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Another Look At DIY Canoe Building From 1930s American How-To-Do Magazines
In the 1930s two articles were published in American how-to-do magazines on building a canoe. One was from Home Craft (March 1936) and the other from Popular Mechanics (March 1938). Both were on how to...
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Revisiting A Canoe Shop
The canoes rode well, not too high in the bows, but just enough. Peterborough Prospectors were made for the bush and for roaring rapids and waves. They embodies the best features of all canoes in the...
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Moving Forward
No matter how hard it may be, we all must move forward on whatever path we take….going backwards sometimes may be fine….but journey forward into life….take that step and strive onward….around that next...
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Anishinaabe Babamadizwin: A Journey By Canoe Revised….And Revisited
Painting by Leland Bell First, the canoe connects us to Ma-ka-ina, Mother Earth, from which we came and to which we must all return. Councils of those who were here before us revered the earth and...
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Revisiting Paddling Poems….Proving Once Again That Canoes Are More Than Just...
There have been several poems written about canoes such as: Thus the Birch Canoe was builded In the valley, by the river, In the bosom of the forest; And the forest’s life was in it, All its mystery...
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Another Look At Bill Mason: A True Waterwalker
….the canoe is not a lifeless, inanimate object; it feels very much alive, alive with the life of the river. – Bill Mason, Path of the Paddle There is nothing that is so aesthetically pleasing and yet...
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A Thoreau Tuesday: A Few Quotes….And A Green Wood Canvas Canoe Business
From Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau, comes this brief description of who Henry David Thoreau was: Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau; July 12, 1817 – May 6,...
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National Paddling Week June 15-23, 2013
The canoe carried aboriginal people for thousands of years, followed then by the explorers and the missionaries and the engineers and the surveyors….until in modern times it gives us the gift of...
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Remembering My Dad….And All Paddling Fathers
This coming Sunday is Father’s Day….and my thoughts are with Dads who paddle with their kids….like Scott MacGregor and his son Dougie (if you haven’t seen the This Is Canoeing DVD, then check out the...
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Fish Quill Poetry Tour….By Canoe
CANOEING POETRY TOUR “FISH QUILL POETRY BOAT” SETS OUT ON THE GRAND RIVER A floating poetry and music tour sets out by canoe on the Grand River outside Waterloo. From June 13th-23rd, six performers in...
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Gull Lake Boat Works
A canoe must fill many unusual requirements: it must be light and portable, yet strong and seaworthy, and it must embody practical qualities for paddle, pole, and sail. It must reject every superfluity...
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Sunday Comics
From Scouter Network is this link, http://www.rogerknapp.com/knap/peanuts.htm, to these two “Peanuts” comics featuring the World Famous Eagle Scout himself….Snoopy is obviously a leader of “men” LOL...
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Big Changes At Ostrom Packs
Just got this email and thought I should share: June 15, 2013 Thank You Friends and Customers! There are big changes at OSTROM OUTDOORS, as the retail store closes and the pack manufacturing business...
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Revisiting Some Favourite Canoe Cartoons
One of my favourite cartoonists is Paul Mason….I found the following on The Open Canoe Group: Cartoons By Paul Mason: Cartoons by Paul Mason Recently there has been concern over gas prices….this is...
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Voyageur Paddles Facts
Some time back, a serious history buff/interpreter sent a request for information regarding the size of paddles used by voyageurs and the request was forwarded to me, among others. This individual had...
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Thinking Of The Good Old Summertime….Dreaming of Canoe Trips In...
As we near the Summer Solstice (June 21), I find myself thinking of summer….warm and sunny….lazy days on the water….and especially canoe trips. I’m even thinking of the song In The Good Old...
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The Art Of The Portage….Defining Through Some Quotes….And Some Sketches
From Wikipedia: Portage: Portage or portaging refers to the practice of carrying watercraft or cargo over land to avoid river obstacles, or between two bodies of water. A place where this carrying...
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Canoe Quotes And Writings
The canoe carried aboriginal people for thousands of years, followed then by the explorers and the missionaries and the engineers and the surveyors….until in modern times it gives us the gift of...
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Native Quotes And Teachings
Art Solomon “Woman is the centre of the wheel of life. She is the heartbeat of the people. She is not just in the home, but she is the community, she is the Nation. One of our Grandmothers. The woman...
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Environment/Nature/Wilderness Quotes
The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth … the only home we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need — if...
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