Rideau King Model

I visited the Rideau Canal Visitor Centre, at 34 Beckwith St South in Smiths Falls. On one of the four floors of exhibits I found and photographed this model of Rideau King.

I will be including these pictures with all the ones I took outside and inside the visitor centre when I post them on my blog site, Memorials in Ottawa. I have taken on visiting and photographing all the lockstations on the Rideau Canal as well as related features, primarily moveable bridges, as well as related plaques, commemorations, cemeteries and so on. I have a page on my blog site where you can track my progress. The page also provides links to all the blog posts that relate to the canal. I will likely begin publishing posts on the lock stations, starting with Ottawa some time in the summer of 2020.

I have also photographed many boats on the canal. These will be included on my blog site, but I'll be sharing them here some time before they'll appear on that site.

Kawartha Voyageur at Merrickville Lock Station

I went to Merrickville on July 26, 2019 to photograph the lock station and blockhouse there for my blog site, Memorials in Ottawa. I plan to photograph all the lock stations and other features, mostly moving bridges, of the Rideau Canal system, as it is a UNESCO World Heritage site. Merrickville is the tenth lock station I have photographed so far. I hope to at least include the next four to Smiths Falls before the end of August.

While in Merrickville, Ontario Waterway Cruises' Kawartha Voyageur went through the locks and, of course, I photographed it. I'll be including these pictures in the post on Memorials in Ottawa some time in about ten to twelve months. I'm posting them here now so you have a bit of a preview of the larger number of pictures of the lock station and blockhouse.

As you will see in the pictures, the bow folds up so the boat can be the maximum size that will fit into a Rideau Canal lock. Keep in mind I went to photograph the lock station, not the boat, and that will be evident in some of the photographs. I'm showing them here in the order I took them.

These forty-seven pictures are about 20% of the pictures I took of the lock station. I may not use all of them with the post on the lock station. I'm posting them all here. I hope you enjoy them.