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| | Boat Building |
 | | The intrigue of building a birch bark canoe lies in the fact that all the materials necessary to build a boat can be sustainably harvested from a healthy boreal forest; birch bark, cedar, spruce root, ash, spruce gum, to name a few. |
 | | The course covers most of the skills, techniques and materials that are used to build a full-sized, traditional cane including building on a mold, frame preparation, sewing the skin (or birch bark), and 'pitching' or sealing with spruce gum. |
 | | Family Boat Building provides an inexpensive introduction to boating and boat building, beginning with the basic construction of a sturdy, flat bottomed skiff, and ending with the family's first outing on the water in their very own boat. |
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