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🦆 “The Towpath Beckons Once Again” heliomass.com/posts/2501-the-t

New on the blog, and a belated first post of the year: A photo essay on London’s Regent’s Canal.

Heliomass.comThe Towpath Beckons Once Again | heliomass.com
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l@heliomass@mstdn.ca Nice. I'm not sure I'd compare the canals in/around London to the Lachine Canal. The latter is very much a portage canal to get around the rapids that start roughly at the entrance to the canal. Weren't the London canals mostly "freight distribution" canals? Also ...

The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archeology, Vol. 29, No. 1,
WATERPOWER, THE LACHINE CANAL, AND THE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OF MONTREAL (2003)

jstor.org/stable/40968607