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	Historical Sketches - The Canals of Canada.
		This canal is on the north side of the river and serves the same purpose as the Beauharnois canal, which to a large extent it replaces.
		A canal commission was appointed in November, 1870, which reported in February, 1871, advising a uniform scale of navigation for the St. Lawrence and Welland canals, with locks two hundred and seventy feet long by forty-five feet wide in the chambers, and with twelve feet depth of water upon the mitre sills.
		The Soulanges canal and that at Sault Ste.
	www.history.rochester.edu /canal/bib/whitford/old1906/vol2/Part4-2.htm (8942 words)

	Nancy B. Bouchier and Ken Cruikshank \| The War on the Squatters, 1920–1940: Hamilton's Boathouse Community and the ...
		Canal builders used existing waterways in the marsh area, widening a natural passage along the northern tip of Burlington Heights.
		The natural outlet of the Desjardins Canal was filled in, replaced by a new channel dug through the middle of the landmass.
		These fishers appear to be on the northern shore of the canal under the bridge that eventually made way for the building of the 403 highway in the early 1960s.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/llt/51/bouchier.html (10052 words)

	Desjardins Canal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Although a technological achievement and a short term commercial success, the canal was soon eclipsed by the railway and Dundas by neighbouring Hamilton.
		Dundas was the leading settlement in Wentworth County and it hoped to become an intermodal transportation junction at the end of Governors Road and the head of Lake Ontario.
		The Desjardins Canal was completed in 1837 and the commercial benefits it brought helped Dundas grow enough to incorporate as a town in 1847.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Desjardins_Canal (489 words)

	Hamilton Paranormal - The Desjardins Canal Rail Disaster
		Today the Desjardens Canal waterway is a narrow canal that runs through Burlington Heights from the Hamilton Harbor to Cootes Paradise.
		On March 12, in the year of 1857 a major rail accident occurred at the canal that would leave it's mark as one of the worst rail disaster in the history of the Hamilton area.
		One can see to this day the walls of the old swing bridge that sit on both sides of the canal and when you reflect back in time when this accident occurred you can almost see how the dead were elevated to the top by ropes that swung over this wall.
	www.hamiltonparanormal.com /desjardins1.html (800 words)

	Physical History of Hamilton Harbour
		A canal was created through the beach strip in 1827, replacing the natural outlet to the north.
		The Desjardins canal was opened in 1837, and originally went around Burlington Heights through the natural outlet of Cootes Paradise.
		Therefore, the canal was cut through Burlington Heights in 1954, modifying the output of Cootes, and the input to Hamilton Harbour.
	www.science.mcmaster.ca /Biology/Harbour/LIMNOL/PHYSHIST.HTM (1385 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		A series of resolutions in 1823, moved by William Warren Baldwin and seconded by Hamilton, criticized the lack of immigrants, proposed the elimination of the reserves, urged the location of new settlers close to roads and mills, and recommended the granting of entire townships to men of capital able to develop mills and forges.
		Once the work was underway, problems between the canal’s commissioners and their contractor, James Gordon Strobridge*, took some of the lustre off an important local improvement despite its successful completion.
		In March 1828 he moved assembly acceptance of a petition requesting a grant of £2,000 for work on the stalled Desjardins Canal project, but reformers Peter Perry* and Marshall Spring Bidwell* moved, successfully, to postpone a decision.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=37546 (1673 words)

	Dundas Star News
		Carlisle resident Tom Thomas stands in front of the Desjardins Canal while at his feet rests a trumpeter swan.
		Although his hair is as snowy as the surrounding landscape, he has a youthful air as he reaches for a set of binoculars.
		While walking towards Dundas' Desjardins Canal a swan eyes the retired realtor curiously.
	www.dundasstarnews.com /dsn/news/news_484626.html (812 words)

	Dundas Star News
		A public natural area next to the Desjardins Canal could soon replace the rundown buildings currently on the former Ben Veldhuis Greenhouse property.
		Ben Veldhuis Cactus Greenhouses operated on the site next to the historic Desjardins Canal for more than 50 years, until closing in October 2001.
		The canal itself was built in the 1830s and provided access to Dundas for steamer ships carrying goods from Lake Ontario and beyond.
	www.dundasstarnews.com /dsn/news/news_639334.html (443 words)

	Dundas (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Tucked between the two faces of the Niagara Escarpment, and bordered by the Desjardins Canal and Cootes Paradise wetlands on the east and conservation areas to the west, even the climate is temperate.
		The purpose of the canal was to bring lake-going vessels from Burlington Bay (now Hamilton Harbour) through Coote’s Paradise to a warehouse area along Spencer in the community of Dundas.
		The canal, although used in limited fashion since 1826, was not fully completed until 1837 due to major construction and financial challenges.
	www.myhamilton.ca.cob-web.org:8888 /myhamilton/CommunitiesAndOrganizations/communitiesofhamilton/Dundas.htm (711 words)

	Environmental Theatre Workshop
		By 1876 the canal company went into receivership and by 1895 the canal, in dire need of dredging and more money, was closed for ever...
		When the old canal was still open, and the big logger boats would stop off on their way to Brown's Wharf, we'd have a jolly time singing show tunes over by the piano.
		Some of the boatmen thought that the old canal that ran right past the Inn, was too windy, and their boats may have gotten jammed in the marshy areas.
	www.erin.utoronto.ca /~sjohnson/etw/anthology.html (16288 words)

	Niagara Falls - Samuel Zimmerman & his Estate: a history
		Zimmerman made his fortune as a contractor on projects such as the Second Welland Canal and the building of the Great Western Railroad from Hamilton to Niagara Falls.
		He was also a primary supporter of the first railway suspension bridge to be built across the Niagara River Gorge.
		Zimmerman had been in York (Toronto) that day and was on his way home when an axel on the railcar of the train snapped as it was crossing the swing bridge over the canal.
	www.niagarafrontier.com /zimmerman.html (1497 words)

	Nordlit
		A little to the east, the masts of moored sailboats can be seen off Lasalle Park, the place where the famous explorer was said to have landed in 1669, and where she and other Hamiltonians used to picnic on Sunday afternoons.
		From where she now stands, she can see that headland and the high-level bridge over the old Desjardins canal beyond which lies the misty, marshy bay known as Cootes Paradise.
		The water was deep and dangerous in the places where the old canal had been been dug, but she felt safe in the company of Big Junie, the St. Bernard.
	www.hum.uit.no /nordlit/1/bowerbank.html (3741 words)

	Virtual Walking Tour of Dundas - Art Samson - The Voice of Dundas on Hamilton City Council \| Dundas, Ontario (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The canal was officially opened August 16, 1837 and went into liquidation 40 years later.
		On Victoria is the "Walnut Cottage" which shows the Ontario Cottage Style as it was adapted to the tastes of a wealthy Dundas Mayor in 1869 (Alexis Begue, nephew of Peter Desjardins).
		The Masonic Hall at 5-9 Main St. was built by B.B. Osler in the mid 1870's, and once housed the Desjardins Canal Company.
	www.artsamson.com /Pages/tour.htm (1580 words)

	Urquhart Butterfly Garden: Homepage
		Frederick and Norah Urquhart, who after forty years of patient research solved the mystery of the migrating monarchs, construction of Canada's first municipal butterfly garden began in 1994.
		Located in Centennial Park on the banks of the Desjardins Canal, it is heavily planted with nectar and foliage plants needed by butterflies and their caterpillars.
		Members of the Coalition secured funding, identified an appropriate site, solicited contributions in kind from many local businesses and individuals, gained the support of the Town of Dundas and devoted many hours of their own time to planting and maintaining the garden.
	www.unityserve.org /butterfly (259 words)

	Desjardins - Caisse Desjardins de Salaberry-de-Valleyfield - Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		A cooperative financial institution, the Caisse Desjardins de Salaberry-de-Valleyfield offers its members quality financial services while actively contributing to the socio-economic development of the community.
		Today's Caisse Desjardins de Salaberry-de-Valleyfield came as a result of the merger of the of the Sainte-Cécile de Salaberry, Saint-Timothée and Vieux canal de Salaberry-de-Valleyfield caisses caisses in 2004.
		Copyright © 1996-2006, Mouvement des caisses Desjardins – Desjardins Group.
	www.desjardins.com /en/votre_caisse/accueil.jsp?transit=81530029 (116 words)

	Port Hope, Canada - Biographical
		During the rebellion of 1837 and subsequent years he served as Captain.
		In 1845 he settled at Peterborough but returned to Port Hope in 1853 to assume the duties of Secretary-Treasurer of the Port Hope and Peterborough Railway, which he fulfilled in the most able manner until his premature death in the Desjardins Canal catastrophe, March 12th, 1857.
		Of a family of twelve children, the eldest surviving son is Thomas Moore Benson, of Port Hope, Senior Judge of the United Counties and a man who ably fills his father's place in the community.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles39/port-hope-28.shtml (386 words)

	Ken Cruikshank Nancy B. Bouchier \| Blighted Areas And Obnoxious Industries: Constructing Environmental Inequality On An ...
		The marshland had to be dredged and a passage carved through the heights to create the Desjardins Canal, which offered limited and still imperfect access to farming communities farther west.
		By cutting a canal through the beach strip in the late 1820s, Hamilton's political and business leaders overcame the natural limits of the area, and transformed the southern shore into a bustling port.
		Within this area, as historians Michael Doucet and John Weaver have shown, wealthier residents claimed the high ground near the escarpment, and on a ridge that meandered from the escarpment toward the Desjardins Canal on the west end of the harbor.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/eh/9.3/cruikshank.html (12698 words)

	Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Note: Canals listed in blue below do not yet have index sheets.
		It is intended to add index sheets for them in the future.
		Canals in green and underlined have index sheets which are accessible by double clicking on the hyperlink.
	www.americancanals.org /canada.htm (100 words)

	Burlington Bay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Burlington Bay, also known as Hamilton Harbour, is a branch of Lake Ontario bounded on the northwest by the City of Burlington, on the south by the City of Hamilton, and on the east by Hamilton Beach (south of the Burlington Skyway Bridge) and Burlington Beach (north of the channel).
		It is joined to Cootes Paradise by a narrow channel formerly excavated for the Desjardins Canal.
		Within Hamilton itself, it is referred to as Hamilton Harbour, the Harbour and the Bay, but never Burlington Bay.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Burlington_Bay (357 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography
		He became postmaster of Nelson Township and a commissioner of the Burlington Bay Canal in 1825 [see James Gordon Strobridge*], and was made a magistrate in 1827.
		After the belated award of his militia land bounty the following year, his political sympathies clearly lay with moderate conservatism.
		Chisholm had become a champion of the Burlington Bay Canal and a director in the nearby Desjardins Canal [see Peter *Desjardins]** for more than reasons of patronage.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBioPrintable.asp?BioId=37432 (1377 words)

	List of waterways - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The List of waterways is a link page for any river, canal, estuary or firth.
		Stecknitz Canal was a predecessor of the Elbe-Lübeck Canal
		Corinthian Canal connected the Gulf of Corinth with the Aegean Sea,
	en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/List_of_waterways (132 words)

	Sir Allan MacNab (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		That same day, MacNab lost between five and ten thousand pounds to a fire on his building projects.
		MacNab was forced out of the presidency of the Desjardins Canal Company and was already three years in debt to Samuel Peters Jarvis.
		While MacNab claimed that Jarvis had owed him money, Jarvis considered MacNab to be a 'villain'.
	socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca /~mas/dundurn/macnab.htm (500 words)

	Bank of Canada Review - Summer 1997 - Periodicals - Publications and Research - Bank of Canada
		He also built lake steamers, owned a hotel, and founded his own bank, appropriately named the Zimmerman Bank.
		On the night of 12 March 1857, Zimmerman was killed when the train on which he was travelling from Toronto to Hamilton derailed and fell into the Desjardins Canal.
		At his funeral, he was lauded for his accomplishments and connections, but it has been suggested that he used less than ethical means to achieve his goals.
	www.bankofcanada.ca /en/review/rev_summer1997.html (357 words)

	Hamilton Waterfront Trust - Hamilton Waterfront Trail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The City of Hamilton and its partners officially opened the Hamilton Waterfront Trail and fish and wildlife habitat enhancements on July 1, 2000.
		The 3.4 km-long multi-use trail makes its way along the shore from Bayfront Park to Princess Point and through the Desjardins Canal with a floating walkway paralleling the boat channel.
		The trail makes the connection to the Trans Canada Trail, the Lake Ontario Waterfront Trail in Burlington, and the Desjardins Trail bordering Cootes Paradise.
	www.hamiltonwaterfront.com /hamwaterfrtrl.html (230 words)

	What's New Archive - International Marine Floatation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Alvarado and During, a major marine contractor, was granted the rights to produce IMF's floating platform technology for a pilot boat station within the Canal.
		Sections of the 3km park trail are joined by a floating roadway designed by IMF through the Desjardins Canal.
		Critical to the design was the requirement to withstand flood conditions, which can cause a “hydraulic jump” within the canal.
	www.floatingstructures.com /archive.htm (2200 words)

	Hamilton Port Authority: Waterfront Fun
		The 3.4 kilometer long multi-use trail makes its way along the shore from Bayfront Park to Princess Point, and through the Desjardins Canal with a floating walkway paralleling the boat channel.
		The trail connects to the Trans Canada Trail, the Lake Ontario Waterfront Trail in Burlington, and the Desjardins Canal bordering Cootes Paradise.
		Special attention has been given to ensure universal accessibility, and to provide residents and tourists with focal points to observe natural, historic, and cultural features such as Cootes Paradise, Dundurn Castle, and the Royal Botanical Gardens.
	www.hamiltonport.ca /recreation/waterfrontfun.aspx (334 words)

	More About RBG
		Royal Botanical Gardens, in conjunction with GO Transit, is implementing an ambitious restoration project for the Sunfish Pond embankment and associated parts of the Valley Inn area of our Hendrie Valley Nature Sanctuary.
		As part of a billion dollar expansion program funded by the Government of Canada and the Province of Ontario, GO Transit is adding a new rail track on the Lakeshore West rail line between the Desjardins Canal and GO Transit's Burlington Station.
		The new track allows GO Transit to improve rail service to their Aldershot and Hamilton GO Stations, as well as promoting and encouraging the use of public transit throughout their Lakeshore West corridor.
	www.rbg.ca /pages/more_community.html (848 words)

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