The Lachine Canal, which marks its 200th anniversary this year, has been transformed from an industrial thoroughfare to a neglected backwater to a prime example of urban gentrification.

It used to be that on New Year’s Eve, people living along Montreal’s Lachine Canal would throw open their doors to hear the nearby factories blow their horns when the clocks struck midnight.

Blue Monday's designation as the saddest day of the year was debunked soon after it was created about 20 years ago, yet it ...

A watery wonderland in the heart of Montréal, the Lachine Canal National Historic Site runs for nearly 9 miles from the entrance at Lock No. 1 in the Old Port to Lock No. 5 at Lake Saint Louis in ...

We joined Fitz Montreal on a 15-kilometre pedal through Montreal’s green alleyways and busy boulevards and along the Lachine Canal. The three-hour tour delivered a broad overview of Montreal’s history ...

MONTREAL — It used to be that on New Year’s Eve, people living along Montreal‘s Lachine Canal would throw open their doors to hear the nearby factories blow their horns when the clocks struck midnight ...

It used to be that on New Year’s Eve, people living along Montreal’s Lachine Canal would throw open their doors to hear the nearby factories blow their horns when the clocks struck midnight.

Water flows from a lock on the Lachine Canal next to the old Redpath Sugar Mill in Montreal, Sunday, Dec. 29, 2024. Work on the canal began in 1821 and officially opened in 1825. THE CANADIAN ...

The idea of a canal to bypass the Lachine Rapids upstream from Montreal is almost as old as the city itself. But early attempts to build one, beginning in the late 17th century, ended in failure ...