From industrial highway to developer’s paradise, Montreal’s Lachine Canal turns 200
The 14-kilometre Lachine Canal, which opened in 1825, was built largely by Irish immigrants, who settled in the neighbourhood now called Griffintown.
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https://globalnews.ca/news/10939753/montreal-lachine-canal-200-years/