That was excellent Canoedog, and thank you.
I forgot how good some of the older Film Board footage was.

Watching that was a strange blend of old faded memories of stuff my father and grandfathers taught me that was from just before my time, and some stuff that was new.

I remember a freighter canoe like the one they went in with from when I was a kid. I think ours had a two and a half horse Johnson motor.

I have never seen a fire plow set like that used.
Certainly something to be tried.

I was shown that deadfall trigger once when I was a kid.
It was hard to get the uprights to fit right.
I wish they had shown more of that.

You can't catch Sturgeon that way any more at any place I know of because they are too scarce, but I bet Angus would have made a net and set it if the Sturgeon had not been in feeding on the clams.

Angus did an absolutely wonderful job on the canoe.
I haven't seen a birch tree as big as what he was using in years.
The same with the size of the bark sheets for their lean to.

I have only heard of one person still making bark canoes and he is somewhere in La Vérendrye.
I saw one of his canoes and the bark was used with the brown side to the water.
I don't remember his name now or know if he still lives. He was getting pretty old the last time I heard him mentioned, and that was more than 20 years ago.
I think he was Cree.

Thank you again.
If you find any more like this please do post them.