Rideau Canal

World Heritage

Canada

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The Rideau Canal is a magnificent construction of the early 19th century, covering the Rideau and Cataraqui Rivers, stretching 202 kilometers from Ottawa south to the port of Kingston on Lake Ontario. It was built primarily for strategic military purposes, as Britain and the United States competed for control of the region. The canal was one of the first canals designed for steam-powered ships and also featured a series of fortifications. It is the best-preserved still-water canal in North America, demonstrating the large-scale application of this European technology. It is the only canal from the early 19th century North American canal-building era to remain on its original route, with much of its structure intact.

# 19th century

# Fortifications

# Strategic Military

# Steam powered ships

# North America

# Stillwater Canal

An engraving of the Rideau Canal locks at Bytown

Poonahmalee, on the Rideau River, near Smith Falls, Ontario – October 1906

Looking up from the bottom of the Ottawa Lockstation of the Rideau Canal. Chateau Laurier in Center ...

The Ottawa Locks at Colonel By Valley

Rideau Canal Locks looking down towards the Ottawa River from Wellington street

At Merrickville

1845 painting of the canal and Lower Town by Thomas Burrowes

An ice hockey game on the canal on Christmas Day, 1901

The lock at Lower Brewers nearing completion in 1831, by Thomas Burrowes

View on the Cataraqui Creek, Brewer's Upper Mills in the background, 1830 by Thomas Burrowes

Brewer's Lower Mill – view down the Cataraqui Creek and clearing made for the Rideau Canal, 1829 by ...

The Rideau Canal Skateway, with the Chateau Laurier in the background

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Information extracted from Wikidata

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part of	Category:People from Rio de Janeiro (city)
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has part	Tay Canal
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area	21427.07
topographic isolation	503
territory overlaps	Peglio
drainage basin	Ottawa River drainage basin
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executive body	Rideau Canal
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instance of	right bank
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located in the administrative territorial entity	Kingston
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heritage designation	Category:Views of Pienza
start time	2007-01-01T00:00:00Z
official name	Rideau Canal
area	2334.78
applies to part	buffer zone