Canoe and Canvas

Canoe and Canvas
Author: Jessica Dunkin
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2019-09-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 1487504764

Canoe and Canvas is a close reading of the annual meetings and encampments of the American Canoe Association between 1880 and 1910.

This Old Canoe

This Old Canoe
Author: Mike Elliott
Publisher:
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2015-09
Genre: Canoes and canoeing
ISBN: 9780994863300

When restoring a wood-canvas canoe, you don't work on it, you work with it. In This Old Canoe: How To Restore Your Wood-Canvas Canoe, Mike Elliott guides you through the process of bringing your classic heirloom back to life. He takes you step-by-step through all aspects of a canoe restoration from assessment to the finishing touches. Concise instructions clearly illustrated, provide the passport you need to embark on this unique adventure.

Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America

Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America
Author: Edwin Tappan Adney
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2007-10-17
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1602390711

The bark canoes of the North American Indians, particularly those of birchbark, were among the most highly developed manually propelled primitive watercraft. Built with Stone Age tools from available materials, their design, size, and appearance were varied to suit the many requirements of their users. Even today, canoes are based on these ancient designs, and this fascinating guide combines historical background with instructions for constructing one. Author Edwin Tappan Adney, born in 1868, devoted his life to studying canoes and was practically the sole scholar in his field. His papers and research have been assembled by a curator at the Smithsonian Institution.

Canoeing with the Cree

Canoeing with the Cree
Author: Eric Sevareid
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2010-08
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0873517989

In 1930 two novice paddlers?Eric Sevareid and Walter C. Port?launched a secondhand 18-foot canvas canoe into the Minnesota River at Fort Snelling for an ambitious summer-long journey from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay. Without benefit of radio, motor, or good maps, the teenagers made their way over 2,250 miles of rivers, lakes, and difficult portages. Nearly four months later, after shooting hundreds of sets of rapids and surviving exceedingly bad conditions and even worse advice, the ragged, hungry adventurers arrived in York Factory on Hudson Bay?with winter freeze-up on their heels. First published in 1935, Canoeing with the Cree is Sevareid's classic account of this youthful odyssey. ?Praise for Canoeing with the Cree ?"Canoeing with the Cree is an all-time favorite of mine." ?Ann Bancroft, Arctic explorer and co-author of No Horizon Is So Far ?"Two high school graduates make an amazing journey . . . showing indomitable courage that carried them through to their destination. Humor and a spirit of adventure made a grand, good time of it, in spite of storms, rapids, long portages and silent wildernesses." ?Library Journal.

Building the Maine Guide Canoe

Building the Maine Guide Canoe
Author: Jerry Stelmok
Publisher: Globe Pequot
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002
Genre: Boatbuilding
ISBN: 9781585745906

The definitive guide to building this classic watercraft. (SEE QUOTE.)

From a Wooden Canoe

From a Wooden Canoe
Author: Jerry Dennis
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2000-09-08
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780312267384

An engaging collection of essays extolling the virtues of traditional outdoor equipment from wooden canoes to cast-iron skillets from the 1999 recipient of the Michigan Author of the Year Award presented by the Michigan Library Association. "From a Wooden Canoe" is a gift book with substance--one that will command a place on a shelf of treasured possessions. Illustrations.

Art of the Canoe with Joe Seliga

Art of the Canoe with Joe Seliga
Author: Jerry Stelmok Deborah Sussex
Publisher:
Total Pages: 180
Release:
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781610603447

Joe Seliga is a craftsman, noted for his handcrafted canvas-covered cedar canoes, who lives in Ely, Minnesota.

Canoecraft

Canoecraft
Author: Ted Moores
Publisher: Firefly Books Limited
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2000
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781552093429

Back in print: A revised second edition of a classic how-to book on canoe building. The new edition is updated to include advances in glues and techniques since the original was published, as well as five new canoe plans, builder tips and paddle carving.

Canoe and Canvas

Canoe and Canvas
Author: Jessica Dunkin
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2019-08-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 1487530854

Canoe and Canvas offers a detailed portrait of the summer encampments of the American Canoe Association between 1880 and 1910. The encampments were annual events that attracted canoeing enthusiasts from both sides of the Canada-US border to socialize, race canoes, and sleep under canvas. While the encampments were located away from cities, they were still subjected to urban logic and ways of living. The encampments, thus, offer a unique site for exploring cultures of sport and leisure in late Victorian society, but also for considering the intersections between recreation and the politics of everyday life. A social history of sport, Canoe and Canvas is particularly concerned with how gender, class, and race shaped the social, cultural, and physical landscapes of the ACA encampments. Although there was an ever-expanding arena of opportunity for leisure and sport in the late nineteenth century, as the example of the ACA makes clear, not all were granted equal access. Most of the members of the American Canoe Association and the majority of the campers at the annual encampments were white, middle-class men, though white women were extended partial membership in 1882, and in 1883, they were permitted to camp on site. Canoe and Canvas also reveals how Black, Indigenous, and working-class people, while obscured in the historical record, were indispensable to the smooth functioning of these events through their labour.

The Survival of the Bark Canoe

The Survival of the Bark Canoe
Author: John McPhee
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 148
Release: 1982-05-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0374708592

In Greenville, New Hampshire, a small town in the southern part of the state, Henri Vaillancourt makes birch-bark canoes in the same manner and with the same tools that the Indians used. The Survival of the Bark Canoe is the story of this ancient craft and of a 150-mile trip through the Maine woods in those graceful survivors of a prehistoric technology. It is a book squarely in the tradition of one written by the first tourist in these woods, Henry David Thoreau, whose The Maine Woods recounts similar journeys in similar vessel. As McPhee describes the expedition he made with Vaillancourt, he also traces the evolution of the bark canoe, from its beginnings through the development of the huge canoes used by the fur traders of the Canadian North Woods, where the bark canoe played the key role in opening up the wilderness. He discusses as well the differing types of bark canoes, whose construction varied from tribe to tribe, according to custom and available materials. In a style as pure and as effortless as the waters of Maine and the glide of a canoe, John McPhee has written one of his most fascinating books, one in which his talents as a journalist are on brilliant display.