Canal District Links

Table of Contents:

• Buffalo, NY Canal District Controversy
  
  
• Erie Canal Information
  
  
• Especially for classrooms

• Canal District Viewpoints by Tim Tielman:
  
  
  • With little public support, state planners push scheme that would destroy key heritage site
    
    
  • Branding Buffalo
    
    
  • Extraordinary city report rips Horizons
    
    But Horizonheads rebel, and presto: Horizons Lite

• Canal District Viewpoints by Donna Ashby - Reprinted from ARTVOICE:
  
  
  • Fate of Buffalo Canal District tied to ageless impact of Erie Canal
    
    
  • Preservation Coalition calls on court to stop excavation of Canal District
    
    
  • Renowned Planner's Proposals For Canal
    
    
  • Try Again: ESD's Alternative is More of the Same
    
    
  • Catching the Wave
    
    
  • Canal District is potential 'cultural landscape,' linking Buffalo's future to its past
    
    
  • A Place With a Story to Tell: Experts, Public Call for Doing the Real Canal Thing
    
    
• Rock of Ages Two geologists refute state agency's contention that rock of historic Erie Canal terminus cannot survive restoration
  
  
• Dug's Dive: Endangered Buffalo Heritage Site
  
  
• Governor Pataki's press release on the Commercial slip
  
  
• The Shock of the Old Buffalo's Struggle With Heritage Tourism (E. Licata) Reprinted from "Buffalo Spree" magazine, Nov/Dec 2000
  
  
• Court testimony argues we need to do canal right - Excerpts Reprint of excerpts from Buffalo News column by Donn Esmonde
  
  
• Conflicting Proposals for the Canal District
  
  
• Let's make the Whole Waterfront a Museum! (J. Puckett)

Erie Canal Information

• John Percy, The Erie Canal: From Lockport to Buffalo
  
  
• Canal District Photos 1910-1925 From the collection of Ronald R. Dukarm

• Buffalo's Waterfront: A Guidebook Buffalo developed as major American city because of its access to Buffalo Creek and Lake Erie. Read about some of the places on the waterfront that are vividly described in a must-own book edited by Pres Co Executive Director Timothy Tielman
  
  
• Erie Canal Bibliography Compiled by Carolyn Keefe. Orgs., Web sites, Articles, etc.
  
  
• Erie Canal Bibliography: Books online (U of R)
  
  
• Buffalo Geology
  
  
• The Erie Barge Canal Photos (Town of Tonawanda - Kenmore History) Includes 21 photos and a short essay by John Percy
  
  
• Utica to Amsterdam on the Erie Canal (S. Gurney) 1997 article: "Last September I paddled the Erie Canal from Utica to Amsterdam..."
  
  
• Photographs of Erie Canal Lock 64 in Pittsford, NY
  
  
• Library of Congress: American Memory (Photos and Documents) Search: Buffalo Erie Canal
  
  
• Mr. Joy's Address. 1848 Commercial Advertiser newspaper article quoting a speech by the developer of the Commercial Slip terminus of the Erie Canal
  
  
• "Completion of the Grand Canal" From the newspaper "The Emporium," in Buffalo New York, October 29, 1825, describing ceremonies of October 26, 1825.

• Canal Culture: The Erie Canal: A Brief History Essay
  
  
• Canal Culture: Roy Finch, The Story of the New York State Canals 1925 essay
  
  
• Canal Culture: Classroom Ideas
  
  
• The Erie Canal(F. Sadowski, Jr.) Canal System | Locks Images | Maps | Links | Books and Videos | Music. EXCELLENT
  
  
• The Erie Canal: A Journey Through History(ePodunk) Songs, historic information, post cards, panoramic photos, maps and community profiles to create a comprehensive multimedia package about the canal and its national impact. EXCELLENT
  
  
• Canal Culture: Song - "The Erie Canal" Includes downloadable score

• The Erie Canal Controversy - A WebQuest for 4th Grade Social Studies Introduction | The Task | The Process | Resources | Evaluation | Conclusion
  
  
• Erie Canal OnLine (Syracuse OnLine) Number of links. Geared to school children
  
  
• History of the Erie Canal (U of R students) Links
  
  
• A classroom activity on the Erie Canal (Houghton Mifflin) Involves the Erie Canal song and a printed short journal entry
  
  
• Ms. Mustacchi's Erie Adventure (Carrie E. Tompkins Elementary School) For fourth graders. EXCELLENT
  
  
• Classroom activity: The Ohio & Erie Canal: Catalyst of Economic Development for Ohio (Teaching With Historic Places)