Wednesday June 18 We had reached Lake Champlain's northern most
navigable point, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec after two days
of travel from the museum at Basin Harbor. At Saint-Jean you
have a choice, bear left into the entrance channel of the
Chambly Canal on the west bank of the Richelieu, or go with the
flow down the river and make the approximately 100 foot
elevation drop over the Rapids of Chambly. Wisely, Roger chose
the more common and much smoother route, the Chambly Canal,
rather than running the rapids with Lois . Although we
undoubtedly missed quite an adventure by not bearing right I can
now say the Chambly Canal also had much in store for us. Tug
C.L.Churchill tows the schooner through the canal, near Bridge
10. Photo by Parcs Canada Bridge Operator Carol Gagnon.
Completed in 1843, just twenty years after her American counter-
part on the south end of Lake Champlain, the Chambly Canal
marked the completion of the "Northern Canal" system. Now canal
boats could navigate from the St. Lawrence Riv