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A Brief History of English Canals

By Mike Clarke.

A Comprehensive Listing of Ohio Canals and Their Feeders

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BARGEMEN Dedicated to the Boat Builders, Owners and Workers of London

United Kingdom.

Beverely Beck Online

United Kingdom. Boats, fishing and historic Beverley Beck Canal.
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Boat Families - Ormskirk & District FHS

Database of names of individual people from West Lancashire with known links (work, family, etc.) to the Leeds and Liverpool canal network. Includes searchable database and family group pages. Free to use.

C & O Canal Virtual Tour

A pictorial towpath guide to the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal.

Canal Heritage Enterprises

Genealogical information including church and cemetery records of the Catholic communities along the Illinois and Michigan Canal in Northeastern Illinois.

Canal History

Wainfleet Township, Ontario, Canada.

Canals and Canalized Rivers, 1930

Map from the Atlas of the Historical Geography of the United States.

Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O) Canal - The economic impact of the C&O Canal on canal communities in Washington County, Maryland

Covers canal towns, families and business along the C&O canal in Washington County, Maryland.

Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park

Cleveland's First Infrastructure: The Ohio and Erie Canal

Delaware and Hudson Canal within Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River

Erie Canal Museum

Syracuse, New York.

Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor

Explore the Erie Canal and discover America's most famous and influential man-made waterway. Stretching 524 miles across the full expanse of upstate New York, the Erie, Champlain, Oswego, and Cayuga-Seneca Canals are among our nation

FamilySearch Wiki - Chambly Canal

1843 connected to the Richelieu River at the south end in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Saint-Jean County, and to the same river at the north end in Chambly, Chambly County, Quebec, including background history, route, map, connecting migration routes, and finding settler records.

FamilySearch Wiki - Champlain Canal

1819 from Albany on the Erie Canal to Whitehall, New York on Lake Champlain, background history, route, map, connecting migration routes, and finding settler records.

FamilySearch Wiki - Erie Canal

1819 from Albany on the Hudson River to Buffalo, New York on Lake Ontario, background history, route, map, connecting migration routes, and passenger lists.

Findmypast - Canada- Railways, Steamships & Steamboats In Canada $

Findmypast has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription.

GENUKI: Boatpeople of the Wolverhampton Canal System

A list of baptism and marriages of people known to have been on the canal system in Wolverhampton.