Portraits of the
Great Fur Trade Canoes
Canadian Museum of Civilization
The great canoes of Canada's fur trade era opened up our nation's
frontiers
|
|
"Voyaging canoes played a crucial role in the
economic, political, military, and missionary affairs of North
America over a span of several centuries."
Timothy J. Kent, Birchbark Canoes of
the Fur Trade, vol. 1 (Ossineke, Mich.: Silver Fox Enterprises, 1997),
p. viii.
|
" . . . the great canoes of the Canadian fur trade must be
looked upon as the national watercraft type . . . far more representative
of . . . national expansion than the wagon, truck, locomotive, or
steamship."
E. Adney and H.
Chapelle, Smithsonian Institution, 1983
|
Canada is a canoe route.
-attributed to Arthur Lower, historian,
c. 1965
|
|