Wales - Lost Villages of the St Lawrence Seaway
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Жыл бұрынHistory:
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St. Lawrence Seaway Mural, painted by Harold Town
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@Zbip57 Жыл бұрын
Links to more information. History: www.ghosttownpix.com/lostvillages/wales.html lostvillages.ca/history/the-lost-villages/wales/ Photos: archive.sdgcounties.ca/index.php/lvmc-wa-1-037 archive.sdgcounties.ca/index.php/lvmc-wa-2-004 archive.sdgcounties.ca/index.php/lvmc-wa-2-006 archive.sdgcounties.ca/index.php/lvmc-wa-2-053 archive.sdgcounties.ca/index.php/lvmc-wa-2-058 archive.sdgcounties.ca/index.php/lvmc-wa-2-068 archive.sdgcounties.ca/index.php/lvmc-wa-2-069 archive.sdgcounties.ca/index.php/lvmc-wa-2-073 archive.sdgcounties.ca/index.php/lvmc-wa-2-075 St. Lawrence Seaway Mural, painted by Harold Town www.opg.com/building-strong-and-safe-communities/our-communities/eastern-ontario/saunders-visitor-centre/
@Kanook99 5 ай бұрын
It is a great video.
@jrlanglois 4 ай бұрын
YT recommended this! I'm from the area and have paddleboarded over Wales plenty. Fascinating stuff.
@RobertVE3VPL Жыл бұрын
Fascinating, great work. We drive the Long Sault Parkway now and then for fun.
@rayunseitig6367 2 ай бұрын
Your editing reminds me of montage of Slavko Workapitch.
@Zbip57 2 ай бұрын
Wow! Thanks for that very generous compliment!
@royceroller7095 7 ай бұрын
Nice video, you deserve more likes👍
@DonJoyce Жыл бұрын
Great job connecting the historical images to the scene today! This story has fascinated me for ages, after hearing about it at Upper Canada Village when I was a kid. Some of the buildings were moved there for preservation. That trip also inspired some fun sandbox recreations if I recall!
@Zbip57 Жыл бұрын
I saw it on Google satellite view, so I wanted to fly my drone to take a closer look. I wish I had done the research to find those archival photos beforehand, rather than afterwards, as I would have framed the aerial shots differently to more closely match the photos. Wales is just one of several villages destroyed to make way for the Seaway expansion.
@DonJoyce Жыл бұрын
@@Zbip57 I'm sure "destroyed " wasn't the spin at the time...maybe "relocated" or "uplifted"...
@flightographist Жыл бұрын
Fancy meeting you here Don. My mother and her mother and her mothers church is in the Village, the farm ( Moulinette )is under the river/lake. I guide kayak trips throughout the area and feature these ruins and others.
@DonJoyce Жыл бұрын
@@flightographist wow! Very cool!!
@flightographist Жыл бұрын
@@DonJoyce If you ever feel the urge, let me know and I will be happy to take you and your wife/partner out for the experience- gratis: paddling, shore lunch, vistas, and big wide open sky, and the very best part- walking on water!
@bktscrambler Жыл бұрын
Amazing video with the map overlays. Any info on that flooded race track in Wales (1:10)? Some googling suggests it’s “Connors’ Race Track” used primarily for horse racing & some motorcycle racing. Any more info on the track would be appreciated.
@rogerdaigle2621 Жыл бұрын
I kayak all over that area often. It's quite sobering to think of what happened to these villages and the people displaced. There is a huge foundation at the 5 minute mark of this video. Can anyone tell me what building it was?
@Zbip57 Жыл бұрын
That's all part of D.H.C. Smith's apple farm. Pause the video at 5:22. That structure is visible in the extreme bottom right corner of the archival image, running lengthwise parallel to Main St. Directly across the street from this low structure you see a row of tall trees, as well as a couple more trees just north on the same side of the street as the structure. Run the video ahead a few seconds more to 5:30 and you can see the remaining stumps of these trees still visible today.
@rogerdaigle2621 Жыл бұрын
@@Zbip57 thank you so much! I always thought it was a foundation of a church.
@Zbip57 Жыл бұрын
The two churches, St.David's Anglican and St.Matthew's United, can be seen at 1:52 in the video, on Victoria St. north of the railway tracks. The churches' foundations are located under the trees on the small island, top centre-left, at 3:05 in the video.
@rogerdaigle2621 Жыл бұрын
@@Zbip57 very informative...thanks again!
@rayunseitig6367 2 ай бұрын
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@caljensandie365 5 ай бұрын
Wales island is not lost, it exactly where it was 1960 when submerged along with the other islands. “Creating new island”, but submerge half
@Zbip57 5 ай бұрын
That elevated area became Wales Island when the village of Wales and surrounding land was submerged. It wasn't an "island" previous to the flooding.
@marmaly 3 ай бұрын
This is the kind of information I looked for in the description @@Zbip57
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