Books by Panama Canal Museum

The community of people who contributed to the Panama Canal effort was wide and varied - American and Panamanian, French, West Indian, Spanish, European, Asian, Indian and many other nationalities. This incredible cookbook, filled with hundreds of recipes that were used by people of all nationalities during the American Era of the Panama Canal, represents the merging of all those cultures.

The building of the Panama Canal from 1904 to 1914 at the time was the most monumental engineering achievement the world had ever seen. The brave and adventurous workers who went to Panama during the construction period faced unimaginable hardships on a daily basis. The family histories contained in this book document the incredible hardships faced by those early construction workers.

Tells some of the stories of the various townsites scattered along the fifty miles of the Panama Canal Zone between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans. It also shares the fond memories of a few of its residents whose hometowns have changed since the Panama Canal was turned over to Panama on December 31, 1999, and the Canal Zone as they knew it was no more.