A big difference between UK and perhaps European canoeing and US/Canadian canoeing in the last 150 years is that here it was exclusively for leisure purposes.
My Strickland was imported into England between 1894 and 1904, so I started looking for images in 1894 and continued to 1914. I chose Punch magazine, which operated between 1841 and 2002, because it reflected the life of, and was therefore bought by, the leisured classes, the ones who could afford a canoe. There was not much, mostly one annual cartoon at the time of the Henley rowing regatta, which brought huge crowds to the Thames, west of London. The artists were used to rowing boats and punts but it took a little while to get used to drawing canoes. The first picture (1894) appears to be roughly a 'Rob Roy'.
My Strickland was imported into England between 1894 and 1904, so I started looking for images in 1894 and continued to 1914. I chose Punch magazine, which operated between 1841 and 2002, because it reflected the life of, and was therefore bought by, the leisured classes, the ones who could afford a canoe. There was not much, mostly one annual cartoon at the time of the Henley rowing regatta, which brought huge crowds to the Thames, west of London. The artists were used to rowing boats and punts but it took a little while to get used to drawing canoes. The first picture (1894) appears to be roughly a 'Rob Roy'.
