cedar canoe

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a light, seaworthy canoe made of cedar and capable of carrying a sail.

Quotations

1852

My husband had purchased a very light cedar canoe, to which he attached a keel and a sail.

1898

They are mostly cedar canoes of Rice Lake or Peterboro' make, as the birch-bark are not so suitable for sailing.

1967

The children would later be exchanged by the Nisgahs to the Haidas, as payment for cedar canoes.