Kirkfield Lift Lock

The boat lift Kirkfield ( Kirkfield Lift Lock) is the descent Buildings Ranked # 36 in the Trent -Severn Waterway in Ontario, Canada.

It overcomes a difference in height of 14.9 m and is located at the highest point of the waterway.

It was opened in 1907 and has since been in use.

Like all hydraulic lifts, it is equipped with two interconnected troughs, where the top goes down by a higher Wassereinfüllung and thus the lower hydraulic presses upward, which repeats itself accordingly at each stroke and lowering.

In the same waterway is also the boat lift Peterborough, which has, however, with 19.8 m over a greater height.