North American Canals

Organizations

National
- American Canal Society
- Canadian Canal Society/Société des Canaux du Canada
Local

Canal Pages - National

19th Century U.S. Canals: An Index of Web Sites
Canals of the United States and Canada, as they were in 1906
A list of candidates for "first canal in the United States"

Canal Pages - Local

The canals listed below are those I believe to be of interest for either pleasure boating or for historical reasons. I have not attempted to list any "large ship" canals.

I welcome any suggestions for additional entries.

The following are available for pleasure boating:

Rideau Canal- Ontario, Canada

Houseboat-style hire boats available.
Parks Canada page on the Rideau

Trent-Severn Waterway- Ontario, Canada

Parks Canada page on the T-S.
Big Chute Marine Railway
Trent-Severn Cruising Guide
Trent-Severn Waterway Boating And Travel Guide

NY Canals

New York State Canal System

New York Canal Times - Online Newspaper

Exploring the New York State Canal System

Camillus Erie Canal Park

Erie Canal- New York, USA

Travels of Tug 44 - on the Erie Canal, the Champlain Canal and the Hudson River; 2003 to the present

Paul Smith's 1999/2000 trip reports on the Erie, Cayuga-Seneca, and Oswego canals

Immortalized in song. See also New York State Canal System

Boat hire firms:

Erie Canal Cruise Lines
Low Bridge Charters in Spencerport, NY. Hireboat.
Midlakes Hireboats, Ltd. in Scaneateles, NY. Hireboats and cruises.

Transiting the Erie Canal - 1998

The Erie Canal, by Frank Sadowski

The following are of historical interest and/or for canoeing/kayaking or other non-boating recreation:

US - Northeast

Cumberland and Oxford Canal: Sebago Lake, Maine to Portland, Maine; only traces remain
Bellows Falls Canal: Bellows Falls, VT
The Blackstone Canal: Worcester, MA to Providence, RI
Boston, Brockton, and New York Canal: - the canal that never was
South Hadley Canal: Massachusetts; by Ted Belsky, South Hadley Canal Committee
Middlesex Canal Association: Massachusetts, Chelmsford to Charlestown
Farmington Canal Heritage Greenway: Connecticut
Champlain Canal: New York
The Genesee Valley Greenway in New York state.: Conversion of an abandoned canal and railway into a "Greenway".
Lowell National Historical Park - Lowell, MA: Canal tours
A Guide to Canal Records in the New York State Archives.
Canal Society of New York State
History of the Canal System of the State of New York: Only up to 1906!
Little Falls Canal: the "first real canal built in New York State" - Images
Little Falls Canal: Canal history
New York's Oldest Canal: upper Mohawk River Valley

US - Mid-Atlantic

Morris Canal, New Jersey

Canal Society of New Jersey

Delaware and Raritan Canal State Park

Somerset, NJ

National Canals Museum - Easton, PA

Including pages on the Lehigh, Delaware, and Morris Canals.

Delaware Canal State Park- Upper Black Eddy, Pennsylvania, USA

Friends of the Delaware Canal

Delaware and Hudson Canal

from the National Park Service

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal- Washington, D.C. and Maryland, USA

184 miles long, mostly de-watered, with trees growing in canal bed. Towpath suitable for walking or cycling. National Park Service horse-drawn trip boat at D.C. end.

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park, from the National Park Service
Kathy Bilton's pages on the C&O Canal
C&O Canal Association

Patowmack Canal

Great Falls, VA

Richmond's Canal Walk - Richmond, VA

Virginia Canal & Navigations Society

Canada

Canadian Canal Society/Société des Canaux du Canada
Shubenacadie Canal- Nova Scotia, Canada.: (Contributed by Joan Payzant.)
Lachine Canal: Monteal, Quebec (pages in English and en Francais)
Other Canadian Canals: (Web pages from Parks Canada.)