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Article: Canadian-American Waterways
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CANADIAN-AMERICAN WATERWAYS
CANADIAN-AMERICAN WATERWAYS.
The history of the boundary waters that flow along and across the borders of the United States and Canada reflects the status of the relationship between the dominant societies on either side of this border.
Soon after the establishment of competing English and French societies in North America, the waterways
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the St. Lawrence Bay and River, Lake Champlain and the adjacent lakes that fed into and merged with it, and later the Great Lakes and western waters like the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio Rivers
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were routes for isolated raids, military attacks, and even major campaigns.
The waterways continued to be used as ...