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The Rideau Canal, Canada: A Romance between Nature and Technology (14:53)

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The Rideau Canal—a monumental early-19th-century construction covering 202 km of the Rideau and Cataraqui Rivers, from Ottawa south to Kingston Harbor, on Lake Ontario—was built primarily for strategic military purposes at a time when Great Britain and the United States vied for control of the region. The site, one of the first canals to be designed specifically for steam-powered vessels, also features an ensemble of fortifications. It is the best-preserved example of a slackwater canal in North America, demonstrating the use of this European technology on a large scale. It is the only canal dating from the great North American canal-building era of the early 19th century to remain operational along its original line with most of its structures intact.

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The Rideau Canal, Canada: A Romance between Nature and Technology

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The Rideau Canal—a monumental early-19th-century construction covering 202 km of the Rideau and Cataraqui Rivers, from Ottawa south to Kingston Harbor, on Lake Ontario—was built primarily for strategic military purposes at a time when Great Britain and the United States vied for control of the region. The site, one of the first canals to be designed specifically for steam-powered vessels, also features an ensemble of fortifications. It is the best-preserved example of a slackwater canal in North America, demonstrating the use of this European technology on a large scale. It is the only canal dating from the great North American canal-building era of the early 19th century to remain operational along its original line with most of its structures intact.

Length: 15 minutes

Item#: EDP144037

ISBN: 978-1-64198-571-0

Copyright date: ©2010

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