Homer
Section 2 of the Welland Ship Canal, 1914. This map shows Lock No. 3, the Village of Homer, and the third canal crossing the ship canal.
From Port Weller, the party travelled southward for about one and a half miles to the lower end of Section 2. They continued on this route for two more miles, arriving at Carlton Street near the head of Lock No. 2. At this point, the highway departs from the canal route and a construction train was used to travel to the Village of Homer. In Homer, two steam shovels and a drag-line excavator were used to excavate clay to build banks and gravel to ballast the railway tracks. Just south of Homer, the present canal and the ship canal cross.
Marion shovel and deep cut looking north from Lock No. 3, September 21, 1922.
Dragline machines working on pit for Lock No. 3, August 31, 1916.