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Gallop Canal c1890 – ” Clearing a channel of a sunken hulk”<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. As \u00a0youth, the news of creation of the St Lawrence Seaway was big news. As usual, the USA declined to pay for construction or host part of the project, but happily made use of the Seaway once completed. The idea was to open ALL the upper great lakes to the ocean for larger vessels. \u00a0The Seaway was built entirely in Canada with towns moved as necessary.<\/p>\n

What I didn’t know was that this was all done over century earlier with the Lachine<\/a> canal in Montreal and the Welland<\/a> [one time home of \u00a0founder, photographer and president, Larry Boccioletti] \u00a0and Galop<\/a> canals in Ontario opening the upper great lakes to Montreal and eventually the ocean.<\/p>\n

The late Bob Wilson wrote a brief illustrated article for issue 25-5 titled “Upper Entrance Work Galop(s) Canal… 1889-1897”. Bob’s brief text is printed here: “The original series of locks which\u00a0allowed ships to travel from Montreal\u00a0to the Upper Great Lakes were built\u00a0over a period of 26 years, commencing after 1825 when the original\u00a0Lachine Canal was completed, and\u00a0ending in 1851 when the Iroquois-Galop lock was finished.<\/p>\n

“As soon as the system was in\u00a0operation, it became obvious that it\u00a0needed to be expanded, so over the\u00a0next fifty years the entire system was\u00a0upgraded. These photographs show\u00a0the construction activities on one of\u00a0the lock sites – the upper entrance to\u00a0the Galop(s) Canal, just east of Prescott, near the town of Iroquois,\u00a0on the St. Lawrence River.<\/p>\n

“These photographs are all from\u00a0one album of 47 prints. The photographer or publisher is not noted, but\u00a0presumably it was put together as a\u00a0progress report by an engineering\u00a0firm that worked on the construction.<\/p>\n

The photographs are all cyanotypes – the type of photograph that an engineering firm would use due to the ease of processing.<\/p>\n

Members viewed all Bob’s images plus other article in the issue 25-5 pdf file on the free members-only DVD\/thumb drive. See above and at right to join. Email member@phsc.ca<\/a> with any questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toronto. As \u00a0youth, the news of creation of the St Lawrence Seaway was big news. As usual, the USA declined to pay for construction or host part of the project, but happily made use of the Seaway once completed. The … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[4834,4833,4835,220],"class_list":["post-32911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-canals","tag-cyanotypes","tag-lift-locks","tag-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32911"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32917,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32911\/revisions\/32917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}