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- Lachine Canal
- 1 Fig. 4 Sailing Vessels in Lachine Canal, about 1880
- 2 and at other times towed and rowed through the Lachine channel. At Cascades Point about three quarters of the
- 3 was started on the enlargement of the existing Lachine canal to the new dimensions, three of the old lower
- 4 the volume of westbound cargoes through the Lachine canal.
- 5 draft. This involved major reconstruction of the Lachine Canal, especially at the lower end, where new locks
- 6 section being a little wider and longer than the Lachine and Cornwall - Lachine and Williamsburg
- 7 cold and serious ice jams occurred in the Lachine canal, with the result that a few days before the
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This paper was presented at a meeting of the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers and is reproduced with permission.
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