near downtown Ottawa there lies rusted and forgotten a piece of Ottawa's, if not Canada's once booming lumber industry. this piece of Ottawa's history is a Log Chute. there was a time when this would have been a common sight in some parts of the Ottawa Valley but now it is no more than a faded memory. in early 1990 the last logs passed down this log chute. unfortunately I have no picture of the log chute, I do however have a picture of the "gate" of the log chute
when I took this picture the channel had been drained for repairing the retaining walls and this is what I saw at the bottom of it.
according to a website that has a lot of information about the history of the Chaudiere falls, the "channel" covered in wood is likely an engineering artifact to direct water toward the turbines at the dam. for more information about history of Chaudiere Falls here is the website http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~weinberg/chaudier.html
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