Sentence examples for the canal opened from inspiring English sources

The canal opened the following year (1681).

Its construction was first proposed in 1852; work started in 1865; and the canal opened in 1876.

After the canal opened in 1848, it brought grain and other raw materials to the city, while providing what was then a fast and convenient means of travel to the interior of the state.

A plaque explains that when the canal opened in 1834, Rocky Hill was rocking: there were a dozen or so houses, two stores, two taverns and a wool manufacturer.

The death toll among the workforce was 5,000 by the time the canal opened in 1914, less than a quarter of the number who had died working on the unsuccessful French project.

When the canal opened in 1825, it provided for the first time transportation through the spine of mountains that runs down the eastern United States -- and that today seems such an insignificant barrier.

"You've heard of the Skytree?" Yukiko asks as the canal opens out on to the larger, less calm Sumida river.

These were placed in the model tank and a beach was shaped of fine, silica sand to represent the area of the canal opening.

Seriously depleted by the continuous fighting the Egyptians relinquished control of the routes to the canal, opening them up to the Israelis.

When the canals opened in the 1830's, barges headed east to New York and west to the Great Lakes lined up to get through Waterford' s five locks.

In the eighteen-thirties, when the Erie Canal opened the Ohio Valley to agricultural development, the farms of the Northeast were abandoned.