In Hawaiʻi, it is believed that the demi-god Maui invented the kite and learned how ... like speeding his canoe across the sea. After his death, the remnants of his adventures, including his ...

What were those first canoes like? The birch bark canoe and batteau (which is like a flat-bottom, wooden jon boat) were really the way people got around for both pleasure and for work when they ...

The islands scattered along the north shore of New Guinea first drew these canoe people eastwards into the ocean. By 1500 B.C., these voyagers began moving east beyond New Guinea, first along the ...

This is the familiar refrain of an old canoeing song, and what better than the canoe to stand for everything Canadian? The canoe has slipped quietly into the stream of the nation’s common parlance.

Newly reopened in a 65,000-square-foot building that is now, aptly, located lakeside, The Canadian Canoe Museum’s design evokes the hull of a canoe and is undoubtedly an aesthetic upgrade from ...