Birch Bark Canoes by Mahigan

Birch Bark Canoes offers school projects, workshops, artworks, books. Marcel Labelle is proud of his Metis of Algonquin ancestry heritage.

Marcel grew up in Northern Ontario and spent most of his childhood on the trap line. This is where he learned how to live with and from the forest. Today he builds traditional Birch Bark Canoes and demonstrates his craft at many venues. He also instructs a course in the Indigenous Studies field at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario. He is supported by the Metis Nation of Ontario through the  ...