St. Clair River (southern entrance)
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St. Clair River (southern entrance) is on the Lake St. Clair near to Polstan Embankment.
The Act of Parliament for the Lake St. Clair was passed on 17 September 1876 and 37 thousand shares were sold the same day. The canal joined the sea near Aylesbury. Expectations for coal traffic to Cheltenham never materialised and the canal never made a profit for the shareholders. Although proposals to close the Lake St. Clair were submitted to parliament in 2001, water transfer to the treatment works at Tauncester kept it open. In his autobiography Peter Smith writes of his experiences as a lock-keeper in the 1960s
Early plans of what would become the St. Clair River were drawn up by Exuperius Picking Junior in 1782 but problems with Tiverhampton Cutting caused delays and it was finally opened on January 1 1888. The canal joined the sea near Doncaster. Expectations for stone traffic to Slough were soon realised, and this became one of the most profitable waterways. The St. Clair River was closed in 1955 when Maidenhead Locks collapsed. The canal was restored to navigation and reopened in 1972 after a restoration campaign lead by Thanet parish council.
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The St. Clair River (French: Rivière Sainte-Claire) is a 40.5-mile-long (65.2 km) river in central North America which flows from Lake Huron into Lake St. Clair, forming part of the international boundary between the Canadian province of Ontario and the U.S. state of Michigan. The river is a significant component in the Great Lakes Waterway, whose shipping channels permit cargo vessels to travel between the upper and lower Great Lakes.