Welland Canal

But historically, they couldn't get into the Great Lakes because of Niagara Falls, which acted like as a natural barrier.

But in 18, I think it was 1829, they opened the Welland Canal.

and that bypassed niagara falls and connected the atlantic ocean directly to lake ontario lake erie and this allowed sealant praise to bypass niagara falls and then they got access to basically all the great lakes um i think that by the by 1840 or so they were already into superior and and erie And by the 1940s, they had made it up to Lakes Michigan, Huron, Superior.

And as with any invasive species, once they get into a new area, they exponentially increase.

Negotiations are in progress between the two governments with a view to such concurrent action as will make the award and regulations agreed upon by the Bering Sea Tribunal of Arbitration practically effective, and it is not doubted that Great Britain will cooperate freely with this country for the accomplishment of that purpose.

The dispute growing out of the discriminating tolls imposed in the Welland Canal upon cargoes of cereals bound to and from the lake ports of the United States was adjusted by the substitution of a more equitable schedule of charges, and my predecessor thereupon suspended his proclamation imposing discriminating tolls upon British transit through our canals.

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I've seen, we have a lighthouse here in St. Catherine's Port Dalhousie area where if you love Rush, that's on Lakeside Park.

That's where the Welland Canal used to go into Lake Ontario, still Lake and we have lighthouses there.

Lighthouses are great.

They're beautiful, and they're there for a reason.

You come in the St. Lawrence, the Hudson, all these waterways.

Uh, you're feeding into the Great Lakes, and, uh, canals, like the Welland Canal, open up.

Uh, you can now have a way to sail around Niagara Falls and, and get to the upper lakes.

There are so many shipwrecks in the central basin of Lake Erie.

Yeah, but I went through the locks.

I was just saying, I took Lake Erie to the Welland Canal.

And they kept it open for us because we got there after dark.

And that was really, really dramatic.

I'm looking at it right here.

It's known for its colonization of the Great Lakes via the Welland Canal, bypassing Niagara Falls.

There, its population peaked between the 50s and 80s to the detriment of many native species of fish.

In an effort to control it biologically, Pacific salmon were introduced, only partially successful.

It's, it's just the name, and that's where we are.

If the Canadians were to change the strategically vital Welland Canal to the Trump Sucks Canal, you wouldn't change that either.

You've got a standard.

We would not.