Canalside Then & Now for Students 1

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During this tour, some important themes are: Industrialization, Local Economy, Innovative Thinkers, & Technological Advancements

Tour Stop & General Info Primary K-4 Middle 5-8 Secondary 9-12 What is a community? Individuals in a Community Regional & Global Communities

#1 Buffalo & Erie County Naval & This park contains US Navy Park opened in 1979, contains the USS Describe the Naval Park & ships. Military Park ships/boats that visitors can walk Sullivans, Little Rock, & Croaker Discuss the war memorials & their 1979 through. It also has special Visitors to the Naval Park can tour the commemorative, reflective purpose. monuments to help us remember ships - some people even sleep The Naval Park was established 1976 & opened soldiers from our area. overnight in them. Native American inhabitants, Village 1979. It is the largest inland park of its kind in the US. The ships displayed are: the destroyer USS Physical features affect where people of Buffalo, Burning of Buffalo, Sullivans, the guided missile cruiser USS Little Rock, The location of physical features settle. Many years ago, this area was importance of dredging the Buffalo & the submarine the USS Croaker. Museum affects where people settle and how harbor, Samuel Wilkeson, Buffalo building was constructed in 2008. traversed by Native Americans, mostly they live. Many years ago, this area Iroquois (Haudenosaunee). Different chosen as terminus for Erie Canal Village of Buffalo became a port of entry in 1805. was occupied by Native Americans. European settlers moved through this instead of Black Rock. After the War of 1812 & the Burning of Buffalo, a Europeans eventually settled here, land, until it finally became the Village ---- group of citizens founded the Buffalo Harbor and this area became the Village of of Buffalo in the early 1800s. After the Have you ever donated your time or Company (1819) & began trying to raise funds to Buffalo. War of 1812, Buffalo was burned to money to something you believe build a functioning harbor. the ground. We needed a way to help strongly in? rebuild our economy. Many initially pledged support, but ultimately the Citizens, members of a community small group had to use their own funds to support or group, helped to create Buffalo’s A small group of citizens put in their the project. An experienced harbor engineer was waterfront. Because of the hard hired but was unable to complete the project, so own time & money to work together Samuel Wilkeson, one of the members of the work of many citizens, we were & dredge the Buffalo harbor, which original group, took over & led the building efforts chosen to be the end point for the became a deciding factor in Buffalo despite his lack of experience. With the help of Erie Canal, which helped us grow & becoming the terminus of the Erie Buffalo citizens, the harbor was completed in just develop as a city. Canal (Black Rock, just a little ways 221 days. Buffalo then became Black Rock’s major ---- north of here, was a tough competitor competitor for the Western Terminus of the Erie for the terminus). Canal. Why is water important to helping communities exist & grow?

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During this tour, some important themes are: Industrialization, Local Economy, Innovative Thinkers, & Technological Advancements Tour Stop & General Info Primary K-4 Middle 5-8 Secondary 9-12 What is a community? Individuals in a Community Regional & Global Communities

#2 Commercial Slip This is called a slip. It’s like a A slip is like a water bridge that Factors such as new economic theories & bridge for boats. Imagine if all connect two different bodies of water practices and technological innovations The restored Commercial Slip is an of us were trying to get over and helps to speed up traffic. This area influence the development of new systems important representation of the one bridge all at the same time. was once a thriving hub called the of communication, transportation, & Canal Era. After the Canal was It’d be pretty crowded! But if Canal District - shops, saloons, production. completed, waterways bustled with there were ten different businesses, warehouses, lots of boats. activity and became congested. Ship bridges we could all choose Definition of a slip; discuss thriving Canal canals and slips were used to lessen from, things would be a lot Commerical Slip was filled in the District & how this area was once full of the delays and overall congestion. easier. Slips were water bridges 1920s, when Canal use was becoming shops, saloons, businesses, warehouses, & Several other slips/canals in the that connected different parts less popular. It was restored in 2008. boats. Filling in & restoration of waterfront included Prime Slip, Ohio of the canal & helped speed up Commercial Slip. Ruins, Dug’s Dive. Slip & Basin, Coit Slips… traffic, since there used to be a Point out the ruins. Imagine if this slip ---- lot of boats here. were lined with buildings packed What types of engineers are there? (Civil, Commercial slip was filled in the together on both sides. That’s what Electrical, Mechanical, Biomedical…) 1920s. The lowest portion of the Those ruins are part of a this area was once like! Commercial Slip was restored as part building that stood here almost ---- What sort of engineer might be of the Canalside Restoration Project 200 years ago. We uncovered Engineers design things like slips to responsible for designing something like a & dedicated July 2, 2008. them when we were digging help make life easier. Do you know of slip? (Civil = design, construction, & this slip. any other things in your community maintenance of the physical & natural The ruins beside the slip are the ---- that might have been designed by built environments) uncovered foundations of a canal-era Engineers are the people who engineers to make life easier? building which served many different design things that help solve Do you know of any other things in your purposes. Dug’s Dive, “dive bar” problems, like slips. Have you community that might have been designed owned by former slave William ever had an idea for a way to by engineers to make life easier? Douglas. fix a problem?

“Wedding of the Waters”

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#3 Erie Canal Map Using the map, show where grain People adapt to and modify their Jesse Hawley, DeWitt Clinton, & 1817-1825 come from in the Midwest, point environment in order to meet their creation of the Erie Canal. Grain out Lake Erie and the Atlantic needs. Some geographic factors make shipment before v. after the Erie Jesse Hawley, a flour merchant who Ocean, and explain how people meeting needs easier, while others act Canal. Canal statistics. had gone bankrupt due to the high wanted an easy way to get grain as deterrents. cost of shipping grain to the coast, from the lake to the ocean. Either The Erie Canal was a major factor that was an early major proponent for the they had to travel over land, which Use the map to explain what grain helped the US transform from an canal. He was supported by Governor was difficult due to the Appalachian shipment was like before and after the agrarian to an increasingly DeWitt Clinton. Skeptics dubbed the mountains, or they had to travel all Erie Canal. In order to connect the industrialized & urbanized society - project “Clinton’s Ditch/Folly” and the way down the Mississippi River Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean, the cities & industries grew along the derided its vision. to Florida and all the way back up! Erie Canal was built. The project was canal route. It took weeks or sometimes supported by Governor DeWitt Clinton, ---- Construction of the Erie Canal began months, and was really expensive. and was widely criticized early on. But What other industries besides grain in Rome, NY in 1817. The canal the canal cut down the time of shipping would have flourished thanks to the opened in 1825. It was 363 miles long The Erie Canal was a human-made grain from weeks or months to about 7 Erie Canal? and had 83 locks. It cost over $7 waterway that connected the lake days. Also made shipping grain much million. and the ocean. Thanks to the Canal, cheaper - from $100/ton to only people & goods could now go $10/ton. Existing towns expanded and The Erie Canal prompted settlement, directly across New York State in grew along the canal. The Erie Canal commercial agriculture, and only about 7 days! It was much was the leading factor that helped manufacturing across upstate NY as cheaper, too. Buffalo transform into a thriving city. well as opened vast areas in the ---- middle of the American continent to How do we ship/move goods The Canal was 363 miles long and took similar development. today? 8 years to build. It cost $7 million. Discuss major products shipped along the Canal.

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#4 Whipple Truss Bridge Talk about different kinds of Squire Whipple was a visionary Squire Whipple, civil & mechanical materials with students - what engineer who revolutionized bridge engineering. The technological Squire Whipple was an engineer born materials are strong? What materials construction. Switched from wooden innovation of using iron instead of in Massachusetts who lived as an are soft? What is stronger, something bridges to iron, which was a much wood revolutionized bridge adult in central NYS. He became made out of wood or metal? stronger building material. construction. interested in the construction of wooden and iron bridges. He held Explain that metal is stronger, and He also designed this style of bridge, “Bowstring iron truss arch” apprenticeships with the Erie Canal this kind of bridge was really called a “bowstring iron truss arch.” construction, weight is supported enlargement project. important because it was one of the Notice that there are no columns from the top rather than from first bridges to be made out of strong underneath the bridge holding it up, underneath, leaving a clear In 1814 he designed a “bowstring iron metal instead of wood. but that it is held up from the top by passageway beneath the bridge for truss arch” and had it patented for Advancements in technology (using the trusses. This way, canal boats canalboats. the construction of iron truss bridges. metal instead of wood) help bring could easily pass underneath them. about changes to our built ---- Towpaths, mules, system of moving Died in Albany in 1888. His obituary in environment. Why would it have been important to canalboats. Engineering News read, “The death of have a clear passageway under canal Squire Whipple...removes from the Point out, too, that there are not bridges, without columns or engineering world a man who by his columns under the bridge holding it supports? (talk about towpath, mules individuality and originality practically up, meaning that canal boats could pulling canalboats by rope) created the modern art of bridge easily pass underneath it. However, construction; not only for substituting these bridges are low - hence, “low iron for wood in bridges but in also bridge, everybody down!” the law governing the distribution of strain in framed structures…”

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#5 Beginning of the Boardwalk Go over the geography of this area. Geography of this area: Erie Canal, Geography of Buffalo’s waterfront; 1979 Point out & name the Erie Canal, the Buffalo River, Commercial Slip, Lake Inner & Outer Harbor; Canalside Buffalo River, Commerical Slip, and Erie. programming. Buffalo’s waterfront is made up of Lake Erie. These bodies of water the Outer Harbor, Inner Harbor, and make up Buffalo’s waterfront. This is part of the Inner Harbor. The Canalside project adopted by the the Black Rock Channel. Discuss some of the different Erie Canal Harbor Development Roads, canals, bridges, and parks are attractions on the Inner & Outer Corporation focuses on a deliberate Outer Harbor: Fuhrmann Blvd., Tifft all examples of how people modify Harbor. reinvigoration of this Canal District Nature Preserve, Gallagher Beach, the physical environment to meet space that celebrates the connection Buffalo Harbor State Park, Times their needs & wants. Point out how Vibrant community programming at between downtown & the waterfront Beach Nature Preserve. Inner Harbor: all of these exist at Canalside, along Canalside. , & that encourages visitors to Erie Basin Marina, Canalside along Buffalo’s waterfront. reconnect to our water by engaging the Buffalo River. ---- in activities along the water year- Where we’re standing is part of the As we walk along the boardwalk, take round. Black Rock Channel: West Side boardwalk at Canalside. There are a look around you & find one aspect ---- Rowing Club, Buffalo Yacht Club, things happening here all year long - of Canalside that makes you feel like As we walk along the boardwalk, take Fontana Boathouse. concerts, carnivals, festivals, markets, you are welcome here. a look around you & identify some kayaking, water bikes…! ways that Canalside seems to fit the There are many activities that take ---- goal of connection & engagement set place at Canalside today, including As we walk along the boardwalk, take forth by the ECHDC. kayaking, water bikes, paddle boats, a look around and find one thing that sailing, boat tours, the Queen City you could do here - even if it’s as Bike Ferry, ice skating, vendor kiosks, simple as having a picnic. concerts, and various events/festivals/ exercise sessions.

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#6 On the Boardwalk Public art, or art outside of a museum Define public art, & discuss the Public Public Art & the A-K Public Art that anybody can see, helps to make Art Initiative in Buffalo. Initiative; Illumination & the Silent The Public Art initiative between the spaces feel welcoming & interesting. Poets. Albright-Knox, Erie County, & the City Discuss the Illumination light show; of Buffalo aims to enhance our Explain Illumination light show. mention the Silent Poets that used to ---- shared sense of place & cultural be located here (removed Winter What things did you notice that help identity in the urban & suburban ---- 2017). foster connection & engagement? landscapes of WNY. What did you find that you could do ---- here? What things did you find that make How does public art help to make a Public art is an important element in All of the different things you’ve you feel welcome? space feel engaging & welcoming? making shared community spaces found are ways to make you feel All of these factors contribute to feel welcoming, engaging, & welcome in this space, like it’s an Canalside feeling like a welcoming What other things would you like to interactive. open community space that anybody community space that anyone can see in this space to continue to make can enjoy. enjoy. it even more friendly to a wide Illumination (Ambiances Design variety of visitors? Production, 2015) What things do you see here that you Why is it important to have spaces in Light show installed fall 2015; takes also have in your community? What a community that feel open, safe, & place all year long from sunset - 11 things do you see here that you don’t fun for everyone? pm. Intended to visually connect the have in your community? inner & outer harbor; theme centers on the four seasons as seen through a kaleidoscope.

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#7 End of the Boardwalk Look across the water at the The technological development of Joseph Dart & invention of the grain **Take the sidewalk in front of The Dish to get to grain elevator, where we said the grain elevator, invented by elevator; Connecting Terminal; grain & Harborcenter in order to avoid the sandbox.** Illumination takes place. Buffalonian Joseph Dart, contributed the way it is made into common Buffalo is famous for its grain to Buffalo becoming a leading grain products; General Mills. Connecting Terminal Elevator: The oldest section elevators! The person who port in the US. Unloading the boats Industrialization and immigrant of the structure standing is from 1915; annex built invented them was from manually used to take a week or contributed to the urbanization of the in 1954 was the last concrete elevator built in Buffalo. longer, while the invention of the Buffalo. It has a 1.6 million bushel grain capacity. US. Discuss how the canal & the grain grain elevators cut that time down to It was originally owned by the Pennsylvania elevators were a major factor in the Railroad Co., today owned by NY Power Authority. Before they were invented, several days. industrialization of Buffalo; as well as people had to go inside the how immigrants made up the main Joseph Dart (1799-1879), Buffalo merchant who bottoms of ships, load up the Grain is ground into flour & made workforce in these industries & moved invented the grain elevator with the help of grain into buckets on their into a variety of goods. General Mills into the Canal District/First Ward to live machinist Robert Dunbar. Grain coming to Buffalo backs, climb up to the top of has been a mainstay of Buffalo’s near where they worked. was originally unloaded by dock workers who the silos to dump the buckets economy; generations of carried bushels of grain from the cargo’s hold to in, and then do it all over Buffalonians have worked there & Although industrialization & urbanization created new economic the top of the silo. Dart developed a conveyor belt again. Grain elevators were a they continue to produce Cheerios, opportunities, they also led to societal system, marking a turning point from manual to conveyor belt that could Lucky Charms, & more in Buffalo mechanized labor. issues such as unsafe working empty the boats automatically. today. conditions, long work days, & squalid General Mills, originally Washburn Crosby, New technology like the grain ---- living conditions. established in Minneapolis 1889 & came to elevator helped make trade What are some contemporary ---- Buffalo 1903. General Mills, Inc. formed 1928. A cheaper & quicker. technical innovations you’re aware of In what ways would the invention of the late 1930s expansion made the Buffalo plant the that change the roles & grain elevators have been positive for largest of its kind in the world. Today the plant Grain is ground into flour, and responsibilities of workers? the workers? Negative? manufactures Cheerios, Lucky Charms. then turned into things we can eat - like Cheerios!

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During this tour, some important themes are: Industrialization, Local Economy, Innovative Thinkers, & Technological Advancements

Tour Stop & General Info Primary K-4 Middle 5-8 Secondary 9-12 What is a community? Individuals in a Community Regional & Global Communities

#8 Harborcenter Explain some of the things that can Multi-use buildings are an important History of the Webster Block, 2014-2015 be found inside Harborcenter. feature of Buffalo’s renaissance, since construction of Harborcenter, multi- we have many large & empty use buildings, Pegulas & their Originally this plot was known as the A multi-use building is a building buildings in our city. influence on Buffalo. “Webster block” and was used for that has a lot of different uses. Multi- warehousing & manufacturing until use buildings are important to Activities & resources available for ---- 1980, when is was turned into a communities because people can do people in urban, suburban, & rural What are some reasons why multi- parking lot. Harborcenter a lot of things all in one space. communities are different. Multi-use use buildings are so important to Development LLC, led by Terry Pegula, ---- buildings are useful in urban Buffalo’s renaissance? acquired the site & broke ground April Have any of you been to a hockey communities because they can fit 2013. game here, or maybe played hockey many things into one space. What are other examples of multi-use here? buildings in your community/in A hub for hockey players & fans, it Discuss history of Harborcenter, what Buffalo? contains 2 NHL-sized rinks. It is an can be found inside the building, & excellent example of a multi-use the impact the Pegulas have had on building in Buffalo, with the ice rinks, Buffalo. a hotel, various restaurants, ground- ---- floor shopping and retail, a parking Do you know of examples of multi- garage. use buildings in your community?

Terry & Kim Pegula own the Buffalo Bills, Sabres, Bandits, & Beauts. They have had a huge influence on Buffalo’s renaissance.

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During this tour, some important themes are: Industrialization, Local Economy, Innovative Thinkers, & Technological Advancements

Tour Stop & General Info Primary K-4 Middle 5-8 Secondary 9-12 What is a community? Individuals in a Community Regional & Global Communities

#9 Tim Horton Statue Tim Horton was a Canadian hockey Tim Horton & the donut chain. Tim Horton; the Aud. player who played in Buffalo for Tim Horton (1930-1974) played for about 2 years. Entrepreneurs & local business Entrepreneurs in Buffalo today. the Toronto Maple Leafs from 1949- owners are helping to energize 1970, played for Buffalo Sabres 1972- He didn’t just love hockey - he also Buffalo’s renaissance & making 1974. loved donuts! He opened one donut important contributions to Buffalo’s shop in Canada that has since grown economy. In 1964, he opened up a donut shop to have hundreds of shops all over. in Hamilton, Ontario. Died in 1974 in He was an entrepreneur, a fancy a car accident while travelling back to word for a person who starts a Buffalo from Toronto. business.

The Memorial Auditorium was Entrepreneurs, or people who start completed in 1940 and dedicated to their own businesses, are helping those who lost their lives in WWII Buffalo grow. combat. It was home of the Buffalo Bisons (1940-1970), the Buffalo Sabres (1970-1996), and the Buffalo Braves (1970-1978). In 1994, ground breaking took place for the new “Crossroads Arena” (now Key Bank Center) and the Aud was abandoned. Demolished 2009. Center ice on the Canalside ice rink is said to be in the same location as center ice was in the Aud.

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#10 Replica Canals This is where the canals used to be. The replica canals inspire us to Replica canals; continuity & change 2012 - Erie Canal Harbor Development These replicas, or remakes of the think about the past & to over time; summarize the Canal Corporation (ECHDC) originals, are meant to show us examine change over time - we District’s timeline & emphasize that what this area once looked like so think about what this area once students like themselves will be the Construction of replicas began spring 2012. The that we can understand how looked like, what it looks like innovators, engineers, & replicas represent the location of original canals and humans have changed this space today, & what it could be in the entrepreneurs of tomorrow that will bring to mind Buffalo’s once-thriving canal district. over time to meet their needs. future. help revitalize spaces like Canalside. Today they’re the site of year-round activity: ice skating, ice bikes, curling, remote control boats, ---- paddle boats. During the winter, you can go ice Go over this area’s timeline What is something you would like to skating here, and during the (summarizing the tour) & see added to this space to make it a Inner Harbor development: 1960s - Urban Renewal summer you can rent paddle boats. emphasize that the students better community space? Plan adopted for the Waterfront Redevelopment Project; 1970s - Erie Basin Marina constructed, Naval could one day have a say in Park established; 1980s - NFTA completed Metro Rail This area is still changing & revitalizing this space, or other project & pedestrian mall on Main St.; 1990s - City growing. Someday, you might even areas like it in Buffalo. developed comprehensive Inner Harbor Plan, moved have a say in what this area looks ---- the Naval Park further west to be linked with new like. What is something you would like Veterans Park; 2000s - ECHDC created & Canalside Project launched, historic streets, Commercial Slip, & ---- to see added to this space to replica canals restored, Explore & More Kids Museum What is something you would add make it a better community (2018), DL&W Terminal redevelopment (pending), to this space right now if you space? Canalside set to be completed in 2031. could?

ECHDC’s goal is to connect downtown Buffalo with its waterfront through interpretive displays and water elements to create a series of interconnected areas that make up a thriving community space

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#11 Shark Girl Sharkgirl came to Buffalo in 2014. Millard & Sharkgirl. Millard & Sharkgirl. 2013 - 2014 - Casey Riordan Millard Like Illumination & the Silent Poets, it is public art that is meant to help Many of the people we talked about Engineers, innovators, & Millard is an American artist (b. make this space interesting, on the tour today were considered entrepreneurs from WNY have made 1973), received her BFA from Ohio interactive, & welcoming. “fish out of water” to the people important contributions to business University. around them - they had outlandish & technology, & to Buffalo’s Sculptor Casey Riordan Millard ideas that many people thought were reputation as the Queen City. Many Sharkgirl installed at Canalside in describes Sharkgirl as a “fish out of impossible or foolish. But they of these people were considered “fish 2014 as part of the Public Arts water” believed in themselves, stuck to their out of water,” but they believed in Initiative between the Albright Knox, ---- dreams, & helped Buffalo become an their dreams & persisted in their Erie County, & the City of Buffalo. Close your eyes & think about a time important city! If you ever feel like a goals. Sharkgirl reminds us that it’s when you felt out of place or like fish out of water, just remember okay to be a fish out of water, & that Symbolizes a fish out of water - people didn’t understand you. Did those stories & that one person’s one person can make a big Sharkgirl is patiently waiting for a you feel lonely? Sad? dreams can make a big difference. difference. companion. Reflects themes of sorrow, loneliness, love, family, & Sharkgirl reminds us that even when loss. we feel alone or left out, we’re still special & important - and someday we’ll find a friend to be at our side!