I am interested in canal songs because I found out my great grandfather and his brothers almost singlehandedly built the Erie and probably others. I am interested in knowing how they had families with them.they did...children were born..and how they lived...did they build huts beside the canal? They couldn't have had much money to rent places even if they were available. Tents? Wagons? I read somewhere that said they lived in what would be today considered doghouses. True? False? mg