Talk:Rideau Canal

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Contents 1 Images 2 Longest Skating Rink 3 Number of locks 4 "transformation" section

[edit] Images

I'll take a new picture of the locks soon, I live in Ottawa.
-Carl Langdon langdor@gmail.com —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.200.192.157 (talk • contribs)

Just a request, because the article seems to have too many "nearly identical" images, and I'd like to tidy it up a bit. So let's reach some consensus (any images removed would of course still be in the WikiCommons gallery thing)

Skating

This one seems too "vacation photo"esque

I prefer this one, for skating photos

Locks

Image seems too small, can't go any larger,

I personally prefer this one, centered, nicely lit, professional looking

Other

M'eh, not a fan of the staircase, but I like seeing Parliament Hill in the background for context

My own image, but I feel it illustrates the memorials mentioned in their own paragraph

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Sherurcij (talk • contribs)

[edit] Longest Skating Rink

This is a commonly known 'fact' in Ottawa, I know, but is there any way we can source this? --Thaddius 13:57, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Number of locks

From the article: "There are a total of 47 locks at 24 stations along the Canal."

There don't seem to be consistent numbers in what I've read:

• 49 and 27 in a 2006 brochure by Parks Canada
• 45 and 23 here
• and 47 and 24 on our current article.

In the brochure I have, the list runs:

• Lockstation (locknumber)

1. Ottawa (1-8)
2. Hartwells (9-10)
3. Hogs Back (11-12)
4. Black Rapids (13)
5. Long Island (14-16)
6. Burritts Rapids (17)
7. Lower Nicholsons (18)
8. Upper Nicholsons (19)
9. Clowes (20)
10. Merrickville (21-23)
11. Kilmarnock 24
12. Edmonds 25
13. Old Slys (26-27)
14. Smith Falls (29a*)
15. Smith Falls (31*)
16. Poonamalie (32)
17. Lower Beveridges (33)
18. Upper Beveridges (34)
19. Ile Col. By Island
20. Narrows (35)
21. Newboro (36)
22. Chaffers (37)
23. Davis (38)
24. Jones Falls (39-42)
25. Upper Brewers (43-44)
26. Lower Brewers (44)
27. Kingston Mills (46-49)

*31:Detached Lock; Lock 29a (combined) replaces locks 28, 29, and 30

Notice Ile Col. By Island has no locks.

Matt 16:20, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "transformation" section

I started a section on this, using Clive Doucet's book. He is not exactly a neutral source, so it would be great to have some other sources on this. --Padraic 18:49, 21 November 2007 (UTC)