What is a cedar-strip canoe, anyway? The basic idea behind a cedar-strip canoe is to make a hull of narrow wood strips, each one glued to the next with ordinary carpenter’s glue, and then cover the ...

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“So you’re starting to see what I mean about all the sanding?” says Ron Pellinen, my wooden canoe-building mentor, when I walk into his shop on a brisk March morning in Northern Ontario. Perched on an ...

My father was recovering from a heart attack, flipping through a magazine at the library, when he decided to build his first boat. He saw an ad for a wooden kayak kit, and something about the grace of ...

Wayne Valliere picks up a long, thin spruce root — lovingly soaked, stretched and whittled into ribbonlike smoothness. Normally, he would be using the root to sew a traditional Ojibwe canoe, but, for ...

It is this seeming incongruity of elements that compels university engineering students across the country each year to take on the challenge of designing, constructing — and then racing — concrete ...

A young Membertou woman has a good reason to be showing up almost every day to help build a traditional Mi’kmaw birch bark canoe — thought to be the first in Unama’ki (Cape Breton) in about a hundred ...