Highway H2O - The Great Lakes-St Lawrence Seaway

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  • The Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway stretches some 3,700kms from Anticosti island at the gulf of the St. Lawrence to the westernmost port of Duluth, Minnesota on Lake Superior. Before the seaway, ships sailing around the great lakes were stuck at either end of the impassable Niagara River due to the falls - for cities like Detroit, Cleveland, and Chicago - something had to be done.
    The St. Lawrence Seaway, on its completion in 1959, was one of the most impressive and complex infrastructure projects ever undertaken - not to mention by two countries at once! Today, the seaway brings ocean-going traffic to ports on lakes Ontario, Erie, Huron, Superior, and Michigan - and brings the products from these communities to markets around the world.
    Come with us on an adventure along the seaway - and discover what the Highway H20 is all about!
    Produced by Gerrit Wesselink.
    Filmed and Edited by Jon Wesselink.
    Black Lives Matter.

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  • @dan1of10bechtold6
    @dan1of10bechtold6 2 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Well done, young man. Don't stop, you are worth hearing.

    • @billyjoejimbob56
      @billyjoejimbob56 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Totally agree... you did an excellent job! Let me suggest a followup research subject to you: The first U.S. built Great Lakes freighter to be built since 1981, the Mark W. Barker, recently departed Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin for its new home port of Cleveland, Ohio. The owner is Interlake Steamship, owned by the Barker family. Noteworthy is it size, Seaway Max in width and draft, and shorter than that to enable navigation in the Cayahoga River port of Cleveland. The first of a new era?... maybe. I'll bet if you requested an interview with Mr. Barker, he would agree in a heartbeat. Check it out!

  • @timdowney6721
    @timdowney6721 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I was a kid living in Chicago when the St Lawerence Seaway officially opened. I recall a big to-do on the Chicago lakefront that my Dad took me to. A bit of history.

  • @TributetoCanada
    @TributetoCanada 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    A masterpiece. Watched it today for homeschooling to learn about the St.Lawrence Seaway. How well this topic was covered by your professional video cannot be overstated! Subscribing!

    • @canadaehxplained77
      @canadaehxplained77  3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Thank you so much! That means a lot!!

    • @trainrover
      @trainrover 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      admirably true 👏 you masterfully weave comprehensiveness and conciseness together .. although I did relish chortling at stock footage of today's puppeteered corporateers as being representative of boldly passionate Edwardian entrepreneurs of yore just now 👀

  • @multaniloverofbeer
    @multaniloverofbeer ปีที่แล้ว +3

    My mom lived in Irquois Ontario while the locks were being built. She had the pleasure of watching all the houses in old Iroquois get moved to the new town.
    Her grandfathers very large brick house on their estate could not be moved and had to be abandoned as it was likely to be underwater. It broke his heart to leave and have it knocked down. Only to find out the engineers were wrong and his house and most of his estate was fine.
    I've seen some of the pictures my mom took while in highschool. Very neat to see.
    Miss you mom.

  • @joegarcia2969
    @joegarcia2969 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    wow ! ! ! ! ...working together again with our neighbors CANADA bravooooo....besides my relatives in Canada, is the reason we love Canada...its like being Canadian when we go there...educate you us more young man...this is stuff i have always wonder about.

  • @zaptor1514
    @zaptor1514 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Excellent presentation! You answered so many of my questions. There is so much information I’ll be replaying it. I remember in 1960 my parents took me to see the Indian Lock and the one near Cornwall. In 2017 I revisited them. Thanks for your presentation.

  • @chriskrebs6238
    @chriskrebs6238 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Loved it always wanted to see great lakes and 🇨🇦

  • @kennethboehnlein51
    @kennethboehnlein51 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    An excellent presentation.

  • @edthe2nd
    @edthe2nd ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I was wondering how ships go from the great lakes to the Atlantic and this was perfectly done.

  • @molicar78
    @molicar78 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great Video. ¡Impresive! Very informative, interesting and entertaining. I'll be checking more videos. I'm watching from Puerto Rico.

  • @atsekoutsoube
    @atsekoutsoube 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Well Done Lad. From an old shipping professional and geography enthusiast. I subscribed

  • @Captaink-1
    @Captaink-1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I grew up in the St. Lawrence and Lake Ontario region of NY, and My Father was one of the Electricians who worked on the Robert Moses Power Dam. I enjoyed your video very much. Thank you!

  • @ikmarchini
    @ikmarchini 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Wonderful video. Answered all my questions. Also good to hear things from a Canadian perspective. You know, down below we think we invented oxygen.

  • @xkiwi100
    @xkiwi100 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    congratulations on your video I lived in Welland in 1970 Thanks from Belgium

    • @jayhopkins6990
      @jayhopkins6990 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hello from a fellow Wellander who started in sixty three and still lives in welland.🍁😁 Take care.

  • @maryj560
    @maryj560 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you for opening up alot of eyes to this great feat! loved it!

  • @0nickers0
    @0nickers0 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    i live in the UK... amazing information on the this geographical region I've always had a keen interest on👍🤗

    • @SpireUtd
      @SpireUtd 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yup, me too. Have took the trip boat on the Manchester Ship Canal though 😂

  • @andrewriley4990
    @andrewriley4990 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This was an AWESOME presentation both informative and entertaining ......excellent work and THANKS for sharing 👍👍👍

  • @tombrownca
    @tombrownca 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wow, this Californian learned a LOT! We frankly never think about this region or how the Lakes drain to the ocean.
    I have Irish ancestors who nearly 200 years ago maybe worked on the locks near Cornwall. And others who left England for Quebec, eventually to NYC 60 years later. So, I came to learn, and I did!! Thank you!
    I think you could roll the credits with Gordon Lightfoot in the background at the end. 😊

  • @mohammadiqbalkhan2888
    @mohammadiqbalkhan2888 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thoroughly enjoyable !

  • @recycle343
    @recycle343 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you, very informing.

  • @TOTALCAMARO
    @TOTALCAMARO 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great video but I’m going to have to watch it again just to get all those different locks straight in my mind lol Very informative thank you 😊

  • @natecoyfishing
    @natecoyfishing 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This was so neat to watch! I do not know much about my great grandfather who passed in 1960, but I always remember hearing one thing... that he worked on the St Lawrence Seaway as a heavy machinery operator. He lived in a small trailer in Massena NY for a couple years while he worked there.

    • @maryj560
      @maryj560 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      How cool your great grand dad worked here. Must be proud of that . I would be :)

  • @1pilotsteve
    @1pilotsteve 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Very Very well done young man..

  • @jean-paulefford4817
    @jean-paulefford4817 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Nicely put together! tons of relevant research crunched into a short 20 min video, using it for my science class. Looking fwd to other ones.

  • @ivanscottself9077
    @ivanscottself9077 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This was very informative and well done. Thank you for posting this.

  • @robg5176
    @robg5176 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Well done! Thank you.

  • @johnwurfel2862
    @johnwurfel2862 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you for recording the passage.

  • @IzzyOnTheMove
    @IzzyOnTheMove 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    oh, Parry Sound. i miss it! it has an amazing little bakery with the best cakes i ever had in my life. 🍰

  • @craigs1266
    @craigs1266 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I enjoyed this video very much, thank you.

  • @dremezyro6851
    @dremezyro6851 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    wow, what a fantastically well made video. it contained exactly the information I needed, and the video part of it was just great, ive always wanted more of the google maps zoom things, makes it so much easier to wrap your head around.

  • @JustMe-pp8mn
    @JustMe-pp8mn 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Excellent presentation and very informative. I was going to say that this should be included in geography class. When I was young, I loved to go to the Snell and Eisenhauer locks in Massena, NY to watch the ships go through . Never got tired of seeing that, also visiting the power station.

    • @timdowney6721
      @timdowney6721 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      LOL, when I lived in Seattle, I was in easy walking distance to the Ballard Locks. It is a nice park, and a pleasant place to spend a summer afternoon, watching the boats come and go. There is a fish ladder there, so you can see some big salmon in the right season, along with sea lions looking for a meal.

  • @lollypopdrop3961
    @lollypopdrop3961 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is so well done. I have viewed several segments again, and again. Your presentation makes this subject fascinating!

  • @yogitam2372
    @yogitam2372 19 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Great video and very informative. I didn't know all this about our northern states and Canada. Thank you.

  • @jenniferkiger
    @jenniferkiger 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This was well done and so interesting, thank you!

  • @KevinTheNavigator1
    @KevinTheNavigator1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I really love this video can’t wait to do a video on the Great Lakes ❤very informative

  • @davidjha
    @davidjha ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Informative, to the point, and you're really a great communicator, keep it up eh?!

  • @IanZainea1990
    @IanZainea1990 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    RIP Edmund Fitzgerald. I live in Cleveland. And the port here is proud to note (and with reason) that we are the only Great Lakes container port (according to them) with regular shipments between Europe & Cleveland. So container shipping is 100% doable via the seaway, just not in the obscenely large ships.

  • @jeffreygraf3358
    @jeffreygraf3358 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Well done!

  • @chrisburke2085
    @chrisburke2085 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you so much. Always camped in kewadinne. and Wesley island. Love Milanos pizza. In Quanauque. Great information. Thanks from NY.

  • @rakeshlamba7997
    @rakeshlamba7997 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Splendid video!

  • @turkfiles
    @turkfiles ปีที่แล้ว

    Great job! Another Chicagoan here who remembers the official opening of the SLSW and the festivities that took place in Chicago.

  • @PeterPasieka
    @PeterPasieka ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great video full of information. Well done.

  • @SirAdamMeek
    @SirAdamMeek ปีที่แล้ว

    Thanks! Best vid on the Interwebs regarding this subject!

  • @Hal_T
    @Hal_T 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Excellent. Simply excellent.

  • @Sittingstraight12
    @Sittingstraight12 ปีที่แล้ว

    What a great video!! Thank you!

  • @namo5406
    @namo5406 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Very informative man! I'm a seaman myself but i work on mega container vessels on world wide trade. I hope i can travel in the great lakes one day if given the chance to work on some smaller ships. Anyways thanks for the video!

  • @thevoiceasian
    @thevoiceasian 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks for this amazing Document. Really interesting. A true gem.

  • @redrum0929
    @redrum0929 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Love this river!

  • @maxnikolenko2302
    @maxnikolenko2302 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    First, congrats on Great narrating skills. Very informative, easy to understand and follow. Never dull or boring, never repetitive, or sounding unprepared for the topic. Research is there, and the video images are crisp, colorfull yet easy on the eyes. The angle shots of ships, lakes, maps nature, equipment and so one looks highly professional. Nothing shaky.... just Profesional grade camera shots integrating modern wide looks. My personal favorite types of video and or still camera film shots are of birds eye view types. That takes effort and skill. Lots of practice and dedication to keeping the camera still on a moving drone (unless you paid somebody to get those shots for you). I can go on and on with the praises but ultimately.... GREAT JOB 👍

  • @bobm2331
    @bobm2331 ปีที่แล้ว

    I think I would like to know if the bread I eat was made with wheat shipped in an iron ore ship😂. Man that's one cleaning job. Well done Sir. Leaned a whole lot as an American.

  • @oneanddonetzone3673
    @oneanddonetzone3673 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Excellent well done! I’m thinking of sailing from Lake Michigan to the Atlantic Ocean so I’m starting my initial research thinking that perhaps maybe the St. Lawrence seaway would be the best but I don’t know yet but thank you for the information

    • @jerryvandyke9216
      @jerryvandyke9216 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hope you have LOTS of time. 😎🇨🇦

  • @davemi00
    @davemi00 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The Welland Canal the final connection to the inner Great Lakes.

  • @dally8399
    @dally8399 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great video, explains to a T

  • @SpireUtd
    @SpireUtd 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Very informative & makes me want to travel to see it. Crowd fund an old man from England anyone? 😂 Never visited Canada & always wanted too. 😢

  • @kyk1682
    @kyk1682 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great video

  • @elizabethbrower640
    @elizabethbrower640 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I’m hearing Gordon lightfoot singing the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald right now.

  • @waltereskridge5055
    @waltereskridge5055 ปีที่แล้ว

    You've done a terrific job.

  • @richardwilliamtobin904
    @richardwilliamtobin904 ปีที่แล้ว

    Outstanding job!

  • @NTomlin575
    @NTomlin575 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks for the video. Good job!

  • @519VXComanche
    @519VXComanche 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Awesome video! Extremely well done.

  • @michaelwhelan7868
    @michaelwhelan7868 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great video young man. Thank you.

  • @marylong-irwin2696
    @marylong-irwin2696 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great video...very informative. Good Job!

  • @simbiant4
    @simbiant4 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    he said Toronto right. Thumbs up.

  • @deanchapman1824
    @deanchapman1824 ปีที่แล้ว

    Excellent video!!!

  • @garlichaus5039
    @garlichaus5039 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A+

  • @stilltoyin
    @stilltoyin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Just found you today!! Great vid, look forward to seeing more! Oh Canada!

  • @allenwrobicheau
    @allenwrobicheau 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you and very well done

  • @JasonLianneMac
    @JasonLianneMac 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great video, thanks!

  • @rishikesh6791
    @rishikesh6791 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This was so informative.

  • @IzzyOnTheMove
    @IzzyOnTheMove 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I subscribed! 🇨🇦💻🎥🎬👍

  • @troman5000
    @troman5000 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very good!

  • @IzzyOnTheMove
    @IzzyOnTheMove 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Real cool.videos. Where do you live? I'm from Lévis across from Québec but i also spend several months a year in Vancouver. i miss travelling across Canada by train

  • @nhrrman3413
    @nhrrman3413 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video!

  • @269gregory
    @269gregory 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great informative video, brother!

  • @blackdogleg
    @blackdogleg หลายเดือนก่อน

    Could never come close to building anything like this now.

  • @noneofyourbusiness3553
    @noneofyourbusiness3553 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nicely done. Well expressed.

  • @VoltCanadaEbikes
    @VoltCanadaEbikes 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    the soo locks close jan15 and open sometimes in the last two weeks of march

  • @jeanmarcel7431
    @jeanmarcel7431 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Awesome!!!

  • @jayhopkins6990
    @jayhopkins6990 ปีที่แล้ว

    Don't forget St. Catherine's and
    Port Colburne. They both are at the beginning of the Welland canal.What? It is a vital connection between lake Erie and lake Ontario.

  • @dariogonzalez553
    @dariogonzalez553 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You’ve earned yourself a subscriber, young man. Do you know what happens with all the dredged material and how much of it there is per year?

  • @jonlog5286
    @jonlog5286 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great video buddy. You should do one on the Rideau canal waterway that connects Kingston with Ottawa. Built to move military supplies from Ottawa and Montreal to Kingston without being in range of American bombardment. My buddy and I canoed in this best summer its super cool. Cheers from Ottawa

    • @canadaehxplained77
      @canadaehxplained77  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you! It's a topic I want to do soon - and an awesome suggestion! How was canoeing the canal!? How long did it take you guys??

    • @519VXComanche
      @519VXComanche 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And the Trent-Severn!!

  • @tonyedmond2475
    @tonyedmond2475 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Question: are there any protocols for ships coming from the salty Atlantic Ocean into the fresh water Great Lakes? What about the actual water used to operate the locks?

  • @russiannorth2440
    @russiannorth2440 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I liked your video very much. and I recently posted a video of how a river tug transports people into the ice drift. Happy viewing.

  • @duderanch108
    @duderanch108 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very well done!

  • @detlefkretschmer2917
    @detlefkretschmer2917 ปีที่แล้ว

    Actually, he is wrong. The canal he is talking about is the 4th version. Wikipedia: The First Welland Canal, constructed between 1824 and 1829 ---
    In 1871, locks on the St. Lawrence allowed transit of vessels 186 ft (57 m) long, 44 ft 6 in (13.56 m) wide, and 9 ft (2.7 m) deep ---
    Too small for modern use, obviously, but fine for the times. The actual one (Number 4) is already too small again.

  • @JJC991
    @JJC991 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wow you must me from USA!

    • @JJC991
      @JJC991 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      *insert sarcastic emoji*

  • @Sugarsail1
    @Sugarsail1 ปีที่แล้ว

    It's too bad all these great waterways go to places I never want to go to.

  • @christopherwelch136
    @christopherwelch136 ปีที่แล้ว

    Soon to be a bygone era. Well presented though. 👍

  • @trainrover
    @trainrover 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    well-presented 🍸 here's hoping this adorably natural cuddlebug fully blossom should he come to realise how stark a menace Corporateria's kleptoparasitic pursuits bring about 💡💡💡

  • @akatakasboy9058
    @akatakasboy9058 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    How the ship can pass Niagara falls?

  • @happydays0220
    @happydays0220 ปีที่แล้ว

    👍

  • @Richard-od7yd
    @Richard-od7yd ปีที่แล้ว

    Quebec didn't want the St Lawrence Seaway built so it could control the flow of goods without having to do anything . They would impose a" fee " to move the goods arriving from all over the world out of Quebec .

  • @SpotBentley
    @SpotBentley 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Its Akwesasne, not Akwesasnia.

  • @michaelnesbitt8042
    @michaelnesbitt8042 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You really need to do your homework on bunker fuel!

  • @jasoningram1988
    @jasoningram1988 ปีที่แล้ว

    💫😇EYEWanTooSealloveLakeOntario'sealS😇💫
    There have occasionally been reports of harbour seals inhabiting various lakes and rivers in Canada. The only lake in Ontario that had a seal population was Lake Ontario, but they went extinct in 1824 by overhunting. Ungava seals, a subspecies of harbor seal is one of the four known freshwater types of seal.

  • @aarushwalia
    @aarushwalia 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Who else is here for online school?

  • @matthvm
    @matthvm ปีที่แล้ว

    Too little metric

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    @SherriP 2 ปีที่แล้ว

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  • @davemi00
    @davemi00 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Disappointing

  • @hollowpoint45acp
    @hollowpoint45acp ปีที่แล้ว

    great video. very helpful