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Monday, October 19, 2020

Robert F. Legget Memorial

A memorial to Robert F. Legget stands on the southwest bank of the Rideau Canal opposite the gate between locks 4 and 5 in the Ottawa lockstation.



À la mémoire du
distingué ingénieur et géologue

ROBERT F. LEGGET

1904 à 1994
Historien prééminent de la voie
navigable Rideau, des rivières
canadiennes, des vois ferrées et des
canaux; défenseur ardent de la beauté
et de l'écologie de cette nation.

Robert Ferguson Legget
In memory of
the outstanding engineer
and geologist


ROBERT F. LEGGET

1904 TO 1994
Pre-eminent historian of the
Rideau Waterway, of Canada's rivers,
railways, and canals; ardent advocate
of the preservation of this nations'
beauty and ecology