Combined Lock 29a, Smiths Falls

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Located beneath Beckwith Street bridge between Canal Street and Jasper Avenue.

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A 7.9m (26 ft.) high automated single chamber lock built in 1974 to replace the original historic 1829 combined lock 28, 29 and 30. Lock 29a is the highest lock on the Rideau Canal.

See the Pages box at top of this record and click the downward pointing select arrow to access seven views of the lock. (The Bascule bridge can just be seen in the far distance in the seventh photo).

For further information see:

Please see the links at the right of this catalogue record.

Ken W. Watson. A history of the Rideau lockstations. Smith Falls, Ont. : Friends of the Rideau, 2000.

Glenn J. Lockwood. "Smiths Falls: A Social History of the Men and Women in a Rideau Canal Community 1794-1994." Smiths Falls: Corporation of the Town of Smiths Falls, 1994.

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