The Erie Canal opened 200 years ago this fall! The 363-mile-long canal connected the Great Lakes to the Hudson River and the Atlantic Ocean. The Canal made Buffalo the Queen City of the Lakes as grain flowed east and immigrants moved west along the Canalway. Join Erie County Historian Doug Kohler for a tour of the new hands-on canal experience in the Longshed at Canalside. Tour Guide: Doug Kohler, Erie County Historian