Cedar-Strip Canoe
From Chapter 4: All-Wood Canoes
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From Chapter 4: All-Wood Canoes
A cedar-strip canoe made in Peterborough, Ontario, on exhibit at the Antique Boat Museum in Clayton, New York, 2005.
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A trapper’s dugout canoe constructed of basswood.
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This beautiful cedar strip canoe was built by the Lakefield Canoe Company of Peterborough ca. 1925–1930. The canoe uses three wide boards as planking on either side.
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John Stephenson, one of the early innovators of canoe design in Peterborough.
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Employees of the William English Canoe Company pose with a giant war canoe built in the factory on Charlotte Street in Peterborough, Ontario.
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Rice Lake Canoe Company catalog from 1900.
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A restored William English canoe, model 21, which was listed as 16-feet long, 31 inches beam, and 12 inches deep.
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A cedar strip all-wood canoe (right) at the Canadian Canoe Museum. A “double-cedar” canoe, with a layer of canvas between the planking, is at the left.
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This drawing shows the Ontario Canoe Company factory in Peterborough in the early 1880s.
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The first Canadian Canoe Company factory stood on Water Street in Peterborough from 1892–1904 near the rail office where all the canoes made in town were shipped.