This is the second of two articles, the first having given an overview of the entire Rideau Canal-Waterway, at www.worldisround.com/articles/305793/index.html .

Colonel By's most difficult challenges were Hogsback Falls, the rapids on the Rideau River, and Rideau Falls, an insurmountable obstacle at the Rideau's junction with the Ottawa River. The logical solution would be to bypass the rapids and both Falls by digging a new Canal, through swampy land, more or less parallel to the existing river. Fortunately, ... (more)