by David Edwards-May | Dec 5, 2012 | Cultural & industrial heritage, Waterway personalities
The Google Streetview automatic scrambler of peoples’ faces has indiscriminately defaced the creator of the Canal du Midi on a banner outside the canal museum at Saint-Ferréol. This delightful quirk of automation of image processing suggests a new form of...
by David Edwards-May | Aug 20, 2012 | Cultural & industrial heritage, Recreational waterway dimensions, Waterway funding, Waterway restoration
Claudio Repossi of Navigli Lombardi reports on a series of events to raise awareness of the historic, cultural and recreational values of the Locarno (Switzerland) to Milan waterway via the river Ticino. As part of the joint Italian-Swiss project Intrecci sull’acqua –...
by David Edwards-May | Jul 13, 2012 | Cultural & industrial heritage, Waterway funding, Waterway restoration
The British Government placed 2000 miles of canals and rivers in trust for the nation, as the new charity, the Canal & River Trust, was launched on July 12. The trust takes over responsibility for the canals of England and Wales from British Waterways, 50 years...
by David Edwards-May | Jul 12, 2012 | Cultural & industrial heritage, Policy, Waterway funding
Dave Ballinger reports on the changes that are taking place on Canada’s historic canals. Parks Canada enjoyed a well deserved reputation in the world as an excellent operator, manager and guardian of Canada’s historic canals. However that is about to...
by David Edwards-May | Jun 24, 2012 | Cultural & industrial heritage, Waterway personalities
IWI President Dave Ballinger reports: I had the distinct pleasure to attend a commemoration ceremony in Rochester, N.Y. on Friday, June 22, 2012, where a new park building was named after our former president (and current vice-president) Tom Grasso. In her speech...