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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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The Story of the St Lawrence Seaway

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Romance of transportation

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There go the boats

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