During the Song and earlier periods, barge ships occasionally crashed and wrecked along the Shanyang Yundao section of the Grand Canal while passing the double slipways, and more often than not those were then robbed of the tax grain by local bandits.

In spring 587, continuing his canal-building regime, Emperor Wen built the Shanyang Canal ( 山陽瀆 ) between the Yangtze River and the Huai River to improve the transport of material between those two rivers.

The canal ’ s central portions stretched from Yangzhou to Luoyang ; the section between the Yangtze and the Huai continued to the Shanyang River ; and the next section connected the Huai to the Yellow River and was called the Tongji Channel.

They meet near Shanyang, north of the Song capital of Kaifeng.

This symbolizing the end of the Han Dynasty, former emperor Han Xiandi is renamed Duke of Shanyang.

The former Emperor Xian was created the Duke of Shanyang.

Prince He was ecstatic, and immediately departed from his capital Shanyang ( 山陽, in modern Jining, Shandong ) and headed for the imperial capital Chang ' an, at such a high speed that the horses of his guards fell dead from exhaustion.

For years, although Prince He was powerless and without titles, Emperor Xuan was suspicious of him, but a report by Zhang Chang ( 張敞 ), the governor of the Commandery of Shanyang, in 64 BC, in which Zhang downplayed Prince He's level of intelligence, alleviated those concerns.

He was forced to abdicate in favor of Cao Pi and was given the title of Duke of Shanyang.

Although Emperor Xian was demoted to a rank of nobility ( Duke of Shanyang ), he lived in comfort and enjoyed preferential treatment.

The queen fell in love with Lao and had him appointed Marquis of Shanyang.

Xiao Baojuan sent an army commanded by the general Liu Shanyang ( 劉山陽 ) against Xiao Yan, but Xiao Yan convinced Xiao Yingzhou ( 蕭穎冑 ), the chief of staff of Xiao Baojuan's younger brother Xiao Baorong the Prince of Nankang, who was then governor of Jing Province ( 荊州, modern central and western Hubei ), that Liu was intending to attack both Jing and Yong Province.

A native of Changyi, Shanyang ( present-day Juye County, Shandong ), Man Chong became a strategist under the warlord Cao Cao.

Consort Fu's son was Liu Kang ( 劉康 ), who later was created the Prince of Jiyang, then Prince of Shanyang, then Prince of Dingtao.

After Emperor Cheng's death, Prince Kang went to his Principality of Shanyang.

They gathered in a bamboo grove near the house of Xi Kang ( aka Ji Kang ) in Shanyang ( now in Henan province ) where they enjoyed, and praised in their works, the simple, rustic life.

The restored arm is close to the centre of Warwick, and is now a short branch of the Grand Union Canal, but was originally the mainline line of the Warwick and Birmingham Canal, 1799, leading to the terminus and a basin complex built to originally handle timber.

The waterway was originally established by the building of the Illinois and Michigan Canal that connected the Illinois River to the Chicago River.

The Grand Union Canal runs through Alperton, and the Grand Union Walk is its old towpath which was originally used by horses drawing the canal barges, and is now a recreational facility that serves Alperton.

Water Street, originally the Blackstone Canal, is emerging as the center of the " Canal District ".

Jack Swilling set up the Swilling Irrigation Canal Company to refurbish and improve upon the ancient irrigation system originally constructed by the Hohokam.

The town was originally named by Bohemian colonist Augustine Herman the Village of Bohemia ( or Bohemia Manor ), but the name was changed in 1839 when the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal was built.

When the Erie Canal was originally constructed it passed through what would become Menands.

The village was originally named " Weed's Basin " because the town had a basin ( boat turnaround ) during the Erie Canal era.

The village of Fairport was originally a swampy area within the town of Perinton until it was drained by the new Erie Canal in the 1820s.

The current settlement, originally named " Messina ," grew up along the northern edge of the Erie Canal across from Headson's Landing, a busy canal port with the only bridge to cross the canal east of downtown Syracuse for ten miles.

The borough was originally named Queen City but later the community was named after George Talbot Olyphant, president of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company.

Honesdale, originally Dyberry Forks, was laid out in 1826, as the D & H Canal was also created, and incorporated in 1831.

The Lancaster Canal is a canal in the north of England, originally planned to run from Westhoughton in Lancashire to Kendal in south Cumbria ( then in Westmorland ).

The area was first settled around 1792 and was originally called " Forks " or " Madison Forks " until the current name was adopted around 1835 after development of the Chenango Canal.

It was originally a voluntary group which had previously been known as the Kennet and Avon Canal Association.

Conceived in the Canal Mania period of the late 18th century, the Gloucester and Berkeley Ship Canal scheme ( as it was originally named ) was started by architect and civil engineer Robert Mylne.

The tunnel was originally known as the Hudson River Vehicular Tunnel or the Canal Street Tunnel ; it was the first of two automobile tunnels built under the river, the other being the Lincoln Tunnel.

The Oxford Canal was originally built as a contour canal, meaning that it twisted around hills to minimise vertical deviations from a level contour.

The Grand Union Canal runs near the manor house: it originally had its own wharf here ( independent of the Great Linford wharf ).

This was compounded by transportation problems-the coffee-growing areas were mainly on the Central Valley and only had access to the port in Puntarenas on the Pacific Coast, and before the Panama Canal was opened, ships from Europe had to sail around Cape Horn in order to get to the Pacific Coast.

In post-Roman Britain, the first canal built appears to have been the Exeter Canal, which opened in 1563.

Three were completed when the War of 1812 broke out ; these were the Santee Canal ( opened 1800 ) in South Carolina, the Middlesex Canal ( opened 1802 ) in Massachusetts and the Dismal Swamp Canal ( opened 1805 ) in Virginia.

The Erie Canal ( opened 1825 ) was chartered and owned by the state of New York and financed by bonds bought by private investors.

By 1825 the Erie Canal, long with 82 locks, opened up a connection from the populated Northeast to the Great Lakes.

The first Welland Canal, which opened in 1829 between Lake Ontario and Lake Erie, bypassing Niagara Falls and the Lachine Canal ( 1825 ), which allowed ships to skirt the nearly impassable rapids on the St. Lawrence River at Montreal were built for commerce.

Many notable sea canals were completed in this period, starting with the Suez Canal ( 1869 )-which carries tonnage many times that of most other canals-and the Kiel Canal ( 1897 ), though the Panama Canal was not opened until 1914.

A second bridge, the Canal Bridge, opened in 1809 alongside the new Middlesex Canal.

In the years following the Revolution, Concord's central geographical location made it a logical choice for the state capital, particularly after Samuel Blodget in 1807 opened a canal and lock system to allow vessels passage around the Amoskeag Falls downriver, connecting Concord with Boston by way of the Middlesex Canal.

Chicago's first railway, Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, opened in 1848, which also marked the opening of the Illinois and Michigan Canal.

The final blow was the Suez Canal, opened in 1869, which provided a great shortcut for steamships between Europe and Asia, but was difficult for sailing ships to use.

The Grand Canal Theatre is a new 2, 111 capacity theatre which opened in March 2010 in the Grand Canal Dock.