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Example sentences for "bark canoes"

  • They just had birch-bark canoes, too, not as good as white men take into that country now.

  • When it is remembered that everything had to be brought in by bark canoes or dog-train, and that all lumber had to be cut by hand, it seemed to be a monument of industry.

  • Here also were a number of bark canoes, carrying the outfit of Mr. Ladoucere, a half-breed trader going up to Wahpoośkow.

  • The Continentals had no line of escape but the broad St. Lawrence and a few birch-bark canoes which a dozen torches could have destroyed.

  • He was favored by darkness and a storm, and from ten in the evening till four in the morning, by the aid of thirty birch-bark canoes and a few rafts, he was engaged in the hazardous work.

  • At the same time, the Indians of the party were detailed to build birch-bark canoes.

  • In this region they found some savages who were “wild and unruly,” and who had come “from the mainland out of warmer regions” in bark canoes.

  • On the 11th of April two birch-bark canoes, bearing the British flag, arrived at the factory.

  • We arrived that evening at Hunter's Lodge, where we found four new birch-bark canoes.

  • Company, arrived at the factory, in a couple of bark canoes manned by sixteen voyageurs.

  • It was curious to feel ourselves traversing what looked like an arm of the sea, in fabrics of a nature so frail as was that of our birch-bark canoes.

  • Sketch: Two common styles of root stitching used in bark canoes.

  • From his early years in Woodstock he had made a hobby of the study of birch-bark canoes, and while in Montreal he became honorary consultant to the Museum of McGill University, dealing with Indian lore.


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