UNESCO WHS - Rideau Canal - Murney Tower, Kingston Postcard

UNESCO WHS Serie - Rideau Canal - Murney Tower, Kingston - The Rideau Canal, a monumental early 19th-century construction covering 202 km of the Rideau and Cataraqui rivers from Ottawa south to Kingston Harbour on Lake Ontario, was built primarily for strategic military purposes at a time when Great Britain and the United States vied for control of the region. Murney Tower is a Martello tower, whose construction dates to January 1846, is one of four such towers built in the 1840s to protect Kingston's harbour and the entrance to the Rideau Canal. Name: Rideau Canal Site: Murney Tower, Kingston Location: Kingston, Province of Ontario Inscription: 2007 Category: Cultural (i)(iv) Unesco Ref: 1221-006 Special Feature: The card has a QR-Code on the backside to navigate for more Informationas about the side