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Posts Tagged: Birch Bark

Canoes

Canoes

Posted April 6, 2018

Today, thousands of people travel to the Straits of Mackinac every summer, most of them by car. Similar numbers of people came to this area in the 18th century, but traveled in a very different vehicle, a birch bark canoe. (more…)

Tags: 18th Century, Birch Bark, Canoe, Colonial Michilimackinac, Culture, Europeans, French, fur trade, Mackinac Associates, Mackinaw City, Montreal, Native American, Straits of Mackinac, voyageur

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