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Lock 2 Raceway

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5″X7″ Oil on panel

The Welland Canal is endlessly fascinating. The current canal is the fourth and was completed in 1932. The first canal, completed in 1829, was much longer and more meandering, it joined Twelve Mile Creek and the Welland River with a flight of 40 locks which were all constructed from wood. The climb from Lake Ontario to Lake Erie is about 100 metres.

I have painted this same view before here and here.

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Morning on the Canal 3

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7″X5″ Oil on board

The boats are hurrying to get through the canal now, they know that it won’t be long before the Seaway is closed for the winter. The Garden City Skyway, in the far distance, is one of the best places to view the canal, providing as it does the height that is so lacking around here. Stopping up there to to take photographs is frowned upon though, not to mention dangerous.

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