Aerials & Maps from Before the Seaway
This section of the site features maps from before the St Lawrence Seaway flooding in 1958, a satellite image of how it looks today, together with ten aerial photos of varying quality from the 1950s.
A big thank you to Clare Delage and Jim Jordan for providing most of these images.
Section from St Lawrence Power Project Map (1958)
This shows to area from Mariatown to Riverside - the dark blue areas are the areas to be flooded by the Seaway.
Google Earth Image of the same area in 2016
Morrisburg Google Earth 2016 Image - Overlayed with Old Town Plan - to show the flooded downtown area
Overlay of Insurance Map from the 1930s & 2017 Google Earth Satellite Image.
Click on the map to see a high resolution version.
HP1: Aerial View from the South - with Lock 23 in the foreground
HP2-1: Aerial View from the East - looking SW down Main Street (Old Highway 2)
HP145: Aerial View from the South East
HP216: Aerial View from the South West
HP77a: Aerial View from the West - a closer view with Lakeshore United Church in the centre
HP77b: Aerial View of Morrisburg East in Winter
JJ1920a: Morrisburg Downtown from the North West - with Lakeshore United in the centre
JJ1920b: Morrisburg Downtown from the North - with Lock 23 top right
JJ1920c: Morrisburg Downtown from the North East - with Lock 23 in the centre
