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[james_davis_nicoll]

Laurentian elites, that small permanent governing class made up of professional politicians, bureaucrats, academics and journalists from the same central Canadian cities near or by the St. Lawrence River,

Anyone care to guess where the majority of Canada's population is located?

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[akawil]

Would that just be from the Mattawa River to Lake Nipissing, or were those not sufficiently navigable that they'd to cut it somewhere bigger?

[graydon saunders (from livejournal.com)]

There were a bunch of route details that varied, but the basic idea was the French River, Lake Nippising, and the Mattawa.

http://www.northernontario.travel/northeastern-ontario/french-river-georgian-bay-ship-canal

As the "we want a bigger boat" requirements progressed with time, the route altered a bit. Some infrastructure (like the Chaudiere dam on the French River) was built in the expectation of actually building this thing.