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"The canoe implies a long antiquity in which its manufacture has been gradually perfected. It will ere long, perhaps, be ranked among the lost arts." — Henry David Thoreau, The Maine Woods The ...

On a dead-end country road surrounded by rolling farm fields south of Middlebury, Scott Barkdoll builds and refurbishes wood and canvas canoes. His classic works evoke a simpler time of communing with ...

In a remote corner of northern Canada, Joe Goudie is at work on his very last boat for sale. The Inuit community in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador once used wood and canvas canoes to ...

The first thing we always do when we open up our Ontario summer cabin is to carefully carry out my cedar and canvas canoe. It has lain inside for months, protected from the ice and snow, falling ...

A worker builds one of the original wood-framed canoes in the early days of Old Town. In 1857 Henry David Thoreau and a guide from New England’s Penobscot Nation, Joseph Polis, took a round-trip canoe ...

The grayed ribs of the canoe lay in the tall grasses — discarded, forgotten, abandoned. My husband Andy stumbled upon the remaining frame of a wood canvas canoe while working in Alaska many years ago.

Members of the Inuit community of Canada's Newfoundland and Labrador province once used wood-and-canvas canoes to navigate the region's rivers. An Inuit Builder Crafts His Last Canoe In a remote ...