CANADA 2017 Seasonal Lockage Permit is free and Free Discovery Pass Celebrate!!!

For your information there is a Free 2017 Discovery Pass
Celebrate Canada 150!

Yes Free admission is here!

2017 is the 150th anniversary of Confederation.

As Canada's gift to you, the 2017 Discovery Pass will provide free admission for the entire year to Parks Canada places from coast-to-coast to coast!

http://www.commandesparcs-parksorders.ca/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/en/parksb2c


As an added bonus, get 15% off your next purchase of Parks Canada Official Merchandise at parkscanadashop.ca!

Also the 2017 Seasonal Lockage Permit is free!

The permit is valid for the entire navigation season, and provides passage for your recreational vessel through any number of Parks Canada's lock systems, at all National Historic Canals across Canada.

Locations in Quebec:

Carillon Canal National Historic Site
Chambly Canal National Historic Site
Lachine Canal National Historic Site
Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue Canal National Historic Site
Saint-Ours Canal National Historic Site

Locations in Ontario:
Rideau Canal National Historic Site
Trent-Severn Waterway National Historic Site

Note: St. Peter's Canal (Nova Scotia) and Sault Ste. Marie Canal (Ontario) National Historic Sites do not require a lockage permit for recreational vessels.

Start planning your next visit at: parkscanada.gc.ca/visit.

Was considering doing Canada in 2017 when I do the Great Loop. When I heard about the anniversary, thought the waterways, parks, and marinas might be crowded. With all this free stuff, there's no doubt. Wish Canada all the best on their anniversary. Think I will go when it will be less crowded.

Ted

Overcrowded waterways during Canada celebrations

Hello Ted!

I do understand your concerns of the possibilities of overcrowding waterways.

May I thank you for your kind wish! As you probably know, Ted, Syracuse, NY will in 2017 hold the world-class Canalways Conference... 200 years in the making.

May I convey my congratulations to you and to all, for the bicentennial of the Erie Canal and I hope that you may enjoy endless celebrations in the exploration of Central New York!

Season's greetings and all the best to you and family!

Kindest regards, Normand

We hope to make the Chesapeake-NYC-Troy-Oswego-Kingston-Ottawa-Montreal-Sorel-and-back-home loop this summer. (Presuming we get Revel's engines in trustworthy shape.)

Parks Canada passes are/were free for 2017, I think that it might be free to tie up at buoys like at Montague? Not sure of the perks.

A free pass to the Canadian canals will still cost more than an entire summer on the NY State Canal System. Unlike the NY systems free docks are unheard of and you are certainly not going to get free wifi and laundry facilities as in NY. oh yeah, fuel is about 30% higher. Remember when the Canadian lockmasters went on strike and left hundreds of boats stranded. Wouldn't 2017 be a perfect time for a another strike!

Cheap Loonie!

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Cheap Loonie!

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Sad but true.

Thanks for the heads up Normand! I cruise the BC coast so I will be looking for the parties on the west coast to celebrate!!

Is this only valid for Canadian citizens?

No, It's for anyone........

Had a dui in CA in 2004. Makes me an undesirable [emoji30]

Thanks!

In 2010 I delivered two very nice C-441 conquests there. I was meet by a very nice and attractive customs

Agent who said that I needed to leave via the most expedient route