Lesson 10- Lachine canal Flashcards
canal lachine was built by what kind of immigrants?
irish
the idea of the lachine canal was?
to link an existing waterway system
what happened in august of 1689?
most workers were killed in a major raid on the lachine rapids
when did they enlarge the canal for the 1st time?
in the 40s
how many locks does the canal have?
5
what killed the development of the lachine canal?
the st lawrence seaway
at the end of the 18th century, what was the only industry in mtl?
the fur trade
who built condos in 1 McGill?
Cardinal Hardy
what did Cardinal Hardy find when building condos at 1 McGill?
an abandoned shipyard (Munn shipyard)
to stock the goods coming on the canal lachine, we have?
warehouses
what are 2 important warehouses next to lachine canal?
Buchanan (John Wells, 1845) and Busby Lambe (Hopkins, Lawford and Nelson, 1857)
what are characteristics of these warehouses?
small windows, not high ceilings, many floors
what happened to these warehouses?
mostly became condos in the 2000s
What are some examples of bassins next to canal lachine?
flour mill basin, Wellington basin,
there was a problem of crossing the canal, so they created:
Wellington Crossing
Wellington tunnel was used for?
tramways
wellington crossing has what that is special?
3 major crossing types, railway, road transportation and navigation
little town that nobody knows close to Griffintown:
Victoriatown, created first as barracks for irish, then transformed into a village by demolishing barraques.
one of the engineer of victoria bridge?
stevenson
all the streetnames of victoria town were named after:
history about stevenson the architect
a canal without _____ doesn’t work
locks
the canal was built from ___ to ___ and then enlarged in the ____
21-25, 40s
a canal is a series of
artificial falls
what are the 3 industrial zones of the lachine canal called?
1, 2, 3
Redpath refinery was built in
1854, and it was the tallest building at the time, architect: John Ostell, didnt use the lachine canal energy but steam engines, considered an italian renaissance palace
why did the redpath refinery die?
because the canal closed and the transportation costs sky rocketed
on des seigneurs and notre dame at lock 3, the 2 banks and architects at the entrance?
Bank of MTL (Sir Andrew Taylor, 1894) and Merchant’s bank (Edward Maxwell, 1895)
Atwater Market, architect and year?
Ludger and Paul Lemieux, 1932-33
St Ambroise renaissance examples:
Shoiry & Fortin house, Shoiry & Fortin architects, 1992
St Ambroise Residences, L’Oeuf architect, 1996
Habitations Saint-Ambroise, Affleck & de la Riva architect, 2003
