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Video: Today is National Canoe Day!

Sudbury.com takes a ride in a handmade birch bark canoe

June 26 is National Canoe Day! To celebrate the occasion, Sudbury.com is sharing a video we shot back in 2015 of Whitefish resident Tom Byers building a birch bark canoe.

It takes Byers three weeks to construct a Cree-style birch-bark canoe using traditional methods and materials found in the forest.

Watch the video above to see the canoe's first launch.

Check out more of Byers' work at www.naturalbirchbarkcanoes.com.


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