A mechanical issue at Port Colborne’s Lock 8 brought shipping traffic to a halt on the Welland Canal Tuesday, stranding six vessels on the 43-kilometre-long waterway for six hours.

Despite appearances, a 200-metre-long cargo vessel wasn’t stuck in the Welland Canal’s Lock 8 at Port Colborne on the weekend, says St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corp. Sam Pane, the seaway’s ...

spent £30,000 creating a canal with a functioning lock and a vintage narrowboat-turned-swimming pool in his garden. The hotelier dug out 30-40 tonnes of soil himself on his Warwickshire property ...

By 1880, the railroads expanded and the Welland Canal locks enlarged, making the ship inefficient. At this point, the ship was 14 years old and was still usable. The MSRA said it was then ...

St. Catharines city council gets advice for commemorating Welland Canals history in St. Catharines ahead of the 200th ...

Shirley Smith says her father Donald Krause would be pleased that a fence he forged as a blacksmith is now a major art piece in Port Dalhousie. “I’m sure he has a smile on his face from ear to ...

While a boat is leaving a lock, as represented in the cut, the gate, c, being open, the water flows from the canal through the passage, 6, into the lock at the stern of the boat, and thus fills up ...

BY MICHAEL WRIGHTBoats are again able to safely transit the Shinnecock Canal this weekend after a county contractor completed repairs to a broken gate in the canal's mechanical lock that had created ...

The NPS will close Four Locks boat ramp and parking lot at the C&O Canal National Historical Park for repairs starting in ...

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BY MICHAEL WRIGHTBoats are again able to safely transit the Shinnecock Canal this weekend and a county contractor completed repairs to a broken gate in the canal's mechanical lock that had created ...