¹ The saga of the Welland Canals’ construction may be said to have begun with Merritt as a twenty-year-old. On a summer night in 1812 a lonely rider patrolled the west bank of the Niagara River, which ...
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It was an ambitious project and one predicted to be unsuccessful — a canal forged out of Niagara’s natural waterways, bridging the Niagara Escarpment by linking lakes Erie and Ontario.
The Welland Canal, running between Lake Ontario and Lake Erie, will close Jan. 7, which has typically been the case since 2019, when a canal “optimization program” was started. Historically ...
ST. CATHARINES, Wednesday, Dec. 13. The Welland Canal is still free of ice. There is no detention of vessels. The canal will close on Friday next. Advertisement ...
A stoplog is lowered into the Welland Canal between the Mellanby Avenue Bridge and Lock 8 in Port Colborne on the weekend.
Detectives are still looking for 31-year-old Derek Gibbs from Port Colborne who has been missing since Dec. 16, 2024.