Smiths Falls Detached
Rideau Canal National Historic Site
Smiths Falls Detached offers close access to all amenities and is a short walk from the Smiths Falls downtown core. There is a boat launch, and a distinctive feature of the Smiths Falls Detached lockstation is the raised bascule bridge (drawbridge).
How to get here
Smiths Falls Detached
62 Lombard Street
Smiths Falls, Ontario
GPS: 44°53'45"N 76°01'38"W
Phone
613-283-0496
Email
rideau@pc.gc.ca
Navigational data
- Distance from Ottawa: 97.4 km (60.5 mi)
- Distance from Kingston: 104.7 km (65.1 mi)
- Nautical chart: #1512 (Sheet 3)
- Lock length: 40.8 m (134 ft)
- Lock width: 9.7 m (33 ft)
- Average lift: 2.6 m (8.5 ft)
Facilities and services
- Overnight mooring (2 nights max)
- Camping
- Washrooms
- Barbecue grills
- Potable water
- Boat launch
- Picnic tables
- Parking
History
This canal town is named for Thomas Smyth, a Loyalist who in 1786 was granted four hundred acres in what is present-day Smiths Falls. At the time of canal construction a small settlement had been established around a mill operated by a local named Abel Russell Ward. Colonel By ordered the removal of Ward's mill to make way for the canal.
Read more history about this lockstationGoogle Street View
Related links
- Ottawa Locks
- Hartwells
- Hogs Back
- Black Rapids
- Long Island
- Burritts Rapids
- Lower Nicholsons
- Upper Nicholsons
- Clowes
- Merrickville
- Edmonds
- Old Slys
- Smiths Falls Combined
- Poonamalie
- Lower Beveridges
- Upper Beveridges
- Colonel By Island
- Narrows
- Newboro
- Chaffeys
- Davis
- Jones Falls
- Brass Point Bridge
- Upper Brewers
- Lower Brewers
- Kingston Mills
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