{"id":4318,"date":"2026-04-25T00:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4318"},"modified":"2025-12-12T17:35:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T22:35:43","slug":"saint-lawrence-seaway-began-operating-in-1959","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4318","title":{"rendered":"Saint Lawrence Seaway Began Operating in 1959"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Saint Lawrence Seaway began operating in 1959<\/strong>. Construction began in September, 1954. Over 6000 people had to be relocated because a reservoir would cover their land. Canada and the United States each operate a portion of the 450-mile seaway. It connects Lake Erie to Montreal to the Atlantic Ocean. Children could read Gail Gibbons\u2019s <em>The Great St. Lawrence Seaway<\/em>. Children could also visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/greatlakes-seaway.com\/en\/students-and-educators\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Seaway<\/a>. They could study the Suez Canal and the St. Lawrence Seaway in more detail. How are the two alike? How are they different?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saint Lawrence Seaway began operating in 1959. Construction began in September, 1954. Over 6000 people had to be relocated because a reservoir would cover their land. Canada and the United States each operate a portion of the 450-mile seaway. It connects Lake Erie to Montreal to the Atlantic Ocean. Children could read Gail Gibbons\u2019s The <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4318' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4368,5497,1196,439,1435,2708,2707,407],"class_list":["post-4318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4368","tag-april-25","tag-atlantic-ocean","tag-canada","tag-lake-erie","tag-montreal","tag-saint-lawrence-seaway","tag-united-states","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4318"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21075,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4318\/revisions\/21075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}