page_title: Edinburgh Canal Society
section_title: Journeys and rallies
hierarchical_section_title: Edinburgh Canal Society / Journeys and rallies
caption_attribution_description: English: Edinburgh Canal Society boathouse and rowing boats, Union Canal, Scotland
context_page_description: The Edinburgh Canal Society is a charitable canal society on the Union Canal in Edinburgh, Scotland. The Society's main base is Ashley Terrace Boathouse at Lockhart Bridge, near Harrison Park in the Polwarth area of Edinburgh.
  The society was founded in 1985 and is a founder member of the Scottish Inland Waterways Association.
  In partnership with the Forth Canoe Club, the Linlithgow Union Canal Society, the Bridge 19-40 Canal Society, the Seagull Trust and other canal societies on the Scottish Lowland Canals, Edinburgh Canal Society campaigned for many years to have the Union Canal rebuilt, refurbished and re-opened.
  The culmination of the campaign was the joining of the Union Canal and the Forth & Clyde Canal by way of the Falkirk Wheel. Edinburgh Canal Society was one of the official Millennium Link Project Partners.
context_section_description: 17 May 2001 Kelvin's first trip beneath Forth Bridge from Port Edgar
  24 May 2001 Port Edgar to Carron Sea Lock, Opening of Forth & Clyde Canal
  25 May 2001 Carron Sea Lock to Lock 15
  26 May 2001 Camelon to Auchinstarry Basin
  27 May 2001 Auchinstarry to Temple (Lock 27)
  28 May 2001 Temple to Bowling Basin
  25 August 2001 Wester Hailes to Leamington Bridge; Formal Opening of Wester Hailes section of Union Canal
  20 May 2002 Harrison Park to Falkirk Wheel for Official Opening by HM The Queen on 20 May 2002.
  2 October 2002 Wester Hailes Gala Day
  28 March Formal opening of Speir's Wharf
  1 and 2 April 2003 Glasgow to Falkirk Wheel to Linlithgow
  17 to 23 April 2003 Leamington Bridge via Falkirk Wheel, Glasgow (Speir's Wharf), Bowling Basin, River Clyde, Carron Sea Lock, to Port Edgar via Inverkeithing.
  23 May and 13 August 2003 Harrison Park to Falkirk Top Lock
  25 Sept. 2003 World Canals Conference, Wester Hailes
  23 March 2004 Falkirk Wheel Lower Basin to Carron Sea Lock
  4–6 April 2004 Kincardine Pier to Craigforth Weir, Stirling to Carron Sea Lock
  16 April 2004 Falkirk to Ratho, Edinburgh
  1 May 2004 Kelvin TWO launched at MacLean's Yard, Renfrew
  18 to 30 May 2004 Lancaster Canal via Preston, Bilsborrow, Garstang, Galgate, Hest Bank, Glasson Dock, Lancaster, Bolton-le-Sands, Carnforth and Tewitfield.
  28–30 May 2004 Kelvin Rally, Shardlow, Trent & Mersey Canal
  15 June 2004 Ratho
  9 Aug 2004 Kelvin 1 and Kelvin 2 at Winchburgh
  22 March 2005 Edinburgh Quay Official Opening
  22 May 2006 Falkirk Top Lock to Harrison Park
  Start of regular Sunday Shuttles from ECS boathouse to Edinburgh Quay and return
caption: Boathouse and rowing boats
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