question: are  Gowanus Canal and 17th Street Canal: in the same country?
answer: yes
context: Title: Brooklyn Community Board 6
  Passage: Brooklyn Community Board 6 is a New York City community board that encompasses the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Red Hook, Carroll Gardens, Park Slope, Gowanus, and Cobble Hill.  It is delimited by Upper New York Bay and East River on the west, Atlantic Avenue, Court Street, Fourth Avenue, Warren and Pacific Streets on the north, Prospect Park on the east, as well as by the 15th Street, Hamilton Avenue and the Gowanus Canal on the south.  It approximates the 19th century district of South Brooklyn.
  Title: Orleans Canal
  Passage: The Orleans Canal is a drainage canal in New Orleans, Louisiana.  The canal, along with the 17th Street Canal and the London Avenue Canal, form the New Orleans Outfall Canals.  The current version of the canal is about 2 km long, running along the up-river side of City Park, through the Lakeview and Lakeshore neighborhood, and into Lake Pontchartrain.  It is part of the system used to pump rain water out of the streets of the city into the Lake.  The Canal has also been known as the Orleans Avenue Canal, the Orleans Outfall Canal, the Orleans Tail Race, and early on, the Girod Canal,
  Title: Lakeview, New Orleans
  Passage: Lakeview is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans.  A subdistrict of the Lakeview District Area, its boundaries as defined by the City Planning Commission are: Robert E. Lee Boulevard to the north, Orleans Avenue to the east, Florida Boulevard, Canal Boulevard and I-610 to the south and Pontchartrain Boulevard to the west.  Lakeview is sometimes used to describe the entire area bounded by Lake Pontchartrain to the north, the Orleans Avenue Canal to the east, City Park Avenue to the south and the 17th Street Canal to the west.  This larger definition includes the West End, Lakewood and Navarre neighborhoods, as well as the Lakefront neighborhoods of Lakeshore and Lake Vista.
  Title: Old Stone House (Brooklyn)
  Passage: The Old Stone House is a 1933 reconstruction, using some original materials, of the Vechte–Cortelyou House, which was destroyed in 1897.  The original house was an important part of the 1776 Battle of Long Island during the American Revolutionary War; its reconstruction is on Third Street between Fourth and Fifth Avenues, in the J. J. Byrne Playground of Washington Park, in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York City.  Gowanus Creek once ran nearby, but today the southeastern branch of the Gowanus Canal ends 1300 feet (400 m) west of the house, near Third Avenue between Third and Sixth Streets.
  Title: 17th Street Canal
  Passage: The 17th Street Canal is the largest and most important drainage canal in the city of New Orleans.  Operating with Pump Station 6, It moves water into Lake Pontchartrain.  The canal, along with the Orleans Canal and the London Avenue Canal, form the New Orleans Outfall Canals.  The 17th Street Canal forms a significant portion of the boundary between the city of New Orleans and Metairie, Louisiana.  The canal has also been known as the Metairie Outlet Canal and the Upperline Canal.
  Title: West End, New Orleans
  Passage: West End (also referred to as West Lakeview) is a neighborhood of the city of New Orleans.  A subdistrict of the Lakeview District Area, its boundaries as defined by the City Planning Commission are: Lake Pontchartrain to the north, the New Basin Canal and Pontchartrain Boulevard to the east, Veterans Boulevard to the south, and the 17th Street Canal to the west.  The area was largely built on land reclaimed from Lake Pontchartrain.  It is a commercial seafood and recreational boating hub for the city and has been known for its seafood restaurants.  In recent years, the area has seen large condominium-complex developments built which overlook the Lake, marinas, and centrally located 30 acre West End Park.
  Title: New Orleans Outfall Canals
  Passage: There are three outfall canals in New Orleans, Louisiana – the 17th Street, Orleans Avenue and London Avenue canals.  These canals are a critical element of New Orleans’ flood control system, serving as drainage conduits for much of the city.  There are 13 mi of levees and floodwalls that line the sides of the canals.  The 17th Street Canal is the largest and most important drainage canal and is capable of conveying more water than the Orleans Avenue and London Avenue Canals combined.
  Title: Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn
  Passage: Greenwood Heights is a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn that takes part of its name from the neighborhood proximity to the Green-Wood Cemetery.  Greenwood Heights is a part of Brooklyn Community Board 7 along with Windsor Terrace, Sunset Park and South Park Slope.  The much-debated borders are, roughly, the Prospect Expressway to the north, Gowanus Canal to the west, Eighth Avenue to the east, and 39th Street to the south (southern boundary of the Green-Wood Cemetery and northern boundary of the 36th-38th Street Yard and South Brooklyn Railway).
  Title: Gowanus Canal
  Passage: The Gowanus Canal is a canal in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, on the westernmost portion of Long Island.  Connected to Gowanus Bay in Upper New York Bay, the canal borders the neighborhoods of Red Hook, Carroll Gardens, and Gowanus, all within South Brooklyn, to the west; Park Slope to the east; Boerum Hill and Cobble Hill to the north; and Sunset Park to the south.  It is 1.8 mi long.  There are seven bridges over the canal, carrying Union Street, Carroll Street (a landmark), Third Street, Ninth Street, Hamilton Avenue, the Gowanus Expressway, and the IND Culver Line of the New York City Subway.
  Title: Gowanus Memorial Artyard
  Passage: In 1979 Frank Shifreen, a recent art graduate of Pratt Institute, began hosting open-studio party art shows at his Brooklyn, New York studio apartment.  There a variety of local New York artists began to network.  His building, which was a nineteenth-century munitions factory at 230 3rd Street in Gowanus, Brooklyn, had over 9,500 square feet, much of it un-rented.  Shifreen asked his landlord to periodically use the un-rented space.  The building was right next to the extremely polluted Gowanus Canal, was also just two blocks from a five-acre abandoned dump that had been classified as a city-owned "Public Site".  At Smith Street and 5th Street, it was filled with weeds, trash middens, and expired auto bodies.
citations: Gowanus Canal 17th Street Canal