Canoe

A 2-person canoe.

A canoe is a small boat, usually powered by paddling, but sometimes 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

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  Aluminum canoe, Upper Klamath Lake

• Dugout canoe Rennell.jpg

  A dugout canoe of pirogue type in the Solomon Islands

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  Spearing Salmon By Torchlight, an oil painting by Paul Kane

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  Ojibway women in canoe on Leech Lake.

Canoe Media

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  Birch bark canoe, Ilnu Museum in Mashteuiatsh, Quebec, Canada

• A B.N. Morris Canoe Company wood-and-canvas canoe built approximately 1912

• Birchbark canoe, Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor, ME IMG 2301.JPG

  Birch bark canoe at Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor, Maine

• Native tribes of South-East Australia Fig 24 - A Kurnai bark canoe.jpg

  Bark canoe in Australia, 1904

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  A family riding a canoe in the Western Region of Ghana

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  Frances Anne Hopkins: Shooting the Rapids (Quebec) (1879), Voyageur canoe

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  Innu building a birchbark canoe, Mi'kmaq camp, Matapedia, Quebec, Alexander Henderson, c. 1870, Canada

• Innu making canoes near Sheshatshiu, ca. 1920.jpg

  Innu making canoes near Sheshatshiu, Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, 1920

• Historic Center of Quito - World Heritage Site by UNESCO - Photo 437.jpg

  These antique dugout canoes are in the courtyard of the Old Military Hospital in the Historic Center of Quito, Ecuador.

Related pages

• Canoe racing

Other websites

• International Canoe Federation Homepage
• Canadian Canoe Museum Archived 2012-12-31 at the Wayback Machine
• Wooden Canoe Heritage Association
• Canoe