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