Canals were the first technology to allow bulk materials to be easily transported across the country, coal being a common commodity.

* November 30, 1824 – The first sod is turned in Ontario, for the first of four Welland Canals ( the canal opens for a trial run exactly 5 years later to the day ).

* November 30 – The first sod is turned in Ontario, for the first of four Welland Canals ( the canal opens for a trial run exactly 5 years later to the day ).

Canals were constructed throughout the first half of the 20th century, and spurred the South Florida economy, prompting land development.

Several of his renderings were published in one of the first printed books to use lithography, Cadwallader D. Colden's Memoir, Prepared at the Request of a Committee of the Common Council of the City of New York, and Presented to the Mayor of the City, at the Celebration of the Completion of the New York Canals, published in 1825, with early images of the City of Buffalo.

Mackenzie King appointed Howe to two portfolios, as Minister of Railways and Canals and the first Minister of Marine.

Restoration plans were first voiced in 1975, and since 1990, the Lichfield and Hatherton Canals Restoration Society have been actively engaged in excavating and rebuilding sections of the canal as they have become available.

The Canadian 4th Armoured Division, moving north toward the south shore of the Scheldt around the Dutch town of Breskens were the first Allied troops to face the formidable obstacle of the double line of the Leopold and Dérivation de la Lys Canals.

Canals brought the first major change to transportation, and were usually built directly from the mines to city centres, such as the famous Bridgewater Canal in Manchester.

The original canal was built by wealthy Boston merchants who formed a limited liability corporation called the Proprietors of Locks and Canals, one of the first of its kind in the United States.

Twenty years later in the 1958 or 1959, eldest daughter Irene ( first played by Maria Canals Barrera, later by Lupe Ontiveros ) is getting married.

In fall 605, after the completion of the Tongji and Han Canals, Emperor Yang carried out the first of 11 ( counting military campaigns ) tours that he would eventually undertake of various parts of the empire, going to Jiangdu — the capital of Yang Province, where he had been commandant previously — on an imperial ship that was said to be sufficiently large and luxurious to serve as floating palaces.

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.

Etruria Canals Festival takes place annually at Etruria Industrial Museum on the first weekend in June.

The first attempts at restoration began in 1974 with the formation of the Neath and Tennant Canals Society.

The influential observer Eugène Antoniadi used the 83-cm ( 32. 6 inch ) aperture telescope at Meudon Observatory at the 1909 opposition of Mars and saw no canals, the outstanding photos of Mars taken at the new Baillaud dome at the Pic du Midi observatory also brought formal discredit to the Martian Canals theory in 1909, and the notion of canals began to fall out of favor.

The Millennium Link, a project to restore both the Union and Forth and Clyde Canals, saw the two canals joined once again at the Falkirk end of the Union Canal, in 2000, by means of the Falkirk Wheel.

Canals have found another use in the 21st century, as easements for the installation of fibre optic telecommunications network cabling, avoiding having them buried in roadways while facilitating access and reducing the hazard of being damaged from digging equipment.

In yacht racing, a round-the-world route approximating a great circle would be quite impractical, particularly in a non-stop race where use of the Panama and Suez Canals would be impossible.

The series has included the trio rowing up the River Thames ( similar to the 1889 novel also named Three Men in a Boat ), sailing from London to the Isle of Wight for a sailing yacht race, borrowing numerous vessels to make their way from Plymouth to the Isles of Scilly, taking to the Irish Canals and Rivers and along with Dara's dog ( Snip Nua ), an escapade travelling throughout the Mediterranean to Venice and most recently attempting to find a boat to take to the anniversary of the Statue of Liberty, where in response to an ongoing challenge between Griff and Dara ( who had each secured a boat each and who refusing to give it up to use the others ) he secured the Nantucket Lightship to use.

It merged three departments: the former Department of Railways and Canals, the Department of Marine and Fisheries, and the Civil Aviation Branch of National Defence under C. D. Howe, who would use the portfolio to rationalize the governance and provision of all forms of transportation ( air, water and land ).

In this role, Rogers suggested the use of hydraulic lift locks to the Minister of Railways and Canals, John Haggart, who commissioned him to travel to Europe to study existing boat lifts in France ( the Ascenseur à bateaux des Fontinettes ), Belgium ( Lifts on the old Canal du Centre ) and England ( the Anderton Boat Lift near Northwich in Cheshire ).

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.

A proponent of a national canal system, in 1825 Colden was commissioned by the Common Council of New York City, during the last days of the construction of the Erie Canal, to write his Memoir, Prepared at the Request of a Committee of the Common Council of the City of New York, and Presented to the Mayor of the City, at the Celebration of the Completion of the New York Canals.

Canals were dug on both the north and the south banks to provide power to the factories that would soon be built on its banks as both mill owners and workers flocked to the city in droves.

Although the junction and the canal to the south of it was built by the Trent and Mersey Canal company, the Coventry Canal later bought it back from them, and so it is indeed a junction between the Trent and Mersey and the Coventry Canals, although the Birmingham and Fazeley Canal retained control of their section, and so the historic Coventry Canal is in two parts.

* Joseph Priestley, Historical Account of the Navigable Rivers, Canals and Railways of Great Britain, ( Wakefield: Richard Nichols, 1831 )

See Canals of the United Kingdom for a list of the canals of Great Britain organised alphabetically by country, and lists of abandoned and future canal routes.

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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.

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The Great Days of the Canals.

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* Joseph Priestly ( 1831 ) Historical Account of the Navigable Rivers, Canals, and Railways, Throughout Great Britain, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green

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