Building a nawi

http://bushcraftoz.com/forums/showthread.php?9412-Building-a-nawi

Canoe Construction-Australian National Maritime Museum.

http://anmm.wordpress.com/2014/05/26/bark-canoe-building-at-bents-basin-a-npws-sydney-aboriginal-community-cultural-gathering/

Bark Canoe building at Bents Basin –a NPWS Sydney Aboriginal Community Cultural Gathering

Voyager Comparison to Coureur de bois.

Comparison to Coureur de bois

These two terms have had broad and overlapping uses, but their emblematic meanings in the context of the fur trade business were more distinct. Voyageurs were the canoe transportation workers in organized, licensed long distance transportation of furs and trade goods in the interior of the continent. Coureur de bois were entrepreneur woodsman engaged in various things including fur trading. The Coureur de bois's zenith preceded the Voyageur era, and Voyageurs partially replaced them. For those Coureur de bois who continued, the term picked up the additional meaning of "unlicensed".^[1][10]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyageurs

http://www.navoyageur.org/fg09.htm

The Mapmaker.

http://blogs.mprnews.org/state-of-the-arts/2010/08/from-canoe-to-canvas-minnesota-painter-captures-voyageurs-history/

The Voyageurs
In 1715 it was discovered that rodents and insects had consumed the glut of beaver fur in French warehouses. The market immediately revived. As an item on the balance sheet of French external trade, furs were minuscule, and their share was shrinking proportionately as trade in tropical produce and manufactured goods increased; however, the fur trade was the backbone of the Canadian economy.

Unlike the HBC with its monolithic structure staffed by paid servants, in New France  the trade was carried on into the early 18th century by scores of small partnerships. As costs rose with distance, the trade came to be controlled by a small number of BOURGEOIS, who hired hundreds of wage-earning VOYAGEURS. Most companies consisted of three or four men who obtained from the authorities the lease on the trade at a specific post for three years; all members shared profits or losses proportional to the capital subscribed. Trade goods were usually obtained on credit, at 30 per cent interest, from a small number of Montréal merchants who also marketed the furs through their agents in France. The voyageurs' wages varied from 200 to 500 livres if they wintered in the West. For those who paddled the canoes westward in the spring and returned with the autumn convoy, the usual wage was 100-200 livres plus their keep (about double what a labourer or artisan would earn in the colony).

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/fur-trade

http://oldnorthwestterritory.northwestquarterly.com/2011/04/the-voyageurs-paddlers-traders-explorers-of-wilderness/

http://www.voyageurfdc.org/

http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2012/08/saginaw_voyageurs_prepare_for.html

http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0008/NQ45718.pdf

Unknown Image. Anyone know the artist?

Ojibwe Video.( Short).

Log Boat or Dugout Building in Finland . Video.

Wampanoag mishoon trip to Martha's Vineyard. Video.

Making The Australian Dugout Canoe.

Making An Australian Native Bark Canoe.

This film clip from "Ten Canoes" does not show the whole process, but I think it shows enough for you to get the idea.

A 1954 survival video link at SB's blog.

An interesting video here: http://suburbanbushwacker.blogspot.com/2011/06/survival-in-bush-when-bears-eat-your.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2Fxbyg+%28The+Suburban+Bushwacker+-+fat+boy+to+elk+hunter%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

Philip Ashton Marooned.

PHILIP ASHTON MAROONED.



Philip Ashton was a fisherman. On one of his fishing trips he was captured by pirates captained by Edward Low. Low asked Ashton to join his crew, but Ashton refused so was kept prisoner & made to work.


"That through the goodness of God -- I escaped being consumed by the violence of the Flame who was not only drunk at the time -- but acting like a madman and demanding that we all be shot right then and there."


"I went into the boat, With only an Ozenbrig frock and trousers on, And a milled cap upon my head, having neither shirt, shoes, nor stockings, nor anything else about me. Whereas, had I been aware of such an opportunity by one quarter of an hour before, I could have provided myself with something better. However, thought I, if I can but once get foot on terra-firma, I shall count it a happy Deliverance. For I was resolved, come what would, never to come aboard again."


"I was very active in helping get the casks out of the boat and rolling them up to the watering place. Then I lay down at the fountain and took a heavy draught of cool water. And then I gradually strolled along the beach, picking up stones and shells and looking about me. When I got about a musket shot off, I began to make for the edge of the woods. When the cooper spied me, he called after me and asked me where I was going. I told him I was going to get some coconuts, for there were some coconut trees just before me. But as soon as I reached the woods, I betook myself to my heels and ran as fast as my naked feet would let me."


"What is not good for him that has nothing to live on, except what falls from the trees!"


"As my weakness increased upon me, I should often fall down as though struck with a dead sleep. And sometimes when I lay down I never expected to wake or rise again. And here I lingered, one day after another, I know not how, without business or diversion, rambling from hill to hill, gazing upon the water and staring upon the face of the sky. And often I laid myself down certain that I should die alone, and nobody would know what has become of me, not even my Parents ..."


"One of my greatest difficulties lay in my being barefoot, my travels backward and forward in the woods to hunt for my daily food among the thick underbrush, where the ground was covered with sharp broken shells, had made so many gashes in my feet, and some of them very large, that I was hardly able to go at all."


I have not found any more quotes of Philip Ashton, but I do know that at some time during his stay on the island he had a visit from a stranger, another Englishman in a canoe. This man gave Ashton a gun, lead, gunpowder & a knife. Shortly afterwards the stranger left to go hunting further round the island in his canoe. That night a storm blew up and Ashton never saw the stranger again.


"In saving me from the rage of pirates, And the malice of Spaniards, from the beasts of the field, and the monsters of the sea, in keeping me alive amidst so many deaths in such a lonely and helpless condition, and in bringing about my deliverance, the last being whereof I must be just gone to Bonacca, where a storm must drive a fleet of ships so far southward, And their need for water must oblige them to put in at the island where I was, And a vessel bound to my own home must come and take me in, I cannot but take notice of the strange concurrence of Divine Providence throughout it all."


Narrative of Philip Ashton Jr., 1725.

Possibly the oldest canoe found in the UK!

250 year old birch bark canoe found in Cornwall.



National Maritime Museum Cornwall and one of the oldest, and most influential families, in Cornwall are working together to conserve possibly the oldest Birch Bark Canoe in existence.

Estimated to be over 250 years old, the canoe has been discovered on the Enys Estate near Penryn, housed in one of the Enys family’s barns.


More information on the following blog: http://greenwood-carving.blogspot.com/2010/12/250-year-old-birch-bark-canoe-found-in.html