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This list is intended to contain all significant canals and aqueducts in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, USA. It includes both vanished waterways and those that still exist.

• Blackstone Canal, Grafton ^[1]
• Broad Brook Canal, Ludlow
• Cambridge canals
  • Broad Canal
  • Lechmere Canal
• Cape Cod Canal, Sagamore
• Fort Point Channel, Boston
• Hampshire and Hampden Canal, Hampshire and Hampden Counties
• Hecla Canal, Blackstone
• Holyoke canals
  • First Level Canal
  • Second Level Canal
  • Third Level Canal
• Lowell canals
  • Eastern Canal
  • Hamilton Canal
  • Lawrence Wasteway
  • Massachusetts Wasteway
  • Merrimack Canal
  • Merrimack Wasteway
  • Northern Canal
  • Pawtucket Canal
  • Western Canal
• Long Pond Canal, Lakeville
• Madaket Ditch, Nantucket
• Mattakeset Herring Creek, Edgartown
• Middlesex Canal, Middlesex County
• Mill River Diversion, Easthampton
• Mother Brook, Dedham
• North Canal, Lawrence
• Northfield Mountain Tailrace Tunnel, Millers Falls
• Salem Beverly Waterway Canal, Beverly
• South Hadley Canal, South Hadley
• Turners Falls Canal, Turners Falls

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