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Mark Whittaker's Prospector: From Inspiration to Launch Day
"If there was a single moment that triggered and opened up the appeal of canoeing (and construction of same) for me, it was watching Bill Mason's face as he took me through the basics in his film for the NFB: Path of the Paddle..."
An African Canoe Story by Graham Haird, Crown Mines, South Africa
"My story starts on the Zambezi River, a wild and untamed place, teeming with hippopotami and crocodiles and forming the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia in Southern Africa..."
Crafting a Canoe From Firewood by Ken Briggs, Whitehorse, YK, Canada
""Putting strips on didn’t take that long. It’s an engrossing, exacting and a rather magical process. At first there is one single strip. Then slowly the hull begins to take shape..."
Building Bluebird by Dawne Olson, Vermillion, SD, USA
"I was headed to Algonquin’s Lake Opeongo to canoe when a sudden violent rainstorm forced me to pull over in Peterborough, Ontario. When the wind and rain subsided I found myself in the parking lot of the Canadian Canoe Museum..."
Canadian Stories
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The 12 Month Canoe Season by Jean Gregoire, Notre-Dame des Pins, Quebec, Canada
- Worth the Wait! by Jim Slavin, Estevan, Saskatchewan, Canada
- Dining Room Cedarstrip by Stuart Reid, Kanata, ON, Canada
- From Dream to Reality by Peter Morrison, Nepean, ON Canada
- Crafting a Canoe From Firewood by Ken Briggs, Whitehorse, YK, Canada
- Freedom 55 by Francois Vaillancourt, QC, Canada
- To Build The "Waist Nought" Cedar-Strip Canoe by Bruce Kitchen, Lakefield, ON Canada
- Family Canoe Building Extravganza by Matthew Rae, Kingston, ON, Canada
- Why Build? by Jeffery Piotrowski, London, ON Canada
- Rice Lake Rowing Skiff by Joe Paterson, Peterborough, ON Canada
- Teach the Next Generation by John Hendren, Peterborough, ON Canada
- Ted Moores’ FIRST Canoe Building Class - I Was There! by Steve Squelch, Oshawa, ON Canada
- How I Became a Stripper and Turned 'Green' by Peter Feindel, Caledon, ON Canada
- My First Canoe by Jackson Larrabee
- Nova Scotia Retiree by Ben Weeks, Whites Lake, NS, Canada
- My Canoecraft Story or How it all Got Started by Bob Arthur, Wainfleet, ON, Canada
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American Stories
- Up the Cric - A Redbird Canoe by Jack Diffily, Azle, TX, USA
- My Love of Boats Began Early by Steve Ballew, Lavina, MI, USA
- A Canadian in Michigan by Jim Jones, Leonard, MI, USA
- Ted Moores Influence on my Canoe Building by Ken Kosick, Monona, WI, USA
- Building Bluebird by Dawne Olson, Vermillion, SD, USA
- Dream Come True by Vann and Laura Evans, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
- My Story by Glen O'Dell, Ottumwa, IA, USA
- Champlain 16 by D. Scot Williams, Knoxville, TN, USA
- Bear Mountain Journey by Barry Scammell, Vermillion, SD, USA
- My Redbird by Bill Toups, Louisiana, USA
- My Lifelong Canoe Hobby by Richard Berling, Madison, USA
- A Gift from My Sons by Barry T. Demmers
- I Was Born to Build Canoes by Jim Dodd, Humboldt, IA, USA
- It Started With a Book by Paul Shay, CT, USA
- The Redbird That Changed My Life by Randy Pfeifer, Warrenville, IL, USA
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International Stories