Welland Canal
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
The first Welland Canal was dug between Lake Erie and Ontario in 1829.
From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2016
Originally an ocean fish, the alewife could not penetrate very far into the Great Lakes until the 1930s, when rebuilding of the Welland Canal provided it with a convenient bypass around Niagara Falls.
From Time Magazine Archive
"You're dead swell, but the last time I saw you, you were covered with mud, carrying a stern line ashore in the Welland Canal."
From The Grain Ship by Robertson, Morgan
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