Shoeing the Canoe

[beaver]

These excerpts from “The Woods and Lakes of Maine” detail the process of making cedar canoe shoes to protect their canoes from serious abrasions.

 

[beaver]

Mariners Museum description

 

[Dave Wermuth]

Very fine. thanks Ferd

 

[Worth Gretter]

I was curious about the date of this so I searched online.
At this link:
https://books.googleusercontent.com...CJZzgZqEkKwjyR7x7v1NPqwPbMBXq3-Y4Gd3ejryfG8-O
I found a slightly different version, dated 1884, with the "shoe" discussion starting on page 169.