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Ottawa Locks - 1834
First Eight Locks of the Rideau Canal, the North Entrance from the Ottawa River, 1834
watercolour by Thomas Burrowes
(Archives of Ontario - from Passfield, 1982)

A view of the eight locks in Entrance Valley. The commissariat building and the Royal Engineers office sit on either side of the locks. The Depot is in the foreground of the picture, with Colonel By’s house on the hill behind it. On the far hill, Barracks Hill (now Parliament Hill), sit three stone barracks and a hospital.

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