리도 운하 (Rideau Canal)
ㅇ 오타와 강 유역의 오타와 시와 온타리오 호에 접해 있는 킹스턴 시를 연결.
ㅇ 원래 군사수송로로 건설되었으나(1826~32) 그 목적으로는 한 번도 사용되지 않았고 19세기 들어 상업적으로 이용되기 전에는 이주민들을 실어나르는 데 이용되었다.
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The Rideau Canal, a monumental early 19th-century construction covering 202 km of the Rideau and Cataraqui rivers from Ottawa south to Kingston Harbour on Lake Ontario, was built primarily for strategic military purposes at a time when Great Britain and the United States vied for control of the region. The site, one of the first canals to be designed specifically for steam-powered vessels, also features an ensemble of fortifications. It is the best-preserved example of a slackwater canal in North America, demonstrating the use of this European technology on a large scale. It is the only canal dating from the great North American canal-building era of the early 19th century to remain operational along its original line with most of its structures intact.
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