DCHP-3

birch canoe

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a canoe built from the bark of the white birch, long used by the Indians of eastern Canada.

Quotations

1620
[Cannowes are . . . made with the rinds of Birch trees; which they sowe very artificially and close together, and ouerlay euery seame with Turpentine.]
<i>c</i>1715
. . . one hundred of the Accadians . . . can march upon snow-shoes, and understand the use of birch canoes.
1953
This country was explored from the thwarts of a birch canoe.