Carondelet Canal

The shorter way is the back way into New Orleans, and you go from the Gulf and you go into Lake Borgne, you go through the Rigolets, this little area, and then through Lake Pontchartrain, and now you're kind of at the back door of New Orleans.

And there was, from Spanish period, the colonial period, they had built a canal, um, the Carondelet Canal, that went all the way to pretty much, like, around Rampart Street.

For anybody who knows New Orleans, kind of the, the top end of the Quarter.

And that was the canal that was used, and the Americans didn't like that it went to a Creole area, and they didn't like that the Creoles controlled it.

And so they decide they're gonna build another canal, and that canal is going to pretty much mimic the same thing but go into the area that we call today the CBD, the Central Business District, but at the time was called the American Sector, right next to the French Quarter.

And they were gonna do that, so they're gonna have a new canal that they controlled and that would be bigger and better and everything else, and it was.

So the Carondelet Canal became known as the Old Basin Canal, and the Irish one, and I say Irish because it was funded with Irish money, becomes the New Basin Canal.

So the Irish are involved in a lot of ways.