It's a trick question. After dark it's called the eerie canal unless you're an ENT doc, then it's ear canal.
If I find myself near the Erie Canal, I'll probably wonder exactly how I travelled in time.
:) I think it's called 'The America Canal' these days.
I've traveled through time all of my life, just never had a choice of which direction I wanted to go.
The Erie used to run from Lake Erie to the Ohio River on the eastern side of Ohio. It connected most of the small towns, and had a lot of feeders like The Columbus Feeder, the Sandy and Beaver, and the Walhonding Feeder. It was the easiest way to get goods from the ore and manufacturing rich area of the great lakes down to the Ohio River, which of course feeds into the Mississippi where you can also access the Mighty Mo'. It's reign was ended both by steam and gasoline, as well as the 1913 flood destroying a lot of it's infrastructure.