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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1K6E_the-lachine-canal_Montreal-Quebec.html
English: The Lachine Canal, built between 1821 and 1825 and enlarged in the 1840s and 1870s, was the first in a network of canals on the St. Lawrence River that linked the Atlantic to the Great Lakes. A symbol of the modernization of transportati…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1K6D_an-upstream-battle_Montreal-Quebec.html
English: In the early 19th century, navigators could avoid the rapids between Lake St. Louis and Lake St. François by using a number of small canals built by the military around 1780. Nothing of the sort allowed navigators to bypass the Lachine…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1K6C_growing-with-the-times_Montreal-Quebec.html
English: This lock provides evidence of the first canal enlargement, which doubled the dimensions of the waterway and locks. Reduced from seven to five, the new locks were built parallel to the old. this one was used for navigation until 1926, t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1K6A_montreals-founders-and-first-colonists-monument_Montreal-Quebec.html
This obelisk honors the founders and first colonists of the City of Montréal. There are four panels at the base of the monument. Panel 1: Le XVIII Mai MDCCCXCIII Ce monument a été erige par La Société…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JXD_a-wonderful-new-addition_Montreal-Quebec.html
English: This little branch is all that remains of the first canal of 1825. The low stone walls were added in the 1930s. The lock stood under your feet. The canal subsequently followed the current route to the port of Montreal, located 13.5 kilom…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JX3_full-steam-ahead_Montreal-Quebec.html
English: Barely 20 years after its opening, the canal was no longer up to the task, unable to accommodate larger ships. It was widened for the first time in 1843 to 1848 in one of a series of large-scale projects ordered by the Colonial Office of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JX0_the-hudsons-bay-company-in-lachine_Montreal-Quebec.html
English: In 1826, five years after the merger with its great Montréal rival, the North West Company, the Hudson's Bay Company set up its headquarters in Lachine. Activities connected with the fur trade, however, would never again reach …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JWZ_cartier-residences_Montreal-Quebec.html
English: These two semi-detached houses were constructed about 1837, and each served as the home of one of Canada's most distinguished statesmen, Sir George-Étienne Cartier (1814-1873), who occupied the east home from 1848 until 1855, and the we…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JWV_lachine-gateway-to-the-northwest_Montreal-Quebec.html
English: The St. Lawrence River's Sault-Saint-Louis rapids constitued (sic) an impassable barrier. Until a canal was built, canoes and bateaux had to set out from Lachine to... · explore the west of the country, · conduct…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JWT_kondiaronk-and-calliere_Montreal-Quebec.html
English: Kondiaronk, Grand Chief of the Wyandots of Michilimakinac, played a determining role in the negotiations of the Great Peace due to both his influence with the other First Nations chiefs and the respect that he had among the French. His …
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