Canada | Flotilla of Mi’kmaq birchbark canoes launched at Kejimkujik NP, capping summer of building

Four birchbark canoes glided through Kejimkujik Lake, N.S., this weekend, leading a flotilla of paddlers there to celebrate a summer of canoe building.

Todd Labrador constructed the Mi'kmaq canoes by hand and had help from apprentices from Bear River First Nation for the two newest ones. Fourteen-year-olds Karlee Peck and Cedar Meuse-Waterman collected spruce roots, harvested bark and spent weeks transforming the raw materials into the 16-foot vessels.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/todd-labrador-mi-kmaq-birchbark-canoe-launch-1.4825858

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