was erected because the Niagara River—the only natural waterway connecting the lakes—was unnavigable due to ...
The Welland Canal as originally planned. The present-day canal is marked in pale grey. On November 30, 1824, approximately 200 people gathered near Allanburg to witness the sod-turning for the construction. Soon, contracts for the work were let out, but the actual construction didn't start until July 1825.
Port Colborne, Ontario: Mellanby Avenue formerly RR 503, Welland Street former part of RR 68 (South) ... (Ontario Street), plus Canal Bank Street & Kingsway from RR ...
The Welland By-pass, completed in 1973, was a massive construction project on the Welland Canal in Ontario, Canada. A new channel 13.4 km (8.3 mi) long was constructed, providing a shorter, more direct alignment between Port Robinson and Port Colborne and by-passing downtown Welland .