Once seen as a way to get ships past the Lachine rapids, the canal became one of the backbones of the early Canadian economy, ...

The 14-kilometre Lachine Canal, which opened in 1825, was built largely by Irish immigrants, who settled in the neighbourhood ...

It used to be that on New Year's Eve, people living along Montreal's Lachine Canal would throw open their doors to hear the nearby factories blow their horns when the clocks struck midnight.

A far cry from a dusty, old-school museum, Museum of Memories (MEM) is dedicated to the recollections and oral histories of ...

MONTREAL — It used to be that on New Year’s Eve, people living along Montreal‘s Lachine Canal would throw open their doors to hear the nearby factories blow their horns when the clocks struck midnight ...

It used to be that on New Year’s Eve, people living along Montreal’s Lachine Canal would throw open their doors to hear the nearby factories blow their horns when the clocks struck midnight.

The idea of a canal to bypass the Lachine Rapids upstream from Montreal is almost as old as the city itself. But early attempts to build one, beginning in the late 17th century, ended in failure.

Water flows from a lock on the Lachine Canal next to the old Redpath Sugar Mill in Montreal, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2024. Work on the canal began in 1821 and officially opened in 1825. THE CANADIAN ...