Excerpt from Statistical Report of Lake Commerce Passing Through Canals at Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan and Ontario During Season of 1946 The American records showed that vessels necessarily spent hours and 04 minutes in the canal, or an average of 63 minutes, which included waiting for lockage and passage through locks and canal, the latter being 1% miles long. Other delays at the canal, which included vessel repairs and waiting for favorable weather amounted to 528 hours and 37 minutes. The American canal opened March 25 and closed December 17, 1946; total time in operation during the season, 268 days. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.