A century old birch bark canoe returns home.

[Odyssey]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/kahnawake-century-old-birchbark-canoe-1.6973120

 

[memaquay]

Interesting, that's a pretty modern looking shape on that canoe. The east coast canoes from the Mi'kmaq had those weird torpedo stems, and the Anisnabe from around here had really high stems. George Simpson had an elite crew of Mohawk paddlers when he traversed the rivers of Canada, apparently in a specially designed "Express" canoe. Perhaps this resembles the Express canoe design.

 

[Benson Gray]

that's a pretty modern looking shape on that canoe.

It is surprising how many of the oldest bark canoes look very similar to some of the modern ones. The link below has more information about several of the earliest known bark canoes.

Benson

Birchbark canoes and Carbon-14 dating

Rob Stevens and I have been trading some emails recently about the canoe described at https://www.centralmaine.com/2017/09/02/museum-preserves-native-american-canoe-from-1700s/ which the Pejepscot Historical Society had restored and carbon dated in 2017. There are several bark canoes which have...

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[Glenn MacGrady]

A more complete resource to see pictures and illustrations of old bark canoes is the online version of Adney & Chapelle, The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America:

The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America, by Edwin Tappan Adney and Howard Irving Chapelle