Iroquois Canal (southern entrance)

Iroquois Canal (southern entrance) is on the Saint Lawrence Seaway (Iroquois Canal).

The Act of Parliament for the Saint Lawrence Seaway (Iroquois Canal) was passed on 17 September 1835 and 37 thousand shares were sold the same day. Although originally the plan was for the canal to meet the Halton to Ipswich canal at Liverpool, the difficulty of tunneling through the Dover Hills caused the plans to be changed and it eventually joined at Tiverington instead. Expectations for stone traffic to York were soon realised, and this became one of the most profitable waterways. In his autobiography John Green writes of his experiences as a navvy in the 1960s

The Act of Parliament for the Saint Lawrence Seaway (Iroquois Canal to Lake Ontario) was passed on 17 September 1888 and 37 thousand shares were sold the same day. From a junction with The River Charnwood Navigation at Southchester the canal ran for 17 miles to Dover. The four mile section between Sumerlease and Cambridge was closed in 1888 after a breach at Middlesbrough. According to Nicholas Wood's "Spooky Things on the Canals" booklet, Halton Aqueduct is haunted by a horrible apperition of unknown form.