He was involved in an unsuccessful contract to complete a section of the Rideau Canal near the current site of Smiths Falls in 1827.
Given the unexpected cost overruns, John By was recalled to London and questioned by a parliamentary committee before being cleared of any wrongdoing.
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The hotel is just metres away from some of the capital's most important landmarks including Parliament Hill, the Rideau Canal, the National Gallery of Canada, the Byward Market, the National War Memorial, the U.S. Embassy, and the Rideau Centre.
It goes over the dam creating Mooney's Bay and Hog's Back Falls, and continues over the Hog's Back swing bridge over the Rideau Canal, to allow taller boats navigating the canal to pass.
It includes the east side of the UNESCO-listed Rideau Canal at Kingston Mills (site of the infamous Shafia family murders), hosts a handful of motels serving Ontario Highway 15 and former Ontario Highway 2, a federal prison (Pittsburgh and Joyceville Institutions in Joyceville, Ontario) and three museums (Military Communications and Electronics Museum, RMC Museum and McLaughlin Woodworking Museum).
The Rideau Centre also has a rooftop garden with views of part of the ByWard Market, the Rideau Canal, the Château Laurier, and the Parliament buildings.
The town is on the Rideau Canal system for recreational boating, and is served by the Smiths Falls-Montague Airport for general aviation.
It is near Dow's Lake the western terminal of the Rideau Canal skating rink (in winters only) and a key site during the Canadian Tulip Festival in May.
Fort Henry, Ontario (1837) in Kingston, Ontario, a limestone redoubt and connected fortified battery, built to protect the Kingston Royal Naval Dockyard and the entrance to the Rideau Canal — now a popular tourist destination
The building of the Canada Atlantic Railway tracks along the Rideau Canal as far north as Rideau Street meant the demolition of the boat works in 1895.