Welland Canal

British

/ ˈwɛlənd /

noun

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)

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A major bottleneck is the closed Welland Canal in Ontario.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 26, 2023

Then I caught a cab to an older world in Port Colborne at the opposite end of the Welland Canal.

From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2016

The first Welland Canal was dug between Lake Erie and Ontario in 1829.

From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2016

Others have been discouraged by erratic shipping schedules and time-consuming accidents and stoppages, notably in the Welland Canal, which is the Seaway's Scylla and Charybdis.

From Time Magazine Archive

The first information that I had about the attempt on the Welland Canal was the report of the proceedings against Captain Tauscher.

From My Three Years in America by Bernstorff, Johann Heinrich Andreas Hermann Albrecht Graf von

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