• the Canal de Marseille, built in 1849, is an 80 kilometres (50 mi) canal which runs through Provence to bring water from the Durance to Marseille, in France?
• the French navigation authority Voies navigables de France manages 3,800-kilometre (2,400 mi) of canals and 2,900-kilometre (1,800 mi) rivers on the largest network of waterways in Europe?
• notable former residents of Zwanenburgwal (pictured), a canal and street in the centre of Amsterdam, include Dutch painter Rembrandt and philosopher Baruch Spinoza?
• the English Canal was a partially completed canal project started in 1864 that would connect the iron ore fields in northern Sweden with the Gulf of Bothnia?
• the Itchen Navigation canal provided an essential trading route between the historic city of Winchester and the port of Southampton?
• water from Tin Brook (pictured) was diverted to create the first canal in New York history?
• the final section of La Nouvelle branch (pictured), a canal in south-central France, was constructed in 1776 to link Narbonne to the Canal du Midi?
• although Lehigh Gorge State Park in Pennsylvania is now known for whitewater rafting on the Lehigh River, in the 19th century it was the site of a canal built to bypass those same rapids?
• King Dhatusena, who ruled Sri Lanka from 455 to 473, constructed 18 irrigation tanks, an irrigation canal, and the Avukana Buddha Statue?
• Delaware Canal State Park in Pennsylvania contains the only intact 19th century towpath canal in the United States?
• listed buildings in Minshull Vernon, Cheshire, include five canal bridges, two aqueducts and a former privy?
• Dismal Swamp Canal which runs along the edge of the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia and North Carolina is the oldest continually operating man-made canal in the United States?
• Project Aqua was a proposed hydroelectric scheme for the lower Waitaki River in New Zealand that would have diverted up to 77% of the river's flow into a separate canal?
• turret deck ships incurred lower canal tolls because tonnage measurements used to calculate those tolls did not account for the vessels' unique shape?
• Sankey Valley Park, Warrington (pictured) follows the course of the historical Sankey Canal, England's first canal?
• 10,000 people were employed in the 1830s simply to build canals by the Indiana Mammoth Internal Improvement Act?

Facts on topics related to Canal

Infrastructure

• Bryant Hammett resigned from the Louisiana House of Representatives in 2006 to oversee disaster recovery for infrastructure impacted by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita?
• China has helped Nigeria launch the NigComSat-1 satellite and pledged to invest USD 4 billion in oil and infrastructure development?

Lock (water transport)

• Garston Lock is the last remaining turf sided lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal and one of only two remaining in Britain?
• in the 1800s, Chichester, Quebec claimed to have the largest wooden locks in Canada, built as part of a scheme to encourage boat travel on the upper Ottawa River?
• the canoe route through Oskélanéo, Quebec, was once so popular that it prompted the construction of locks on the Oskelaneo River?
• the Karl Johanslussen (pictured) is one of the locks and sluices between Lake Mälaren and the Baltic Sea that give rise to the name of the Slussen area of central Stockholm?
• the Merrill Lock No. 6 (pictured), located on the Ohio River in Pennsylvania, was converted from a lock complex to a restaurant?
• the Water Street Historic District in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, includes the canal lock for which the city was named?

Ship

• Canada's largest dry-bulk shipping company, The Fednav Group, has a fleet of over eighty ships?
• sailors use a tool called a needlegun (pictured) to remove old paint and corrosion aboard ships?
• Praise of the Two Lands is the first ship mentioned by name in a written record?
• American Dumbo rescue flights (aircraft pictured) worked with submarines and surface boats to help save downed airmen in the Pacific War?
• a bulbous bow can increase a ship's fuel efficiency by as much as 15%?
• the 1904 Scottish yacht Medea and the battleship USS Texas are the only surviving vessels that fought in both world wars?
• the events in the novel The Dig take place during the excavation of the Anglo-Saxon burial ship at Sutton Hoo, in Suffolk, England?
• there is a 15,000 ton ship which operates completely out of the water?

Kennet and Avon Canal

• Garston Lock is the last remaining turf sided lock on the Kennet and Avon Canal and one of only two remaining in Britain?
• the Bruce Tunnel is the only tunnel on the Kennet and Avon Canal and the second longest navigable tunnel on Britain's canals?