The event was considered well-run and it influenced the Canadian Rally Championship, but due to financial problems it was never held again.
[1] However, the World Rally Championship returned to Canada in the 1977 season, when the Critérium du Quebec was included in the calendar.
The 1974 Rally of the Rideau Lakes was run from October 16–20, two weeks before the other North American WRC round, the Press-on-Regardless Rally in the United States.
The rally consisted of 40 special stages on gravel roads.
Home country's Walter Boyce placed third in a Toyota Celica.