OHP - Niagara - St. Catharines - "The First Welland Canal"
N 43° 09.677 W 079° 14.124
17T E 643454 N 4780236
This plaque is about the waterway that started everything in St. Catharines
Waymark Code: WM8QP
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 03/11/2006
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Although the idea of a canal to bypass the Falls had been broached on several earlier occasions, the first active steps towards the construction of a canal were made under the inspired leadership of the Hon. Wm. Hamilton Merritt, who was convinced that by using the Twelve Mile Creek basin, a canal could be dug to join Lake Ontario to Chippawa Creek, now called Welland River. Vessels could then pass easily down the Chippawa into the Niagara River at a point about two and one-half miles above the Falls and thence to Lake Erie.
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Location of Plaque: This plaque is
The Blue Quasar