General Pilotage Regulations (SOR/2000-132)

1 The compulsory pilotage areas are as follows:

• (a) Cornwall District, being the Canadian waters of the St. Lawrence River between the northern entrance to St. Lambert Lock and the pilot boarding station near St. Regis in Quebec;

• (b) International District 1, being the Canadian waters of the St. Lawrence River between the pilot boarding station near St. Regis, in Quebec, and a line drawn from Carruthers Point light in the Port of Kingston, in Ontario, on a true bearing of 127° through Wolfe Island south side light and extended to the shore of the State of New York;

• (c) International District 2, being

  • (i) all the waters of the Welland Canal between the following geographic limits:

    • (A) in the southern approach, within an arc drawn one mile southward of the outer light on the western breakwater at Port Colborne, and

    • (B) in the northern approach, within an arc drawn one mile northward of the western breakwater light at Port Weller,

  • (ii) the Canadian waters of Lake Erie westward of a line running approximately 206° true from the Southeast Shoal light to Sandusky Pierhead light at Cedar Point in the State of Ohio, and

  • (iii) the Canadian waters of the connecting channels between Lake Erie and Lake Huron;

• (d) International District 3, being the Canadian waters of St. Mary’s River connecting Lake Huron and Lake Superior as far as, in the northern approach, longitude 84°33′W.;

• (e) the Canadian waters of Lakes Ontario, Erie, Huron and Superior other than the waters in the compulsory pilotage areas established under paragraphs (a) to (d); and

• (f) the navigable waters within the limits of the Port of Churchill, Manitoba.