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

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 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…

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,…

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

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…