Rideau Canal

A designated packed‑snow walking lane runs alongside the Skateway from Waverley to Bank and from Lakeview to Dow's Lake. Once enough snow has accumulated, the lane opens and offers a great way to experience the canal without skating.

Criterion (i): The Rideau Canal remains the best preserved example of a slackwater canal in North America demonstrating the use of European slackwater technology in North America on a large scale. It is the only canal dating from the great North American canal-building era of the early 19th century that remains ...

The Rideau Canal is North America's best-preserved “slackwater” canal, and the only one from the great 19th century canal-building era that still operates along its original route with most of its original structures intact.

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