Resonant, reflective, a legacy of the Canadian canoeing experience — Canexus: The Canoe in Canadian Culture is a first. "This book is cause for celebration," says Kanawa Canoe Museum founder Kirk Wipper, "because of the canoe, and because it is created by writers who are, themselves, enthusiastic paddlers."
From "Canoe Sport" to "Canoe Irony" and finding "Motives for Mr. Canoehead," Canexus opens doors to the primitive and explores the canoeing experience from an exciting variety of perspectives.
Travel with some of Canada’s best known canoeists to the mysterious Northwest Coast of BC, across constitutional waves on Meech Lake and into a landscape of the Canadian imagination. Hear great canoe stories, bake bannock, weather storms, ponder canoeing and gender roles. For all kinds of paddlers, and lovers of adventure and wilderness, Canexus gives the canoe its rightful place of prominence in Canadian culture.
With contributions by E.Y. Arima, Philip Chester, C.E.S. Franks, Shelagh Grant, Bob Henderson, Bruce Hodgins, Gwyneth Hoyle, William C. James, C. Fred Johnston, George Luste, Roderick A. Macdonald, Kenneth G. Roberts and Kirk Wipper.
"The writers in Canexus bring different perspectives & abilities to these essays, but all of them reinforce the idea of the canoe as an ancient, echoing symbol; one that can illuminate our place in the north like no other."
– M.T. Kelly, Winner of the Governor General’s Award for Literature
"An intelligent person’s guide to the place of the canoe in the Canadian culture and psyche…exciting, like fast white water and spray in your face…"
— Fred Bodsworth
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 623.8/29
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 19
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm)
- General Note
- Co-published by the Ontario Recreational Canoe Association and Queen's University Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn---
- ISBN
- 9780969078357 9781459727755
- LCCN
- VM353
- LCCN Item number
- C34 1988eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaBNVSL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xi, 212 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00930125 (OCoLC)911205350 (CaOOCEL)433287
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Title proper/short title
- Canoe in Canadian culture
- Transcribing agency
- CaBNVSL
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Title 2
- Copyright 3
- Dedication 4
- Contents 6
- Foreword 8
- Introduction 12
- Symbols and Myths: Images of Canoe and North 16
- Canoeing and Gender Roles 38
- Canoe Irony: Symbol and Harbinger 56
- Canoe Sport in Canada: Anglo-American Hybrid? 70
- The Northwest Coast Canoe in Canadian Culture 84
- Reflections of a Bannock Baker 94
- Motives for Mr. Canoehead 104
- Lilly Dipping it Ain't 118
- Canoe Trips: Doors to the Primitive 134
- Hubbard and Wallace: The Rivals 146
- Solitude and Kinship in Canoeing 162
- Of Canoes and Constitutions 172
- Probing Canoe Trips for Persistent Meaning 182
- Canoeing: Towards a Landscape of the Imagination 198
- Postscript 214
- Contributors 216
- Index 218
