The story of the Rideau Canal: A major engineering feat of the 19th century

The story of the Rideau Canal: A major engineering feat of the 19th century

"So they greased up this rat, set it on fire and threw it up onto the roof ... ." The visitors' guide in Major's Hill Park, a few hundred metres from Parliament Hill in Ottawa, is well into her astonishing story about the construction, nearly 200 years ago, of the Rideau Canal, a feat so monumental that in 2007 UNESCO declared it a World Heritage Site.

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