They just had birch-bark canoes, too, not as good as white men take into that country now.
When it is remembered that everything had to be brought in by bark canoes or dog-train, and that all lumber had to be cut by hand, it seemed to be a monument of industry.
Here also were a number of bark canoes, carrying the outfit of Mr. Ladoucere, a half-breed trader going up to Wahpoośkow.
The Continentals had no line of escape but the broad St. Lawrence and a few birch-bark canoes which a dozen torches could have destroyed.
He was favored by darkness and a storm, and from ten in the evening till four in the morning, by the aid of thirty birch-bark canoes and a few rafts, he was engaged in the hazardous work.
At the same time, the Indians of the party were detailed to build birch-bark canoes.
In this region they found some savages who were “wild and unruly,” and who had come “from the mainland out of warmer regions” in bark canoes.
On the 11th of April two birch-bark canoes, bearing the British flag, arrived at the factory.
We arrived that evening at Hunter's Lodge, where we found four new birch-bark canoes.
Company, arrived at the factory, in a couple of bark canoes manned by sixteen voyageurs.
It was curious to feel ourselves traversing what looked like an arm of the sea, in fabrics of a nature so frail as was that of our birch-bark canoes.
Sketch: Two common styles of root stitching used in bark canoes.
From his early years in Woodstock he had made a hobby of the study of birch-bark canoes, and while in Montreal he became honorary consultant to the Museum of McGill University, dealing with Indian lore.
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