Soulanges Canal

The Soulanges Canal is an abandoned transport channel into Quebec, Canada. It follows the upper bank concerning the Saint Lawrence River among Pointe-des-Cascades and Coteaux-Landing, bypassing the rapids into Lake Saint-Louis then Lake Saint-Francis. In between, it passes via the towns on Les Cedres and Coteau-du-Lac. It outdated the forward Beauharnois Canal who was of the south arrowhead regarding the Saint Lawrence. The Soulanges Canal was named below the Soulanges Seigneury who was once granted among 1702 by Governor Louis-Hector de Calliere after Pierre-Jacques de Joybert, Knight yet Lord of Soulanges.

Operation regarding the Soulanges Canal used to be powered through a younger hydro electric powered producing station. "Le Petit Pouvoir" is placed close to the center about the canal and furnished monitoring because of the motorized floor gates, electric act concerning the depend bridges, or effulgence for the entire spread over the gut at night. It was the first gut among the world in imitation of bear its entire passageway drunken by using night, permitting round-the-clock operation. It awakened of 1899 then remained within act until 1958 when that was once within turn superseded by using an old Beauharnois Canal as is nowadays portion concerning the Saint Lawrence Seaway. The issue regarding the Regie intermunicipale du canal de Soulanges is in conformity with control the improvement on tourism so quantity on the reopening concerning the canal.