Editing Suez Canal (section)

=== Company towns ===
From its inauguration, till 1925, the Suez Canal Company built a series of [[company town]]s along the canal to serve its operation. They included ports and their facilities as well as housing for employees segregated by race or nationality.<ref>{{Citation |last=Piaton |first=Claudine |title=European construction companies in the towns along the Suez Canal |date=2 March 2021 |url=http://books.openedition.org/inha/12729 |work=Building Beyond The Mediterranean: Studying The Archives of European Businesses (1860–1970) |pages=92–103 |editor-last=Godoli |editor-first=Ezio |series=Hors collection |place=Paris |publisher=Publications de l'Institut national d'histoire de l'art |language=en |isbn=979-10-97315-01-6 |access-date=2 January 2023 |editor2-last=Peyceré |editor2-first=David}}</ref> These were [[Port Said]] (1869) and [[Port Fuad]] (1925) at the canal's northern entrance by the [[Mediterranean Sea|Mediterranenan]], [[Ismailia]] (1862) near the middle and north of [[Lake Timsah]], and [[Suez Port|Port Twefik]] (1867) at the canal's southern entrance on the Red Sea.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Carminati |first=Lucia |date=2020 |title=Port Said and Ismailia as Desert Marvels: Delusion and Frustration on the Isthmus of Suez, 1859–1869 |url=http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0096144218821342 |journal=Journal of Urban History |language=en |volume=46 |issue=3 |pages=622–647 |doi=10.1177/0096144218821342 |s2cid=150024329 |issn=0096-1442}}</ref>