Join us for “A Tale of Two Tunnels Beneath the St. Clair River”, an online lecture on June 15!

Join Christina Sydorko, Educational Programs Coordinator at the Oil Museum of Canada, on a journey to discover the engineering marvel that is the St. Clair tunnel.

Picture this: Rail traffic is backed up and at a stand still on a frozen stormy night in the middle of winter. It is too dangerous for the Grand Trunk Railway ferries to make the river crossing in the storm and tomorrow will be lost due to ice jams. The St. Clair River crossing has become a bottleneck and delays are costing money. How can this problem be solved? The solution is digging a tunnel in the soft clay beneath one of the fastest rivers to join Canada and the United States by a ribbon of steel!

Construction of the St. Clair tunnel was an engineering marvel of its time, only to be repeated again 100 years later! The second version saw crews employing the latest laser-guided technologically-advanced tunneling machine dubbed “Excalibore” built in Toronto, Ontario.

TICKETS

Tickets for this event are free, although registration is required.

Attendees will get access to our exclusive Zoom meeting room, where they can engage directly with the presenter and museum historians in a post-lecture Q&A. The event will begin at June 15th, 7:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, and will end at June 15th, 8:00 P.M. EST.