Excerpt from Canoes and Canoeing
A canoe is a boat, sharp at both ends, propelled by a paddle. It may be of bark, a log hollowed out, the skins of animals, thin boards secured to a frame, metal, paper or any other suitable material, built open or decked over.
The size of a canoe depends on the needs of the owner. The smallest canoes are those built to hold one man. A canoe ten feet long and weighing less than ten pounds, has been built and used for cruising. The canoe in the Natural History Museum, New York, from Queen Charlotte's Island, is sixty-three feet long, eight feet three inches wide and five feet deep. It was cut out of a single log. Canoes are now built in length between ten and thirty-five feet.
Many people think only of the birch bark when they hear the word canoe. Birch canoes are in use to-day in the Maine woods, but the light, open, Canadian canoe, built of cedar or basswood, has almost entirely taken its place. The cedar boat is even lighter than the bark canoe, stronger and of better lines, though quite similar to the birch in its form and general appearance and is more easily paddled. Then there is an almost endless variety of decked canoes.
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