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  1. Good Morning #Canada
    On this day in 1932, the US and Canada signed a treaty to develop St Lawrence Seaway. That was just the beginning of cooperation between the two governments, and after a little blackmail by Canada, the full seaway opened in 1959. The system of locks, canals, and channels lowers ships by 170m over the entire 600 km length, and opens the Great Lakes to international shipping routes.

    #CanadaIsAwesome ##StLawrenceSeaway
    thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/

  2. On this day in 1959, the #StLawrenceSeaway opened to traffic.
    The massive infrastructure project took five years and cost $470 million, 70% of which was paid for by Canada.

    canadaehx.com/2022/07/16/the-s