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Birch Bark Canoe Building With Ray Mears
“While the tradition of birch bark canoe building may be fading into history, some of this legacy is retained in modern cedar strip and canvas copies. What ever romantic name modern companies give...
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Tom Thomson: The Artist And The Canoe
….the best I can do does not do the place much justice in the way of beauty. - Tom Thomson, letter to Dr. James MacCallum, Oct. 6, 1914, from Canoe Lake Station (MacCallum Papers, National Gallery of...
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Cree Paddles In Fort Severn
One of the team of builders/support staff involved in the Fort Severn Canoe Project is Doug Ingram. When Doug was in Fort Severn, he documented Cree paddles from that area on Facebook…..I thought I...
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Canoe Songs….Enjoying The Song Of The Paddle
I have written about canoe songs frequently here….suggesting music that you could paddle your canoe to….mentioning often the ‘song of the paddle’….finding online sources like the YouTube video of...
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The Christmas Canoe
While this is Boxing Day, I thought I would share this YouTube video of the French Canadian folk tale of The Christmas Canoe:
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Making The Attikamek Snowshoe
While checking out Henri Vaillancourt’s website, Henri Vaillancourt: Traditional Birchbark Canoes, I came across his work on snowshoes….specifically Attikamek snowshoes….these are very unique snowshoes...
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Thought For Today: Staying United Is Strength….Or Strength In Numbers
If you take a single stick and bend it it will likely snap into two. If you take a bundle of sticks and tie them together then they become almost impossible to break. We must be like a bundle of sticks...
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A ‘Wave’ Of Canoe Sculptures
….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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Some Native Thoughts For A New Year
Here are some thoughts for a New Year….using Native quotes….just some things to think of as we begin the New Year 2014….whether it is thinking about First Nations issues….or Native thoughts on the...
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Quotes For A New Year
This bright new year is given me… To live each day with zest eloped in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood. -...
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Taking A New Year’s Day Walk….Remembering Past Winter Treks….And Sigurd Olson...
Of course New Year’s Day is today….and I hope to spend a few hours walking around (mainly to get some fresh air….and escape this computer for a while….or endless marathons of TV shows or college...
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Happy CANOE Year….And A Paddler’s Auld Lang Syne Revisited….
A few years ago (on this blog’s first New Year’s Eve) I wrote a blog post entitled A Canoeist’s Auld Lang Syne, after a post was written on the Wooden Canoe Heritage Association’s forum. In it was...
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Quote For Today
“There is magic in the feel of a paddle and the movement of a canoe, a magic compounded of distance, adventure, solitude, and peace. The way of a canoe is the way of the wilderness and of a freedom...
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Grey Owl’s Canoe
“Remember, you belong to Nature, not it to you.” – Archibald Belaney, aka Grey Owl “Give me a good canoe, a pair of Jibway snowshoes, my beaver, my family and 10,000 square miles of wilderness and I am...
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Wisdom From Chief Joseph Of The Nez Perce
Much has been written about Chief Joseph….from PBS, http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/a_c/chiefjoseph.htm: “Chief Joseph” Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt (1840-1904) The man who became a national...
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Funny Where You Can Find A Canoe….Even On A Royal Canadian Air Force Wing...
A few years ago, CBC TV showed The Return Of The Jets about the Winnipeg Jets and the second coming of the NHL to Winnipeg. When they were discussing the Jets’ new logo, it was mentioned that the...
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The Wolf As A Teacher
Revisting the wolf as a teacher….for my favourite Ma’iingan (wolf) kwe who has taught me much already….and has more yet to teach…. “Perhaps it was the eyes of the wolf, measured, calm, knowing. Perhaps...
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Wood Canvas Canoes….As Green As They Come
Nothing feels like a cedar-strip canvas canoe – Omer Stringer, a confirmed traditionalist Beautiful things made by hand carry within them the seeds of their survival. They generate a spark of...
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Native Teachings On Eagles And Eagle Feathers
A photo found on Facebook. The Eagle (Migizi in Ojibway) holds a very special place for Native peoples. The Eagle soared so high in the heavens that Native peoples held it in high esteem since it was...
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