The Welland Canal
The Welland Canal. Before railways and automobiles became common, transporting goods over long
distances was a difficult chore. In early North America, roads were often bad or non-existent.
In the winter, snow and cold weather made travel difficult. Frontier farmers had trouble selling
their crops because it was hard to get them to the cities. Often rivers and lakes were the best
ways to travel. Fur traders carried their furs and other supplies in canoes, but even large canoes
were not big enough to hold a shipment of wheat. Rapids and waterfalls meant that goods had to be
taken out of the canoe and carried to the next body of calm water. One way to improve water
transportation was to build a canal. In New York State, Governor DeWitt Clinton had constructed the
Erie Canal from the Niagara River to the Hudson River soon after the War of 1812. Because relations
between the United States and Canada were still not very friendly, this was another reason to
build a canal on the Canadian side. Canals could be used to move supplies and troops during wartime.
Sometimes the British government would forbid Canadian farmers to sell food to the USA.
Without a canal to move their farm produce, crops were sometimes left to rot.
A St. Catharines, Ontario merchant named William Hamilton Merritt
thought about all these things in the 1820s.
He also thought that flour mills needed a more reliable source of water to operate.
St. Catharines is on 12-mile creek below the Niagara Escarpment.
This creek runs towards Lake Ontario.
It rises above the escarpment, which stands from 150 to 300 feet high, then runs towards Lake Ontario.
If Merritt could join the 12-mile creek to one of the rivers, which ran to Lake Erie,
the canal would provide transportation and water power.
The problem was to find a way to move boats up the escarpment.
From 1824 to 1829, Merritt and his friends hired laborers to dig away tons of dirt and rock.
Nearly all the work was done with shovels, pickaxes, horses, and wagons.
In places, the ground was soft and landslides occurred.
In other places, the men had to dig through solid granite rock.
Merritt's main problem, however, was raising the money to pay for the construction.
After sinking all the money that he, his family, and friends had into the canal, more was needed.
Merritt went to Toronto, New York, and finally London, England to get the financial support he needed.
The problem of getting the boats to climb the escarpment was solved by a series of 35 wooden locks.
These carried a ship 327 feet upwards.
The ship would enter a lock with a small amount of water.
More water would come into the lock, lifting the boat another 10 or 15 feet.
Then the ship would move into the next lock and be lifted up again.
Boats going in the opposite direction were lowered instead of lifted.
The Welland Canal has been rebuilt three times since the first canal opened in 1829.
Now large seagoing and lake vessels cross the Niagara Peninsula from Lake Ontario to Lake Erie.
They carry grain, coal, iron ore, oil and many other bulk products.
The Welland Canal remains one of the most important commercial waterways in the world.
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