Welland

[ wel-uhnd ]

noun

1. a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada, on the Welland Ship Canal.

Example Sentences

For generations, residents of Collyweston — a village in central England snuggled up against the River Welland — passed down stories of a grand Tudor palace, of royal processions through the valley below, of the mother of a king who had called it home.

From New York Times

A major bottleneck is the closed Welland Canal in Ontario.

From Seattle Times

The body of Rikki was found naked and posed star-shaped with his arms outstretched and legs wide apart, in woodland near where he lived on the Welland estate.

From BBC

Watson, who also lived on the Welland estate, was the second person to stand trial for Rikki's murder, after the boy's mother Ruth Neave was cleared by a jury in 1996.

From BBC

The Trinidad was built as a canal-going boat in 1867, carrying coal and iron from the place where it was made, Oswego, New York, across the Welland Canal connecting Lakes Erie and Ontario, onward to Chicago and Milwaukee, where the boat picked up grain to take back to Oswego.

From Washington Times