The Desjardins Canal, named after its promoter Pierre Desjardins, was a canal in Ontario, Canada. It was built to give the town of Dundas easier access...

Railway, from Galt to Preston, opens. 1857 Sarnia branch opens. March: Desjardins Canal disaster. June: Preston and Berlin Railway is incorporated by petition...

the merchants who transported their grain. The Desjardins Canal, named after its promoter Pierre Desjardins, was built to give Dundas, Ontario, easier access...

The Desjardins Canal disaster was a rail transport disaster near Hamilton, Canada West. The train wreck occurred at 6:15 p.m. on March 12, 1857 (1857-03-12)...

Lévis Desjardins Regional County Municipality, a regional county municipality which preceded the borough Desjardins Canal, in Ontario Desjardins Group...

Prince Edward Island — John Holl March 12 — Desjardins Canal disaster - The bridge over Desjardins Canal, near Hamilton, Canada West, collapses under...

to Cootes Paradise by a narrow channel formerly excavated for the Desjardins Canal. Within Hamilton itself, it is referred to as "Hamilton Harbour", "The...

Chicago and St. Louis Railroad, is incorporated in Illinois. March 12 – Desjardins Canal disaster, Ontario, Canada: A faulty axle in a locomotive caused the...

Toronto to Niagara in Hamilton, Ontario, one of the victims of the Desjardins Canal disaster. He was buried at his estate and later moved to St. David's...

this "manufacturing village" had a population of just over 1,700. The Desjardins Canal had been completed and connected the community with Lake Ontario, allowing...

exists a number of canals in Canada that are used as aqueducts, diversionary channels for power stations, and for shippings. A natural canal exists between...

the Desjardins Canal, as well as the Grimsby subdivision that carries trains into Niagara Region. CPKC owns the tracks between the Desjardins Canal and...

2 deaths and 1 injury. 12 March – Canada – Desjardins Canal disaster: A bridge over the Desjardins Canal collapses when the axle of a Great Western Railway...

conductor were charged with manslaughter, but the outcome is unknown. Desjardins Canal disaster 12 March 1857 Hamilton, Ontario 59 18 A wheel fracture caused...

Heights. On March 12, 1857, the Desjardins Canal disaster occurred when the Great Western Railway bridge over the Desjardins Canal collapsed as a result of a...

centre of the property. Zimmerman was killed on March 12, 1857, in the Desjardins Canal railway accident. He only lived to see the foundations of his $175...

active on it. It spans the channel linking Cootes Paradise and the Desjardins Canal to Hamilton Harbour. The elegant bridge was designed by John M. Lyle...

Explosion, New Waterford, 1917". Museum of Industry. May 27, 2019. "Desjardins Canal Disaster". HPL. "10 of Canada's worst train accidents - Macleans.ca"...

C. Snider, Jr. (1822–1857). The younger Jacob lost his life in the Desjardins Canal train disaster at age 35. An 1851 report indicated that the village...

came under public scrutiny when he was ousted as president of the Desjardins Canal Company in 1834, after having mortgaged a large block of personal land...

Details of the Railway Disaster of the 12th of March, 1857, at the Desjardin Canal on the Line of the Great Western Railway. W.A. Shepard. 1857. LATEST...

the Burlington Canal in 1832 that connected Burlington Bay (Hamilton Harbour) to Lake Ontario, the completion of the Desjardins Canal in 1837 that enabled...

settlement was incorporated as a police village in 1833. In comparison, the Desjardins Canal to Dundas was at best an incomplete success. The physical structures...

dedicated as the Alexander Graham Bell Parkway on April 27, 2016. At the Desjardins Canal in Hamilton, starting in May 2022 the existing bridge for the eastbound...

generally northeasterly along said highway to the Desjardins Canal; thence easterly along said canal and continuing due east in Hamilton Harbour to the...

Canadian-built locomotives. 1857 – Desjardins Canal disaster – 57 passengers were killed when a train derailed near the Desjardins Canal. 1857 – When the Great Western...

America (Jeannettes Creek, Ontario) Central Canada 52 1857 March 12 Desjardins Canal disaster Train wreck Hamilton, Canada West, Province of Canada, British...

Mechanics, Servants, Labourers." Desjardins Canal: The Desjardins Canal, named after its promoter Pierre Desjardins, was built to give Dundas, Ontario...

Upper Horning Road, northeast along Highway No. 403, east along the Desjardins Canal to Hamilton Harbour. On July 26, 2022, incumbent MPP Andrea Horwath...

Niagara Escarpment, northeast along Highway No. 403, east along the Desjardins Canal to Hamilton Harbour. ^ Results are compared to redistributed results...