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	History of the British canal system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		During this period of "canal mania", huge sums were invested in canal building, and the canal system rapidly expanded to nearly 4000 miles (7000 kilometres) in length, and essentially had no competition.
		The bulk of the canal system was built in the Midlands and the north of England, with relatively few canals being built in southern England or London (the Grand Union Canal being an exception).
		A few self-contained canals, not connected to the national system, were built in the South West of England, such as the Bude Canal and the St.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_the_British_canal_system (2040 words)

	History of the British canal system (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The transport system which existed before the canals were built consisted of either coastal shipping, or horses and carts struggling along mostly un-surfaced mud roads, (although there were some surfaced Tollpike roads), there was also a small amount of traffic carried along navigable rivers.
		Canal companies were unable to compete against the speed of the new railways, and in order to survive they had to slash their prices.
		By the 1960s the canal system had shrunk to just 2000 miles (3000 kilometres), half the size it was at its peak in the early 19th century.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/h/hi/history_of_the_british_canal_system.html (1634 words)

	Canals of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Canals first saw use during the Roman occupation of Great Britain, and were used mainly for irrigation.
		Canal boats proved more than adequate for this task, and so canals were constructed between industries, and between cities and ports, with vast amounts of materials from manufactured goods to coal and lumber being transported.
		In May 2005 The Times reported that British Waterways was hoping to quadruple the amount of cargo carried on Britain's canal network to 6 million tonnes by 2010 by transporting large amounts of waste to disposal facilities.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Canals_of_the_United_Kingdom (785 words)

	Iraq - HISTORY
		The nomadic population swelled with the influx of beduins from Najd, in the Arabian Peninsula.
		As a result of the victory at Mosul, British authority was extended to all the Iraqi wilayat (sing., wilayah-province) with the exception of the Kurdish highlands bordering Turkey and Iran, the land alongside the Euphrates from Baghdad south to An Nasiriyah, and the Shia cities of Karbala and An Najaf.
		The British believed that these credentials would satisfy traditional Arab standards of political legitimacy; moreover, the British thought that Faisal would be accepted by the growing Iraqi nationalist movement because of his role in the 1916 revolt against the Turks, his achievements as a leader of the Arab emancipation movement, and his general leadership qualities.
	www.mongabay.com /reference/country_studies/iraq/HISTORY.html (19238 words)

	Articles - Canals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Canals are so deeply identified with Venice that many canal cities have been nicknamed "the Venice of..." The city is built on marshy islands, with wooden piles supporting the buildings, so that here it is not so much the waterways which are man-made, as the land.
		In Europe and then in the young United States, inland canals preceded the development of railroads during the earliest phase of the Industrial Revolution; some canals were later drained and used as railroad rights-of-way.
		Canals have found another use in the 21st century, as wayleaves for fibre optic telecommunications networks.
	www.worldhammock.com /articles/Canals (492 words)

	Roade \| British History Online
		Among the possessions of William Peveril in Northamptonshire in 1086 was an estate held by Turstin consisting of half a hide and half a virgate, of which the soke belonged to 'another Courteenhall', William's manor.
		The north-western and north-eastern extremities of the parish were clearly never part of an open-field system and the woodland which survived there in the 18th century must represent the last remnants of the much more extensive coverage which had existed in the Middle Ages, as indeed the name Roade itself implies.
		What proved to be the most important event for the modern economic (and social) history of Roade was the decision by a London firm, J. Masters and Co. (or Masters and Shuter), to establish a polishing paste factory near the station, which opened about 1910.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=22790 (19037 words)

	History of the St. Lawrence / Great Lakes Canals System (1783-1954) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		After the first canals were built (Coteau du Lac, Lachine, etc.), the need to improve the existing ones and to extend the system became clear, notably as the tension between Britain and the United States mounted and as Upper Canada was being settled.
		Work for the Ottawa-Rideau Canal began in 1826 and the canal was completed in 1832 The detour imposed by the canal is far longer than by the more direct route, 394 km against 294 by the St. Lawrence.
		Therefore, this canal was built for strategic reasons and as soon as Canada / United States relations became more cordial (in the middle of the nineteen century), the Rideau Canal lost a significant share of its "raison d'etre".
	collections.ic.gc.ca /stlauren/hist/hi_slcanals.htm (1898 words)

	Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		University of Rochester students' documentation of the history of the Erie Canaland its successor,...
		The CandO Canal follows the route of the Potomac River for 184.5 miles fromWashington, DC to Cumberland,...
		History of the canal in general, but focuses to some extent on the western portionof the canal from...
	schuyler.blogiston.com /Canal (306 words)

	The Erie Canal
		The Erie Canal had an enormous impact on New York and America in the nineteenth century.
		University of Rochester students are writing the history of the Erie Canal and its successor, the New York State Barge Canal, to be placed on line here.
		CANAL JUNCTION - the comprehensive UK canal guide and canal business directory - canal maps, canal history, canal culture, canal engineering, canal museums, canal folk art, hotel boats, boatyards and marinas, canal boatbuilders and boat hire firms and much more.
	www.history.rochester.edu /canal (290 words)

	Crinan Canal Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland
		The locks were again reconstructed and deepened in the 1930s, and the canal became the responsibility of British Waterways in 1962.
		The summit reach of the canal is relatively short and every time a boat goes through the locks about 300,000 litres of water are used.
		Until the coming of the railways the fastest way to travel between Glasgow and Inverness was by steamer using the Crinan Canal and the Caledonian Canal, usually calling at Oban en route.
	www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk /crinan/crinancanal (769 words)

	The Regents Canal History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Canal was short of water supplies and it was necessary to dam the river Brent to create a reservoir to provide them, in 1835, extended in 1837 and 1854.
		Along with other transport systems the canal was nationalised in 1948, coming under the Docks and Inland Waterways Executive, a part of the British Transport Commission, which traded under the name "British Waterways".
		The Regent's Canal purchased the canal assets of the Grand Junction Canal, and of the Warwick canals, and the enlarged concern became called the Grand Union Canal.
	www.canalmuseum.org.uk /history/regents.htm (1555 words)

	British Waterways - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		British Waterways is a government body sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and the Scottish Executive in the United Kingdom.
		British Waterways manages and cares for over 2000 miles (3219 km) of canals, rivers, docks, buildings, structures and landscapes.
		It maintains a museum of its history within the National Waterways Museum at Gloucester.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/British_Waterways (216 words)

	Canals
		Canal proponent Elkanah Watson is born in New York.
		Susquehanna Canal, and a Delaware and Schuylkill Canal.
		Seneca and Cauga lakes to the Erie Canal.
	home.eznet.net /~dminor/Canals.html (7512 words)

	Railway & canal histories
		The Modern British Collections are a rich source for information on the railway and canal histories of the British Isles.
		The foremost bibliography in the field is George Ottley, A Bibliography of British railway history.
		One of the key reference works for canal history is The Canals of the British Isles, edited by Charles Hadfield (Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 1950-85), 14 vols.
	www.bl.uk /collections/britirish/modbrirailcanhist.html (324 words)

	Canal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Indus Valley Civilization in Pakistan and North India (from circa 2600 BC) had the first canal irrigation system in the world.
		[1] The longest canal of ancient times was the Grand Canal of China.
		Lowell, Massachusetts, considered to be "The Cradle of the American Industrial Revolution," has 6 miles of canals that provided waterpower and a means of transportation for the city.
	www.globalguide.org /?title=Canal (589 words)

	Coalport Figurines -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Coalport Canal is a historic canal built to link several coalport industries with the River Severn.
		The canal runs from the river past the Coalport China works, the 'Tar Tunnel' leading to the bitumen and coal mines, and up the Hay Inclined Plane to Blists Hill town.
		Today, the canal and inclined plane, along with the Coalport China works, mine, and Blists Hill town, are operated as a museum.
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/33/coalport-figurines.html (1186 words)

	Canal History
		And many canals did make profits, a few for a hundred years or more, but some never made a penny for shareholders, and others like the Dorset and Somerset Canal were abandoned during construction.
		By the end of the eighteenth century the boom was over, most British canals were completed by 1815, and within ten years the smart money, and the not-so-smart, would be chasing railway schemes.
		The canals were nationalised in 1947 along with the railways, exhausted from years of neglect and the damage caused by the Second World War.
	www.canaljunction.com /canal/history.htm (821 words)

	Medina Lake and Canal System
		In order to make a personal appeal to British investors for more capital, Pearson and his wife boarded the Lusitania and perished when the ocean liner was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine on May 7, 1915.
		About 30% of the water diverted to the canal is lost to leakage in the first six miles of the canal alone.
		On July 11 engineer John King of Freese and Nichols released a list of 20 recommendations that included early warning systems, assessment of scour potential in various areas of the structure, and examination of alternative methods to prevent overtopping of the dam in the future.
	www.edwardsaquifer.net /medina.html (4456 words)

	General canal history books
		The book is divided into 3 clear sections. The first describes the history of the canals, the second looks at their structures and features, and the third suggests special sites of interest around the country, which can be visited on foot or by boat.
		The second volume in the 'Anatomy of Canals' series charts the history of the British canal system at the height of its popularity. No fewer than 21 Canal Acts were passed in 1793 alone, and this early part of the decade became known as the time of Canal Mania.
		From the 1790s to the 1820s most of the canal network in the United Kingdom was constructed.. Inclined planes, aqueducts, flights of locks and tunnels all marked the construction of the canal network.
	www.canalshop.co.uk /acatalog/bkgenhis.html (994 words)

	Rideau Region Information Site - Ontario, Canada
		The corridor follows the historic Rideau Canal Waterway which connects Kingston in the south to Ottawa in the north.
		The Rideau Canal is best known as a scenic waterway but it is much more than that.
		The website was established in 1996, a year after Ken moved to the Rideau area.
	www.rideau-info.com (239 words)

	Locks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		section is attached to the nose of the weapon and contains either a television guidance system for daytime or an imaging infrared system for night or limited, adverse weather operations.
		A data link in the tail section sends guidance updates to the control aircraft that enables the weapon systems operator to guide the bomb by remote control to its target.
		Hundreds of workers were forced to remain inside the Fairfax County building just hours after the mailroom at the Pentagon was evacuated and closed.
	bonose.com /Locks-84.html (565 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Birmingham Canal Navigations: At the Heart of the British Canal System: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Amazon.co.uk: Birmingham Canal Navigations: At the Heart of the British Canal System: Books
		Birmingham Canal Navigations: At the Heart of the British Canal System
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