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he Long Sault Parkway was unique in its creation. It is a series of 11 islands that were created from high points of land left after the flooding of the St. Lawrence River during the construction of the Seaway in the 1950's. In fact several villages once stood where the river now lies, a fascinating story captured at the Lost Villages display along the Parkway. There is a charge during the summer season to enter the Long Sault Parkway.www.stlawrenceparks.com/index.cfm/en/.../long-sault-parkway/ DICKINSON'S Landing
BY FRAN LAFLAMME
The following essay was found among the papers obtained from the Fran Laflamme estate.
Dickinson's Landing
In 1957, Dickinson's Landing was like any other village in Eastern Ontario. It was a long, narrow strip, lying on the bank of the St. Lawrence River, with a north side and south side, cut in two by her Majesty's Highway #2. At the west end was Hoople Creek and the east boundary was marked by the Wales Road, where Summers Elliott's Texaco Station marked the eastern entrance to Dickinson's Landing, just as today, his Texaco station marks the entrance to Dickinson's Drive here in Ingleside. It was a police village, with men looking after its interest; Eldred Markell, Ray Wells and John Murphy. It is not unfair to call it a sleepy village, because it could boast only one general store, one service station, one church, one school. And so, when 1957 brought an end to all our villages, Dickinson's Landing petered out, and yet it had wrapped up in its few hundred short years, a considerable history.
In a way, this history paralleled the history of many little villages in Eastern Ontario. Legend has it that Dickinson's Landing began as an outpost in the day of Sieur de Lasalle, who came from Lachine about 1669, along with two priests, set up a fur trading centre, an outpost in the back woods. Certainly, it would have been used in some sense a landing spot and the jumping off point, after the portage around the Long Sault Rapids; for it was the nearby Long Sault Rapids which made for much of Dickinson's Landing history. These rapids, for those of us who remember them, were so swift and so deep and so covered the complete river bed or the north branch from the mainland to Long Sault Island. Impossible for a canoe to navigate, and, even through the centre, impossible for a flat-bottom boat to navigate and so travel on the St. Lawrence always had to take into account a whole series of rapids from Montreal west, the most severe of which were the Long Sault Rapids.
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