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Author : Susan T. Audette,David E. Baker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0884482030
Outstanding archival photographs, many never before published, show canoes under construction, canoes underway, canoes being pitched off the factory roof, and everything from log drives to summer camps.
Author : Mike Elliott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-09
Category : Canoes and canoeing
ISBN : 0994863306
When restoring a wood-canvas canoe, you don't work on it, you work with it. In This Old Canoe: How To Restore Your Wood-Canvas Canoe, Mike Elliott guides you through the process of bringing your classic heirloom back to life. He takes you step-by-step through all aspects of a canoe restoration from assessment to the finishing touches. Concise instructions clearly illustrated, provide the passport you need to embark on this unique adventure.
Author : Patrick F. Chapman
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2006-05-11
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780786425730
For half a century Earl and Floyd Willits built some of the world's finest canoes, first near Artondale, Washington, then on Day Island, right off of Puget Sound in Tacoma. Turning out approximately twenty canoes a year, carefully logging and numbering each one, the brothers emphasized quality and design rather than volume. Willits Brothers Canoe Company earned a reputation that enabled the tiny company to compete successfully with businesses much larger, leaving a name and legacy which is still admired by canoe aficionados today. Carefully researched and documented, this combination biography and company history tells the story of Earl and Floyd Willits and their unique canoe company. Beginning with their family's westward migration from Illinois, it follows the brothers as they set about starting the business that would become their lifelong work. Close attention is given to the Willitses' business management and construction techniques as well as their personal lives. Interviews with surviving contemporaries and family members add a personal dimension to the Willitses' story. Appendices include a detailed company logbook, instructions from the Willits brothers on various areas of canoe use and maintenance, a price list of canoes from 1928 to 1964 and a list of serial numbers and dates of manufacture. In addition, a price comparison with the Old Town Canoe Company, a listing of museums exhibiting a Willits Brothers canoe, two Willits Brothers Canoe company catalogs and various plans of Willits canoes are provided. Contemporary photographs from the Willits family collection are also included.
Author : Edwin Tappan Adney,Howard I. Chapelle
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-17
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781602390713
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 : David Curran
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780811740241
Each year Dave Curran travels alone by canoe into the Maine wilderness. He's paddled the Seboeis, the Allagash and the Moose. Despite the foolhardiness of such an adventure, he prefers to go alone. It's easier to plan, and going alone he's more focused, less distracted. He goes for the challenge, battling weather, bears, black flies, mosquitoes, getting lost. He goes for the scenery, the wildness, the silence, the peace. Curran works as a clinical psychologist and lives with his wife and two children in Berlin, Massachusetts.
Author : Misao Dean
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442661769
If the canoe is a symbol of Canada, what kind of Canada does it symbolize? Inheriting a Canoe Paddle looks at how the canoe has come to symbolize love of Canada for non-aboriginal Canadians and provides a critique of this identification’s unintended consequences for First Nations. Written with an engaging, personal style, it is both a scholarly examination and a personal reflection, delving into representations of canoes and canoeing in museum displays, historical re-enactments, travel narratives, the history of wilderness expeditions, artwork, film, and popular literature. Misao Dean opens the book with the story of inheriting her father’s canoe paddle and goes on to explore the canoe paddle as a national symbol – integral to historical tales of exploration and trade, central to Pierre Trudeau’s patriotism, and unique to Canadians wanting to distance themselves from British and American national myths. Throughout, Inheriting a Canoe Paddle emphasizes the importance of self-consciously evaluating the meaning we give to canoes as objects and to canoeing as an activity.
Author : Bruce Erickson,Sarah Wylie Krotz
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-26
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780887559112
Popularly thought of as a recreational vehicle and one of the key ingredients of an ideal wilderness getaway, the canoe is also a political vessel. A potent symbol and practice of Indigenous cultures and traditions, the canoe has also been adopted to assert conservation ideals, feminist empowerment, citizenship practices, and multicultural goals. Documenting many of these various uses, this book asserts that the canoe is not merely a matter of leisure and pleasure; it is folded into many facets of our political life. Taking a critical stance on the canoe, The Politics of the Canoe expands and enlarges the stories that we tell about the canoe’s relationship to, for example, colonialism, nationalism, environmentalism, and resource politics. To think about the canoe as a political vessel is to recognize how intertwined canoes are in the public life, governance, authority, social conditions, and ideologies of particular cultures, nations, and states. Almost everywhere we turn, and any way we look at it, the canoe both affects and is affected by complex political and cultural histories. Across Canada and the U.S., canoeing cultures have been born of activism and resistance as much as of adherence to the mythologies of wilderness and nation building. The essays in this volume show that canoes can enhance how we engage with and interpret not only our physical environments, but also our histories and present-day societies.
Author : Don Starkell
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1994-09-03
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780771082566
It was crazy. It was unthinkable. It was the adventure of a lifetime. When Don and Dana Starkell left Winnipeg in a tiny three-seater canoe, they had no idea of the dangers that lay ahead. Two years and 12,180 miles later, father and son had each paddled nearly twenty million strokes, slept on beaches, in jungles and fields, dined on tapir, shark, and heaps of roasted ants. They encountered piranhas, wild pigs, and hungry alligators. They were arrested, shot at, taken for spies and drug smugglers, and set upon by pirates. They had lived through terrifying hurricanes, food poisoning, and near starvation. And at the same time they had set a record for a thrilling, unforgettable voyage of discovery and old-fashioned adventure. "Courageous . . . Exciting and always immediate." -- The New York Times Book Review
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780762752355
Author : Kathryn Hilliard Klos
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1492746916
The Morris Canoe: Legacy of an American Family recounts the story of a family whose skills helped build the emerging American nation, culminating in the creation of a company that contributed to a future in which the paddling sports are an important aspect of recreation.
Author : Peter R. Stowell
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-27
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781439659540
Old Town, situated in north-central Maine, sits snugly along the mighty Penobscot River. Taking advantage of the river’s vibrant woods and watershed, Old Town would become the country’s leading producer of timber in its early history. Penobscot Indian tribes had inhabited the land for more than 6,000 years, but the area’s resources were so vast that, by 1836, the first railroad in Maine had established a line from Bangor to Old Town, with many eager to access the town’s wealth. Since its separation from the town of Orono in 1840, Old Town has developed a robust industrial base, including Old Town Canoe Company, Penobscot Chemical Fibre, T.M. Chapman & Sons, the Bickmore Gall Company, Jordan Lumber, LeBree’s Bakery, and the James W. Sewall Company. Today, Old Town has lost much of its industrialized base, but nonetheless, its strong ethnic and religious communities, which have worked together for more than 175 years, stand ready to prepare the river town for a bright future.
Author : Bruce Erickson
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774822503
More than an ancient means of transportation and trade, the canoe has come to be a symbol of Canada itself. In Canoe Nation, Bruce Erickson argues that the canoe’s sentimental power has come about through a set of narratives that attempt to legitimize a particular vision of Canada that overvalues the nation’s connection to nature. From Alexander Mackenzie to Grey Owl to Pierre Elliott Trudeau, the canoe authenticates Canada’s reputation as a tolerant, environmentalist nation, even when there is abundant evidence to the contrary. Ultimately, the stories we tell about the canoe need to be understood as moments in the ever-contested field of cultural politics.
Author : Tina Grant
Publisher : Saint James Press
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : PSU:000056203561
Multi-volume major reference work bringing together histories of companies that are a leading influence in a particular industry or geographic location. For students, job candidates, business executives, historians and investors.
Author : Jerry Stelmok
Publisher : Globe Pequot
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Boatbuilding
ISBN : 1585745901
The definitive guide to building this classic watercraft. (SEE QUOTE.)
Author : Cliff Jacobson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781493014804
The 30th Anniversary Edition of the classic Expedition Canoeinghas long been considered the premier guide to canoeing and exploring North America's waterways. This thirtieth-anniversary edition expertly details everything you need to know about paddling the continent's wild rivers. Outdoors writer and wilderness canoe guide Cliff Jacobson draws on his thirty-plus years of river running to give you sound advice, fresh new ideas, and advanced techniques for canoeing in the wilderness. Completely updated and revised, inside you'll find dozens of full-color photos, how-to illustrations, source charts, canoeing and camping tricks, a chapter full of hard-won advice from more than twenty-five of Jacobson's fellow canoeing experts, and a brand new chapter devoted to paddling desert and swamp rivers. Look inside to find: How to pick a crew Route and trip planning Canoeing and camping gear Navigating by map, compass, and GPS How to deal with dangerous bears Canoe hazards and rescue Barren-land travel Preparation and skills are everything when canoeing wild rivers. Take along this guide on all of your canoeing adventures.