Military
Coteau-du-Lac Canal, at the junction of the Delisle and Saint Lawrence rivers in Quebec, was built by the British military after the American War of Independence exposed the difficulty of supplying Great Lakes posts and moving troops and goods west from Montreal past the Saint Lawrence rapids. Ordered by Governor Frederick Haldimand, construction began in 1779 under Captain William Twiss with labour from the King's Royal Regiment of New York, and the canal was completed on 15 February 1781. Recognized as North America's first canal of its kind, it remains an important early engineering and military landscape in Canada's transport and defence history.
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