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Canoes: A Natural History in North America

Mark Neuzil and Norman Sims 2016
This is the story of the canoe, that singular American artifact so little changed over time. Featured here are canoes old and new, from birch bark to dugout to carbon fiber; the people who made them; and the adventures they shared. With features of technology, industry, art, and survival, the canoe carries us deep into the natural and cultural history of North America.

Follow author Mark Neuzil on Twitter: @mrneuzil

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A black-and-white photograph of two people poling a dugout canoe on the Columbia River in 1900.

Log Canoe on the Columbia River

From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes

Lee Moorhouse, Log canoe on the Columbia River, ca. 1900.

A black-and-white photograph of a family of three in a dugout canoe: two adults and one small child. One of the adults is throwing a double pronged sealing spear into the water.

Kwakiutl Family

From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes

A Kwakiutl family navigating the waters of Quatsino Sound.

A black and white photograph of two men and one barefoot child standing beside a long dugout canoe. The unifinished canoe is held up by a wooden structure.

Natives Making Canoe from Tree Trunk

From Chapter 1: Dugout Canoes

Natives making canoe from tree trunk at Mission ca. 1900. Photograph by Alexander McLean.

A black-and-white photograph of several birch-bark canoes lined up.

Tetes de Boule Canoes

From Chapter 2: Birch-Bark Canoes

A row of Tetes de Boule canoes was photographed by Edwin Tappan Adney in the early 1900s.

A color photograph of a dugout canoe.

Trapper's Dugout Canoe

From Chapter 4: All-Wood Canoes

A trapper’s dugout canoe constructed of basswood.

Rice Lake Canoe Company catalog from 1900.

Rice Lake Canoe Company Catalog

From Chapter 4: All-Wood Canoes

Rice Lake Canoe Company catalog from 1900.

Two Nomad decked sailing canoes under construction at the Rushton boat shop, ca. 1900.

Nomad Sailing Canoes

From Chapter 4: All-Wood Canoes

Two Nomad decked sailing canoes under construction at the Rushton boat shop, ca. 1900.

Planking is applied to a pair of Indian Girl canoes in the Rushton Boat Shop, early 20th century.

Indian Girl Construction

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.

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.

Restored Gerrish Canoe

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.

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.

B. N. Morris Storefront

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.

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.

Belle Isle Park Courting

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.

A photographic postcard of a couple "canoedling" on the Charles River.

"Canoedling" Postcard

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.

An illustrated postcard depicting a woman carrying her own oar.

Canoeing Girl

From Chapter 5: Wood-and-Canvas Canoes

The changing role of women in canoeing became evident on postcards of the early twentieth century.

A black-and-white photograph of the Le Foudre in water.

Le Foudre

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.

A black-and-white patent drawing.

D. P. Tuck

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.

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