Middle Sweden, looks a lot like the Adirondacks to me.
I don't know what kind of canoe it was, but here are some old photos. I rented it from an outfitter, situated in a tiny, tiny, tiny town (it all fit into a bread basket), and put it right from town. This was in 2008? I think. Film and 35 mm camera. Clearly the prints, even though stored away from light, are fading.

Notice the upside down two-wheeled canoe cart in the bow. The outfitter, a big, tall, blond, brawny Swede, told me I had to bring this for the portages. This was before I saw the canoe. I told him I didn't need a cart, I could carry the canoe myself on portages. He laughed and laughed. He said he had never heard of such a thing. I explained how I would pick it up and sort of toss it up over my head and onto my shoulders and he nearly dissolved laughing.
This was a joke to him and he brought it up repeatedly during our conversations. Over and over again.
