| With great pleasure,
high ambitions and enthusiasm over a number of years, we drafted
and planned the World Canals Conference 2005. Our hopes were to
offer our friends and fellow canal enthusiasts as well as our professional
colleagues a rewarding conference and numerous memorable occasions
on and around our grand, old canals.
Our theme – Six canals in six days – took us on a journey
right across Sweden, from Göteborg/Trollhättan in the
west to our capital Stockholm on the east coast. Trips by boat allowed
us to present the majority of our magnificent canals. During this
journey, You were able to study how differently our canals have
been preserved and they exhibited their heritage and the developed
tourism in the surrounding areas. You have seen waterfalls, modern
commercial vessels specially built for the Trollhätte kanal
locks, aqueducts, lock-keeper and bridgemaster cottages, dry docks,
Stockholm's archipelago, narrow boats from UK and much, much more.
 Some
may think that we were somewhat exuberant and over ambitious in
the planning of this six-day trip. However, we believe and hope
that this journey has given our guests something extra.
Soon we will give You a summary at this website - by words and pictures
from the whole of the conference week.
Thank You for visiting us and see You soon again, The Association
of Sweden's Canals through its president
Claes-Göran Österlund
Canal Director
AB Göta kanalbolag
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