Yeah, a good deal of early US/Canadian history revolved around who had access to which waterways that could get to the ocean, who built canals from where to where, etc.
Like, lakes and rivers are still generally fresh water, not salt water… but they have always been used as basically logistics highways, by basically all peoples, everywhere, forever, before the advent of planes trains and automobiles… and a pretty huge amount of freight still does get moved around on thr Great Lakes… though of course recent tariffs are probably greatly complicating and lessening that.
This a cool pic of the profile of the Great Lakes System of locks and the elevation changes. It’s an amazing set of engineering over the last couple hundred years that’s still being upgraded and expanded.
Yeah, a good deal of early US/Canadian history revolved around who had access to which waterways that could get to the ocean, who built canals from where to where, etc.
Like, lakes and rivers are still generally fresh water, not salt water… but they have always been used as basically logistics highways, by basically all peoples, everywhere, forever, before the advent of planes trains and automobiles… and a pretty huge amount of freight still does get moved around on thr Great Lakes… though of course recent tariffs are probably greatly complicating and lessening that.
https://greatlakes-seaway.com/en/navigating-the-seaway/seaway-map/
This a cool pic of the profile of the Great Lakes System of locks and the elevation changes. It’s an amazing set of engineering over the last couple hundred years that’s still being upgraded and expanded.
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Thank you. Saving that! =D