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Workers complete the excavation of Lock 24..
[Welland Tribune, 1987]
 Workers complete the excavation of Lock 24 on the first Welland Canal in St. Catharines, constructed in the 1820s and discontinued in the 1840s when the second canal was built.
The wooden canal had ships pulled through by horses and mules, and was built of wood as the most economical way of building the waterway. The first canal ended at Port Robinson where ships were locked down into the Welland River. The excavation, carried out by the Welland Canal Conservation Authority is now completed and the lock has been re-buried under tonnes of earth to preserve it. The lock was believed to be the only one remaining of the roughly 40 locks in the first canal. |
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