The portage road, which is wide enough for a wagon, is still visible.

Another French expedition in 1753 converted the portage road into a military road.

Today the old track is known as Portage Road.

Fort Raines was one of several of forts built to protect this portage road.

The fact that fortifications were built along the portage road but then abandoned by the French is one indication of this failure of strategic thinking.

It has an island platform layout and can be reached from a pedestrian overbridge at the end of Portage Road.

Portage Road is the location of one of the 2 historical portages overland routes between the two coasts.

The British and Canadians rallied, but had been driven off the Portage Road.

Furthermore, the French could then have used the confined woodlands to blunt the numerical advantage of the British, and contested the entire portage road.

Even with the Welland Canal providing access between the lakes in the 1830s, the portage road was still carrying a great deal of people and cargo.