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First Rapids - 1845
First Rapids; ca. 1845
John Burrows, watercolour
(Archives of Ontario - from Passfield, 1982)

The single lock in the artificial canal cut can be seen to the left of the original channel of the Rideau River. There is a defensible lockmaster’s house as well as a couple of buildings left over from canal construction.

Read about the history of this lockstation


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