Les Fontinettes (boat lift)

Arques is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in northern France, bordering Saint-Omer.

The Battle of Arques was fought on 4 April 1303 in the French city of Arques between the County of Flanders and the Kingdom of France.

The Fontinettes Boat Lift (French: Ascenseur des Fontinettes or Ascenseur à bateaux des Fontinettes was built in 1888 on the Canal de Neufossé and connected the River Aa and the Neuffossé Canal in Arques, near Saint-Omer in the Pas-de-Calais.

The Canton of Arques is a former canton situated in the Pas-de-Calais département and in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France. It was disbanded following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015.