Quote Originally Posted by Magnatomicflux View Post
I always find it interesting that they could wall off a whole section of the river like that and pump it dry to do this work back then. I can't quite decide what shoreline we're looking at n the background though. I'm leaning toward Amherstburg, at the north end of the channel because of how close it is...and the island that forms Crystal Bay would not have been around back then, since IIRC it's only made of the excavated materials from the channel itself. I see power lines on the shore, which I'll assume are from the SW&A streetcar lines. I think the line reach A'Burg by then........
Magneto - they may have built a cofferdam in that section of the river, I know that is one method of doing work on a river/lake/sea floor. But I would have no idea how a cofferdam would be dismantled after the work was complete.