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Trent-Severn Waterway (Main Line)

 
 
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The Trent-Severn Waterway (Main Line) is a commercial waterway and is part of the Trent-Severn Waterway. It runs for 240.35 miles through 43 locks from Trent-Severn - Quinte Junction (where it joins the Bay of Quinte) to Trent-Severn - Georgian Junction (where it joins the Georgian Bay).

The exact dimensions of the largest boat that can travel on the waterway are not known. The maximum headroom is not known. The maximum draught is not known.

It has a junction with Trent-Severn Waterway (Lake Scugog Route) at Trent-Severn - Scugog Junction.

Trent-Severn - Quinte Junction
Junction of the Trent-Severn Canal and the Bay of Quinte
Veterans Skyway Bridge (Trenton) 0.81 miles 0 locks
J.D. MacDonald Bridge 1.17 miles 0 locks
C.P. Railway Bridge 1.73 miles 0 locks
C.N. Railway Bridge 2.63 miles 0 locks
Trenton Lock No 1 2.67 miles 0 locks
Highway of Heroes Bridge 3.15 miles 1 lock
Sidney Lock No 2 3.36 miles 1 lock
Glen Miller Bridge 4.76 miles 2 locks
Glen Miller Lock No 3 4.94 miles 2 locks
Batawa Lock No 4 6.36 miles 3 locks
Trent Lock No 5 7.69 miles 4 locks
Frankford Lock No 6 8.66 miles 5 locks
Frankford Bridge 9.03 miles 6 locks
Glen Ross Lock No 7 13.86 miles 6 locks
Glen Ross Swing Bridge 13.90 miles 7 locks
C.N.R. Railway Swing Bridge (derelict) 13.99 miles 7 locks
Percy Reach (eastern entrance) 20.01 miles 7 locks
Percy Reach Lock No 8 24.52 miles 7 locks
Meyers Lock No 9
South entrance to Haig's Reach
25.74 miles 8 locks
Haig's Reach Lock No 10
North entrance to Haig's Reach
27.33 miles 9 locks
Ranney Falls Lock Nos 11 and 12 29.11 miles 10 locks
Ranney Falls Swing Bridge 29.18 miles 12 locks
Campbellford Bridge 30.53 miles 12 locks
Campbellford Lock No 13 31.63 miles 12 locks
Crowe Bay Lock No 14 33.05 miles 13 locks
Lower Healey Falls Lock No 15 35.60 miles 14 locks
Healey Falls Swing Bridge 35.63 miles 15 locks
Upper Healey Falls Lock Nos 16 and 17 36.05 miles 15 locks
Healey Falls Bridge 36.73 miles 17 locks
Trent River Bridge 41.47 miles 17 locks
Hastings Lock No 18 49.38 miles 17 locks
Hastings Swing Bridge 49.40 miles 18 locks
Entrance to Rice Lake 55.49 miles 18 locks
Trent-Severn - Otonabee Junction
Junction of the Trent-Severn Waterway with the Otonabee River
68.67 miles 18 locks
Bensfort Bridge 74.53 miles 18 locks
Wallace Point Bridge 78.03 miles 18 locks
Otonabee River Bridges 84.67 miles 18 locks
Scotts Mills Lock No 19 86.19 miles 18 locks
Lansdowne Street Bridge (Peterborough) 86.31 miles 19 locks
C.N.R Swing Bridge
Railway swing bridge
86.44 miles 19 locks
Little Lake 86.85 miles 19 locks
Ashburnham Lock No 20 87.07 miles 19 locks
Maria Street Swing Bridge 87.18 miles 20 locks
C.P.R. Swing Bridge
Railway swing bridge
87.30 miles 20 locks
Peterborough Lift Lock No 21 87.73 miles 20 locks
Norwood Road Bridge 88.23 miles 21 locks
Warsaw Road Swing Bridge
With accompanying guard gates
88.70 miles 21 locks
Nassau Mills Bridge 91.03 miles 21 locks
Rotary Greenway Trail Bridge 91.23 miles 21 locks
Trent University Footbridge 91.72 miles 21 locks
Nassau Mills Lock No 22 92.19 miles 21 locks
Otonabee Lock No 23 92.81 miles 22 locks
Douro Lock No 24 94.43 miles 23 locks
Sawer Creek Lock No 25 95.41 miles 24 locks
Lakefield Lock No 26 96.88 miles 25 locks
Lakefield Bridge 97.21 miles 26 locks
Young's Point Bridge 102.70 miles 26 locks
Young's Point Lock No 27 102.80 miles 26 locks
Clear Lake (southern entrance) 103.14 miles 27 locks
Clear Lake (northern entrance) 108.02 miles 27 locks
Stoney Lake 109.09 miles 27 locks
Burleigh Falls Bridge 111.68 miles 27 locks
Burleigh Falls Lock No 28 111.72 miles 27 locks
Lovesick Lock No 30 113.49 miles 28 locks
Buckhorn Bridge 119.28 miles 29 locks
Buckhorn Lock No 31 119.31 miles 29 locks
Buckhorn Lake 124.66 miles 30 locks
Gannon Narrows Bridge 128.71 miles 30 locks
Pigeon Lake (eastern entrance) 130.19 miles 30 locks
Pigeon Lake (western entrance) 136.29 miles 30 locks
Bobcaygeon Bridge 137.08 miles 30 locks
Bobcaygeon Swing Bridge 137.48 miles 30 locks
Bobcaygeon Lock No 32 137.53 miles 30 locks
Sturgeon Lake (eastern entrance) 140.17 miles 31 locks
Trent-Severn - Scugog Junction
Junction of the Trent-Severn Waterway and the access to Lake Scugog
145.53 miles 31 locks
Sturgeon Lake (western entrance) 147.27 miles 31 locks
Fenelon Falls Bridge 149.69 miles 31 locks
Fenelon Falls Lock No 34 149.72 miles 31 locks
Cameron Lake (southern entrance) 150 miles 32 locks
Cameron Lake (northern entrance) 152.80 miles 32 locks
Rosedale Lock No 35 153.46 miles 32 locks
Rosedale Bridge 154.34 miles 33 locks
Balsam Lake (eastern entrance) 154.49 miles 33 locks
Balsam Lake (western entrance) 159.72 miles 33 locks
Victoria Road Bridge 161.62 miles 33 locks
Mitchell Lake Bridge 163.23 miles 33 locks
Kirkfield Lift Lock No 36 165.78 miles 33 locks
Canal Lake High Arch Bridge 169.66 miles 34 locks
Bolsover Swing Bridge 172.09 miles 34 locks
Boundary Road Swing Bridge 173.48 miles 34 locks
Bolsover Lock No 37 173.90 miles 34 locks
Talbot Lock No 38 174.91 miles 35 locks
Durham Road Bridge 175.07 miles 36 locks
Portage Lock No 39 176.58 miles 36 locks
Thorah Lock No 40 177.11 miles 37 locks
Gamebridge Lock No 41 177.85 miles 38 locks
Gambridge Bridge 177.92 miles 39 locks
C.N.R. Bridge (Gamebridge) 178.81 miles 39 locks
Lakeshore Road Swing Bridge 179.31 miles 39 locks
Lake Simcoe (eastern entrance) 179.49 miles 39 locks
Lake Simcoe (northern entrance) 193.74 miles 39 locks
Atherley Narrows Bridge 195.09 miles 39 locks
Lake Couchiching (southern entrance) 195.91 miles 39 locks
Lake Couchiching (northern entrance) 205.84 miles 39 locks
Muskoka Road Bridge 206.28 miles 39 locks
C.N.R. Railway Swing Bridge 207.20 miles 39 locks
Couchiching Lock No 42 208.02 miles 39 locks
Hamlet Swing Bridge 210.64 miles 40 locks
Sparrow Lake (southern entrance) 211.80 miles 40 locks
Sparrow Lake (northern entrance)
Entrance to the Portlock Channel
214.68 miles 40 locks
McLean Bay 215.29 miles 40 locks
McDonald's Cut (eastern entrance) 219.31 miles 40 locks
McDonald's Cut (western entrance) 219.75 miles 40 locks
C.N.R. Bridge 220.70 miles 40 locks
Swift Rapids Lock No 43 222.85 miles 40 locks
C.P.R. Bridge 226.67 miles 41 locks
Big Chute Marine Railway Lock No 44
This is a boat lift
230.46 miles 41 locks
Port Severn Lock No 45 237.08 miles 42 locks
Port Severn Swing Bridge 237.10 miles 43 locks
Tug Channel Bridges 237.42 miles 43 locks
Trent-Severn - Georgian Junction
Junction of the Trent-Severn Canal and Georgian Bay
240.35 miles 43 locks
 
 
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The Trent–Severn Waterway is a 386-kilometre-long canal route (240 miles) connecting Lake Ontario at Trenton to Georgian Bay, Lake Huron, at Port Severn. Its major natural waterways include the Trent River, Otonabee River, Kawartha Lakes, Lake Simcoe, Lake Couchiching and Severn River. Its scenic, meandering route has been called "one of the finest interconnected systems of navigation in the world".

The canal was surveyed as a military route, but the first lock was built in 1833 as a commercial venture. This connected a number of lakes and rivers near the centre of the waterway, opening a large area to navigation by steamship. The government had begun construction of three additional locks when the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837 broke out. This led the government to re-examine the project, concluding that the route would have too many locks to allow rapid movement for military purposes. They decided that the locks under construction would be completed, but the rest could be turned into timber slides. This left the completed inland section with no outlet, which business interests addressed by connecting to the route with a number of new toll roads, plank roads, and later, railways.

John A. Macdonald's government restarted construction in the 1880s, adding a number of new locks and pushing the route westward before construction once again halted. For many years after this, the canal was used as a political tool to garner votes from areas along the route, with little construction being carried out. It was not until just before the turn of the century that a number of political changes built up incredible pressure on Wilfrid Laurier's Liberals and serious work started once again. The canal reached Peterborough and Lake Simcoe in 1904. The final sections were greatly delayed by World War I, with the link to Trenton opening in 1918, followed by the link to Georgian Bay in early 1920. The first complete transit of the waterway was made in July of that year.

By the time the route was completed its use as a commercial waterway was over; ships plying the Great Lakes had grown much larger than the canal could handle, and the railways that had connected to the canal now took most of its freight. But the introduction of motor boats led to the Trent–Severn's emergence as a pleasure boating route, and today it is one of Ontario's major tourist attractions. Its passage through cottage country, both Muskoka in the west and the Kawarthas in the east, makes it perfectly positioned as a cruising route, drawing thousands of visitors every year. It also forms a major portion of the Great Loop. Today it is officially organized as a National Historic Site of Canada linear park operated by Parks Canada It is open for navigation from May until October, while its shore lands and bridges are open year-round.

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