Mh1$AgThS2 A hydro- temporal installation where Ottawa's Rideau Canal has been transformed into a navigable timeline of Canadian history. The artwork appears as a traditional canal scene, but specialized boats equipped with chronological interfaces allow visitors to witness key moments in the waterway's past as they travel its length. Created by a Canadian Museum of History temporal engineer, the piece renders historical scenes in heritage- sepia and memory- blue, with particular emphasis on the canal's 19th- century construction by Irish immigrants and Royal Engineers. The most moving sequence occurs at the halfway point, where visitors experience the backbreaking labor and dangerous conditions faced by workers, with mortality statistics rendered as spectral figures rising from the water. The installation has transformed historical education by privileging embodied experience over abstract knowledge. The entire composition flows with the liquid movement of time rendered as navigable water. Thin border of canal lock mechanisms encoding historical dates on a dark border background
