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
Wallace Venable's canals and inland waterways in the United States. link not working
Overview map of US canals, from Illinois east and Virginia north
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

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:

Blue Heron Drive-It-Yourself Boating Vacations - base in Whitehall, NY; Erie Canal, Champlain Canal, Hudson River
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

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.)