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VIDEO: Learn How Kevlar Canoes are Constructed

Discovery Channel's, How It's Made TV series, goes inside the Wenonah Canoe factory and takes a look at how a Kevlar canoe is constructed.

Watch these two videos to learn about this interesting process. To skip through how escalators are made, fast forward five and a half minutes in the first short video.

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Finding Canoes in the Most Unlikely Places

A beautifully handcrafted birchbark canoe, called the Mino-Mashkiki, Ojibway for “good medicine,” is found in the most unusual place—the rotunda of Kitchener’s City Hall in Ontario.

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All I know about the canoe is that it was built along the Grand River in 2009 and was given as a gift to the people of Kitchener from an Aboriginal organization, Healing of the Seven Generations.


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Last Torched Canoe

The Olympic torch relay in Canada was definitely the longest in Olympic history as it travelled a distance of 45,000 kilometers throughout the country, visiting 1037 communities along the way. There were 12,000 lucky torchbearers from across Canada who travelled with the torch— runners, hockey players, First Nation chiefs, and even canoeists.

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1,000 kilometers of the torch relay travelled over water and some of that distance was by canoe—quite appropriate for a country that up until quite recently (the last century or so) used canoes as a main mode of transport.


   

A Boat Made Out of Duct Tape?

Discovery Channel’s Mythbusters, Adam and Jamie, make a small sailboat out of duct tape. Using a steel frame and two layers of duct tape, they construct the boat like a skin on frame canoe. The duo even made a duct tape sail.

Watch the 3-minute film to see what happens.



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A Chopstick Canoe

Recycle warrior and canoe builder, Shuhei Ogawara, constructs a canoe from restaurant waste.

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There’s no denying the fact that sushi has become a favourite food as Japanese restaurants roll out across the urban streets of North America. But as more people bite into sashimi rolls, an incredible amount of waste is pilling up from disposable chopsticks.

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VIDEO: 2010 Vancouver Olympics Canoe

Canoe trippers are well acquainted with the drudgery of portaging 25 kg canoes up steep terrain and through alder-infested bush, but to try and slog a 540 kg canoe up an escalator is for most canoeists—out of the question.

Bill Helin, a Tsimshian artist of Vancouver Island, did just that and was joined by a group of First Nation representatives, Pan Pacific chefs, and friends and family to bring the 12 metre dug-out canoe into the Pan Pacific Hotel. The canoe, named Ravensong, is to remain on display for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

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Crazy Canoe Jump!

Don't Try This One At Home!



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New Foldable Canoe: A Cause to Celebrate for Apartment Dwellers

Kanola, a German-based canoe company, has created the perfect blend of performance and practicality with their new foldable hard shell canoe.


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Chic Hbc Canoe

Hudson’s Bay Company (Hbc) designers and artists have rummaged through the archives for inspiration and created a 120-piece signature collection.

Everything old is new again and fur trade history now looks chic as designer coats, comfortable ottomans, mohair throws are all designed using the traditional Hbc red, green and yellow stripes.

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