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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

The Welland Canal is at present being improved by Canada.

From Time Magazine Archive

Page 118 Of the three attempts at sabotage in Canada the Welland Canal affair caused at the time the greatest sensation in New York.

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

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