page_title: Kirkfield Lift Lock
section_title: Modernization
hierarchical_section_title: Kirkfield Lift Lock / Construction history / Modernization
caption_attribution_description: Kawartha Lakes Road 6 passes beneath the Trent–Severn Waterway at the Kirkfield Lift Locks.
context_page_description: The Kirkfield Lift Lock is a boat lift located in the city of Kawartha Lakes, Ontario, Canada, near the village of Kirkfield. It is designated "Lock 36" of the Trent-Severn Waterway, situated at the highest section of the canal. It is Canada's second lift lock, the other one is the Peterborough Lift Lock, located on the same canal system.
context_section_description: During the late 1960s, the Kirkfield Lift Lock underwent a series of renovations. The original manual controls were electrified and automated, enabling all lock operations to be activated from a single console in the new control tower. The water-driven gate engines and pumps were removed, as well as the retaining walls, concrete piers, and the steel aqueduct. The shops and lockmaster's houses built along the canal were also demolished. The lock was reinforced with a massive concrete structure; a new two-lane underpass was constructed underneath.
  Currently, the lock is used exclusively by pleasure boats, like the rest of the canal, becoming obsolete for commercial traffic after the present version of the Welland Canal was completed in 1932.
caption: View of Kawartha Lakes Road 6 (formerly Highway 503 travelling beneath the locks).
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