Caption
[no caption]
Release Date
March 17, 1959
Materials
Typescript with illustrations
Collection
CMCP fonds
Credit Line
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography fonds, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives
Caption
A vast armada of men and machinery converged on the St. Lawrence in the autumn of 1954 to begin the task of digging the big ditch -- a 27 foot channel -- which would bypass treacherous rapids and carve the St. Lawrence into a navigable passage, to link old world trade routes with the growing inland dries of the new world.
Date
February 1, 1959
Accession Number
LAC-NFB87705
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011176953
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
The work went on summer and winter, often in the face of staggering obstacles, and sometimes with crews engaged on "crash" programs calling for herculean efforts on a 24-hour a day basis. Hundreds of huge and ingenious pieces of machinery clawed at the bed of the great river, changing its ancient course, and reshaping it to the needs and_x000B_design of man. Above, first steel is laid for the superstructure of the Mercier Bridge, one of 4 bridges in the Montreal area which had to be partly rebuilt to provide 120 foot clearance for the giant ocean freighters which can now sail 2,300 miles inland to the heart of one of the great industrial regions of the world.
Date
February 1, 1959
Accession Number
LAC-NFB87706
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011176954
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
The Seaway opens the St. Lawrence and Great Lakes area to 80% of the world's salt water fleet. Everything except the largest liners and great naval ships-can now move up it. The St. Lawrence waterway has become, in effect, Canada's fourth seaboard; a brisk new main street of commerce has been added to the nation's economy. Large ore carriers from northern Quebec and Labrador can now pass upstream to the roaring mills which dot the inland lakes; the rich harvest of Canada's prairies will move swiftly, economically, down to the Atlantic, and great lakes ships can now steam unimpeded down to Montreal and other lower St. Lawrence ports.
Date
February 1, 1959
Accession Number
LAC-NFB87707
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011176955
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
A young engineer checks his sights along the seaway route, and throughout Canada and other countries around the world, industrialists, shippers, farmers and manufacturers are raising their particular sights to participate in the vast economic upsurge which the opening of the Seaway will set in motion.
Date
February 1, 1959
Accession Number
LAC-NFB87708
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011176956
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
When Her Majesty, The Queen, officially opens the St. Lawrence Seaway on June 26, 1959, a project of unsurpassed grandeur, an undertaking which is a fitting tribute to the engineering skills of the 20th Century, and a dream which has fascinated men of bold vision for 3 centuries, will have come to triumphant fulfilment. The mighty, rapids-ridden St. Lawrence, which 325 years ago halted the intrepid explorer, Cartier, on his daring voyage into the heartland of North America, has, at last, been tamed. Today, almost 5 years of feverish activity are coming to an end; the armies of construction workers are preparing to depart. The Seaway, to the casual observer, appears deceptively simple, for it is like an iceberg with the greater part of its intricate physical components and complicated machinery hidden underwater. But what is visible is still enough to inspire wonder and deep respect for the river which taxed the skills and daring of so many to keep her in check. Above, the lock at Iroquois, Ont., most westerly of 7 new locks constructed for the Seaway.
Date
February 1, 1959
Accession Number
LAC-NFB87709
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011176957
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Photostory #201: The St. Lawrence Seaway
Photographers
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Maker
National Film Board of Canada
Release Date
March 17, 1959
Collection
CMCP fonds
Credit Line
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography fonds, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives
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