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The Politics of the Canoe
Language: en
Pages: 272
Authors: Bruce Erickson
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-03-26 - Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press

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Popularly thought of as a recreational vehicle and one of the key ingredients of an ideal wilderness getaway, the canoe is also a political vessel. A potent sym
Canoe Nation
Language: en
Pages: 254
Authors: Bruce Erickson
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-15 - Publisher: UBC Press

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More than an ancient means of transportation and trade, the canoe has come to be a symbol of Canada itself. In Canoe Nation, Bruce Erickson argues that the cano
Canoe Country
Language: en
Pages: 322
Authors: Roy MacGregor
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-05-10 - Publisher: Vintage Canada

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One of our favourite chroniclers of all things Canadian presents a rollicking, personal, photo-filled history of the relationship between a country and its cano
Canoe and Canvas
Language: en
Pages: 310
Authors: Jessica Dunkin
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-09-10 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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Canoe and Canvas is a close reading of the annual meetings and encampments of the American Canoe Association between 1880 and 1910.
Canoeing with the Cree
Language: en
Pages: 252
Authors: Eric Sevareid
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-08 - Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society

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In 1930 two novice paddlers?Eric Sevareid and Walter C. Port?launched a secondhand 18-foot canvas canoe into the Minnesota River at Fort Snelling for an ambitio