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Rideau Canal. The Rideau Canal is a 202-kilometre long [1] canal that links the Ottawa River at Ottawa with the Cataraqui River and Lake Ontario at Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Its 46 locks raise boats from the Ottawa River 83 metres upstream along the Rideau River to the Rideau Lakes, and from there drop 50 metres downstream along the Cataraqui ...
Coal: 63,616 long tons (64,637 t) MV Paul R. Tregurtha is a Great Lakes -based bulk carrier freighter. She is the current Queen of the Lakes, an unofficial but widely recognized title given to the longest vessel active on the Great Lakes. [1] Launched as MV William J. De Lancey, she was the last of the thirteen "thousand footers" to enter ...
Since 1786, members of the Canadian royal family have visited Canada, [1] either as an official tour, a working tour, a vacation, or a period of military service. The first member to visit was the future King William IV in 1786. In 1939, King George VI became the first reigning monarch to tour the country.
SS Keewatin is a former Canadian Pacific passenger liner. Built in Scotland in 1907, the boat steamed between Fort William and Port McNicoll for over 50 years until she was sold for scrap in 1967. Saved from the wrecker's torch, Keewatin was towed to Saugatuck, Michigan for use as a museum in 1968.
A ferry from Hudson takes cars across the lake (a widening of the Ottawa River) to the village of Oka. Hudson has been compared to culturally and demographically similar Quebec towns such as the Eastern Townships villages of North Hatley and Brome Lake as well as nearby Senneville. All four municipalities border a body of water (used ...
The Ottawa River drains into the Lake of Two Mountains and the St. Lawrence River at Montreal. The river is 1,271 km (790 mi) long; it drains an area of 146,300 km 2 (56,500 sq mi), 65 per cent in Quebec and the rest in Ontario, with a mean discharge of 1,950 m 3 /s (69,000 cu ft/s). [ 1 ]
Ottawa is situated on the south bank of the Ottawa River and contains the mouths of the Rideau River and Rideau Canal. [159] The Rideau Canal (Rideau Waterway) first opened in 1832 and is 202 km (126 mi) long. [160] It connects the Saint Lawrence River on Lake Ontario at Kingston to the Ottawa River near Parliament Hill.
Ottawa Central Railway (formerly Canadian National Railway - rail removed but structure still there) 45°36′48″N 76°40′17″W / 45.6134°N 76.6714°W / 45.6134; -76 Pont Des Allumettes Bridge