PINKSTON - Where Two Canals Meet

Around the year 1900, Glasgow decided to move away from horse-drawn trams and all that manure and electrify its trams.
It was a massive undertaking that not only involved somehow producing all the electricity needed to move all the trams, but also meant somehow fixing miles of steel cable over the city's streets.
So they built a power station - Pinkston Power Station - at the junction of two canals: the Forth & Clyde Canal and the Monklands Canal.
The huge cooling tower once attached to that power station was built much later than the power station itself. It was constructed in the 1950s, and for much of the second half of the twentieth century it dominated the Glasgow skyline, finding its way into many photographs. Such was its size that it did at times look as if a power station had been built in the very heart of Glasgow. In many ways it had.
The part of the canal on which the cooling tower was later built (a filled-in basin that is now part of Pinkston Water Sports) was built not long after completion of both canals in the 1790s, and was constructed to join the Forth & Clyde Canal and Monklands Canal together.
The problem I have is that I'm just not sure where exactly this short section of canal - referred to as the 'Cut of Junction' - actually ran to and from. It seems likely that it ran from the terminus of each canal. But where was each terminus?
Online sources say that this 'Cut of Junction' ran between the twin basin that today is occupied by Pinkston Water Sports and a basin on the Monklands Canal not far from Glasgow Cathedral. Certainly a mid-19th century map clearly mentions the 'Cut of Junction' at the twin basins. But where did it start and end?
I think it highly likely that the branch of the Forth & Clyde Canal, also called the Great Canal, leading from Stockingfield Junction to Port Dundas actually ended at Port Dundas. We can clearly see the location of the area called Port Dundas back then on old maps. I think it unlikely that this canal carried on further.
Peter Fleming's map of 1807, drawn after completion of both canals and the cut linking them, mentions the Monklands Canal, but the name is given at a location that we have come to know as part of the Forth & Clyde Canal.
Are many current online sources wrong and Peter Fleming correct? Did the 'Cut of Junction' actually run between the Monklands Basin close to Glasgow Cathedral and a basin at Port Dundas?
So many questions, and very few answers. We are of course having to refer to old maps that are often inaccurate.
The first Statistical Account dating to 1794, right at the time when both canals were being built, had this to say:
'The Forth and Clyde navigation was begun to be cut on the 10th of July 1768, and was opened as far as Stockingfield, in this parish, 10th July 1775; a side-cut was brought forward to Hamilton-Hill, November 1777, where a large basin was formed for the reception of vessels, and large granaries and other buildings erected. They are now carrying forward this side-cut, in order to form a junction with the Monkland Canal, which runs eastward through this parish to the collieries in Monkland Parish, and extends to 12 miles in length. On this side-cut, a new basin is to be formed at Hundred Acre Hill in this parish, within half a mile of Glasgow; here granaries, and other buildings are to be erected, and a new village built, to be called Port Dundas.'
This description suggests to me that the 'Cut of Junction' linking both canals actually ran from Hamilton Hill, through Port Dundas and on to link with the Monklands Canal. To be honest, I'm still unsure where it joined with the Monklands Canal, but without doubt the section of canal at Port Dundas and Spiers Wharf was a part of that joining cut, and I'm not convinced that everyone else realises that.
Anyway, back to the power station. These days much of the industry that once lined the canals has gone. Even the trams have gone, so there's no need for Pinkston Power Station and its huge cooling tower. And all that's left these days is the canal itself, a place of leisure where you can stroll and wonder. I'm good at wondering!