@SchleyFam1 Ancient truths melt under the flame of modern assumption. Perhaps you could post a video demonstrating the sustainable harvest of birchbark. Your ancestors would be proud.
Anciennes vérités fondre sous la flamme de la prise en charge moderne. Peut-être que vous pourriez poster une vidéo montrant la récolte durable de l'écorce de bouleau. Vos ancêtres seraient fiers.
You are a true craftsman. It is an awesome canoe you built I wish I could do the same. Please pass your talent onto our younger generation. Merci beaucoup tres belle video !!!!!
@tiantkpq Humidity is good for birchbark canoes, humidity keeps the bark damp and avoids it from getting brittle. The enemy for the bark is dryness and direct heat or sun. You can order a canoe directly from me, here is my email adress: franz_rothan@yahoo.com you can contact me for prices, size and models. Thanks
Great video, I love the whole thing from beginning to end . how it is straight to the point and no blabing on. I am a fellow canoe builder so can appreciate your work. thank you for sharing.
He cut the tree because he knew that it would kill it. The birch will not survive without it. Your impolite comment is based on the assumption that he let the tree rot there. You don't even know what he did with it.
You must always harvest birch bark from trees that will be cut down soon. Birch will not survive without its bark. Natives used the wood for many applications.
Taanishi! Thank you so much for sharing this magnificent process with us. My 5 year old son and I watched the video of the canoe construction and we are in awe! An important cultural practice that we need to preserve. Best wishes.
Magnifique Francois, You show the true courage of a population of "Courieur du Bois" who toughed the hardships to advance this Great Country of Canada.
May all those who see this video, appreciate and celebrate the Great Nations that lived in this Land and applaud You Francois for Your Great dedication and the Proud Heritage You represent. Felecitation Mon Ami.
Wow, what an honor to receive such good words from you! I'm proud of reviving the forgotten art of birchbark canoe building. Thanks again for your praising comments!
wow just amazing!! I have seen a couple videos on how to make these birch bark canoes but this one takes the cake! I am now taken on the challenge to make one myself! Thanks for all the help and once again superb video!
Wonderful work and greatly appreciated. My only criticism is that when you dropped the tree you failed to have an enviornmentalist whacko under or in it and breeding season is again open in the shallow end of the gene pool where these half baked fools come from.
do you not split your wood from a tree like we do. you also forgot the charcoal in the pitch. i make everything the old way also we only use black spruce not whiite or red
@wayneb6 I have made several birchbark canoes with split lumber, this time I had sawn wood to have less waist. As for the charcoal in the pitch, I have tried it out a few times but I prefer not to put any it makes a better job. Regarding the white spruce roots it is the old way too as it is with black spruce or even jack pine roots. In the litterature, birchbark canoe builder have used all of those trees. Thank you
Un chef-d'oeuvre à léguer à nos descendant,les jeunes d'aujourd'hui pourraient en apprendre sur notre histoire en Amérique, avec nos frères Amérindiens!
I did not mean to nit pick but sorting out the black, red and white Spruce in my area (sw NB) has been a bit of an obsession with me. I was, however, also wondering about the ingredients in that wonderfully bubbling brew of pitch used for sealing the seams. It must smell fantastic if also made from wood products!
@wsogft Telling the difference between black and white spruce is very difficult for me. However,The pitch is made out of black and white spruce gum added with grease to make it less brittle
This is very inspiring and every Canadian kid should see it as part of their education. It made me smile when you launched it. My only question was the source of the roots..That tree looked more like a white spruce .
C'est le même procédé que César Newashish ''Tête de boule'', un cris qui a été filmé dans les années 70 en train de confectionner un canot d'écorce. Je vais tenter ma chance un jour et en faire un à mon chalet au Lac St-Jean, je trouve que c'est un art magnifique. Merci de nous montrer vos trucs.
Good video, good canoe. Bravo! John McPhee long ago wrote about a guy obsessed with making canoes in this way but with no power tools. Good complement to this video.
Splendid job. You are very talented. I noticed that there are many stupid comments regarding "ruining" a tree. These same people waste fuel driving to protest the drilling of oil wells. They are short sighted. I am happy to see that you have the talent to make a beautiful craft by hand and you keep the tradition alive. I would bet that Native Canadians in the past would have found your battery operated drill very useful. VERY GOOD JOB, MATE.
Quel magnifique talent vous avez...moi qui ne savait cueillir que des petits bouts d'écorce quand je voulais écrire un petit mot spécial à un ami ...Très beau votre travail ....et vraiment bien montré....merci ....
je viens d'avoir ton lien d'un ami et j'en reviens tout simplement pas de voir a quel point c'est un art et beaucoup de patience. On vois que c'est une pation pour toi..
moi qui est de descendance indienne.... je t'envie de faire de belle balades dans tes beaux canots. Bravo et félicitation et j'espère que tu vas transmettre ton talent a tes rejetons , c'est vraiment un art qui est porté a disparaître, c'est domage.
j'ai été vraiment faciné par les décoration également
Funny story, when we decided to make a birch bark this year, we had to come up to Canada to find a nice paper birch (we're in Cleveland). $500 got us three nights and all meals with an indian family living up on a Canadian lake. When we got there, the first question he asked was, why we wanted to make a birch bark canoe, after all, their people had switched over to aluminum canoes centuries ago. We just laughed and said ironically, we want to upkeep the tradition!
A fella does a nice job and puts this up for our enjoyment and some retarded idiot has to come in and trash up his page. And then others pile on with their four letter words. And this is why comments are disabled on a lot of pages,
All in all your the master "Birchbark Canoe maker" as far as I am concerned, I have watched thousands of videos but you get the prize, Nice job, Thank you for sharing :)
Je habit a Shawinigan. Demain je vais acheter les planches pour mon premier canot. I've already built my station forms and I've mounted them on my strongback. I am very impressed that you built this canoe by bending the ribs with your knee. Bon travail !
you are very talented -- making birchbark canoes is a rare talent -- I know of only a few people who make them -- awesome - je viens de quebec aussi, je suis Algonquin :)
Thankyou so muc for this very simple and informative video. I have used while teaching my children about the fur trade and history of Canada. I find it very helpful to point out the untruth in the way many europeans believed the natives were less inteligent than those from the 'civilized' countries.
My daughter points out that this is a lot more work than the pictures in childrens history books make it to look.
You have given us good insite into both ingenuity and dedication. Many thanks!
Hi Telemarkfreak, great video, the process that goes into creating these canoes is truly amazing! Because this video deals with an iconic Canadian canoe, you should consider submitting it to the Canada’s Got Treasures collection by joining our YouTube group (/group/TresorTreasure). It would be made available on our channel and website. Canada's got Treasures aims to celebrate Canadian diversity through videos of personal or cultural value.
The world needs more people like this man. People who are willing to devote time to a craft and hone their art. People with this kind of dedication and work ethic are exemplary. Excellent work, keep it up!
Awesome job,most people would not take the time it requires to make a canoe out of bark.Ive made my moose calls out of birch bark and i admire your hard work,time and talent.Just making a decent moose call is time consuming ,i can give great resect to the work youve done here.absolutely amazing job$450/ft. is a very reasonable price in my opinion.Collecting spruce root is a big job in itself.5/5 beautifully crafted,very impressed.
The moment you figure out just how many trees are cut to support your luxury, yet not meaningful, life, spent browsing the internet and emitting who knows how much CO2 into the atmosphere, you'll wish you had never threatened anyone over using renewable wood. Right now, you are in your intellectual diapers, with a rash!
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how many trees did you kill in the process of making this atrocity?? if i ever run across you ill skin you and make you into a boat. how would you like that?
You are retarted, he is a simple man creating awesome peices of work, the native indians did the same thing hundreds of years ago, before cars before video, you should envy this mans creativity, go suck a fuck you lame ass tree huger.
@jwillard1971 nice troll bud, as if grammar misspelling is not the most common lame excuse for a come back in history... please spare your key strokes and shut the fuck up.
@EpicFork 1. You forgot to capitalize "Nice". 2. I'm not your bud. 3. Whats lame is your spelling of "retarded". It doesn't even sound like it has a second "t" in it. 4. Make me stfu.
I'm not sure if you are aware that trees are a renewable resource; also, "dead-standing" trees are often used for this, so the "kill" count might just be "zero." (And, as long as you don't over-harvest roots from the same spruce tree, they'll regenerate.) Nice thing about forests...they provide everything we need, so long as we don't get greedy.
And, by the way, you made a direct, threatening statement on this site, which (ahem) is illegal.
@C24B9 Dear idiot, do u think we really care about this tree? Have u seen what he did with it? If u only knew how many people waste some wood to do stupid thing. Thousands of trees have been cut for fun. Stop crying for this one. He is the only guy who use the forest ressources inteligently.
@thedeepmetalhead - mon ami; I think you may have replied to wrong person, but that's okay...we appear to be in violent agreement! :-) - and, I think I understood your other comment (en francais). My french is poor (and your english is FAR better than my french!!!!) And, I agree...he does use the forest resources VERY intelligently. Bon soir!
@C24B9 Étant donné que je suis québecois, c'est plus facile de m'exprimer en francais. Je ne sais pas si tu comprendra toutefois j'aurai dit clairement ce que j'avais a dire. Couper un arbre ce n'est pas mal. C'est l'utilisation qu'on en fait qui est importante. J'ai vu des centaines d'arbres coupés pourire dans des cours a bois. Cela est stupide je te l'acorde. Il est vrai que la forêt est une ressource très importante. Cependant, entre une coupe a blanc et un canoe en bois, je préfere le canoe
how much for one? i don't think i could afford it thou, and im from central europe
cekinxxx 1 week ago
Nothing short of magnificent. Thank you for making this video.
PineMartyn 3 weeks ago
@EspaceParallele yeah. my grandparents used to harvest birchbark. it is a sustainable practice when done right. the trees dont have to die.
SchleyFam1 1 month ago
@SchleyFam1 Ancient truths melt under the flame of modern assumption. Perhaps you could post a video demonstrating the sustainable harvest of birchbark. Your ancestors would be proud.
Anciennes vérités fondre sous la flamme de la prise en charge moderne. Peut-être que vous pourriez poster une vidéo montrant la récolte durable de l'écorce de bouleau. Vos ancêtres seraient fiers.
myjumpsuit 1 month ago
Hi Francois
You are a true craftsman. It is an awesome canoe you built I wish I could do the same. Please pass your talent onto our younger generation. Merci beaucoup tres belle video !!!!!
JMORRIS7 1 month ago
Hi Francois,
Beautiful work. Can the canoe survive usage in tropical country with in the 100% humility, like in Bahamas? How can I order one from you?
tiantkpq 1 month ago
@tiantkpq Humidity is good for birchbark canoes, humidity keeps the bark damp and avoids it from getting brittle. The enemy for the bark is dryness and direct heat or sun. You can order a canoe directly from me, here is my email adress: franz_rothan@yahoo.com you can contact me for prices, size and models. Thanks
Francois
telemarkfreak 1 month ago
Probably one of the most amazing videos I have seen on youtube. You are a true craftsman!
otctroy1 1 month ago
Fabuleux ! ! ! çà fait rêver ! Merci !
giordanengo1 2 months ago
Merci énormément pour ce video. J'ai ressenti une décharge d'adrénaline lors de la mise à l'eau. J'ai pensé : je dois faire ça. Et ce sera cet été.
Encore merci!
fl260 2 months ago
Arte pura. Parabéns ao executor. O mundo precisa cada vez mais destas pessoas.
heliojr58 2 months ago
Great video, I love the whole thing from beginning to end . how it is straight to the point and no blabing on. I am a fellow canoe builder so can appreciate your work. thank you for sharing.
Mulus
mulus2008 4 months ago
Why the hell did u cut the tree, stupid idiot
mustafankamil1973 5 months ago
He cut the tree because he knew that it would kill it. The birch will not survive without it. Your impolite comment is based on the assumption that he let the tree rot there. You don't even know what he did with it.
EspaceParallele 1 month ago
Very good video
mrthomasfritz 7 months ago
Didn't native americans/canadians have a way of removing birch bark so that it didn't kill the entire tree?
eatmorenachos 7 months ago
You must always harvest birch bark from trees that will be cut down soon. Birch will not survive without its bark. Natives used the wood for many applications.
EspaceParallele 1 month ago
what is the tool called at 1:25 - 1:34??
bubble36 8 months ago
Taanishi! Thank you so much for sharing this magnificent process with us. My 5 year old son and I watched the video of the canoe construction and we are in awe! An important cultural practice that we need to preserve. Best wishes.
michellesmith50 8 months ago
bien sur ça s'achète, je prends les commandes.
telemarkfreak 8 months ago
Wow magnifique! Y en a du travaille là d'dans!!!
J'en veux un canot comme ça!!!!! Est-ce que ça s'achète?
amoureusekathou 9 months ago
You use a drill and screws for the frame I notice, but what did the natives use? And how do you make the gum?
Fadsmashers 9 months ago
@Fadsmashers Ah ha!! you're not supposed to ask those questions:-) And those concrete blocks?? Nice job all the same.
brianchulito 1 week ago
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Fadsmashers 9 months ago
That boat is beautiful. I'll be happy if the boat I build can even be paddled. Your video has been helpful to me. Thank you.
PMZ32 10 months ago
Magnifique Francois, You show the true courage of a population of "Courieur du Bois" who toughed the hardships to advance this Great Country of Canada.
May all those who see this video, appreciate and celebrate the Great Nations that lived in this Land and applaud You Francois for Your Great dedication and the Proud Heritage You represent. Felecitation Mon Ami.
regularsun 10 months ago 5
Wow, what an honor to receive such good words from you! I'm proud of reviving the forgotten art of birchbark canoe building. Thanks again for your praising comments!
telemarkfreak 10 months ago
bravo! très beau travail comme j'aimerai avoir votre talent et patience...bravo encore une fois
bonyenne 10 months ago
wow just amazing!! I have seen a couple videos on how to make these birch bark canoes but this one takes the cake! I am now taken on the challenge to make one myself! Thanks for all the help and once again superb video!
Take care out there!
bmw911bmw911 11 months ago
@bmw911bmw911 Thanks for your good comment! Best luck for your challenge! Feel free to ask if you have questions
telemarkfreak 11 months ago
tres bien fait
killernec 11 months ago
Incroyable! Vous avez été témoin du savoir- faire de César Newashish!! Avez vous des anecdotes sur lui au moment du tournage?
telemarkfreak 11 months ago
Ce vidéo est sans doute un hommage au film de l'ONF tourné en 1971: "César et son canot d'écorce / César's Bark Canoe".
sonolisto 11 months ago
@sonolisto Tout à fait! César est mon héro! C'est graâce à lui que j'ai réussi à refaire des canot d'écorce
telemarkfreak 11 months ago
@telemarkfreak J'étais le preneur de son sur ce film de l'ONF! On se disait en tournant ce film qu'il serait la mémoire de ce savoir-faire.
Bravo! pour avoir repris le flambeau!
sonolisto 11 months ago
wow really good your talented
danikaguilbeault 11 months ago
wow, what an inspiration... just loved watching this, thanks
ndudman8 11 months ago
@ndudman8 Thank you so much!
telemarkfreak 11 months ago
thats amazing
damoxr100 11 months ago
You are both a craftsman and an artist.
XL2man 11 months ago
@XL2man Thank you so much for the good words!
telemarkfreak 11 months ago
Wow... merveilleuse démonstration de l'équilibre parfait entre l'ingénérie et l'artisanat.
Bravo!
ftadros11 11 months ago
@ftadros11 Merci beaucoup!
telemarkfreak 11 months ago
J'espère qu'il a récupéré le tronc d'arbre pour faire du bois de chauffage.
ve2so 1 year ago
Thats really cool :D Looks very clean and it looks like it functions very well, you should be proud.
AllAlaskan907 1 year ago
merci beaucoup
telemarkfreak 1 year ago
Superbe travail l'ami fait dans le respect de la tradition...Félicitation.
pompier44 1 year ago
Just awesome!
ElbowEyE 1 year ago
Thank you so much!
telemarkfreak 1 year ago
Merveilleux quelle patience Merci et Bravo!
Martinelolo 1 year ago
@Martinelolo merci!
telemarkfreak 1 year ago
Real nice to watch,you must be very proud to be able to make a canoe.
jlmust 1 year ago
Wonderful work and greatly appreciated. My only criticism is that when you dropped the tree you failed to have an enviornmentalist whacko under or in it and breeding season is again open in the shallow end of the gene pool where these half baked fools come from.
formerparatrooper 1 year ago
@formerparatrooper Thank you so much for the good words. Actually I get the trees from aeras which will be clear cut in a couple of month.
telemarkfreak 1 year ago
@telemarkfreak batards
64thev9 11 months ago
@telemarkfreak bastards
64thev9 11 months ago
fascinating skill thanks for posting
skittification 1 year ago
do you not split your wood from a tree like we do. you also forgot the charcoal in the pitch. i make everything the old way also we only use black spruce not whiite or red
wayneb6 1 year ago
@wayneb6 I have made several birchbark canoes with split lumber, this time I had sawn wood to have less waist. As for the charcoal in the pitch, I have tried it out a few times but I prefer not to put any it makes a better job. Regarding the white spruce roots it is the old way too as it is with black spruce or even jack pine roots. In the litterature, birchbark canoe builder have used all of those trees. Thank you
telemarkfreak 1 year ago
@telemarkfreak "waste"
spdskte 1 year ago
do you noy split your wood from a tree like we do
wayneb6 1 year ago
that is all sawn lumber do you not split your wood from a tree like we do
wayneb6 1 year ago
That is a Beautiful Canoe. Thank you for sharing,
Thuferin 1 year ago
Méchante belle job!!!
NecKruM 1 year ago
Un chef-d'oeuvre à léguer à nos descendant,les jeunes d'aujourd'hui pourraient en apprendre sur notre histoire en Amérique, avec nos frères Amérindiens!
abenakis1 1 year ago
Bravo! Y'a de quoi être fier. Nice job!
Farlo76 1 year ago
@Farlo76 merci beaucoup
telemarkfreak 1 year ago
Franchement, Belle job !!!
jcayer2 1 year ago
@jcayer2 merci bien!
telemarkfreak 1 year ago
Wow, that is awe!! inspiring....alot of patience and time and passion....
CosmicClouds2 1 year ago
Beau travail, bravo!!!
CaribbeanJM 1 year ago
Thanks for this inspiring video, it is a MUST try once (at least)
Nice :-)
KmlBuilder 1 year ago
I did not mean to nit pick but sorting out the black, red and white Spruce in my area (sw NB) has been a bit of an obsession with me. I was, however, also wondering about the ingredients in that wonderfully bubbling brew of pitch used for sealing the seams. It must smell fantastic if also made from wood products!
wsogft 1 year ago
@wsogft Telling the difference between black and white spruce is very difficult for me. However,The pitch is made out of black and white spruce gum added with grease to make it less brittle
rosarum888 1 year ago
This is very inspiring and every Canadian kid should see it as part of their education. It made me smile when you launched it. My only question was the source of the roots..That tree looked more like a white spruce .
wsogft 1 year ago
@wsogft thanks for the good words! Indeed it is my mistake about the white spruce.
telemarkfreak 1 year ago
C'est le même procédé que César Newashish ''Tête de boule'', un cris qui a été filmé dans les années 70 en train de confectionner un canot d'écorce. Je vais tenter ma chance un jour et en faire un à mon chalet au Lac St-Jean, je trouve que c'est un art magnifique. Merci de nous montrer vos trucs.
123bonob 1 year ago
Good video, good canoe. Bravo! John McPhee long ago wrote about a guy obsessed with making canoes in this way but with no power tools. Good complement to this video.
m1a2r3kkane 1 year ago
Ce sont vraiment les étapes mais elles sont résumées sur le vidéo.
telemarkfreak 1 year ago
Je suis sans mot. Est-ce que ce sont les étapes exactes pour faire un canot au complet ou vous vendez un manuel plus précis?
123bonob 1 year ago
En l'entrposant adéquatement, il peut servir 20 ans! J,ai vu des canots d'écorce dans des musées vieux de 100 ans
telemarkfreak 1 year ago
Tout simplement magnifique . Votre travail vaut bien des tableaux de maîtres.
Mon mari vous demande la longévité d'un canot d'écorce .
Merci et félicitation pour votre art .
tirelu22 1 year ago
Et dire que j'ai de la misere a poser une planche de contreplaqué....
wildnorm 1 year ago
Such a shame that you did all that work but bought the paddle at Canadian tire...lol
beautiful work of art ,would look good hanging from a ceiling but deserves to be used.
jsmallwood2007 1 year ago
@jsmallwood2007 sorry the paddle is hand carved with crooked knife out of a ash log.
telemarkfreak 1 year ago
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jsmallwood2007 1 year ago
@telemarkfreak ...Just joking of course :-)
I had this video posted on my facebook for friends to see
jsmallwood2007 1 year ago
Bravo et merci de nous montrer tout le travail que nécessite la création d'un canoe.
merio0269 1 year ago
I am stunned -- and full of admiration, sir. You are an artist and a true master craftsman. Congratulations and bravo to you!
GayAlson 1 year ago
I am stunned -- and full of admiration, sir. You are an artist and a true master craftsman. Congratulations and bravo to you!
GayAlson 1 year ago
Splendid job. You are very talented. I noticed that there are many stupid comments regarding "ruining" a tree. These same people waste fuel driving to protest the drilling of oil wells. They are short sighted. I am happy to see that you have the talent to make a beautiful craft by hand and you keep the tradition alive. I would bet that Native Canadians in the past would have found your battery operated drill very useful. VERY GOOD JOB, MATE.
kimmer6 1 year ago 7
@kimmer6 thanks for the good words. Tradition and craftmanship is a nice mixture!
telemarkfreak 1 year ago
Pretty interesting. Question though. Wouldn't it be easier just to hollow out a trunk?
jwillard1971 1 year ago
Bravo bravo tu as garder cette art merci a toi pour nous montre que c est encore possible
5yugo 1 year ago
de rien .
Car tout ce qui est fait avec pation et amour mérite d'être félicité
vivi221959 1 year ago
Merci pour les bons commentaires!
telemarkfreak 1 year ago
Quel magnifique talent vous avez...moi qui ne savait cueillir que des petits bouts d'écorce quand je voulais écrire un petit mot spécial à un ami ...Très beau votre travail ....et vraiment bien montré....merci ....
IsaMalina 1 year ago
je viens d'avoir ton lien d'un ami et j'en reviens tout simplement pas de voir a quel point c'est un art et beaucoup de patience. On vois que c'est une pation pour toi..
moi qui est de descendance indienne.... je t'envie de faire de belle balades dans tes beaux canots. Bravo et félicitation et j'espère que tu vas transmettre ton talent a tes rejetons , c'est vraiment un art qui est porté a disparaître, c'est domage.
j'ai été vraiment faciné par les décoration également
Bravo
vivi22
vivi221959 1 year ago
@vivi221959 merci pour les très bons commmentaires, c'est gentil!
telemarkfreak 1 year ago
Tout simplement WOW
spikwailee 1 year ago
Monsieur vous avez de la patience du talent.
Ce canoe est de toute beauté.
didikh 1 year ago
WOW, tes canots doivent valoir une petite fortune! C'est plus une forme d'art qu'une production de nos jours ces merveilleuses créations!
EasternGateGuardian 1 year ago
merveilleux travail...merci de le partager!!!
bbloup53 1 year ago
a great human endeavour, thanks for posting your fine video. :)
sublimemadness 1 year ago
"Killer" only takes two L ,
best regards!
telemarkfreak 1 year ago
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Tree killler!!!!!!!!!!
AlexPotvinDesrochers 1 year ago
merci pour vos bons mots!
telemarkfreak 1 year ago
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Cette tradition se perd malheureusement ! cet artisan travaille comme autrefois...
c'est de la perfection...Félicitations cher monsieur pour ce travail si bien fait...
vous pouvez en être fier ! 34Delphina
34Delphina 1 year ago
Cette tradition se perd malheureusement ! cet artisan travaille comme autrefois...
c'est de la perfection...Félicitations cher monsieur pour ce travail si bien fait...
vous pouvez en être fier !
34Delphina 1 year ago
Merci beaucoupes! C'est incroyable!
pehoehoe 1 year ago
Funny story, when we decided to make a birch bark this year, we had to come up to Canada to find a nice paper birch (we're in Cleveland). $500 got us three nights and all meals with an indian family living up on a Canadian lake. When we got there, the first question he asked was, why we wanted to make a birch bark canoe, after all, their people had switched over to aluminum canoes centuries ago. We just laughed and said ironically, we want to upkeep the tradition!
welovedickblake1 1 year ago
how long does it take for one canoe? anyway awesome stuff
cekinxxx 1 year ago
beautiful
11alternative 1 year ago
A fella does a nice job and puts this up for our enjoyment and some retarded idiot has to come in and trash up his page. And then others pile on with their four letter words. And this is why comments are disabled on a lot of pages,
All in all your the master "Birchbark Canoe maker" as far as I am concerned, I have watched thousands of videos but you get the prize, Nice job, Thank you for sharing :)
Tewrobert 1 year ago 2
Howah. Nice ride.
Ojibwaynese 1 year ago
very good idea using the flexible plastic as a stripper.
LeonRFpoa 1 year ago 2
superbe merci d'avoir poster cette video
pnslts 1 year ago
What's the name of that kind of knife? Great video.
Abbakus79 1 year ago
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thanks for sharing. we are amazed at your talent.
tedvanhalen 1 year ago
thanks for sharing. we are amazed at your talent.
tedvanhalen 1 year ago
Amazing. Unconventional, no? beautiful results, nice form. well done. high praise
stildew 1 year ago 2
you are the best. thanks for sharing
ekundayowt 1 year ago
that was awsome,really good job i couldnt say enough
inpinegrovepa 1 year ago
Je habit a Shawinigan. Demain je vais acheter les planches pour mon premier canot. I've already built my station forms and I've mounted them on my strongback. I am very impressed that you built this canoe by bending the ribs with your knee. Bon travail !
AnotherAlexChannel 1 year ago
i enjoyed it
pointbky 1 year ago
Wow - I hope you are teaching this to someone as it should be passed on for future generations. I admire and envy your talents. Beau travail
tracyfamily 1 year ago
This is insanity, it is a very functional work of art. It is so beautiful, I wish I had the patience to build such a thing.
batman4t 1 year ago 2
you are very talented -- making birchbark canoes is a rare talent -- I know of only a few people who make them -- awesome - je viens de quebec aussi, je suis Algonquin :)
duckletshut 1 year ago 8
@duckletshut venant d'un Algonquin, c,est un compliment! merci beaucoup, j'aime votre culture!
telemarkfreak 1 year ago
Verdammt! Ich knie vor so viel Handwerkskunst! Meine Hochachtung.
TravelmadsWorld 1 year ago
amazing work
intox69 1 year ago
very nice work...
fltunesdenmark 1 year ago 2
very very kool...
fltunesdenmark 1 year ago
simply amazing... so jealous!
pereiradpg 1 year ago
Thankyou so muc for this very simple and informative video. I have used while teaching my children about the fur trade and history of Canada. I find it very helpful to point out the untruth in the way many europeans believed the natives were less inteligent than those from the 'civilized' countries.
My daughter points out that this is a lot more work than the pictures in childrens history books make it to look.
You have given us good insite into both ingenuity and dedication. Many thanks!
deband4 1 year ago
Wow!
EvenMaxx 1 year ago
awesome video
paleoman2 1 year ago
Hi Telemarkfreak, great video, the process that goes into creating these canoes is truly amazing! Because this video deals with an iconic Canadian canoe, you should consider submitting it to the Canada’s Got Treasures collection by joining our YouTube group (/group/TresorTreasure). It would be made available on our channel and website. Canada's got Treasures aims to celebrate Canadian diversity through videos of personal or cultural value.
Hamish,
Canada's Got Treasures, a VMC initiative
TreasuresTresors 1 year ago
good lad
joohop 1 year ago
amazing work sir. I love it!
iworkforme 1 year ago
Awsome, stunning, breathtaking...
kasperjocker 1 year ago
simply stunning!
applefries32 1 year ago
awesome
noxagol 1 year ago
men you are an artist !!!!
ehls977 1 year ago
you ski to!
capitanplunger 1 year ago
That must have taken weeks all by yourself! Very well done, very nice decorations too!
Doobwaa 1 year ago
The world needs more people like this man. People who are willing to devote time to a craft and hone their art. People with this kind of dedication and work ethic are exemplary. Excellent work, keep it up!
AverageDoughnut 1 year ago 2
@AverageDoughnut Yeah. they're called natives. And they still exist.
th3pro87 1 year ago
This is absolutely amazing, man!
funkophone 1 year ago
Awesome job,most people would not take the time it requires to make a canoe out of bark.Ive made my moose calls out of birch bark and i admire your hard work,time and talent.Just making a decent moose call is time consuming ,i can give great resect to the work youve done here.absolutely amazing job$450/ft. is a very reasonable price in my opinion.Collecting spruce root is a big job in itself.5/5 beautifully crafted,very impressed.
porchfinder 1 year ago 2
Ok I am officially impressed.
carp1844 1 year ago
Comment pliez-vous le bois? Est ce que vous laissez les planches simplement dans ces chaudrons?
clementbazin 1 year ago
You da' man! Did you learn how to do this from a book? If so which one? I would love to do this some day, thanks for the inspiration.
rodentdiver 1 year ago
wow, beautiful craftmanship
hadleyjack 1 year ago
damn...i want one!!
noahfb1 2 years ago
I have one for sale...
telemarkfreak 2 years ago
@telemarkfreak how much and what province are you from
000NoctemAeternus000 1 year ago
@000NoctemAeternus000 I want 5000$ for a beautiful 16 footer, I'm in Quebec Province, I can deliver for gas money, thanks. Francois
telemarkfreak 1 year ago
Beautiful work. I was surprised you put the white side in, that's not you see in paintings.
soarrich 2 years ago
what an awesome job!!!!!
stitchyus 2 years ago
Toudte,
The moment you figure out just how many trees are cut to support your luxury, yet not meaningful, life, spent browsing the internet and emitting who knows how much CO2 into the atmosphere, you'll wish you had never threatened anyone over using renewable wood. Right now, you are in your intellectual diapers, with a rash!
Amsterdam483 2 years ago
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how many trees did you kill in the process of making this atrocity?? if i ever run across you ill skin you and make you into a boat. how would you like that?
toudte 2 years ago
You are retarted, he is a simple man creating awesome peices of work, the native indians did the same thing hundreds of years ago, before cars before video, you should envy this mans creativity, go suck a fuck you lame ass tree huger.
EpicFork 2 years ago 9
@EpicFork No, whats retarded is you spelling retarded "retarted".
jwillard1971 1 year ago
@jwillard1971 nice troll bud, as if grammar misspelling is not the most common lame excuse for a come back in history... please spare your key strokes and shut the fuck up.
EpicFork 1 year ago
@EpicFork 1. You forgot to capitalize "Nice". 2. I'm not your bud. 3. Whats lame is your spelling of "retarded". It doesn't even sound like it has a second "t" in it. 4. Make me stfu.
jwillard1971 1 year ago
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@jwillard1971 you mad bro?
EpicFork 1 year ago
dear idiot,
I'm not sure if you are aware that trees are a renewable resource; also, "dead-standing" trees are often used for this, so the "kill" count might just be "zero." (And, as long as you don't over-harvest roots from the same spruce tree, they'll regenerate.) Nice thing about forests...they provide everything we need, so long as we don't get greedy.
And, by the way, you made a direct, threatening statement on this site, which (ahem) is illegal.
So, please go somewhere and evolve.
C24B9 2 years ago 8
@C24B9 Dear idiot, do u think we really care about this tree? Have u seen what he did with it? If u only knew how many people waste some wood to do stupid thing. Thousands of trees have been cut for fun. Stop crying for this one. He is the only guy who use the forest ressources inteligently.
Sorry for my poor english...
thedeepmetalhead 1 year ago
@thedeepmetalhead - mon ami; I think you may have replied to wrong person, but that's okay...we appear to be in violent agreement! :-) - and, I think I understood your other comment (en francais). My french is poor (and your english is FAR better than my french!!!!) And, I agree...he does use the forest resources VERY intelligently. Bon soir!
C24B9 1 year ago
@C24B9 Sorry for that. In another hand, i'm happy that you agree with me. I see that there is still inteligent people on this planet:)
thedeepmetalhead 1 year ago
@thedeepmetalhead no problem! All the best.
C24B9 1 year ago
@C24B9 Étant donné que je suis québecois, c'est plus facile de m'exprimer en francais. Je ne sais pas si tu comprendra toutefois j'aurai dit clairement ce que j'avais a dire. Couper un arbre ce n'est pas mal. C'est l'utilisation qu'on en fait qui est importante. J'ai vu des centaines d'arbres coupés pourire dans des cours a bois. Cela est stupide je te l'acorde. Il est vrai que la forêt est une ressource très importante. Cependant, entre une coupe a blanc et un canoe en bois, je préfere le canoe
thedeepmetalhead 1 year ago