Building the Wood Canvas Canoe with Mark Morgen

Chik-Wauk Museum & Nature Center presents “Building the Wood Canvas Canoe” with Mark Morgen on Sunday, August 20 from 2 – 3 pm.  The wood canvas canoe was a direct offshoot of the Native American’s Birch Bark Canoe. In the early 1900s, using modern (for the time) materials and leveraging the American public’s thirst for outdoor recreation, several canoe companies began building wood canvas canoes on forms, revolutionizing canoe building. This talk will primarily focus on wood canvas construction techniques and how they differ from bark canoe construction, as well as more modern construction.

More information is available at gunflinthistory.org.