A morning lightening storm pinned us down in Chambly until 10AM. Fortunately, it didn't interfere with our café, pâtisseries et baguette run.
Bicki and Nellie in the Chambly's ninth and last lock.
In the same vain as the Golden Spike, which was driven in 1869 to celebrate the US' first transcontinental railroad, this spike, in St Jean sur Richilieu, commemorates Canada's first steam railway line--The Champlain and St Lawrence, completed in 1836. The Chambly Canal was finished 7 years later in 1843.
It's 12 miles, nine locks and eleven bridges from Chambly to tonight's Park's Canada side-tie in St Jean sur Richilieu. 446 miles in 2019 and 8686 miles since Naples. DBH
