Handout Not For Resale Handout Not For Resale In its first year of operation, the Seaway’s season ran just 222 days. This undated photo provided by Becky Brownell shows Iroquois lock, while under construction. Handout/Cornwall Standard-Freeholder/Postmedia Network These photos published in the June 25, 1959, edition of the Standard-Freeholder, highlighting the gifts the city would be presenting to Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip during their stay in the city on June 27, 1959. Handout Not For Resale, Handout/Postmedia Network Marie, Michigan, which link lakes Huron and Superior. All rights reserved.   /Supplied, Handout/Postmedia Network House movers were a frequent sight as the summer of 1958 got closer.

Ships can be raised more than 180 metres above sea level, the equivalent of 60 storeys. Balloons and fireworks were released when the ship's bow passed a symbolic gate at St Lambert Lock made of old timbers from the lock of the Lachine canal. (CP Wirephoto/The Kingston Whig-Standard), A photo of the Iroquois Control Dam during construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway in the late 1950s. An undated photo provided by Becky Brownell. Land is expropriated and entire towns are resettled near Cornwall, Ontario.

The channel below the St. Lambert Lock continues to a point below the Jacques Cartier Bridge, where it meets the St. Lawrence River in the middle of Montreal Harbour. The CCGS D'IBERVILLE has on board many distinguished guests from American and Canadian governments as well as businessmen and employees associated with the construction of the new Seaway.   /Supplied, Handout/Cornwall Standard-Freeholder/Postmedia Network This undated photo provided by Becky Brownell shows the area where the powerhouse construction would take place.

This undated photo provided by Becky Brownell shows Iroquois lock, while under construction.   /Supplied, Handout/Postmedia Network Handout Not For Resale

/Submitted Photo, Photo of the completed St. Lawrence Seaway Cornwall canal entrance taken by Carl Malcolm in the late 1950's. Handout Not For Resale Handout Not For Resale Photos by Carl Malcolm/Submitted Photo/Postmedia Network Handout Not For Resale.   Submitted

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Photo was taken in Moulinette. This photo provided by Becky Brownell shows the home of Ross and Bev Alguire (her grandparents) on Aug. 1, 1956, before the equipment arrived to move it from the Lost Village of Milles Roches to Milles Roches Road in Long Sault.

Grain and iron ore account for more than half of yearly traffic. Handout Not For Resale

Photos by Carl Malcolm/Submitted Photo/Postmedia Network Between the two outlets lies the U.S./Canada border. Handout Not For Resale, Handout/Postmedia Network

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Note the cofferdams, suggesting the photos was likely taken in 1954 or 1955.

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