Beatrix Canal apparent to the Dutch throne, Princess Beatrix. Beatrix Canal The Beatrix Canal (Dutch: "Beatrixkanaal") is an 8.4 km long canal in the southern Netherlands. It was constructed to provide the city of Eindhoven with access to the Wilhelmina Canal. In order to be able to regulate the level of the Gender and Dommel streams, which regularly threatened to flood Eindhoven's inner city, an additional Discharge Canal ("Afwateringskanaal"), which is not open to navigation, was dug to connect the Beatrix Canal and the Dommel stream. Into this branch, the Gender now discharges. Upon completion, the canal was named in honour of
Sophie Hélène Beatrix of France older sister in 1778. Sophie was buried in the necropolis of the Kings of France, the Royal Basilica of Saint Denis, five kilometers north of Paris. Sophie Hélène Beatrix of France Sophie Hélène Béatrix of France (9 July 1786 – 19 June 1787) was a French princess, the daughter of Louis XVI of France and Marie Antoinette. She was styled as "Madame Sophie" at birth. As the daughter of a King of France, she was a "Fille de France". Sophie was born at the Palace of Versailles, the youngest of the four children of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie