The canal was dug in 1866 with the King’s and Phraya Srisuriyawong’s personal budgets. At that time, there were no technology to help, so it was entirely excavated by military men, Chinese immigrants and people of Ratchaburi, Samutsakhon and Samutsongkhram. After its completion in 1868, the King named it the Damnoen Saduak Canal and different kinds of boats used this canal as a means of transport, day and night. During the Second World War the Japanese troops also used the canal to travel to Ratchaburi Province. It can be said that this canal had been an integral part of the communities until the new roads were constructed.