If it wasn't for "Mulock's Madness" my friends and I wouldn't have had a drinking spot back in the 80's, a lot of memories, firsts and lasts, I drink a toast to the Huron Height's crew! thanks for the memories!

Good video thanks! I've lived in Newmarket since 1962 and when I was a kid here Rogers Reservoir was still full of water with not much marsh - we would bike out to it along Main St. Back then it really was in the middle of nowhere. South of the Tannery on the south side of Davis Drive by the Holland River there was a string of coal sheds we'd sometimes play in, "race to the top of the coal pile", between the old Davis Drive train station and the Co-op (now a climbing gym). Mom wasn't too pleased with that, lol. There was also a relic water tower there that had been used to replenish steam locomotives.

@Kurt_Outdoors

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching my video… and thanks for the extra information and memories you provided…. I really like hearing feedback like this…..very interesting!

@dave7181

12 күн бұрын

I grew up playing at all those old locs as a kid in the late 60s early 70s. Newmarket was a great place to grow up in.

@erichartke4331

11 күн бұрын

Great video I love learning history. I have been in Georgina since 2015/2016. We come to Newmarket a lot and I never realized there was an old canal system there so cool!

Lived here my whole life. Thanks for filming! Been on that trail a hundred times. Near lock #2 there used to be a lookout tower made of wood but they took it down years ago.

So interesting. I wonder how many people pass by these old locks everyday and don’t know why they are there.

@GWNorth-db8vn

Ай бұрын

I moved to Newmarket from a place on the Trent-Severn near Peterborough as a kid. The locks and such on the Holland Canal were exactly the same as the ones I'd been seeing all my life. I met plenty of people who didn't even know what they are.

For a few years I have been cycling the bike path all the way to St. Johns Side Road and noticed the construction but knew nothing if the history. Now I know and will take notice when I bike there is a few weeks time. Great video. Thanks

@Kurt_Outdoors

3 ай бұрын

Hi thanks for watching my video and thanks for the nice comment!

Nice video. I know this trail well I ride it on a regular basis. I’m a local resident.

Great video man! I was born at Newmarket hospital in 1970" I grew up in Ballantrae, and went to high school at Huron Heights" Brought back a bunch of memories! New sub!🤙👊

@Kurt_Outdoors

2 күн бұрын

@@rfiskillingussoftly6568 hey I’m glad you liked it….and thanks for watching my channel!

Nice Video ! I used to live right near the " Radial Arch " on Ontario St.

Fascinating and sad. I've always admired the canal system in the UK and wished for something closer to home.

I love canals. Thanks for doing this. Well done. :)

You have to remember that when these canals were built we didn't have 18 wheeler trucks and trains only went to some places. You can put literally tons of freight on a barge and you can push it with a stick.

Great production, very informative.

@Kurt_Outdoors

2 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot! Glad you liked it!

Thanks for the trip, I've been super intrigued about this for years. I've taken my kids for trips on parts of this in a paddleboat, not easy to get in and out and around many spots, it should be opened up for paddling sports.

Well thank you for this informative video. I used to fly out of the Holland Landing airport and wondered about the history of this canal. I'm not so sure about the Toronto Carrying Place as I suspect there was a reasonable portage between the West Holland River and the Humber watershed. Perhaps it was subsumed by Yonge Street.

Looks like I have a new place to drag my kayak! Awesome video!

@GWNorth-db8vn

Ай бұрын

You can easily take a canoe from Roger's to Holland Landing. Bring bug spray.

I remember that from the late 50's and early 60's and those areas were full of water. It is funny how the history lesson changes with time. More of the real reasons for the failure is now covered up and told differently. The water flow was stronger back in the early part of the century as less was removed for other things like today. Somewhere I have images of the height of the water and wrote articles on the Ghost Canal system. It is still interesting to see the old locks. All the canal systems in Canada have been failures for stupid reasons yet are admired by foreign visitors from around the world.

I enjoyed the video! A great print resource is A Work Unfinished by James T Angus. He wrote a number of books on the Trent-Severn.

@GWNorth-db8vn

Ай бұрын

My great-grandfather came to Ontario to be an iron worker on the Peterborough lift locks and the family stayed. I always like to touch the metal when I'm there.

Very cool video. Thanks for posting.

Great video! Who knew? Very interesting and thank you!

Great video, enjoyed watching. Mid 60's, lived my whole life in Ontario and knew nothing about this, thank you. 👍

Particularly fascinating for those who might have visited or traveled the Welland, Trent, and Rideau canals. I had no idea this project was ever attempted, even so far from practical as it was.

This is cool. Thanks for sharing this.

Thanks for the video!

very cool video ,i never lived in Newmarket but i as i grew up in Barrie but visited Newmarket many many time growing up and i never know that there was a lock system that was never completed. thanks for posting this.

I absolutely love this video. I never new that was the history of the water way.👍🍻

@Kurt_Outdoors

Ай бұрын

Thanks! I just had to make the video since I found it so interesting...and thanks for watching it!!!

I really miss living in Holland Landing... now I'm in Oakville, I have gone to all these spots many times... Thank you for sharing. Downtown Newmarket is a lot of fun in Summer.

@Kurt_Outdoors

8 ай бұрын

Yeah it’s the first time I went there and I really liked it! Thanks for watching my video!

I wonder how the fishing is there? Thanks for sharing

Beautiful and informative video. Thanks. I hope now to go and see it with my own eyes.

Great video . Very informative and I’m going to make the trip to visit this place

@Kurt_Outdoors

18 күн бұрын

Thanks I hope you find it as interesting as I did! And thanks for watching my video!

Thanks Kurt for making this video to share the hidden Ontario canal history 🌟 There was a lot more canal building going on in Ontario 100-200 years ago than many people realize ....and maybe older than that too, as there's lots of hidden history in Ontario ✨️

@Kurt_Outdoors

20 күн бұрын

Thanks I’m glad you liked it! And thanks for checking out my video!

Very interesting bit of history. That bike trail looks like one I would like to try.

Awesome video and I learned a few things, thanks. Never knew of how Newmarket came be, very interesting history of the trek down then walk 45 km. You’re right about the waste of money on the locks but they do make for a good video.😉

Very interesting thanks!

Interesting. I’ve lived in the Newmarket area for 10+ years and didn’t have clue. I’ll have to look for those landmarks.

Very interesting video! Love the history of our land!

Thank you for making this video!

Thanks. Often wondered about these mystery locks in the middle of noplace. I come from Niagara and it is a canal haven of historys.

Nice bike trail! Exploring is a great pastime!

Thanks for the great video,we would walk that trail many times but didnt know what the poured concert was all about,,THANKS.

@Kurt_Outdoors

17 күн бұрын

Glad you liked it and thanks for watching it!!

This is a great place ! I've known about it for yrs !!!

Thanks for the History

@Kurt_Outdoors

2 ай бұрын

You’re welcome… and thanks for watching my video!

I drive over lock 1 every day on my way home from work!

Nice work ! Who knew !! Did a lot of bike riding there. Beautiful area.

@Kurt_Outdoors

Ай бұрын

Glad you liked the video….thanks for checking it out!

Thanks, that was very cool! BestRoy

I lived in Newmarket 1981 to 1989. I wish those trails had been there back then. You could see the locks beside the Tannery, but everything north of that was scrubland.

@GWNorth-db8vn

Ай бұрын

I think they filled in the turning basin somewhere in that time period. At that time, you could park just north of the tracks in the little lot, and there was a trail out through the marsh with a wooden observation tower. You couldn't see it from the road. There was a trail along the south bank of the reservoir that went along the river part to Green Lane, but it was muddy in places and lots of burr bushes. It's connected to the trail system all the way from Lake Ontario to somewhere in the frozen north now.

interesting I never heard of this

Hi, what from the 65 till 78, and the reservoir was still going strong. Had no idea about any of this.

When I was a kid in Newmarket in the late 60's early 70's their were no walkways & trails. The one building at the start of the vid with the river running underneath it used to be a grocery store & I remember climbing on the round bridge

@donaldatherton319

26 күн бұрын

You produced an excellent vid on an interesting topic. I never knew. Good job

@scott3114

22 күн бұрын

I remember the grocery store bit, but I knew nothing of the canal. I lived in the area from 1960-80ish. This story is all new to me 🤷‍♂️

Great job Kurt, very interesting Cheers Carl W

@Kurt_Outdoors

8 ай бұрын

Thanks Carl! Glad you liked it!

Cool video. Thanks. You would think some of it could be used for recreational boating/tourism.

@Kurt_Outdoors

13 күн бұрын

That’s what I was thinking when I was checking it out….. it’s already there so it should be used for something. Thanks for watching my video!

I wonder if the Roger’s Reservoir had anything to do with the old Elias Rogers family who had a big Lake Simcoe Estate? Also related (cousins) to the Rogers Communications family.

Neat!

Cool i never knew that about new market

Lock #2 was the only one I visited. Soo Cool.

@Kurt_Outdoors

24 күн бұрын

Yeah I thought it was super interesting too! Thanks for checking out my video!

I always wonder what this low level water way is for, thanks for this relax and informative video! @12:11 , can you kayak to lake simcoe from here?

@Kurt_Outdoors

2 ай бұрын

I was going to try to kayak to Lake Simcoe on this river…. But I read some reports from others who have tried it, and they did not recommend it. There were some obstacles and it just wasn’t a very nice paddle. Thanks for watching my video.!

Historically interesting. Thank you Kurt. Was that Carl Weisser of Honeywell fame, four items below? One of my former bosses. Looks like you are getting a fan club from Honeywell. Keep up the the interesting details and good work. Bob King

@Kurt_Outdoors

7 ай бұрын

Thanks Bob! As long as there are places to explore I will keep making these videos...and yes that is Carl from Honeywell...!

A lot of people from Newmarket used to hangout and drink there

Thanks pal i had no idea..

It's too bad they couldn't make it work. It would be a great way for pleasure boats to to Lake Ontario if they finished it. Sort of like the Locke around Merrickville.

Neat

More!

That was my great great a few more great grand father who started that new market he the guy standing in frontt table with fers on it

That was a very long distance to travel Toronto to sell goods.

@Kurt_Outdoors

4 күн бұрын

Yeah, and no hwy 400 either!… life was tough back then!

They wanted to start a canal to create a form of 'competition' to the rising cost of rail transport in the area. The local government would have better spent their money to create a government-owned railroad that would transport their goods from Newmarket to Lake Simcoe, such a railway would have only cost 1/10 as much.

I was born in Newmarket 1970, is this at Eagle and Main?

@Kurt_Outdoors

5 күн бұрын

Yup! In that area. First time I had ever been to Newmarket! Nice place. Thanks for watching the video!

Was this a continuation of the Holland river?

@Kurt_Outdoors

Ай бұрын

Hello.. it was the continuation of the East Holland River, which branches off of the main Holland River. Thanks for watching my video!

This system in Newmarket failed because of total ignorance. All that was needed was a system of steam operated pumps. These pumps would have filled reservoirs used to take water up hill. Anybody that thinks this won't work should turn their attention to the 2700 miles of canals built in Great Britain. They took water 600 feet above sea level up into the Penines using steam pumps and reservoirs to fill and operate locks to take Narrowboats pulled by horses to transport goods. This was done starting in the 1700's. One tunnel that was built is three and a half miles long through solid rock. In this country (Ontario) old Mullock was laughed out of Parliament because he was told water can't run uphill. Little did they know. Modern Narrowboats powered by diesel or solar still use the canals in Great Britain which can be found on You Tube.

@Kurt_Outdoors

19 күн бұрын

Yes, they were thinking of pumps at one point, but they just ran out of money. They were over budget and the projected revenues would not cover the cost. They would not have had enough customers passing through the locks. The whole thing is pretty interesting…. Thanks for watching the video.!

@GarySaltern-hn1ji

18 күн бұрын

@@Kurt_Outdoors I know that Mullock went to Ottawa to see about asking for money and the Conservative government laughed at him. Their answer was you can't make water run up hill. I've talked to lots of people in and around Newmarket over the years and many had the idea it still it could have been finished using Diesel pumps although steam is quieter. To bad because the project is so close to being completed.

then they ripped up most of the railway tracks.

Can really hear that accent eh

@Kurt_Outdoors

6 күн бұрын

LOL!👍 thanks for watching my video eh!

@realilty

6 күн бұрын

@@Kurt_Outdoors Lol. Thanks for posting. Grew up fishing there