Conolly, initially to facilitate movement of goods to Kallayi Port from hinter lands of Malabar through Kuttiyadi and Korapuzha river systems.
This was the main waterway for the cargo movement between Kochi and Calicut, trade was the definition of the Canolly canal for more than a century.
Major coastal towns such as Chavakkad, Ponnani and Kandassankadavu developed because of the freight trade along the canal.
Many of the things in the once popular Chavakkadu Kuttakkunnu weekly market came through the Canolly Canal.
[6][7] It's a part of 630 km long Western Coastal canal (WCC) project in Malabar Coast.