Lachine Canal

An early 19th-century canal, 14 kilometres in length, built to circumvent white water on the St. Lawrence River; the head of a canal network linking the Great Lakes and the interior of the continent to the Atlantic Ocean.

The Lachine Canal became unproductive when the St. Lawrence Seaway opened up. The last of the industries still using the Canal system ended in 1970. The Canal reopened but now as a place of leisure and pleasure. In 2002 leisure boats were now able to dock in the canal. In 1977 a bike path was created that ran along the entire canal.

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