Rideau Canal named a global gem
Makes me happy as the "chocolate pot" I bought in their donation bric-a-brac shop and a cloth take-out bag when before "SUV" we rented from the Canada leaser to geological survey some of their 4-wheel drive vehicles for an archaeological survey along the St. Lawrence Seaway, nearby. Some of the "eminent domain" properties for the Seaway construction (a federal agency now headquartered in the Union Hotel in Sacketts Harbor part of a New York State Urban Cultural Park, in the news recently for a part of an 1812 fort found, probably in the big "retirement community reuse" of historical property. Much of it, "birthplace of the US Navy" (nearby Watertown, and Fort Drum, NY, and in it Dr. Guthrie's ether, Zebulon Pike's "grave" noted history) was once placed (federally, mostly fallen down wooden structures) on the lake ice in winter and lays offshore on the bottom of Lake Ontario. On a small crew with "Archaeology" magazine editor Angela Schuster, we discovered an unmarked coffin near the surface of the "Parade Ground" when another company had noted scattered human remains in some of their shovel tests for the reuse of the Madison Barracks, where among others, the future president of the U.S. Ulysses S. Grant served first, fresh out of West Point Military Academy.
When I was there the Rideau Canal stepped locks were dry and being restored. I heard you can ice skate around Ottawa partly because of it. I had to sign and purchase a bond, that the Canadian vehicles were not being used to take jobs away from Americans. Joke from Sacketts Harbor: "What did one bone say to the other bone?" "Let's get up and get some dinner across the river." Once the largest encampment in the US (30-45,000?) The New York units refused to invade Canada.
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