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.

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.

Canals were built along several of the valleys, to bring the iron down to the coast for shipping elsewhere.

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 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 ).

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.

A barrage at Surlikonda across the Potteru stream was constructed to utilize the discharge from Balimela Power House for irrigation by means of two Main Canals one on the right side named as Tamasha Main Canal and the second on the left side named as Gompakonda Main Canal.

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 of Ireland of a list of canals throughout Ireland

* Inland Navigation ; or Select Plans of the Several Navigable Canals throughout Britain ( 1795 )

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

* 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 ).

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

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.