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The St. Lawrence Seaway has been of importance to me since I was very young. I have very fond memories of boating, swimming and fishing along its shorelines, from the Prescott Marina all the way down to Cardinal and Iroquois a distance of approximately 25km. I was fascinated by the old canals and the large ships that slowly passed in the distance. I often wondered where they were going or what they might have on board. Once in a while, when my grandfather, father and I were fishing, we would watch the ships pull into the Port of Johnstown. We sat just west of old Gallops Canal, almost directly below the Oldenburg-Prescott International Bridge, watching as our boat slowly floated east towards “the old north channel�. There is a large grain elevator there, my grandfather helped build it, and he says that it once sat on large wooden piles that reached deep down to the very bottom of the river. From that point on, I wondered what could be found down there. 4