Todd Labrador, a Mi'kmaq man from the Wildcat Reserve in Queens County, N.S., has made it his life's work to preserve the traditional craftsmanship of birchbark canoes.
TORONTO -- Todd Labrador, a Mi’kmaq man from the Wildcat Reserve in Queens County, N.S., has made it his life’s work to preserve the traditional craftsmanship of birchbark canoes.
The process for making a traditional birchbark canoe is time consuming, from combing the forest for the summer bark that will peel properly, to stretching it over the “ribs” of the canoe with heat, to stringing and scraping spruce roots. The joints were sewn with spruce or white pine tree roots that traditionally would have been pulled up, split and. The seams would then be waterproofed with hot spruce or pine tree resin.
Birch trees are found almost everywhere in Canada, making them an abundant resource for Indigenous people, which is why birchbark canoes were the principal means of waterway transportation for many First Nations -- and later, the voyageurs.
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