Key details
- Current boat name
- n/a
- Boat class
- 7357
- Function
- Sports and Leisure
- Type
Dimensions and specifications
- Length (m / ft)
- 4.42 / 14ft 6in
- Beam (m / ft)
- 0.84 / 2ft 9in
- Leeward
- None
- Propulsion
- Paddle
Design and build
- Designer
- Peterborough Canoe Co
- Date of build
- 1908
- Place of build
- Ontario Canada
Current status
- Present use
- Museum/NMMC
History
Built by the Peterborough Canoe Co of Peterborough, Ontario and is a direct descendent of Canadian birch-bark canoes built and used by the Indians of Ontario’s Otonabee Valley. The building of plank and rib canoes developed in the area between 1850 and 1860, at a time when huge tracts of North America remained to be explored and the canoe was one of the most useful forms of transport. The distinctive method of construction, employing narrow cedar planks copper-fastened to steam-bent ribs, offered several advantages: it was light and strong and avoided the difficulties of bending wide planks into sharp curves at bow and stern. This canoe was presented to NMM on behalf of the English Speaking Union of America by the canoe’s previous owner Charles Powell. October 2007