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Welland Canal

British  
/ ˈwɛlənd /

noun

  1. Also called: Welland Ship Canal.  a canal in S Canada, in Ontario, linking Lake Erie to Lake Ontario: part of the St Lawrence Seaway, with eight locks. Length: 44 km (28 miles)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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A major bottleneck is the closed Welland Canal in Ontario.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 26, 2023

I grew up in St. Catharines, where there are all these leftover bits of the Welland Canal — the canal went through four different routes through time.

From New York Times • Aug. 6, 2022

By the time I woke up the next morning, the Equinox had finished unloading, crossed Lake Ontario and cleared two locks in the Welland Canal — an engineering marvel that circumvents Niagara Falls.

From New York Times • Aug. 19, 2016

He built tunnels for railroads in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia, then went to Canada as concrete boss of the famous $130,000,000 Welland Canal.

From Time Magazine Archive

The oration on the above interesting occasion was delivered by the late Hon. William H. Merritt, projector of the Welland Canal.

From Poems of James McIntyre by McIntyre, James

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