Quetico Pictograph
From Chapter 7: The Human-Powered Movement
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From Chapter 7: The Human-Powered Movement
Evidence of travel by canoe exists in the form of pictographs hundreds of years old in the Quetico region of Canada. Scientists are not in agreement about who made the images—or even when—but the painting of people in a boat is unmistakable.
From Chapter 7: The Human-Powered Movement
Biologist Aldo Leopold (center) accompanies his son Starker (left) on a canoe trip in the Quetico boundary waters in 1924.