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Four pictures of Lock 24 being excavated, showing the last existing remains of the First Welland Canal, June 1987.

The pictures were included in the book/report "Archaeological Excavation of Lock 24, First Welland Canal" by Historica Research…

Complete scanned copy of the 35-page booklet titled "The Centenary of the Welland Canal" by Ernest Alexander Cruikshank, published in November 1924 by the Tribune-Telegraph Press.

It celebrates and examines the origin of the first Welland Canal…

Scan of a copy of the first survey of the Welland Canal undertaken by Hiram Tibbet, an American engineer, May 1823.

Reproduction of a report of the first survey for the Welland Canal, from William Hamilton Merritt to Major Hillier, c. 1823.

It consists of two letters from William Hamilton Merritt to Major Hillier, dated June 2, 1823 and September 22, 1823,…

Black and white photograph of an original stock certificate of the Welland Canal Company, c. 1820s.

The text reads "This certificate entitles (illegible, but possibly Jeremiah or Jedediah Merritt Eq.) to (illegible) shares of stock in the Welland…

Black and white photograph of the gates of the Feeder Canal into the Welland Canal at Welland, Broadway Avenue, c. 1924.

Black and white photograph of the Spillway of the Feeder Canal into the Welland Canal at Welland, c. 1924.

Black and white illustration of a lock in the First Welland Canal, St. Catharines, undated.

Black and white photographic print showing a bridge over what was the First Welland Canal, St. Catharines, c. 1870.

Black and white photograph of Feeder Road alongside the Feeder Canal, c. 1924. The bridge is the crossing of the Grand Trunk Railway.

The Feeder Canal fed the Welland Canal from the Grand River at Dunnville through the dam.

This is a view of the buildings on the south side of the Feeder Canal. The second building from the right is now the woodworking shop in the Heritage Village.

Feeder Bridge, Marshville, ON

Recent photo of the Feeder Canal along Feeder Road somewhere between Wainfleet and Welland, ON.

Lake Schooner "York" going through the First Welland Canal

Lock at St. Catharines, ON of the First Welland Canal.

Historic picture of the Feeder Canal and Wainfleet, ON with boat passing through the canal.

Site of an original lock from the First Welland Canal near the Welland River at Port Robinson, ON
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