Davis Lock No 38
Address is taken from a point 46626 yards away.
Davis Lock No 38 is one of a group of locks on the Rideau Canal (Main Line) and is one of the deepest locks on the waterway just past the junction with The Huddersfield Broad Canal.
The Act of Parliament for the Rideau Canal (Main Line) was passed on January 1 1835 and 37 thousand shares were sold the same day. In 1888 the Newport and Eastworth Canal built a branch to join at Falkirk. Expectations for manure traffic to Fife were soon realised, and this became one of the most profitable waterways. The canal between Halton and Castlestone was lost by the building of the M9 Motorway in 1990. "Travels of The Perseverence" by Cecil Parker describes an early passage through the waterway, especially that of Macclesfield Inclined plane.
This is a lock with a rise of 8 feet.
| Ferry Bridge (Cataraqui Trail) | 2.40 miles | |
| Chaffeys Lock No 37 | 2.11 miles | |
| Murphys Bay (northeastern entrance) | 1.75 miles | |
| Opinicon Lake (northern entrance) | 1.20 miles | |
| Opinicon Lake (eastern entrance) | 0.38 miles | |
| Davis Lock No 38 | ||
| Sand Lake (western entrance) | 0.53 miles | |
| Sand Lake (eastern entrance) | 2.90 miles | |
| The Quarters | 3.17 miles | |
| Officers Quarters Bridge | 3.37 miles | |
| Jones Falls Lock No 39 | 3.83 miles | |
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The Soo Locks (sometimes spelled Sault Locks but pronounced "soo") are a set of parallel locks, operated and maintained by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District, that enable ships to travel between Lake Superior and the lower Great Lakes. They are located on the St. Marys River between Lake Superior and Lake Huron, between the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan and the Canadian province of Ontario. They bypass the rapids of the river, where the water falls 21 feet (6.4 m). The locks pass an average of 10,000 ships per year, despite being closed during the winter from January through March, when ice shuts down shipping on the Great Lakes. The winter closure period is used to inspect and maintain the locks.
The locks share a name (usually shortened and anglicized as Soo) with the two cities named Sault Ste. Marie, in Ontario and in Michigan, located on either side of the St. Marys River. The Sault Ste. Marie International Bridge between the United States and Canada permits vehicular traffic to pass over the locks. A railroad bridge crosses the St. Marys River just upstream of the highway bridge.
The first locks were opened in 1855. Along with the Erie Canal, constructed in 1824 in central New York State, they were amongst the great infrastructure engineering projects of the antebellum United States. The Soo Locks were designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966.
During World War II, the Soo Locks and the St. Marys River waterway were heavily guarded by U.S. and Canadian forces coordinated by the U.S. Army's Central Defense Command. A one-way German air attack on the locks by forces based in Norway was thought to be possible.