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The text related to the cultural heritage 'Rideau Canal' has mentioned 'Canal' in the following places:
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| Canal in Canada | WIKI |
| Rideau CanalNative names English: Rideau Canal French: Canal RideauThe Ottawa Locks at Colonel By ValleyAreaOntarioLength202xc2xa0km (126xc2xa0mi)Built1832ArchitectJohn ByGoverning bodyParks Canada UNESCO World Heritage SiteTypeCulturalCriteriai, ivDesignated2007 (31st session)Referencexc2xa0no.1221State PartyCanadaRegionNorth America National Historic Site of CanadaDesignated1925 | WIKI |
| [2] The canal system uses sections of two rivers, the Rideau and the Cataraqui, as well as several lakes. | WIKI |
| The canal was opened in 1832 as a precaution in case of war with the United States. | WIKI |
| [3][4] It is the oldest continuously operated canal system in North America. | WIKI |
| To ensure safe passage between Montreal and Kingston, a new route was planned that would proceed westward from Montreal along the St. Lawrence, north along the Ottawa River to Bytown (now Ottawa), then southwest via canal to Kingston and out into Lake Ontario. | WIKI |
| 1845 painting of the canal and Lower Town by Thomas Burrowes | WIKI |
| The construction of the canal was supervised by Lieutenant-Colonel John By of the Royal Engineers. | WIKI |
| Colonel John By decided to create a slackwater canal system[11] instead of constructing new channels. | WIKI |
| The canal work started in the fall of 1826, and it was completed by the spring of 1832. | WIKI |
| The first full steamboat transit of the canal was made by Robert Drummond's steamboat, Rideau (aka "Pumper"), leaving Kingston on May 22, 1832 with Colonel By and family on board, and arriving in Bytown on May 29, 1832. | WIKI |
| The final cost of the canal's construction was xc2xa3822,804 when all the costs, including land acquisition, were accounted for (January 1834). | WIKI |
| Since the canal was completed, no further military engagements have taken place between Canada and the United States. | WIKI |
| The canal was easier to navigate than the St. Lawrence River because of significant rapids in the river between Montreal and Kingston. | WIKI |
| [14] The canal had to compete with the Erie Canal through New York State. | WIKI |
| There they traveled by the Oswego Canal to reach the Erie and, via the Hudson River, New York City markets. | WIKI |
| They considered building another canal to Lake Simcoe and on to Georgian Bay, thereby enabling traffic on the upper Great Lakes to use canals all the way to Montreal and avoid shipping through the entire lakes system. | WIKI |
| It provided faster service than shipping by the canal. | WIKI |
| After the arrival of railway routes into Ottawa, most use of the canal was for pleasure craft. | WIKI |
| As many as one thousand of the workers died during the construction of the canal. | WIKI |
| Memorials have been erected along the canal route, most recently the Celtic Cross memorials in Ottawa, Kingston and Chaffeys Lock. | WIKI |
| Three canal era cemeteries are open to the public today: Chaffey's Cemetery and Memory Wall at Chaffey's Lockxe2x80x94this cemetery was used from 1825 to the late 19th century; the Royal Sappers and Miners Cemetery (originally called the Military and Civilian Cemetery and then as the Old Presbyterian Cemetery) near Newboroxe2x80x94used from 1828 to the 1940s; and McGuigan Cemetery near Merrickvillexe2x80x94used from the early 19th century (c. 1805) to the late 1890s. | WIKI |
| The canal has been featured on postage stamps issued by Canada Post. | WIKI |
| Two 45-cent stampsxe2x80x94'Rideau Canal, Summer Boating at Jones Falls'[21] and 'Rideau Canal, Winter Skating by Parliament'[22]xe2x80x94were issued on June 17, 1998, as part of the Canals and Recreational Destinations series. | WIKI |
| In 2014, the canal appeared on a $2.50 international rate stamp as part of a Canada Post set honoring World Heritage Sites. | WIKI |
| The Rideau Canal was recognized as the best preserved example of a slack water canal in North America demonstrating the use of European slackwater technology in North America on a large scale. | WIKI |
| It is the only canal dating from the great North American canal-building era of the early 19th century that remains operational along its original line with most of its original structures intact. | WIKI |
| It was also recognized as an extensive, well preserved and significant example of a canal which was used for military purposes linked to a significant stage in human history xe2x80x93 that of the fight to control the north of the American continent. | WIKI |
| Other plaques to the canal erected by the Ontario Heritage Trust are at Kingston Mills,[25] Smiths Falls,[26] and Rideau Lakes. | WIKI |
| vteRideau Canal map Legend Lock Nxc2xbaMP (km) Ottawa River Rideau Falls Sussex Drive Union Street 1-80.0 Ottawa, St. Patrick Street Plaza Bridge,Cummings Bridge Confederation Line Mackenzie King Bridge Laurier Avenue Bridge Corktown Footbridge,Adxc3xa0we Crossing Highway 417 Pretoria Bridge,Footbridge (old railway) Confederation Line Flora Footbridge,George McIlraith Bridge Bank Street Bridge,Billings Bridge Bronson Avenue Dow's Lake Trillium Line 9-106.7 Hartwells Heron Bridge 11-128.4 Hog's Back,Hog's Back Falls Hog's Back Bridge Mooney's Bay CN/Via Bridge Hunt Club Road 1315.0 Black Rapids Vimy Memorial Bridge Jock River 14-1623.3 Long Island Long Island Roger Stevens Drive Highway 416 Kemptville Creek Merlyn Wilson Road 1764.0 Burritts Rapids Burritts Rapids 1869.4 Lower Nicholsons 1969.7 Upper Nicholsons Upper Nicholsons 2070.5 Clowes 21-2373.8 Merrickville County Road 43 2486.7 Kilmarnock Kilmarnock 2592.7 Edmonds 26-2795.4 Old Slys Old Slys Highway 15 Rideau Canal Museum 29a96.8 Smiths Falls(formerly Locks 28-30) Abbot St 3197.4 Smiths Falls Detached 32101.1 Poonamalie Lower Rideau Lake xc2xa0107.5 Tay Canal 33xc2xa0 Lower Beveridges 34xc2xa0 Upper Beveridges Big Rideau Lake xc2xa0126.8 Colonel By Island 35132.4 Narrows The Narrows Upper Rideau Lake Rideau RiverCataraqui River County Road 42 36140.8 Newboro Lock Newboro Lake xc2xa0146.0 Ferry (cable) 37148.7 Chaffeys Chaffeys Opinicon Lake 38152.0 Davis Sand Lake 39-42159.0 Jones Falls Whitefish Lake Brass Point Cranberry Lake 43-44176.5 Upper Brewers Lower Brewers 45179.3 Lower Brewers Kingston Mills 46-49195.2 Kingston Mills Highway 401 La Salle Causeway Highway 2 Lake Ontario | WIKI |
| [29] Boat tours of the canal are offered in Ottawa, Kingston, Merrickville, and Chaffeys Lock. | WIKI |
| There are a total of 45 locks at 23 stations along the canal, plus two locks (locks 33 and 34) at the entrance to the Tay Canal (leading to Perth). | WIKI |
| [33] When the canal was constructed, the gates were made at the lock sites by carpenters and blacksmiths,[33] but presently they are made in Smiths Falls, Ontario, and sometimes it takes up to two months to build a set of gates. | WIKI |
| In normal operations the canal can handle boats up to 27.4xc2xa0m (89xc2xa0ft 11xc2xa0in) in length, 7.9xc2xa0m (25xc2xa0ft 11xc2xa0in) in width, and 6.7xc2xa0m (22xc2xa0ft) in height with a draft of up to 1.5xc2xa0m (4xc2xa0ft 11xc2xa0in) (boats drafting over 1.2xc2xa0m (3xc2xa0ft 11xc2xa0in) are asked to contact the Rideau Canal Office of Parks Canada prior to their trip). | WIKI |
| Four blockhouses were built from 1826 to 1832 to provide protection for the canal was under the control of the British Forces: | WIKI |
| Parliament Hill was intended to be the site of a fortress, to be called Citadel Hill, where the canal ended at the Ottawa River. | WIKI |
| Although some residents of Ottawa used the canal as an impromptu skating surface for years, the official use of the canal as a skateway and tourist attraction is a more recent innovation. | WIKI |
| As recently as 1970, however, city government of Ottawa considered paving over the canal to make an expressway. | WIKI |
| [104] The federal government's ownership of the canal, however, prevented the city from pursuing this proposal. | WIKI |
| When Doug Fullerton was appointed chair of the National Capital Commission, he proposed a recreational corridor around the canal, including the winter skateway between Carleton University and Confederation Park. | WIKI |
| A small section of ice near the National Arts Centre was cleared by NCC employees with brooms and shovels,[44] and 50,000 people skated on the canal the first weekend. | WIKI |
| [104] Today the skating area of the canal is larger because of the equipment available for ice resurfacing and 24/7 maintenance crews. | WIKI |
| [44] City councillor and author Clive Doucet credits this transformation of the canal with reinvigorating the communities of the Glebe, Old Ottawa East and Old Ottawa South. | WIKI |
| An ice hockey game on the canal on Christmas Day, 1901 | WIKI |
| [105] The ice cap that forms as the canal freezes becomes the Rideau Canal Skateway. | WIKI |
| [44] When the canal has built up a sufficient ice thickness, snow is removed from the ice surface and it is flooded in order to make the ice even more thick and smooth. | WIKI |
| The Rideau Canal is a large strategic canal constructed for military purposes which played a crucial contributory role in allowing British forces to defend the colony of Canada against the United States of America, leading to the development of two distinct political and cultural entities in the north of the American continent, which can be seen as a significant stage in human history. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (i): The Rideau Canal remains the best preserved example of a slackwater canal in North America demonstrating the use of European slackwater technology in North America on a large scale. | UNESCO |
| It is the only canal dating from the great North American canal-building era of the early 19th century that remains operational along its original line with most of its original structures intact. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (iv): The Rideau Canal is an extensive, well preserved and significant example of a canal which was used for a military purpose linked to a significant stage in human history - that of the fight to control the north of the American continent. | UNESCO |
| The nominated property includes all the main elements of the original canal together with relevant later changes in the shape of watercourses, dams, bridges, fortifications, lock stations and related archaeological resources. | UNESCO |
| The original plan of the canal, as well as the form of the channels, has remained intact. | UNESCO |
| All the elements of the nominated area (canal, associated buildings and forts) are protected as national historic sites under the Historic Sites and Monuments Act 1952-3. | UNESCO |
| Repairs and conservation of the locks, dams, canal walls and banks are carried out directly under the control of Parks Canada. | UNESCO |
| Each year one third of the canal's assets are thoroughly inspected by engineers. | UNESCO |
| A Management Plan exists for the canal (completed in 1996 and updated in 2005), and plans are nearing completion for Fort Henry and the Kingston fortifications. | UNESCO |
| The Canal Plan is underpinned by the Historic Canals Regulations which provide an enforcement mechanism for any activities that might impact on the cultural values of the monument. | UNESCO |