Boatbuilding

BOATBUILDING in coastal BC has its roots in the dugout canoes carved by FIRST NATIONS people from a single CEDAR log. This versatile craft was the only vessel built on the coast until the arrival of the colonists in the mid-1800s (with the exception of the NORTH WEST AMERICA, a 36-tonne sloop built by John MEARES at YUQUOT in 1788). Before there were ROADS and steamship service, the earliest settlers relied on borrowed canoes, scows and rowboats to get around, often travelling hundreds of...

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