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This little branch is all that remains of the first canal of 1825. The low stone walls were added in the 1930s. The lock stood here. The canal then followed the current route to the port of Montreal, located 13.5 kilometres east and 14 metres lower. At the time, it had seven locks: that of Lachine at the upstream entrance, two at Côte-Saint-Paul, one at Saint-Gabriel, and a series of three at the downstream entrance to the port of Montreal. Canal commissioners regarded it as a feat of engineering more spectacular than anything they had seen before in Canada.
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