The Lachine Canal (Canal de Lachine in French) is a canal passing through the southwestern part of the Island of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, running 14.5 kilometres from the Old Port of Montreal to Lake Saint-Louis, through the boroughs of Lachine, Lasalle and Sud-Ouest.Before the canal construction there was a lake, Lac St Pierre []. Until 2002 it was a western suburb of Montreal city, at which time it was incorporated into Montreal as a borough of that city. Lachine, former city, Montréal region, southern Quebec province, Canada.

It had seven locks of cut stone, each 100 feet long, 20 feet wide, and with a 5-foot depth of water. In the late Spring and Autumn period (770–476 BCE), Fuchai, King of the State of Wu (whose capital was in present-day Suzhou), ventured north to attack the State of Qi.He ordered a canal to be constructed for trading purposes, as well as a means to ship ample supplies north in case his forces should engage the northern states of Song and Lu. In the 1850s the Montreal Aqueduct was built through the town from Lac Saint-Louis to serve the growing metropolis to the north.

The Lachine Canal was opened in August 1824 and received its first vessels in 1825. Lachine lies on the south shore of Montreal Island facing Lake Saint-Louis, which is a widening Der Lachine-Kanal (französisch Canal de Lachine, englisch Lachine Canal) ist ein Kanal in der kanadischen Provinz Québec.Er beginnt im Lac Saint-Louis bei Lachine, durchquert den südöstlichen Teil der Île de Montréal und endet nach 14,1 km im alten Hafen von Montreal.Der Kanal wurde in den 1820er Jahren erbaut, um die Lachine-Stromschnellen im Sankt-Lorenz-Strom umfahren zu können. Some 1,100 miles (1,800 km) in length, it is the world’s longest man-made waterway, though, strictly speaking, not all of it is a canal. The canal as originally built was 8.5 miles long, 28 feet wide at the bottom and 48 feet at the surface. Some important dates in the history of Lachine: - 1825: Inauguration of the Canal de Lachine - 1826: Opening of the Dawes Brewery - 1847: Arrival of the railway, making it possible to develop a business centre considered to be the cradle of industrialization in Canada - 1999: Merger of the City of Saint-Pierre with the City of Lachine - 2002: Lachine becomes a borough of Ville de Montréal Grand Canal, series of waterways in eastern and northern China that link Hangzhou in Zhejiang province with Beijing. The Erie Canal is a 363-mile waterway that connects the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean via the Hudson River in upstate New York. History Precursors. It was built to enable successive Chinese Other articles where Lachine Canal is discussed: La Salle: …the western terminus of the Lachine Canal—an 8.7-mile (14-km) waterway completed in the 1820s to bypass the Lachine Rapids. The channel, which