2024 has been a remarkable year as we look forward to celebrating the upcoming 200th anniversary of the completion of building the Erie Canal. The central theme for this next year’s celebration ...

LaSALLE — A Streator company has won the bid to build a replica of an 1848 passenger canal boat that could become a major tourist attraction in LaSalle County in a year.

Erie Canal Boat Seneca Chief’s return to the Lockport Locks next week will be a homecoming of a sort. The vessel that’s re-enacting New York Governor DeWitt Clinton’s 1825 Erie Canal-opening voyage ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – The Buffalo Maritime Center is recreating the historic maiden voyage of the Seneca Chief, the first boat to travel the entire Erie Canal. The replica of the Seneca Chief is traveling ...

Canal Fest of the Tonawandas, considered the largest outdoor festival of its kind, will have a special guest this year – the Erie Canal Boat, Seneca Chief. Canal Fest of the Tonawandas is described ...

It's a song everyone who lives along the Erie Canal knows, but the boats that navigated the canal can be viewed only in a history book. Not anymore. The 88-foot "Lois McClure," a replica of an 1862 ...