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The first European to see the rapids was Jacques Cartier, who sailed up the St. Lawrence River in 1535, believing he had found the Northwest Passage. In 1611, Samuel de Champlain named the rapids Sault Saint-Louis, after a teenaged crewman named Louis who drowned here; the name later extended to Lac Saint-Louis.
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(S) St. Lawrence Seaway levee: Honoré Mercier Bridge: 1934, 1963 [13] (N) Borough of LaSalle: Route 138: Honoré Mercier (1840–1894), Premier of Quebec (S) Kahnawake Mohawk Reserve Saint-Laurent Railway Bridge: 1886 [14] (N) Borough of LaSalle
Map showing the rail bridge, on the left Located only about 400 m (1,312 ft) south of the St-Laurent Railway Bridge, on the same line, is a pair of vertical-lift bridges to carry the rail line over the Saint Lawrence Seaway
Honoré Mercier bridge at sunset Bridge in 1948. Before the bridge was built there was a ferry service.. The bridge, known in the developmental stage as the "Saint-Louis Bridge" (for the nearby located Lake Saint-Louis and the parish of Saint-Louis-de-Caughnawaga, today part of the Kahnawake reserve), was designed by eleven French-Canadian engineers, all graduates of the École Polytechnique ...
The Thousand Islands Parkway eastbound at the Escott-Yonge townline The Thousand Islands Parkway eastbound at Landon Bay. The Thousand Islands Parkway is a scenic route along the St. Lawrence River between Gananoque and Brockville through the rugged terrain of the Frontenac Arch, a protrusion of the Canadian Shield southward into New York state.
There is a small 30–50 foot (10–15 m) high ridge near Kingsville and Leamington in the southern part of the county, and large marshland near Hillman Marsh Conservation Area, and Point Pelee National Park. Lake St. Clair is located north, the Detroit River to the west, and the western basin of Lake Erie to the south.
River Canard was the site of the Battle of River Canard between British and American forces on July 16, 1812, during the early days of the War of 1812.An American force of 280 men under colonels Cass and Miller skirmished with British troops near the bridge.