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The Rideau: Colonel By's peaceable waterway

Canada, 1975
film

A look at the history of the Rideau Canal — its original military purpose, its painstaking contruction between 1826 and 1831, its effects on the land ar..

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Rideau Canal: reflections

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Seaway to the heartland

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Royal river [Abridged version]

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The Story of the St Lawrence Seaway

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Romance of transportation

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The Jolifou inn

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Ottawa, today and tomorrow

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World of the waterways

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River watch

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Ottawa: reflection of a nation

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Summer pageantry

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The Rise and fall of the Great Lakes

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There go the boats

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The Voyageurs

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Our street was paved with gold

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From the ashes of war

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Great Lakes

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