File:20150707 - 12 - Sault Ste. Marie Canal National Historic Site, Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. - powerhouse and canal.jpg
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English: As seen in July 2015, this view at the Sault Ste. Marie Canal National Historic Site in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada comprises the canal itself (left) and the Powerhouse (right). Stretching about a mile in length between Whitefish and Saint Mary's Islands, the Sault Ste. Marie Canal was built in 1895 to replace an earlier facility that had been destroyed in the War of 1812. A smaller, more northerly alternative to the Soo Locks that lies fully within Canadian territory, the impetus for the canal's construction was an 1870 incident in which Colonel Garnet Wolesley of the British imperial army, in charge of an expedition to Manitoba to quell the ongoing Red River Rebellion, was refused passage through the other canal by American authorities who were angered by his support for the Confederacy during the U.S. Civil War. The lock seen here opened to boats in 1998; it's fully enclosed within the canal's original one, which was decommissioned in 1987 after almost a century in service due to structural failure. That original lock is notable as the first in the world to be powered by electricity, which was generated onsite in the powerhouse, an Eclectically-styled building of locally quarried sandstone blocks whose design blends the features of several discrete Classically-inspired styles (the low-pitched side-gabled roof suggests the Georgian Revival, for instance, while the segmentally-arched windows point to an Italianate influence). |
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