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Visitor Guide Hours Museum EXHIBITIONS AND ATTRACTIONS POSITIVE ABOUT BEING POSITIVE View the history and important LOCK 3 VIEWING PLATFORM & work of Positive Living Niagara. DISCOVERY PARK PERMANENT GALLERIES Step outside to watch ships lock Explore the history of our January 2020 - January 2021 through Lock 3 and explore more of community. Lobby Allow 15 minutes our built heritage in Discovery Park. Permanent Galleries Allow up to 90 minutes Year-Round Outdoors; take the elevator to BR MACK SCHOOL OF NURSING Allow 20 minutes for locking through Ship Schedule is posted in the Lobby ALUMNI PHOTO EXHIBITION Celebrate the work of local nurses, VICTORIAN TWEETS alumni of one of Canada’s oldest nursing schools. What if the Victorians had social Through March 2020 media? View the Museum’s Lobby Gallery archival collection on display like Allow 20 minutes never before. April 2019 - November 2020 Burgoyne Room Allow 30 minutes LOCK VIEWS A photographic retrospective of the historic Welland Canals. Through September, 2021 Lockview Lounge Allow 15 minutes THE WELLAND CANALS: PAST & FOLLOW THE NORTH STAR PRESENT FILM Trace the journey to freedom through PLAY-ALONG TOY TOUR Enjoy this introductory video about a history of slavery and emancipation, Bring along some fun as you explore the Welland Canals. Inquire at the racism and prejudice in our award the galleries to keep all ages Information Desk. winning exhibit, integrated throughout engaged. Year-Round the gallery. Burgoyne Room Year-Round Permanent Galleries Information Desk Allow 15 minutes Allow 30 minutes First-Come-First-Serve WELLAND SHIP CANAL OUTBREAK! SENSORY BACKPACKS FALLEN WORKERS MEMORIAL ONTARIO LACROSSE Learn more about one of the Sensory-friendly resources and toys This Memorial commemorates the HALL OF FAME & MUSEUM deadliest pandemics of the past are available to help support your 138 men who died building the Explore the history of the Creator’s century and how it impacted Museum exeprience. Inquire at the Welland Ship Canal. Game and practice your Lacrosse St. Catharines. Information Desk. Year-Round skills! Outdoors; located at the North end of February 2019 - November 2020 Year-Round Ontario Lacrosse Hall of Fame & Museum Information Desk Discovery Park Allow 45 minutes Temporary Exhibits Gallery Allow 20 minutes Allow 45 minutes First-Come-First-Serve 905.984.8880 | www.stcatharinesmuseum.ca | [email protected] | www.stcatharinesmuseum.ca | 905.984.8880 L2R7K6 ON Catharines, St. Parkway, Canals Welland 1932 CONTACT Boxing Day. Boxing October 6, 2020. Closed New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Christmas Day, and and Day, Christmas Friday, Good Day, Year’s New Closed 2020. 6, October to 19 May Tuesdays, p.m. 8:00 until Late Open daily. p.m. 5:00 - a.m. 9:00 VISITOR GUIDE HOURS MUSEUM programs, please speak to a Hospitality Associate or check our website. our check or Associate Hospitality a to speak please programs, educaiton other and events, Museum tours, group about information more For ALLOWED DONATION FREE WIFI FREE EVENTS AND EDUCATION PROGRAMS EDUCATION AND EVENTS PHOTOGRAPHY PHOTOGRAPHY OPEN BY BY OPEN speak to a Hospitality Associate for more information. more for Associate Hospitality a to speak Facility rentals for the Burgoyne Room and Lockview Lounge are available. Please Please available. are Lounge Lockview and Room Burgoyne the for rentals Facility FACILITY RENTALS FACILITY Beverages and light snacks are also available. also are snacks light and Beverages Visit our Museum Shop for a variety of gifts, souvenirs, books, Canadiana, and more. more. and Canadiana, books, souvenirs, gifts, of variety a for Shop Museum our Visit MERRITT’S MERCANTILE GIFT SHOP GIFT MERCANTILE MERRITT’S Associate. Hospitality a to speak please join, To program. Membership Museum’s the Join MEMBERSHIP Merritt’s Mercantile Gift Shop to make a donation with debit or credit. or debit with donation a make to Shop Gift Mercantile Merritt’s visit or lobby the in box the to donation cash a Make donation. by is Admission ADMISSION Lock 3 Viewing Platform Viewing 3 Lock Fallen Workers Memorial Workers Fallen P Free Parking Free Welland Canals Parkway Trail Parkway Canals Welland Welland Canals Parkway Canals Welland P P Welland Canal Lock 3 Lock Canal Welland Museum Map 1 BURGOYNE ROOM CANAL VICTORIAN TWEETS ENTRANCE WELLAND CANALS GALLERY TOURIST INFORMATION THE CROSSING THE RELIEF ROWING MAP R CHILDREN’S NIAGARA BEFORE THE CANALS R R ACTIVITY AREA ONTARIO LACROSSE HALL OF FAME & MUSEUM LOBBY TT COMMUNITY TEMPORARY EXHIBITS GALLERY R HERITAGE GALLERY R OUTBREAK! LOBBY GALLERY COMMUNITY MACK ALUMNI FREEDOM SEEKERS HERITAGE GALLERY PHOTO R EXHIBIT MERRITT’S MERCANTILE GIFT SHOP FRONT ENTRANCE 2 BR ELEVATOR SENSORY BACKPACK STAIRCASE TT PLAY-ALONG TOY TOUR EMERGENCY EXITS FOLLOW THE NORTH STAR INFORMATION DESK AUDIO GUIDE AVAILABLE R GIFT SHOP INCLUSIVE RESTROOM LOCKVIEW LOUNGE LOCK VIEWS COAT ROOM ACCESSIBLE RESTROOM WATER FOUNTAIN ROOFTOP GARDEN R REST AREA PICNIC AREA VIEWING PLATFORM St. Lawrence Seaway & the Welland Canal Port EVOLUTION OF THE Weller HOW A LOCK WORKS INFORMATION WELLAND CANAL Lake Harbour Ontario Passageway for the World • The Great Lakes comprise the largest and most First Welland Canal far-reaching inland waterway in the world Known As: First Welland Canal (2000km or 1300 miles) Built: 1824-1833 Port Dalhousie • The Welland Canal allows ships to defy the Length: 45km (28 miles) Falls and conquer the Niagara escarpment in Number of Locks: 40 of oak timber Length of Locks: 33.5m (110ft) City of order to continue through the Great Lakes system. Width of Locks: 6.37m (22ft) St. Catharines Depth of Locks: 2.4m (8ft) History 91 MILLION LITRES • The Welland Canal Company, founded in 21 MILLION GALLONS 1824 by William Hamilton Merritt dug a canal by Second Welland Canal Known As: Old Welland Canal hand, with only the assistance of horse-drawn Built: 1842-1853 carts. Length: 45km (28 miles) •Today, the canal is operated by the St. Lawrence Number of Locks: 26 of masonry Seaway Management Corporation Length of Locks: 45.7m (150ft) Width of Locks: 8m (26.5ft) City of Ships and Cargo Depth of Locks: 3.6m (12ft) Thorold • Tolls for passage vary from $10,000 to $31,000 for a loaded cargo ship or barge, Allanburg Third Welland Canal depending on gross tonnage, and cargo type. It is Known As: New Welland Canal Port CARGO ON THE CANAL approximately $1,500 for a small passenger ship Built: 1872-1887 Robinson and $200 each way for a pleasure craft for all 8 Iron Project Grains Break Length: 37km (23 miles) Ore Cargo Bulk locks. Number of Locks: 25 of masonry Length of Locks: 82.3m (270ft) Bridges and Tunnels Width of Locks: 13.7m (45ft) • There are four “swing lift” bridges and three 4.3m (14ft) Depth of Locks: “vertical lift” bridges crossing the Canal while three tunnels pass under the Welland Canal; the Fourth Welland Canal Thorold Tunnel, Main Street Tunnel and Townline Known As: Welland Ship Canal City of Welland Tunnel Built: 1913-1932 1 = 301 = 964 • All tunnels vary in length due to the canal width Length: 43.5km (27 miles) above them. Number of Locks: 8 of concrete Length of Locks: 261.8m (859ft) Width of Locks: 24.4m (80ft) THE GREAT LAKES/ST. LAWRENCE SEAWAY SYSTEM Depth of Locks: 7.8m (25.5ft) 12 minutes Time to Fill 1 Locks: Sault Ste Marie Welland Canal Iroquois, Eisenhower (”Soo” Locks) & Snell Locks StCM Beauharnois Locks City of Lake Port Colborne Côte Ste. Catherine Superior Lake & St. Lambert Locks Erie Lake Port Huron Niagara St. Lawrence Colborne Lake Harbour River River Atlantic Lake Ontario Ocean Lake Erie Michigan Source: Niagara Canada . Niagara's Welland Canal, Niagara Ontario, 2018. .
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