Birchbark Canoe

Author : David Gidmark
Publisher : Firefly Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0228104777

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Birchbark Canoe by David Gidmark Pdf

Discover the dying art of birchbark canoe building as seen through the eyes of someone who is passionate about it. In this book David Gidmark tells the story of the building of a traditional birchbark canoe and his apprenticeship learning the skills and the language of the Algonquin of western Quebec. Through learning how to do (how to strip the bark from the tree, fashion gunwales from the cedar logs, carve the ribs with a crooked knife and sew the huge sheets of bark onto the frame with spruce root), David Gidmark learns how to see the wilderness and relate to it in Algonquin ways that are very different from ours. As his knowledge increases, so does his respect for the culture and wisdom of native peoples. Part way through this odyssey, he meets his future wife, Ernestine, a young Ojibway woman who was taken at the age of five from her family and placed in a residential school. As she and David made a life together in the woods, she was able to begin relearning her language and culture.

Author : Edwin Tappan Adney,Howard I. Chapelle
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-17
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781602390713

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Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America by Edwin Tappan Adney,Howard I. Chapelle Pdf

The bark canoes of the North American Indians, particularly those of birchbark, were among the most highly developed manually propelled primitive watercraft. Built with Stone Age tools from available materials, their design, size, and appearance were varied to suit the many requirements of their users. Even today, canoes are based on these ancient designs, and this fascinating guide combines historical background with instructions for constructing one. Author Edwin Tappan Adney, born in 1868, devoted his life to studying canoes and was practically the sole scholar in his field. His papers and research have been assembled by a curator at the Smithsonian Institution.

Author : John McPhee
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1982-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780374708597

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The Survival of the Bark Canoe by John McPhee Pdf

In Greenville, New Hampshire, a small town in the southern part of the state, Henri Vaillancourt makes birch-bark canoes in the same manner and with the same tools that the Indians used. The Survival of the Bark Canoe is the story of this ancient craft and of a 150-mile trip through the Maine woods in those graceful survivors of a prehistoric technology. It is a book squarely in the tradition of one written by the first tourist in these woods, Henry David Thoreau, whose The Maine Woods recounts similar journeys in similar vessel. As McPhee describes the expedition he made with Vaillancourt, he also traces the evolution of the bark canoe, from its beginnings through the development of the huge canoes used by the fur traders of the Canadian North Woods, where the bark canoe played the key role in opening up the wilderness. He discusses as well the differing types of bark canoes, whose construction varied from tribe to tribe, according to custom and available materials. In a style as pure and as effortless as the waters of Maine and the glide of a canoe, John McPhee has written one of his most fascinating books, one in which his talents as a journalist are on brilliant display.

Author : Daniel Clément
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781772822946

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Algonquins by Daniel Clément Pdf

First published in French in Recherches amérindiennes au Québec in 1993, this collection of essays aims to provide a better understanding of the Algonquin people. The nine contributors to the book deal with topics ranging from prehistory, historical narratives, social organization and land use to mythology and legends, beliefs, material culture and the conditions of contemporary life. A thematic bibliography completes the volume.

Author : Robert Twigger
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780297863885

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Voyageur by Robert Twigger Pdf

Best-selling author of Angry White Pyjamas travels across the Rocky Mountains by canoe Fifteen years before Lewis and Clark, Scotsman Alexander Mackenzie, looking to open up a trade route, set out from Lake Athabasca in central Northern Canada in search of the Pacific Ocean. Mackenzie travelled by bark canoe and had a cache of rum and a crew of Canadian voyageurs, hard-living backwoodsmen, for company. Two centuries later, Robert Twigger decides to follow in Mackenzie's wake. He too travels the traditional way, having painstakingly built a canoe from birchbark sewn together with pine roots, and assembled a crew made up of fellow travelers, ex-tree-planters and a former sailor from the US Navy. Several had tried before them but they were the first people to successfully complete Mackenzie's diabolical route over the Rockies in a birchbark canoe since 1793. Their journey takes them to the remotest parts of the wilderness, through Native American reservations, over mountains, through rapids and across lakes, meeting descendants of Mackenzie and unhinged Canadian trappers, running out of food, getting lost and miraculously found again, disfigured for life (the ex-sailor loses his thumb), bears brown and black, docile and grizzly.

Author : David Gidmark,Denis Alsford
Publisher : Mechanicsburg, Pa. : Stackpole Books
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : STANFORD:36105016991247

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Building a Birchbark Canoe by David Gidmark,Denis Alsford Pdf

A guide to building birchbark canoes in the Algonquin style. Includes history, overview of construction methods and looks at the techniques used by 4 Algonquin craftsmen.

Author : Timothy J. Kent
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 718 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0965723003

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Birchbark Canoes of the Fur Trade by Timothy J. Kent Pdf

A detailed history of the early Native American traveling craft and the traditional lifestyles of Native peoples and early traders and settlers.

Author : Richard C. Schneider
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001-04-01
Category : Boatbuilding
ISBN : 0936984155

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Building a Birch Bark Canoe by Richard C. Schneider Pdf

Author : Eugene Yuji Arima
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Canada
ISBN : 1554070805

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The Canoe by Eugene Yuji Arima Pdf

A comprehensive history of North American canoe traditions.

Author : David Gidmark
Publisher : Burnstown, Ont. : General Store Publishing House
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Algonquian Indians
ISBN : 0919431445

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Birchbark Canoe by David Gidmark Pdf

Author : John Jennings
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-30
Category : Canoes and canoeing
ISBN : 1770851585

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Bark Canoes by John Jennings Pdf

"Published in association with the Mariners' Museum"

Author : Cris Peterson
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781590784266

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Birchbark Brigade by Cris Peterson Pdf

A history of the North American fur trade, based on primary sources. The North American fur trade, set in motion by the discovery of the New World in the fifteenth century, was this continent's biggest business for over three hundred years. Furs harvested by Ojibwa natives in the north woods ended up on the sleeves and hems of French princesses and Chinese emperors. Felt hats on the heads of every European businessman began as beaver pelts carried in birchbark canoes to trading posts dotting the wilderness. Iron tools, woolen blankets, and calico cloth manufactured in England found their way to wigwams along the remote rivers of North America. The fur trade influenced every aspect of life—from how Europeans related to the Indians, how and where settlements were built, to how our nation formed. Drawing on primary sources, including the diaries of Ojibwa, American, and French traders of the period, this Society of School Librarians International Honor Book gives readers a glimpse of a little-known story from our past.

Author : Sanford Osler
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-08
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781927527757

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Canoe Crossings by Sanford Osler Pdf

Often called one of the Seven Wonders of Canada, the canoe has played a particularly important role in British Columbia. This seemingly simple watercraft allowed coastal First Nations to hunt on the open ocean and early explorers to travel the province’s many waterways. Always at the crossroads of canoe culture, BC today is home to innovative artists and designers who have rediscovered ancient canoe-building techniques, as well as community leaders who see the canoe’s potential to bring people together in exciting, inspiring ways. The story of Canoe Crossings begins some fifteen thousand years ago, when, as compelling new evidence suggests, the first humans to reach the Americas did so by canoe down the West Coast. It continues through the centuries, chronicling the evolution of the canoe and its impact on the various people who used it to explore, hunt, trade, fight, race, create, and even heal. The book contains dozens of stories of colourful, passionate people who have contributed to the province’s canoe culture, including a teenager who lived ninety feet up in a tree house while designing and building the world’s longest kayak; a group of high school students who practised on a tiny lake and went on to win several World Dragon Boat Championships; and at-risk Aboriginal youth who reconnected with their traditional culture through annual “big canoe” trips. Canoe Crossings will appeal to anyone who has ever sought adventure, found solace, or seen beauty in a canoe or wondered about the origins of its design and use in British Columbia and beyond.

Author : David Gidmark
Publisher : Willowdale, Ont. : Firefly Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Social Science
ISBN : WISC:89073098204

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Birchbark Canoe by David Gidmark Pdf

In BIRCHBARK CANOE, you will discover the dying art of birchbark canoe building as seen through the eyes of someone who is passionate about it.

Author : Jan Bourdeau Waboose
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781525308512

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Morning on the Lake by Jan Bourdeau Waboose Pdf

An Ojibway grandfather lovingly introduces his grandson to the ways of nature.