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Irish Famine Walk Lachine Canal The Lachine Canal. The canal runs 14.5 kms long, running from the old port of Montreal to Lac St. Louis on the western end of the island of Montreal. The canal was needed for ships to by pass the dangerous Lachine rapids. Irish Montrealers were the single biggest group of workers involved in the construction of the Lachine Canal, which opened in 1825, and later in its expansion, between 1843 and 1848, and then again in 1875. Wages were low, work was never steady and the work was extremely dangerous. There are bodies that have been buried along the bank as the canal was being dug. The canal brought industry along it's banks, as you can see in the background, the numerous old grain elevators.
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