Engebret Soot

Engebret Olsen Soot (26 May 1786 – 3 March 1859) was a Norwegian engineer.

He was one of Norway's first canal builders and joined the timber channels at Otteid and Mangen-Grasmo.

[1] Engebret Olsen Soot was born in Aurskog (now Aurskog-Høland) in Akershus, Norway.

In 1804, he built a mill on the Sotbekken, a small river at Lierfoss in Aurskog-Høland.

Soot built Otteidkanalen, Norway's first canal in Østre Otteid between the years 1825 and 1827.