Log Canoe on the Columbia River
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
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From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Lee Moorhouse, Log canoe on the Columbia River, ca. 1900.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Dugout canoes line the beach at Songhees Reserve in Victoria, British Columbia, 1868.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
A Kwakiutl family navigating the waters of Quatsino Sound.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Three cedar canoes on the beach at Skidegate.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Bill Reid and Associates Creating a Dugout Canoe, 1985.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Haisla dugout canoe carved and painted by David Shaw in 1934, overpainted by Bill Reid in 1967.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Edward S. Curtis, Into the Shadow, 1910. Clayoquot Sound, British Columbia.
From Chapter 2: Birch-Bark Canoes
Phyllop Peter and his wife paddle a Kutenai canoe on Kootenay Lake in 1922.
From Chapter 5: Wood-and-Canvas Canoes
Chestnut canoes continue to be one of the most popular styles among paddlers. Mike Elliot of Kettle River Canoes in British Columbia restored this Chestnut Bob’s Special model.
From Chapter 8: Canoe Tripping
In 1967, these paddlers reenacted part of the 1793 Mackenzie Expedition, paddling from Ft. St. John, British Columbia, to Expo ’67 in Montreal, Quebec.