A lockstation on the Trent-Severn Waterway National Historic Site/Jennifer Bain
The Trent–Severn Waterway National Historic Site and Peterborough Lift Lock National Historic Site have a new joint management plan.
Reviewed every 10 years or so, management plans are a requirement of the Parks Canada Agency Act and guide the management of national historic sites, national parks and national marine conservation areas.
The new plan replaces one from 2000 and outlines three key strategies:
• Establish the Trent–Severn Waterway as a premier Canadian recreational destination.
• Conserve, present and interpret the waterway’s rich and evolving history, engineering technology and natural environment.
• Effectively administer an evolving waterway in the 21st century.
The upper reach of the Peterborough Lift Lock/Jennifer Bain
The plan includes initiatives aimed at strengthening collaboration with local Indigenous communities and integrating their perspectives in the overall site presentation and knowledge.
The plan includes input from Indigenous partners of the Williams Treaties First Nations, local communities, businesses, the tourism industry, special interest groups, other partners and stakeholders, local residents as well as visitors past and present.
Parks Canada is still working on a separate management statement for the Mnjikaning Fish Weirs National Historic Site in Orillia. The weirs reflect the 5,000-year-old history of Indigenous use of these waters for fishing
The Trent–Severn Waterway showcases the story of innovative technological achievements in the 19th and early 20th century, illustrating how Canadians have been at the forefront of engineering developments in hydrology and civil engineering.
The Peterborough Lift Lock, constructed in 1904, was designated a national historic site in 1979 for its national architectural significance as the highest hydraulic lift lock in the world.
More than one million land-based visitors and over 100,000 boats visit the lockstations along the Trent-Severn Waterway each year.
