The tug Myra at work at Lock 21. Cornwall, Ontario

The tug Myra at work at Lock 21.

This is Lock 21 with its telltale high, north, canal bank just east of Dickinson’s Landing. The tug Myra with a ship in tow is entering the Cornwall Canal. The small building with odd shaped roof housed a large winch, which was used to tow barges into the lock, from either direction via the large pulley seen at the edge of the lock wall. In some other views, one can see the little “doggy door” through which the cable passed. The Myra sunk east of Hamilton’s Island at Summerstown.

~ Notes by Ray Amell. 

~ Lily Worrall Collection

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