Canoe
A canoe is a small boat, that is often driven by manpower or womanpower, but also commonly sailed. Canoes are pointed at both ends and usually open on top, but can be covered. Canoes are known as "Paddle boats" in some small towns in the south of Australia.
The canoe is propelled by the use of paddles, with the number of paddlers depending on the size of the canoe (most commonly 2). Paddlers face in the direction of travel, either seated or kneeling. In this way paddling a canoe can be contrasted with rowing, where the rowers face away from the direction of travel. Paddles may be single-bladed or double-bladed.
Gallery
Aluminum canoe, Upper Klamath Lake
A dugout canoe of pirogue type in the Solomon Islands
Spearing Salmon By Torchlight, an oil painting by Paul Kane
Ojibway women in canoe on Leech Lake.
Canoe Media
Birch bark canoe, Ilnu Museum in Mashteuiatsh, Quebec, Canada
A B.N. Morris Canoe Company wood-and-canvas canoe built approximately 1912
Birch bark canoe at Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor, Maine
Bark canoe in Australia, 1904
A family riding a canoe in the Western Region of Ghana
Frances Anne Hopkins: Shooting the Rapids (Quebec) (1879), Voyageur canoe
Innu making canoes near Sheshatshiu, Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, 1920
These antique dugout canoes are in the courtyard of the Old Military Hospital in the Historic Center of Quito, Ecuador.
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