Welland Canal. Bridge No. 5

Welland Canal Bridge No.5, Glendale Avenue (Regional Road 89), St. Catharines, Ontario. July 11, 2010.
The Welland Canal is a ship canal in Canada that runs 42 km (27.0 miles) from Port Colborne, Ontario on Lake Erie to Port Weller, Ontario on Lake Ontario. As part of the St. Lawrence Seaway, the canal allows ships to traverse the Niagara Escarpment and avoid Niagara Falls.
Approximately 40,000,000 tonnes of cargo are carried through the Welland Canal annually by over 3,000 ocean and lake vessels. The canal was a major factor in the growth of the city of Montreal. The original canal and its successors allowed goods from such Great Lakes ports as Detroit, Cleveland, Windsor, and other heavily industrialized areas of the United States and Ontario to be shipped to the port of Montreal, where they were reloaded onto ocean-going vessels for international shipping.

The Saint Lawrence Seaway (St. Lawrence Seaway), in French: la Voie Maritime du Saint-Laurent, is the common name for a system of locks, canals and channels that permits ocean-going vessels to travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the North American Great Lakes, as far as Lake Superior. Legally it extends from Montreal to Lake Erie, including the Welland Canal. The seaway is named after the Saint Lawrence River, which it follows from Lake Ontario to the Atlantic Ocean. This section of the seaway is not a continuous canal, but rather comprises stretches of navigable channels within the river, a number of locks, as well as canals made to bypass rapids and dams in the waterway. A number of locks are managed by the Canadian Saint Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation and others by the U.S. Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation.(wikipedia)
External link: http://marinas.com/view/bridge/528_Welland_Canal_Bridge_5_St._Catharines_ON

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[hillcrestG]

aww i kinda wanted to see the ship travel beneath it :(

[videofilmik]

@hillcrestG Soon there will be more on Welland Canal, (including the ship travel beneath the bridge).

[hillcrestG]

woah! this was somehow sooo eeerie and spooky ahaha

awesome edit!