Some Locks on the Third Welland Canal

Update: except for some photos, this map makes these notes obsolete. It was developed by a HGIS project.

#1: (Satellite)

#2: (Satellite)

#3-#10 have been filled in. [StCaharinesStandard]

#11: (Satellite)

#12: (Satellite)

#13: (Satellite)

#14: (Satellite)

#15: (Satellite)

#16: (Satellite)

#20: (Satellite, it is submerged except when the canal is drained for Winter maintenance.)

#21 and #22: (Satellite)

It is easy to spot more locks. For example. But I don't know the numbers because I don't know if I missed a lock. Note that the canal climbed the escarpment on an angle. (Update: I found this map of the locks. Unfortunately, every link I tried referencing gave me a 404. But it would have saved me a lot of time finding these locks if I had seen it the first time around. And it allowed me to fix the location for #11.)

Today's Welland Canal is the fourth one and it has eight locks. There were 26 locks on the Third Welland Canal (1887-1932). See greatlakes-seaway, page 5, for a map of the Third Welland Canal. I've documented the locks of the current canal in detail. But I'm just going to save information about locks on the third canal as I come across it.

#1

brocku
Lock 1 was right beside the Lock Control Office. It was used in the duration of the Third Welland Canal (1887-1932). It operated until 1969. Weir was right beside the lock and he controlled the levels of the water. This is a postcard of Lock 1 at the Third Welland Canal. 
[This page also has an 1873 map showing where the first seven locks would to be built.]

 

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#11

William Dale Robinson posted

•Reclamation•

Barely visible from the Welland Ship Canal viewing stand at Lock No.3 is Lock No.11 of the old Third Welland Canal. This lock was one of twenty-six that enabled marine traffic to bypass Niagara Falls. 

Built of limestone blocks quarried from nearby Queenston, when the canal was completed in 1887 it was oft considered a man-made wonder—a stone mason’s masterpiece—rivalled only by the Great Pyramid of Giza. It accommodated tens-of-thousands of passages until decommissioned in 1933. This included a ship that sailed off into one of the greatest unsolved mysteries on the Great Lakes—the disappearance of the SS BANNOCKBURN. 

As with all previous canals in Niagara, many working components of the Third Welland Canal also disappeared after being removed or left in a state of deterioration. Although the formidable forces of nature have set out to reclaim it, Lock No.11 remains and captures the imagination of those who can see it for the wonder it once was. 

Perhaps, looking at the old lock, you can see Capt. George Wood of Port Dalhousie. He’s there on the BANNOCKBURN. His long lost smile returns as he pulls the steam-whistle. A number of children are thrilled—whose imagination today may see the blocks of the lock as ‘Minecraft’ for real.

#12

 

1 of 4 photos and 2 drone videos posted by Michel Gosselin
A view of locks 11, 12 and 13 of the 3rd Welland canal. Located just southeast of lock 3. Taken on December 31, 2023.
Tommy A. Nickerson: I use to fish off the fallen chunk of lock rocks in the lock we had to use a rope to get to it lol.it would have been alot easier 10 yr ago looks more eroded now
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#13

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Exploration videos: Part 1 and Part 2