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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Welland Canal

A major bottleneck is the closed Welland Canal in Ontario.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 26, 2023

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

From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2016

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

But the formal U. S. indictment charging Franz von Papen with fomenting sabotage and attempts to blow up Canada's Welland Canal was quashed early this year, along with a batch of other Wartime indictments.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Welland Canal to be stopped immediately, and Colonel By to be recalled from the Rideau Canal.

From Toronto of Old by Henry Scadding

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