St. Lawrence Seaway

American  

noun

1. a series of channels, locks, and canals between Montreal and the mouth of Lake Ontario, a distance of 182 miles (293 km), enabling most deep-draft vessels to travel from the Atlantic Ocean, up the St. Lawrence River, to all the Great Lakes ports: developed jointly by the U.S. and Canada.

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St. Lawrence Seaway

Around 360 workers in Ontario and Quebec with Unifor, Canada’s largest private-sector union, walked out early Sunday in a dispute over wages with the St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corp.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 26, 2023

Workers at St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corp have decided to go on strike on Sunday after failing to reach an agreement on wages, the Canadian labor union Unifor said.

From Reuters ● Oct. 23, 2023

Its cobblestone streets and French architecture make Old Montreal, the original settlement on the St. Lawrence Seaway, compelling.

From New York Times ● Sep. 27, 2018

This summer, the 261-foot oceanographic research vessel will make its way from the Great Lakes to the Pacific via the St. Lawrence Seaway and the Panama Canal, stopping for testing and research along the way.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 22, 2014

Once again he was excited about the completion of the St. Lawrence Seaway, and he stopped referring to me altogether because I hadn’t been born.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides