Canals were important for industrial development.

Canals, roads and railroads were constructed.

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.

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.

* 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.

Canals dug for the oil and gas industry also allow storms to move sea water inland where it damages swamps and marshes.

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.

Canals and railways grew as factories spread, each clustering around sources of cheap energy, available materials and / or mass markets.

Canals need to be level, and, while small irregularities in the lie of the land can be dealt with through cuttings and embankments, for larger deviations, other approaches have been adopted.

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.

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

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.

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

The Scottish Government however, decided the waterways in Scotland would not be part of the new charity, with British Waterways Scotland remaining a state-owned entity operating as Scottish Canals.

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.

To accommodate drainage of and shipping on the tributaries of the IJ, such as the Spaarne, the Zaan, and the Nauerna Canal, nine auxiliary canals needed to be dug as well ( Side Canals " A " to " I ").

Canals continued to be the primary commercial means of transport for Apsley's mills.

A canal should be placed in an appropriate: Category: Canals by country sub-category ; if none exist, then the canal should remain directly in this category.

Canals are usually fed by diverting water from streams and rivers into the upper parts of the canal, but if no suitable source is available, a pumping station can be used to maintain the water level.

Although the scheme was deemed to be unviable, interest in restoration continued, and the Lichfield and Hatherton Canals Restoration Trust ( LHCRT ) was formed to promote the restoration of the Lichfield Canal and the Hatherton Canal.

Canals are usually fed by diverting water from streams and rivers into the upper parts of the canal, but if no suitable source is available or sufficient, a pumping station, such as the one at Claverton, can be used to maintain the water level.

The former port is to be regenerated as part of the canal restoration project by the Cotswold Canals Partnership.

No known publications in English, but a mention can be found on p. 34 – 35 of Hadfield's World Canals, 1986.

The three mills from the short can be seen in miniature on the Storybook Land Canals ride at Disneyland.