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.