The Canadian Canals Their History And Cost With An Inquiry Into the Policy Nec
The Canadian Canals Their History And Cost With An Inquiry Into the Policy Nec
William Kingsford
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60 CANADIAN CANALS. vitality. The honor of being its originator has been claimed by many ; but it was precisely one of those projects which the situation itself suggests. The earliest settled parts of "Western Canada were those easiest of access to the new United States, from which the United Empire Loyalists came. Thus both Kingston and Niagara, two old French posts, had been resting points for years. Their names figure largely in the French wars ; and as known and iden- tified localities, the...y attracted many who clung to the British flag even in its reverses. Accordingly much of the early immigration came in by Newark the present town of Niagara and the surrounding district was settled early in the history of Western Canada. No one who had heard of the Duke ot Bridgewater's Canal, and of Brindley ; of Smeaton's Forth and Clyde, or Telford's Caledonian, could have failed to see the necessity of connecting the two lakes by artificial navigation. The Erie Canal was during this period, either proposed or in course, of construction, and its example must have stimulated the appreciation of the geographical advantages apparent in the Niagara peninsula.
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