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Desjardins Canal

1   noted that high water had delayed work on the Desjardins Canal, but construction was now under way. It was

2   1837, was a gala day in Dundas. At long last the Desjardins Canal was officially opened "in great pomp and parade",

3   be interesting to note that navigation on the Desjardins Canal opened on 3 April and closed on 23 November 1844.

4   dredging and piling the proposed channel for the Desjardins Canal, through Burlington

5   there was no happy ending. Sam was killed in the Desjardins Canal train wreck, the steamer ZIMMERMAN went up in a

6   shocked by the news of the train wreck at the Desjardins Canal Bridge. The passenger train was a local from Toronto,

7   reported that: "The new bridge over the Desjardins Canal is to be finished by next Saturday week. The

8   22 March 1860 reported the testing of the new Desjardins Canal Swing Bridge, as follows: "Yesterday morning, the

9   steamer ARGYLE berthed in the Canal Basin at Dundas Photo: Author's collectionAnother

10   after the drowning of four young people in the Desjardins Canal on the evening of 13 June. The steamer ARGYLE,

11   report on the traffic on the Desjardins Canal for the year 1867, lists the following

12   interested parties were invited to attend. The Desjardins Canal was in the news again, this time on the 14 April,

13   started a rumour that the shaky bridge over the Desjardins Canal was about to be demolished, causing the officials

14   propeller HER MAJESTY in the Canal Basin at Dundas in 1868 when the Dundas Foundry ws

15   of men and teams engaged in filling the original Desjardins Canal (Beasley's Creek) at the trestle bridge carrying

16   the 23 April and was busy moving timber from the Desjardins Canal to the G. W. Ry. wharves for

17   little steam launch ALFIE in the Canal Basin at Dundas. Photo: Author's Collection The fact

18   to the west end of the harbour to clean out the Desjardins Canal, which proved to be so silted-up that the dredge

19   one casting still aboard, was found near the Desjardins Canal entrance. One oar was in the skiff and the other

20   to build the T. H. & B. Ry. bridge over the Desjardins Canal, had a scow on the job with three boilers and

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