Canning

Canning is a city of South 24 Parganas district in the Indian State of West Bengal. It is situated on the southern banks of the Matla River. Canning is the portal of Sundarban. It is the home office of the Canning subdivision and furthermore the seat for the Sub-Divisional Court. This city is named after Lord Canning, the previous Governor General of India from 1856 to 1858, and Governor General and Viceroy from 1858 to 1862. H. E. A. Cotton expresses, "The year 1864… It saw likewise the theoretical craziness over an unfortunate plan for the recovery of the Sunderbans, of which nothing stays except for the betrayed wharves of Port Canning, yet which brought about destroy to many".

Developing a noteworthy port at the city blurred with the stifling of the Matla River because of lacking headwater supply. Ruler Canning had needed to assemble a port that would be an option in contrast to Kolkata and an opponent to Singapore. What nobody regarded were the alerts of a humble delivery assessor Henry Piddington, who had lived in the Caribbean and thoroughly understood sea tempests and tempests. He needed the mangroves to be disregarded, as they were Bengal's protective hindrance against nature's rage and ingested the underlying attack of cyclonic breezes, waves and tidal floods. The settlement was worked with a strand, lodgings and homes, however in 1867 the Matla River flooded and lessened the town to a "dyed skeleton".