What were those first canoes like? The birch bark canoe and batteau (which is like a flat-bottom, wooden jon boat) were really the way people got around for both pleasure and for work when they ...

A view from the Doubs’ boathouse at Bluff Point. A birchbark canoe built by Penobscot and other Wabanaki tribal members. The Raquette Lake Supply Co., a common stop for paddlers, thanks largely ...

“We got a local restauranteur to loan us a birch bark canoe, which he filled with strawberries. We put pots of melted chocolate at the end. Where I went the following year, people said ‘Yours ...

Much like how To Abei unravels the Li ethnic people's brocade-making heritage, The Birchbark Canoe, a children's novel inspired by China's Oroqen ethnic boat-making, has intrigued overseas ...

The museum also has a full-sized birch bark canoe made in Lake Savant, Ont., in the early 20th century, an HBC flintlock trade gun made by J.E. Barnett & Sons in 1871 and a soapstone carving from ...

“We got a local restauranteur to loan us a birch bark canoe, which he filled with strawberries. We put pots of melted chocolate at the end. Where I went the following year, people said ‘Yours was the ...