Peterborough Lift Lock

The boat lift Peterborough is the descent Buildings Ranked # 21 in the Trent -Severn Waterway in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.

It overcomes a difference in height of 19.8 m and can therefore be described as the "largest hydraulic boat lift " of the world, since all major hydraulic no, but counterbalance lifts are.

It was constructed by the Canadian engineer Richard Birdsall Rogers and opened on 9 July 1904.

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 Kirkfield, which has, however, only about a lifting height of 14.9 m.

In 1979, the ship lift at Peterborough was declared a National Historic Site.