Lawrence Seaway was to essentially carve an American Mediterranean out of the middle of the continent, by basically blasting a shipping channel between the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean. Lawrence Seaway was opened.ĬURWOOD: The opening of the link from the Great Lakes to the sea along the US-Canadian border was the fulfillment of a dream and a vision for the heartland of the continent that environmental journalist Dan Egan details in his new book, “The Death and Life of the Great Lakes”.ĮGAN: The whole idea behind the St. Then one August night, the Iroquois massacred the building party.īut they had started. They were looking for an easy way into the Great Lakes and a way to bring lake ships around the rapids to the sea. RADIO ANNOUNCER: 270 years ago, fur traders and missionaries hacked their way through the forest of New France. On April 24, 1959, this was the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation…
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