Welland, Ontario: Downtown Driving Tour (February, 2019)

Our driving tour of downtown Welland, Ontario takes into town going west on East Main Street. After crossing the Welland Bridge, we loop around to return on Division Street. Division meets up with Main Street again going eastbound. We end the tour after going under the East Main Street Tunnel under the existing Welland Canal.

Welland, Ontario is a city of 52,000 that was first settled in 1788. It was incorporated as a village in 1858 and as a city in 1917. The location is less than 25 km from Niagara Falls and around 30 kilometres from Fort Erie (and Buffalo, New York).

From downtown Toronto, the distance is 134 KM by road. Welland is directly south of downtown Toronto but Lake Ontario gets in the way.

The Welland Canal Bridge 13 dominates the view in the downtown core. Opened in 1930, the last ship to pass underneath was in 1972. Since, it has been permanently locked in the lowered position as the Canal was rerouted around the city. The bridge is 71 metres or 232 feet in length and also known as the Welland Main Street Bridge or just the Welland Bridge.

Take a look at our driving tour video of nearby Niagara Falls, Ontario: https://youtu.be/HfleTfZqpa4

Background music: Stardrive by Jeremy Blake / Whatdafunk by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Artist: http://audionautix.com/

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Видео Welland, Ontario: Downtown Driving Tour (February, 2019) канала Tom Samworth