Disappearances
“Laurent Bonhomme went into the woods with his father near their home in Trois-Rivières, Quebec, and found a white birch tree seventy feet tall and perfectly straight. It was March, before the sap had started to run, and there was still deep snow where they felled the tree. When the tree was down they stripped off thirty feet of bark, which they laid out on a cleared spot with the outer side facing up. Under his father’s close supervision and using only an axe and a crooked knife, René fashioned... the gunwales and ribs from a nearby cedar. When the shell was finished he fit in cedar planking and maple thwarts and tapped in the ribs. Before coming out of the woods he etched a fleur-de-lis into the stern and a floating loon on the bow.
During each of the next four years he and his father and two other men of habitant descent paddled the nineteen-foot birch canoe from Trois-Rivières to Lake Athabasca and back, a distance of nearly three thousand miles. They left in April as soon as the ice was out of the St.MoreLess
During each of the next four years he and his father and two other men of habitant descent paddled the nineteen-foot birch canoe from Trois-Rivières to Lake Athabasca and back, a distance of nearly three thousand miles. They left in April as soon as the ice was out of the St.MoreLess
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