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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.

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,…

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

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

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

Lake Schooner "York" going through the First Welland Canal

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

Feeder Bridge, Marshville, ON