Rabaska
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A rabaska or Maître canoe was originally a large canoe made of tree bark, used by the Algonquin people.
Shooting the Rapids (Frances Anne Hopkins, 1879)
Canoe crew passing before a waterfall (Frances Anne Hopkins, 1869)
Young people in a rabaska on the Lake of Two Mountains
Canoe
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A canoe is a lightweight, narrow watercraft, typically pointed at both ends and open on top, propelled by one or more seated or kneeling paddlers facing the direction of travel and using paddles.
Rabaska
…A rabaska or Maître canoe (French: canot de maître, after Louis Maître, an artisan from Trois-Rivières who made them) was originally a large canoe made of tree bark, used by the Algonquin people. Rabaskas were used by French and Canadian explorers to access the interior of North America during the…
A B.N. Morris Canoe Company wood-and-canvas canoe built approximately 1912
Birch bark canoe at Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor, Maine
Frances Anne Hopkins: Shooting the Rapids (Quebec) (1879), Voyageur canoe
Dugout canoe of pirogue type in the Solomon Islands