Iroquois, Ontario
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Iroquois is a community of 1,200 located on the Saint Lawrence Seaway between Brockville and Cornwall, Ontario, Canada just east of the Thousand Islands and an hour south of Ottawa. It was located in the former Dundas County, Ontario.
Iroquois is the site of the Iroquois control structure, a dam that resulted in the impounding of a 50 kilometre (30 mile) stretch of the St. Lawrence River during the construction of the Saint Lawrence Seaway. An artificial lake, Lake Saint Lawrence, now extends from a hydroelectric dam at Cornwall to the control structure at Iroquois, and replaces the formerly narrow and turbulent section of river that was impassable to large vessels. It replaces, in part, the Long Sault Rapids.
In creating the lake, the town of Iroquois and ten other communities were flooded. Iroquois was relocated about 1.5 kilometres north rather than being abandoned. There was an international design competition in 1954 to design the new town. Famed Canadian-British architect Wells Coates was among those who submitted redevelopment concepts.
Iroquois is often confused with the north-eastern Ontario town of Iroquois Falls, which is located approximately 67 kilometres northeast of Timmins, Ontario.
