The federal government's Department of Railways and Canals took over operation of the GTPR until July 12, 1920, when it too was placed under the CNR.

During his time as Minister of Railways and Canals, Dunning was a staunch supporter of Sir Henry Thornton, the U. S .- born Englishman who, in 1922 had taken over the presidency of the Canadian National Railways.

The financial strain broke on March 7 when GTR defaulted on repayment of construction loans to the federal government, whereby the GTPR was nationalized and taken over by a Board of Management operating under the Department of Railways and Canals while legalities were resolved.

Canals, siphons, and more dams are used throughout the Columbia Basin, supplying over 600, 000 acres ( 2, 400 km² ) of farm land.

In September 1873, the Worcester and Birmingham Canal received an offer from the Sharpness New Docks Company to take over the canal and both Droitwich Canals.

The Canadian 4th Armoured advanced from a hard-won bridgehead over the Ghent Canal at Moerbrugge to find themselves the first Allied troops facing the formidable obstacle of the double line of the Leopold and Schipdonk Canals.

The Canals Trust have taken over the lease of the Canal Centre at Fourteen Locks.

Two significant waterways not under VNF's control are the navigable sections of the River Somme and the Brittany Canals, which are both under local management.

Canals could not be used in winter due to ice and floods, which caused damage that had to be repaired in the spring.

Likewise, see Canals of Ireland, which covers both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

Suchet is vice-president of the Lichfield and Hatherton Canals Trust, whose most challenging achievement to date has been securing funding ( both via an appeal and from influencing government decisions ) concerning the building of the new M6 Toll motorway where it cuts the lines of the Lichfield Canal and the Hatherton Canal, both of which the Trust wishes to see reopened.

The Calder and Hebble Navigation, which connects to the Navigation at Wakefield, allows boats to reach the Huddersfield Broad and Narrow Canals, and the Rochdale Canal.

After they pulled out of the restoration scheme, they sold the house, which was bought by a member of the Cotswold Canals Trust, and transferred the ownership of the lock to the Trust.

This was not the original meeting point of the Grand Junction and Oxford Canals: the junction was moved in the course of improvements to the Oxford Canal in the 1830s, prior to which the junction was near where the marina is today, and where a third Horseley Ironworks bridge can be seen.

Canals came into being because the Industrial Revolution ( which began in Britain during the mid-18th century ) demanded an economic and reliable way to transport goods and commodities in large quantities.

The Trent – Severn Waterway is managed by Parks Canada under the statutory authority of the Historic Canals Regulations ( which outline and delegate the responsibilities for navigation, resource protection, dredge and fill operations, the operation of boater campgrounds, etc .).

The drying of the lake lead to the creation of a network of canals, of which the Jamaica and La Viga Canals were most important from the colonial period to the early 20th century.

Alfons de Borja, later known as Pope Callixtus III ( 1378 – 1458 ), was born in La Torreta, Canals, which was then situated in the Kingdom of Valencia, to Domingo de Borja and Francina Llançol.

Shiftless young drifter Joe Taylor works on a barge which operates from Glasgow, on the River Clyde, along the Forth and Clyde and Union Canals to Edinburgh.

As a novice there, Arya attempts to master their belief that Faceless Men have no true identity by both throwing all her treasures into the water ( except her sword, Needle, which she cannot throw away due to Needle's symbolization of all she lost and left behind ) and posing as a girl called " Cat of the Canals ".

A restoration group was formed in 1969, as part of a national drive by the Inland Waterways Association called Safeguarding Britain's Waterways, which led to the formation in 1973 of the Droitwich Canals Trust, a limited company with local authority support, which began to work towards the restoration of the canal.

A Planning Application for the restoration was submitted by British Waterways on behalf of the Droitwich Canals Restoration Partnership in May 2007, by which time a total of £ 10. 5 million had been promised, some of which was dependent on match funding, and the Restoration Partnership needed to raise £ 1 million in order to release the other funding.

This canal basin was the point at which the Cromford, Erewash and Nottingham Canals met.

The rest of the waterway to Port Dundas was converted into a culvert to maintain the water flow, and much of it now lies beneath the M8 motorway which was constructed along its path in the early 1970s ; the culvert remains under the jurisdiction of Scottish Canals ( as successor to British Waterways ) because of its function as a feeder to the Forth and Clyde Canal.

An Act of Parliament was obtained in August 1928, which allowed the amalgamation of the Regent's Canal, the Grand Junction, the Warwick and Birmingham, the Birmingham and Warwick Junction and the Warwick and Napton Canals.

; 1984: There is possibility of the complete ring being resurrected by the Barnsley Canal Group which has been formed with the intention of restoring the Barnsley and Dearne & Dove Canals.

The canaliculi join each other to form larger and larger structures, sometimes referred to as Canals of Hering, which themselves join to form small bile ductules that have an epithelial surface.

Among them are the Merritton Tunnel ( under the third Welland Canal ), remnants of the three previous Welland Canals and several early industrial ruins, and The Keg restaurant, which is housed in the former Independent Rubber Company / Merritton Cotton Mills Annex.

The department of Earth was to be in charge of Agriculture and the agricultural sciences, Fire was to be in charge of the Military, Water was the department of the Canals and waterways while Air seemed to have responsibility for everything else.

Alfonso de Borja was born in La Torreta, now a neighbourhood of Canals, Valencia – today in Spain – but at that time in the Kingdom of Valencia under the Crown of Aragon.

After the river's flow was under control, two major canals serving the western side of the Sacramento Valley – the Tehama-Colusa and Corning Canals.

He is reputed to have named that locality, on the junction of two canals, " Little Venice ", a legend that was disputed by Lord Kinross in 1966 and by London Canals.

Incorporated in July 1920, Gilbert was primarily a farming community fueled by the rail line and construction of the Roosevelt Dam and the Eastern and Consolidated Canals.

The Erie and Champlain Canals were begun in 1817 and the section in Cohoes finished in 1823, they would impact Cohoes in every aspect, Cohoes was even known as Juncta because of this.

The Seneca River Crossing Canals Historic District was listed in 2005.

In 1962, the British Transport Commission was wound up, and control passed to the British Waterways Board ; subsequently Scottish Canals took control.

In order to provide a suitable structure to drive the restoration forwards, the Cotswold Canals Partnership was established in 2001, drawing together people representing the Proprietors of the Stroudwater Navigation, the Cotswold Canals Trust, councils at district and county level, and a number of other interested parties.

James Brindley was employed as engineer and work got under way .” ( A quote from Canals, Routes and Roots, The Trent and Mersey Canal, by Peter Hardcastle )

The western arm, to the Severn, was built as the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal, whilst the southern arm ( to the Thames ) traversed the Coventry and Oxford Canals.

West Riding County Council, who reported on its state in 1907 as part of the Royal Commission on Canals, blamed the inadequacies on the fact that the navigation was virtually controlled by the Great Central Railway.

In the second case, the academic degree was called Ingeniero de Caminos, Canales y Puertos ( often shortened to Ingeniero de Caminos or ICCP ), that literally means " Highways, Canals and Harbors Engineer ", though civil engineers in Spain practice in the same fields as civil engineers do elsewhere.

Although once again not holding a seat in parliament, he was appointed Minister of Railways and Canals ( Canada ) on December 30, 1929, and won a by-election in Brandon on February 5, 1930.

The actual position of the station was at the point where the line crossed the turnpike road linking the Trent and Mersey and the Shropshire Union Canals.

Beck contended that increased commitment was necessary to develop controls that would " defuse future Love Canals.