Peterborough (canoe)

[ < Peterborough, Ont.]

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a widely used wooden canoe patterned on the birchbark canoe and manufactured in Lakefield, Ontario, by the Peterborough Canoe Company.

1895

Eleven paddling canoes--eight Peterboro's and three Rushton--and the Cruiser, complete the fleet.

1897

On the evening of the last day of May we launched our handsome "Peterboroughs" in the great stream, and commenced our long canoe voyage.

1958

Here . . . light Peterborough canoes [were] packed over the passes on men's shoulders. . . .

1966

. . . John Stephenson . . . later came up with the excellent cedar rib craft known the world over as the Peterborough Canoe.