The Harbor Springs Area Historical Society hosts the Blessing of the Fleet celebration, June 24-26, with a boat parade and ...

Upper Columbia United Tribes' 10th annual canoe journey launches for its second year from north of Revelstoke — historically ...

When the birch bark canoe Chuck Commanda is building goes into the Wye River Thursday afternoon, it will provide a bridge to the past that goes back 4,500 years. Armed with the accumulated ...

Todd Labrador’s Mi’kmaq family has been building birch bark canoes for generations at Kejimkujik National Park and Historic Site in Nova Scotia. “At one time when we harvested birch bark ...

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He said the stringybark canoes, made from a species of eucalypt known for the stringy bark that grows on the tree's trunk, were "iconic" among Aboriginal communities along the Bass Coast.

The canoe released Friday was originally supposed to launch in October 2021. However, windy conditions prevented Valliere, his team of apprentices and members of the NU and Evanston community from ...

The organization's vision includes showcasing historic birch bark, wood-canvas and cedar-strip canoes. Beyond make-model-year information, plans feature canoe-related exhibits like a paddle ...

The first ever birch bark canoe made by Indigenous students at Mohawk College has been paddled into history. “There’s a sense of satisfaction, but also a sense of relief now the canoe is done ...

Chuck Commanda, who grew up in Kitigan-Zibi, an Anishinabeg First Nation community north of Ottawa, is doing his best to keep traditional birch bark canoe building alive. is a reporter at the Midland ...

For the first time in nearly 400 years, a birch bark canoe was reintroduced to the Chicago-area shore of Lake Michigan (Mishigami). Only six Ojibwe birch bark canoe builders still exist in the ...