PC/WI Trans-North American Canal.

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Could a Trans-North American Canal be built?

Ideally a canal capable of PANAMAX ships being built following the Canadian/USA border. Starting at Rock, south of Vancouver then tunneled (at least 150ft high clearance at sea level) underneath the Rocky Mts to Thunder Bay where it would join the Great Lakes via enlarged locks all the way to the St Lawrence Seaway and then into the Atlantic Ocean.

Would this be possible at all?

What would be the possible cost?

What would be the savings in time compared to the Panama Canal?

Regards filers
 
Could a Trans-North American Canal be built?

Ideally a canal capable of PANAMAX ships being built following the Canadian/USA border. Starting at Rock, south of Vancouver then tunneled (at least 150ft high clearance at sea level) underneath the Rocky Mts to Thunder Bay where it would join the Great Lakes via enlarged locks all the way to the St Lawrence Seaway and then into the Atlantic Ocean.

Would this be possible at all?

What would be the possible cost?

What would be the savings in time compared to the Panama Canal?

Regards filers

No. No. No.
 
It would be physically possible as an engineering exercise. However, the cost, time and resource demands of construction would be so huge as to make it completely uneconomic.

A barge canal from Hudson's Bay to the Mississippi would be much easier to construct, and still technically trans-North-American. But that one fails on the "why bother" test.
 
Still ridiculous (but less so), a Missouri and Columbia River Canal. Their watersheds get pretty close (though the Continental Divide gets in the way).
 
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