Canals were important for industrial development.

Canals, roads and railroads were constructed.

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

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

When the Derby and Nottingham Canals were completed by Jessop and Benjamin Outram in 1796, they provided direct routes to the important textile centres of Derby and Nottingham.

Having been built to connect the Peak Forest and Cromford Canals, the railways fortunes were closely tied with those of the 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.

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.

Canals were used for transportation or for irrigation.

Canals ( over which the battle was fought ) and pumping stations were built to remove the brackish water from the land which divided it into personal tracts with new stone houses for colonists from north Italy.

Canals, dykes and dams were built routing the water of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers around the marshes, instead of allowing water to move slowly through the marshland.

Canals were dug to facilitate the irrigation of agricultural lands throughout the empire.

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.

Canals were built through the city so that food supplies could be directly transported from the food-productive Yangtze plain to the farthest southwestern point of the empire.

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.

Canals in the waters of Lake Xochimilco were initially created along with that of a kind of artificial agricultural plots called chinampas.

Following a February 24, 1906 fire, the Moncton shops were rebuilt at a new location at the insistence of the local Member of Parliament, Henry Emmerson, who was the Minister of Railways and Canals in Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier's cabinet.

Despite this, in 1895, American astronomer Percival Lowell published his book Mars, followed by Mars and its Canals in 1906, proposing that the canals were the work of a long-gone civilization.

Canals and rivers were unavailable in the winter season due to freezing, but the railroads ran year-round despite poor weather.

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 with small locks were cut in 1885 from Lake Washington to Lake Union, and from Lake Union to Salmon Bay.

Canals first saw use during the Roman occupation of the south of Great Britain, and were used mainly for irrigation.

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.

Canals were also drained on the same day.

Canals began to be built in the late 18th century to link the major manufacturing centres across the country.

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.

The British built a number of other canals ( Grenville, Chute-à-Blondeau and Carillon Canals, all along the Ottawa River ) as well as a number of forts ( Citadel Hill, La Citadelle, and Fort Henry ) to impede and deter any future American invasions of Canadian territory.

Canals, built within Moscow city limits, form a number of islands.

In its original form, the project was meant to result in the third-largest canal ever built ( after the Panama and the Suez Canals ).

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.

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.

This, along with the construction of the Bothwell and Hammond Canals, contributed to significant business development.

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.

Canals are artificial waterways that are constructed to provide a new path of travel for vessels ( as opposed to improving a natural waterway along its current course ).

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.

:: 2007-White River State Park partners with The Indiana Invaders, Indy Greenways, Indianapolis Parks & Canals, the National Institute for Fitness & Sport ( NIFS ), local and international businesses, and community partners to revitalize the flood plain greenspace along the White River for education, health, and recreation opportunities.

Surprisingly, Astrid Weller and even the whole town of Springfield is impressed with Homer's work, and enjoy the newly made " Grand Canals of Springfield " along with the swimming zoo animals.

They were eventually purchased, along with a length of the canal and the Wappenshall basin, by Telford and Wrekin Council, who are working with the Trust to allow repairs to the buildings to be undertaken, with the aim of providing a museum and heritage centre for the canal, a cafe, and offices for the Canals Trust.

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.

As of May 2005, work in Orleans Parish was certified as 90 % complete, with " some work remaining " along the London Avenue Canals, and 70 % complete in Jefferson Parish.