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
A Kwakiutl family navigating the waters of Quatsino Sound.
From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes
Natives making canoe from tree trunk at Mission ca. 1900. Photograph by Alexander McLean.
From Chapter 2: Birch-Bark Canoes
A row of Tetes de Boule canoes was photographed by Edwin Tappan Adney in the early 1900s.
From Chapter 4: All-Wood Canoes
A trapper’s dugout canoe constructed of basswood.
From Chapter 4: All-Wood Canoes
Rice Lake Canoe Company catalog from 1900.
From Chapter 4: All-Wood Canoes
Two Nomad decked sailing canoes under construction at the Rushton boat shop, ca. 1900.
From Chapter 5: Wood-and-Canvas Canoes
Planking is applied to a pair of Indian Girl canoes in the Rushton Boat Shop, early 20th century.
From Chapter 5: Wood-and-Canvas Canoes
A Gerrish canoe, ca. 1900, serial number 1772, restored by Zachary Smith. Note the reed wrapping at the end of the gunwales, which was a Gerrish feature.
From Chapter 5: Wood-and-Canvas Canoes
Ella and Bert Morris (far right) and his brother Charlie (far left) pose with their staff in front of the B. N. Morris storefront, ca. 1900.
From Chapter 5: Wood-and-Canvas Canoes
Courting on Grand Canal in Belle Isle Park in the Detroit River, with Detroit, Michigan, on one side and Windsor, Ontario, on the other, ca. 1900. Note the Victrola mounted in the canoe in the foreground.
From Chapter 5: Wood-and-Canvas Canoes
The Charles River at Newton, Massachusetts became one of the most popular waterways for “canoedling” among young people during the early twentieth century.
From Chapter 5: Wood-and-Canvas Canoes
The changing role of women in canoeing became evident on postcards of the early twentieth century.
From Chapter 6: Synthetic Canoes
With the construction of the Vendenesse, it was probably inevitable that the French navy would take an interest in aluminum boats. One result was Le Foudre, a torpedo boat tender (actually made in Britain) with a skin of sheet aluminum thicknesses varying from 1 mm. to 5 mm.
From Sidebar: Canoe Patents
Inventors have struggled to make canoes feel more stable for years and years. Sponsons, which are essentially buoyant pieces attached to the gunwales, were a common answer, including this attempt by D. P. Tuck from 1900.