Ports & Canels

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PORTS & CANALS Some URL sites are listed under several topics due to the
vast amount of information contained within the sites.

PORTS
  GENERAL
  UNITED STATES
  CANADA
  AUSTRALIA
  NEW ZEALAND
  ISLANDS
  EUROPE
  SOUTH AFRICA

CANALS
  NORTH AMERICA
  ENGLAND
  PANAMA

PORTS

GENERAL

   Capt. Ioannides - Hellenic Merchant Marine
Ports of the world over 7000 entries

  Don Nugent's Cargo Port Links

  The Maritime Heritage Project
Tri Weekly Alta California, December 10, 1849 - Vessels Advertised
Nicaragua: "The Healthiest and Pleasantest Route to New York --- "
Panama: John W. Geary's Crossing of the Isthmus of Panama
Strait of Magellan: the capital of Chile's Magallanes province and the southernmost mainland city in the world. The City was founded in 1847 to strengthen Chilean claims to the strait and Punta Arenas became a coaling station for ships en route to California.
Valparaiso, Chile: In 1832 the first cargo warehouses were built. The Fiscal Pier was built between 1870 and 1876

UNITED STATES - Alphabetical Order

  Port of San Francisco, California

  The Maritime Heritage Project: San Francisco, California
Each street ended in a wharf, and the owner of said wharf exacted huge tolls from passengers, drays, wagons and all vessels, from the ships to the lighters who help unload the cargo.

  Port of New Orleans, Louisiana - 100 YEARS of Service

  History of the Maritime Assoc. of Ports of NY & NJ - 1873

   The Phelps Stokes Collection
The Battery to the tip of Manhattan remained an oasis of beauty and calm. As early as 1785 there was pressure to landscape the Battery as a place for walking and viewing the harbor. Philip Hone, the Mayor of New York in 1825, wrote in his diary about the park, "A more delightful scene can nowhere be found." Mrs. Frances Trollope enthused, "no city could boast . . . a public promenade . . . more beautiful." The actress Fanny Kemble observed of the harbor that it "must be the most beautiful in the world," with the sailing ships, "glancing like graceful sea-birds, through their native element

CANADA

  Marjorie P. Kohli's
Images of the Harbors of Quebec, Montreal and Liverpool, circa 1870s

  Marjorie P. Kohli's
Annals of the Port of Quebec 1535-1900 Published in 1901, this document discusses the opening of navigation at Quebec, dates at which the first vessel arrived for a period of twelve years, in addition to railway and steamship information.

  Port of Quebec, Canada

AUSTRALIA

  Port Arthur Historic Site

NEW ZEALAND

EUROPE - Countries in Alphabetical Order

  Port of Antwerp, Belgium
Antwerp is located in Belgium, a small but prosperous country in Western Europe. Countries in the immediate vicinity of the port are the Netherlands, Germany and France.

  Welcome to the Port of Amsterdam, Netherlands

  Port of Rotterdam, Netherlands

  Port Stanley, Falkland Islands
View of Port Stanley in the Falkland Islands
Donated by Bill Kerchofw

SOUTH AFRICA
East London, South Africa

  Port Arthur Historic Site: Tasmania, Australia
During the 1840s, with its captive resource of convict labour, Port Arthur became a near self sufficient secondary punishment prison settlement, producing ships, sawn timber, clothing, boots and shoes, bricks, furniture, vegetables and other goods.

CANALS

NORTH AMERICA

  The Friends of the Delaware Canal
Life was hard for the men, women, and children who worked on the sixty-mile-long Delaware Canal, which was completed in 1832.

  Ohio's Historic Canals
Constructed between 1825 and 1847, the canals opened many markets for its agriculture and industrial products, and attracted thousands of immigrants to the state.

  The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
Construction of the Canal began in 1828 and eventually stopped in 1850 when it reached Cumberland. The original idea was for it to go much further west, but the competition from railroads had not been foreseen when the canal was originally planned.

  History of the Erie Canal
Chronology of the Erie Canal
Population of Rochester
Bibliography, including many documents placed on line.
Topographical map of canal west of Rochester
1868 color map of New York canals and railroads
Evolution of boats used on Erie Canal, 1825-1899 Evolution of canal cross section (prism), 1825-1899

  New York State Canal System
More than a feat of engineering, the Erie Canal proved to be the key that unlocked an enormous series of social and economic changes in the young nation. The canal spurred the first great westward movement of American settlers, gave access to the rich land and resources west of the Appalachians and made New York the preeminent commercial city in the United States.

ENGLAND

  The Great Central Railway and Migration from Europe to the U.S.A.
The Great Central Railway operated ships from Grimsby (a port on the East Coast of England) to some important ports in Northern Europe, and also operated trains from Grimsby to Manchester and on to Liverpool, which was one of the main ports from which ships sailed to North America. Images of timetables, advertisements, fare tables, a map and more.

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