Yes the Erie Canal is still in business today. Much of it is now recreation but there is still commercial traffic such as barges of corn from Canada to be turned into ethanol.
https://www.npr.org/2013/06/25/195426326/commercial-shipping-revived-along-erie-canal
There are tours of the Erie Canal and pleasure boats.
The Erie Canal's primary users today are private pleasure craft.
Yes the Erie Canal is still used for shipping goods
Small boats and pleasure craft uses the Erie Canal today. It is also a cycling trail and used for fishing. But there still is some commercial traffic.
yes
People used the Erie Canal because it was faster than horseback and could carry more goods.
You can use it for fun by taking tours or fishing.
To build the Erie Canal, they used mules, horses and thousands of Irishmen with shovels and wheelbarrows. Benjamin Wright was the chief engineer. Wright and his men invented the stump puller and adapted a plow to cut brush.
They didn't have earth moving machines back then. The Erie Canal was dug by hand with some animal help.
The Irish immigrant diggers used shovels and pick axes.
People celebrate the Erie because it was such hard work for the slaves building it so we celebrate how lucky we are to have those courageous people to build our Erie :) You can use my words 8*)
To build the Erie Canal, they used mules, horses and thousands of Irishmen with shovels and wheelbarrows. Benjamin Wright was the chief engineer. Wright and his men invented the stump puller and adapted a plow to cut brush.
The Suez Canal, being a sea-level canal does not use locks. The Suez canal did have movable traffic-control bridges that spanned the entrances to control traffic but these were not, strictly speaking locks. It is by far the longest big-ship canal in the Western world- there are some big canals in both Russia and China.
Both use a levee system requiring water to fill to raise the boat to the height necessary for the next canal or in Panama to the level of sea water.
It is used for transporting oil to various different regions such as China, The Americas, and Europe