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La mise en chantier d’une voie navigable exige de creuser un canal, d’aménager des écluses en maçonnerie, de percer des tunnels et de construire des drains, des déversoirs, etc. Ces exploits d’ingénierie hydraulique seront réalisés avec du matériel de base : pelles, pics, pioches, seaux, tarières, bêches, barres de fer pour excaver et fendre le roc.
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Having only their brawn to provide power, the Irish were at the heart of the construction of the Lachine Canal and its two subsequent expansions. Creating a navigable waterway requires digging a canal, building masonry locks, digging tunnels, and building drains, spillways, etc. These hydraulic engineering exploits were carried out with basic equipment: shovels, picks, pickaxes, buckets, augers, spades, and iron bars to dig put and split the rock; trowels, chisels, mallets, etc, for stone cutting; and axes, hammers, chisels, squares, etc. for making the lock gates.
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